[mod] v1 of Evandra for BG2 now Available at G3
Rhaella
Member, Developer Posts: 178
Well, I am back after being away from modding for a while, and I've decided to go public with a project I've been playing with for the past year. This is basically the tribute to the Dragonlance setting that I've always wanted to write, but after working on Adrian and Ninde ToB, was a little bit nervous about writing another morally ambiguous, slightly mad elven mage. Obviously I finally decided I didn't care, and here is the result.
Evandra is a True Neutral elven illusionist, and for those familiar with the Dragonlance setting, a Red Robed Wizard of High Sorcery. Given her background, her alignment in some senses represents a fall--a significant departure from what she had at one point expected out of life. Her status as a practitioner of illusion magic is also very important, as she has a rather interesting relationship with the concept of reality.
Evandra can be found inside the Planar Sphere, trapped with the Knights of Solamnia. She is immediately recruitable. (Please note that the Mage Stronghold option to return the Solamnics to their homeworld is no longer available, though players of all classes will be able to resolve their situation eventually.)
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Evandra is a True Neutral elven illusionist, and for those familiar with the Dragonlance setting, a Red Robed Wizard of High Sorcery. Given her background, her alignment in some senses represents a fall--a significant departure from what she had at one point expected out of life. Her status as a practitioner of illusion magic is also very important, as she has a rather interesting relationship with the concept of reality.
Evandra can be found inside the Planar Sphere, trapped with the Knights of Solamnia. She is immediately recruitable. (Please note that the Mage Stronghold option to return the Solamnics to their homeworld is no longer available, though players of all classes will be able to resolve their situation eventually.)
Learn more about the mod
View the Readme
Visit Evandra's Forum
Download
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Does she have a sound set or is she mute like a certain other NPC of yours?
@Rhaella - it may be a good idea to use the direct download link. This one here will preview the package. If you want a direct download link, manually change 0 in the ond of the link to 1.
Thanks for the tip on the download link, btw. Just fixed it! Nah, I at least can voice my female NPCs! The tricky part is trying to keep them from sounding the same.
Right off the bat, noticed a minor typo in her intro dialogue - she says "Yes, an organization of mages dedicated to preserving and governing magic in the land Ansalon", which should the land *of* Ansalon.
Hope you enjoy her!
*Just noticed I already did comment on this one.
"Evandra wishes to pay the Knights of Solamnia a visit at the Order of the Radiant Heart. If all goes to plan, she will be able to send them home.%,QUEST)"
Secondly I have a question about how the romance works - I am in the middle of my playthrough and my character just finished the friendship path with Evandra and shown interest to romance her in the last talk. Now I am ready to sail to Spellhold, however in the meantime I kind of "accidentaly" (well...) run the romance with Jaheira to very advanced level (where Elminster showed up and gave Jaheira the Harpers necklace - I think this is really late stage in Jaheira romance, maybe SoA end? I don't remember because I get to this stage due to the buggy nature of Jaheira romance only ages ago) so my question is this - will the romance talks with Evandra start despite my character being in relationship with Jaheira, or the Jaheira romance will prevent Evandra romance talks, so I must edit my save game in EEkeeper to shut Jaheira romance down?
Thanks for eventual answer and sorry for my english;-)
Hello! I'm glad you're enjoying the mod.
I just also find some Jaheira romance walkthrough so I checked that I really completely finished Jaheira's romance in SoA. Since I remember the talks and ending in ToB actually better than in SoA, I will contiue only with Evandra.
Thanks a lot for this amazing mod thou, the friendship part was great looking forward to the romance.
Hi, I would like to thank you, for this great mod.
I just finished my recent playthrough and I really apreciate how well Evandra blended into the game. It felt like original part of the game. In particular I loved the utilization of the Spelljamer in the Underdark for Evandra quest - It always felt to me, that this part of the Ust Natha should be somehow used in mods. I also report that not even a single small bug occur in my playthrough.
I want to recommend this amazing mod to everyone
The fix appears to be fairly simple. In entry @284 in the quest.tra file, remove the ")" so the line should read
I have attached the fixed file, which should go in evandra/translations/english before the mod is installed. Unzip it (since you can't attach .tra files)