The main quest is started by killing a dragon and absorbing its soul, and starts with The Way of the Voice. Dragons, dragon soul absorption, and word wall learning can be toggled, making it possible to disable the main quest entirely. Pick equipment, magic, and a location through the mod's MCM config menu. Setup is done through the MCM menu in the options screen, as in you have to open the options screen before starting the game proper. Posted 14 August 2013, updated 31 January 2014 (it was on the Nexus earlier, but its creator got banned from there) Skyrim Unbound ( standalone download [> 30,000 subscriptions The 'prisoner whose life is reset by a magic statue' premise is a bit weird to me though. This is the 'standard' alternate start mod, created by a well-known mod author and listed in just about every Skyrim modding guide. There's also a start option that just puts you in the camp site where you first meet Alduin. The main quest is started by visited the ruins of Helgen, where you'd encounter Alduin at a nearby camp site. Example starts include being a patron at an inn, being a fresh recruit at one of the guilds, going through the default main quest prison cart ride to Helgen, and being a vampire in a vampire lair.

Posted 13 July 2012, updated 13 November 2013Ĭhoose from a set of starting scenarios through dialog (you talk to a statue). Here are all the alternate start mods I know of with some stats, descriptions, and impressions.Īlternate Start - Live Another Life [> 700,000 unique downloads A lot of mods work best with a fresh character, and doing the Helgen sequence over and over just to test new mods gets tiring. I'm in the midst of a modding binge, and the latest class of mods I'm looking at are alternate starts.

Skyrim alternative start mod