SKYRIM SE BEYOND REACH MOD

SKYRIM SE BEYOND REACH MOD

So, what is this mod about? To summarize it quickly without major spoilers: You are sent to the Western Reach as a mercenary to aid the Reachmen folk and the kingdom in their current struggles. The mod managed to create a dense, ominous and often quite eerie atmosphere which makes the land seem more desolate and forlorn than Skyrim, with something being off in the air, which perfectly aids in immersing oneself into the mod's many quests. This is accompanied by regional weathers, such as making the eastern lowlands (west on the world map) rainy and foggy.

The worldspace is divided into different bioms, such as craggy mountain ranges, a swampy lowland, lush forests and wide plains, and while they occasionally remind one of Skyrim, they are still unique enough to give you the feeling of being in another land on another part of the continent. The added worldspace, which comes with its own map, is gigantic, spanning an area of over three holds in Skyrim, placing it close to the upper end of the size scale for New Lands mods, similar to Falskaar or Wyrmstooth. The world is also grittier than most of Skyrim, all of which gives the mod a sublte ASoIaF/GoT vibe at times. Contrary to their eastern brethren however, who are either assimilated into Skyrim's Nordic culture or gone fully tribal like the Forsworn, the people of the Western Reach have a very feudal society typical for High Rock, reminiscent of medieval England.

Similar to the (Eastern) Reach in Skyrim, it is mainly populated by the Reachmen, an ethnic branch of Bretons native to the Druadach Mountains.

In case you're not familiar with the mod, Beyond Reach is a massive, DLC-sized quest mod that takes the player character to the province of High Rock, particularly the Kingdom of Evermore, also known as the Western Reach. Yesterday I finished my second play-through of Beyond Reach, and I thought that I'd like to share my views on this massive endeavour of a mod, its story and world design.

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