Dev Diary: SDA & Ashe Progress (May)

Hey folks, sorry for the radio silence! As always, radio silence usually means exciting progress is being made!

First off, SDA housekeeping. Version 4.1.1 was just released recently, which contains a huge amount of bugfixes (some of which are for Patch Hub, so please download the latest version if you're on PC) in addition to the last batch of customs before Kerstyn's hiatus. Sorry it took a while!

Now, let's get to V5.0. With over 600 votes, Legacy of the Dragonborn is the winner!


I've also reached out to icecream himself (just to be sure) and everything looks all good! Thank you everyone for voting, and I can't wait to tackle this hugely requested SDA feature!

Speaking of exciting content, let's talk Custom Content. As mentioned, requests will be open until the end of June. Kerstyn will start recording everything at the start of next year. Custom Content benefits will be suspended after this date. I plan to reintroduce them for Ashe after her public release. The future Aela mod will also feature custom content options.

And now for the main course, Ashe. Her development is going really well!

First off, castings are done for everyone. Besides the amazing talent Anna Rust and Sean Chiplock bring, many other talented actors are lending their voices to the different roles. I'll share more with you in the coming days! (or you can just check my CCC page).

Sculpting work also has started on the ensemble cast, assisted by the talented DementedNed! These are just rough WIP shots, but these should give you a good look at what to expect!


Work for Ashe's interior home is also wrapping up. Here are some sneak peeks! This will be included as part of a playable dev build.



And scriptwork is also at its final stages too. You can read and see the scripts here. Character Sheet is here (which also contains links to lore books and news pamphlets).

I've written scripts for her main quest, and while it is still being refined by me and my co-writers, I'm very happy with what we have thus far. It's a deeply personal story with actual role-play and character agency, with your choices impacting Ashe and those around you.

Actual development on the main quest and improving Ashe's dialogue and NPC AI will begin shortly and I'll definitely keep you guys in the loop for that.

More dev builds should also be released in the coming weeks for you guys to play with.

Thank you for being around for this journey. It's going to be awesome, I can't wait!
- Marty