Every time I think Skyrim modders can’t show me any more, they deliver something new. Take a bow daubuoi, whose Unique Jarl Throne Sitting Animation mod fixes a problem I’d honestly never even noticed: in vanilla Skyrim, you see, there is one throne-sitting animation that is used for all jarls.
Quick jargon reminder: the jarls are the ones in charge of the nine holds in Skyrim, governing their cities and answerable only to the High King. They’re the mini-kings and queens of Skyrim, in other words, and each have their own fiefdom.
And “every jarl now has a unique throne sitting animation reflecting their personality, authority, and the type of throne they occupy, replacing the single generic pose from vanilla.”
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The one exception to this is the character Kraldar, a Nord who can become jarl of Winterhold, who keeps the vanilla version as a unique animation “since I feel it suits him quite well.”
I have to be honest here and say I can’t quite recall the differences in personality between various jarls, except that Korir is a whiny douchebag. But a quick flick through the mod’s new poses shows that daubuoi clearly has very firm ideas on how they would comport themselves, and the new poses definitely add a new layer of personality.
“Every ruler now carries themselves differently, as true jarls should,” says our modding hero in their sign-off, and this is another in the long list of reasons that the Skyrim mod scene cannot be beaten. It’s not so much the spectacular full conversions like the “biblically accurate Skyrim” mod that blow me away, but the ones that fixate on tiny details like how jarls sit: modders have meticulously tackled things like door textures, book spines, how clouds look, and even given some of the incidental flora a tune-up. All of these and more can be found in our guide to the best Skyrim mods.
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