In the shadowed realms of Skyrim, where ancient prophecies clash with the beating hearts of destiny, a divine murmur echoes through the frost-kissed winds—the Whispers of Mara, goddess of eternal love.
As the Dragonborn—whether valiant hero or fierce heroine—you’ll embark on a sweeping saga of passion and peril. Every stolen glance amid dragonfire could ignite a flame that defies the ages.
**Important Notice Due to RL things V18 will likely be the last version uploaded. I will attempt to get permission to upload some of the custom patches I made to the nexus. Per WJ agreement feel free to fork and continue on. **
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Explore Legacy of the Dragonborn Legacy of the Dragonborn SSE is a massive, DLC‑sized expansion for Skyrim Special Edition that transforms the game into a museum‑driven adventure. At its heart is the Dragonborn Gallery in Solitude, a sprawling museum where you can collect and display over 4,500 unique artifacts from Skyrim and supported mods. Beyond the displays, it introduces the Explorer’s Society, a new guild you build from the ground up, complete with questlines, radiant adventures, and major story arcs. With hundreds of hours of content, Legacy weaves exploration, lore, and collection into a single experience, making it a true foundation for an entire playthrough. Relic Hunter Alternate start included so you can get straight to it.
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3DNPCS Interesting NPCs (3DNPC), also known as Interesting NPCs SE, is a massive content mod that breathes life into Skyrim by adding over 250 fully voiced NPCs, more than 25 followers, 15 marriage candidates, and 50+ quests. Each character is written with depth, backstory, and branching dialogue trees that let you role‑play in new ways—whether as a hero, trickster, or villain. Many of these NPCs are voiced by a large cast of community actors, giving them unique personalities and immersive interactions. The mod also introduces “super followers” with thousands of lines of commentary, reacting dynamically to quests and locations across Skyrim. It’s widely regarded as one of the most ambitious projects for expanding the game’s world with lore‑friendly storytelling and role‑play opportunities.Fair notice this mod is known to cause crashes, most areas are left vanilla like to reduce this
Oromance Plus or Nether's Framework Elope Features: ORomance Plus is an expanded relationship and romance framework built on the Ostim suite, designed to completely rework Skyrim’s limited marriage system. It allows you to pursue romances with virtually any NPC, with mechanics for dating, flings, long‑term relationships, and marriage. The mod introduces features like polygamy, break‑ups, divorces, and a revamped gift/compliment system, while also adding unique interactions for characters such as Serana and Frea. With a dedicated UI separate from vanilla dialogue, customizable MCM options, and even a Safe‑for‑Work mode, ORomance Plus offers a flexible, immersive way to role‑play love, loyalty, and desire in Skyrim’s harsh world.
You should create 2 folders on the root of a drive one X:\Wom and X:\wom\downloads. It recommended to keep the "wom" as it is short and long names WILL cause crashes. Please navigate to itch.io and download the following files and place them in your downloads folder (it is recommended to do so before clicking install)
- https://craftian.itch.io/ezpg: ezPG SEAE.zip 2.https://craftian.itch.io/celestine Celestine SEAE.zip 3.Celestine Beyond Reach update (unvoiced): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fb0S8My7IXHprefjAbg5zDaVPPcw-si9/edit (may auto download for you also since google drive) 4.https://craftian.itch.io/patches-pandemonium: Celestine Summon Power 5.https://craftian.itch.io/orpheus Orpheus SEAE.zip
- DUE TO ITS SIZE YOU MAY NEED TO PREEMPTIVELY DOWNLOAD KAIDAN AIO 5.0.1: https://kaidanmod.com/all-in-one-installer/
- Ensure you set CPU affinity in MO2 It can reduce/ prevent freezing. Click the puzzle piece to do so.
👉 Please login to Skyrim original game and download Rare Curios from the Creation club to ensure you have the correct version. Your original Skyrim directory should have ccbgssse037-curios.esl and ccbgssse037-curios.bsa or crashes may occur. I uploaded an image here for you to see which one: https://github.com/Tvirus5087/WhispersOfMara/blob/main/Correct%20Curios.png If you do not have that one, please delete/move the plugin AND bsa and redownload from creations menu in vanilla skyrim (your main installation)
-Expand Skyrim’s romance system with dating, marriage, and dynamic relationship mechanics that let you shape love stories across Tamriel. -Bring Skyrim to life with hundreds of fully voiced NPCs, new quests, and followers who feel like real people with stories of their own. -Turn Skyrim into a living museum with thousands of artifacts, a new guild, and epic quests that make exploration and collection the heart of your adventure.
- SkyPatcher BOS & SPID heavy (modular design) To allow easier list customization
- Dragonborn Reskin UI
- Dragon Born Voice Over - Hear a male or female voice for your character (MCM selectable) Highly Recommended to download Vampire DBVO Remastered and Vampira (female vampire) due to hash collisions, they could not be added.
- Main Menu Video: Whispers of Mara by myself using Main Menu Video By Power of Three. You can add any one you like just load it under
- A Sword in the Snow: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/160590
- Aela's theme: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/171256
- Serana's Theme https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/170984
- Alternate Start Reborn & PBR Retexture with custom True Lighting.
- Community Shaders 1.4.11 7 Feb 2026
- CS with Azurite Weathers III HDR image spaces
- Water for ENB (with CS shaders)
- Ambient Lighting Templates (cinematic presets)
- Windows Shadows Ultimate
- True Light (with Inverse Square lighting)
- Patchless lighting - if You add a new worldspace add it to the Truelight Whitelist
- PG Patcher upgrades to Complex Materials and True PBR included.
- Mostly 2K textures PBR> Complex Materials> Parallax> Vanilla. Meaningful items like the Dragon Claws or Elderscrolls may be 4k. Massive textures like Mountains also 4k+.
- Blade & Blunt, MCO/SCAR/CPR, Know Your Enemy 2
- Stances NG, Eldenrim Weapon Arts, Chocolate Poise Plus: **By default, the keybinds are Shift+X for Bear, X for Wolf, Ctrl+X for Hawk. **
- Ricochet Framework, Sanguine Symphony, Dismembering Framework
- Arena, Lawless, Skyrim Realistic Conquering
- Wench Series: Immersive Wenches.
- Colorful Magic Fixed Complete
- Hand Placed Enemies
- Revenant of Mara: Epic Boss (lvl 140+)
- Skyrim’s Got Talent, Immersive Death Cycle, Simple Hunting & Fishing
- Bathing In Skyrim Renewed, NPCs wear Amulets of Mara
- Anbeegod's Follower Dialogue Expansions
- Jayserpa's Quest Expansion, Also includes some of the Gate To Sovngarde patches as there's no reason to reinvent the wheel.
- Adamant, Mysticism, 360 Ward, Holy Templar Magic, Apocalypse Magic of Skyrim, Colorful Magic (Fixed)
- Storm Crown, Sacrosanct, Growl, Custom Skills Framework
- Survival Mode Improved & Starfrost: Disabled by default so you can turn on in the regular game menu when you want to. When enabled you can craft or purchase Journeyman travel packs to fast travel similar to Horizon Zero Series.
- Candlehearth: Rent a room for up to a whole month
- Legacy of the Dragonborn, Beyond Skyrim: Bruma, Vigilant,
- Ostim & ORomance Plus, Death Consumes All
- Beyond Reach, Rigmor Series, 3DNPCS, Vigilant, Wyrmstooth, Falskaar
- Dozens of romanceable companions and Oromance Plus which unlocks even more from vanilla characters
- Starting Up - You can preconfigure things you always change for example if you always want more health you can add the command to launch on character creation.
- Add perk Points with console commands. Customize balance to your liking or go "God Mode" for a quick play through.
- Modpocalypse v3, Northbourne, Pandorable's, Anuketh's, Nyrified, BB's, Son's Of Nirn and Literal Who merged into one Plugin for complete NPC overhaul. Load yours after this or use Skypatcher
- 3BA & Diamond Skin - 3BA, TNG/HIMBO, Skysight Ultra SOS full
- Ultimate Body Enhancer: Diamond Skin to match 3BA, Futa Options, Ultra High Poly Head and Body, Custom patch made for the list available for everyone here: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/165523 Oldrim NPCs brought back including Acalypha, Mour and Arissa the Wandering Rougue. For those that have SSE Mesh and Texture issues: UBE Replacer included.
- Increased combat difficulty yet mostly vanilla like. Nothing elaborate. Stances NG and Blade and Blunt with Chocolate Poise rebalances. By default, the keybinds are Shift+X for Bear, X for Wolf, Ctrl+X for Hawk.
- Immersive, semi-lore-friendly experience. "Skimpier" than strictly lore focused lists but nothing off the deep end. BD's available for your UBE characters if you want the eye candy.
- Dozens of companions available for marriage
- Hundreds of hours of adventures
A full Excel sheet with all mods and links will be uploaded to both the GitHub repository and the Nexus page.
- Skyrim Special Edition (Steam only, Version 1170) YOU MUST ENSURE YOU HAVE THE CORRECT VERSION OF CURIOS IT SHOULD BE LISTED AS "ccbgssse037-curios.esl" CASE SENSITIVE. BACK UP AND DELETE TO REDOWNLOAD TO BASE SKYRIM IF NEEDED. YOU WILL CRASH OTHERWISE. DO NOT USE THE VERIFY INSTALLATION OPTION GO INTO THE CREATION CLUB (ITS FREE).
- .net 7: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/7.0
- .NET 8
- .NET 9
- Visual C++ Redistributable
- Minimum: 8GB VRAM (12GB+ recommended)
- skyrimpref.ini set to 4K for testing. It is recommended you set it to match your Monitor's resolution, do this through Mod Organizer 2 not Bethini or local. CS upscaling can render the game at lower resolutions and upscale to match if you're lacking resources.
- Install only on NVMe drives or in SSDs with Raid 0 (not on C:). #DO NOT MAKE LONG DIRECTORY NAMES DBVO VOICE FILES WILL CRASH YOUR SYSTEM WITH LONG FOLDER NAMES X:\WOM IS RECOMMENDED WHERE X IS WHATEVER YOUR DRIVE IS#
- Wabbajack. Installer and use instructions can be found here: https://www.wabbajack.org/
- It recommended to add the directory to your antivirus exemptions
This modlist is not crash-proof, though stability improves with each revision.
If you encounter issues please place a report on github.