Currently in a degraded state due to removal of somemods from nexus and some formally free mods removed from their free location updating as soon as possible with alternatives
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 dragon fire could ignite a flame that defies the ages.
Whispers of Mara — Redux is a massive, choice-driven, adult-friendly romance and adventure modlist for Skyrim Special Edition. Built on modern performance frameworks, a complete next-gen combat overhaul, and the OStim Standalone ecosystem, this list seamlessly weaves epic quest expansions, explicit relationship mechanics, and unparalleled visual fidelity into a single, cohesive playthrough.
This list is fundamentally built to support mature themes and deep relationship immersion without sacrificing stability.
- OStim Standalone Ecosystem: Features the advanced adult animation framework fully integrated with companion interactions, dialogue, and progression systems.
- Adult Add-ons Included: Pre-configured with Amorous Adventures (OStim Edition), Caught Red Handed, OVirginity Reflowered, OCum Ascended, OInflation, Blood and OStim, and dedicated moans/sound overhauls.
- Dynamic Body Morphing: Utilizes OBody Next Generation to ensure every NPC features unique, realistic physical diversity across the world.
A massive, DLC-sized expansion transforming your game into a museum-driven adventure.
- Collect and display over 4,500 unique artifacts in the Solitude Dragonborn Gallery.
- Build the Explorer’s Society guild from the ground up with native questlines, radiant adventures, and deep story arcs.
- Includes the Relic Hunter alternate start option so you can bypass the vanilla opening and dive straight into the archeological action.
- Interesting NPCs (3DNPC): Breathes life into Skyrim with over 250 fully voiced characters, 25+ unique followers, 15 marriage candidates, and 50+ branching quests.
⚠️ Fair notice: 3DNPC is historically known to cause instability and performance degradation. To safeguard your stability, most edited cell areas have been left vanilla-like. - ORomance Plus: Allows you to pursue relationship arcs and marry virtually any NPC vanilla-style, entirely bypassing native faction constraints.
- Epic Land Expansions: Journey outside the borders of Skyrim with full integration of Beyond Skyrim: Bruma and Beyond Reach.
- Romance Overhauls: Deep feature care for Rigmor of Bruma/Cyrodiil, Serana Dialogue Add-on, Improved Follower Dialogue Lydia, Morgaine, and Mirai.
- Modular Infrastructure: Extensively utilizes modern engine injection tools like SkyPatcher, Base Object Swapper (BOS), and Spell Perk Item Distributor (SPID). This keeps the architecture incredibly modular, allowing easier user customization and zero heavy patch dependency.
- Animation & Behavior: Powered by the cutting-edge Pandora Behaviour Engine Plus and Open Animation Replacer (OAR) for flawless, modern character physical responses.
- Dragonborn Voice Over NG (DBVO): The base framework is fully installed to preserve maximum disk space. Users must download their preferred voice packs independently.
- Recommended Male Pack: DBVO Vampire Remastered
- Recommended Female Pack: DBVO Vampira
- 💡 Load Order Tip: If your custom voice pack utilizes structural plugins (
.esp), highlight them all in the right pane of Mod Organizer 2, right-click, and select "Send to Top" to force them to load directly beneath their master files.
Experience visceral, responsive action built on Blade & Blunt, BFCO (NG), and For Honor in Skyrim. This setup discards overly complex fighting game inputs for elegant, intuitive modern action rules:
- Simple Inputs: Power attacks are bound naturally to
WASD + Mouse Hold Click. - Dangerous Factions: Features Arena (Encounter Zones), OBIS (Organized Bandits), and Skyrim Realistic Conquering to turn every dungeon into a high-stakes tactical battlefield.
- Tactical Balance: Default game difficulty is locked to Legendary. Players are expected to group up with companions to conquer content ("Through the trenches together"). If you prefer a more casual experience, lower the native slider or use the Starting Up automated framework to buffer your stats on a new save.
- Advanced Mechanics: Complemented by Seb263's Ricochet Framework, Sanguine Symphony, and Dismembering Framework.
- The Simonrim Suite: Fully integrated design overhaul featuring Adamant (Perks), Mysticism (Magic), Starfrost (Survival), Gourmet (Cooking), Mundus (Standing Stones), and Pilgrim (Religion).
- Arcane Additions: Enriched with Apocalypse (with Optimized Scripts), Holy Templar Magic, Kitty Tail, and Darenii's structural spell packages.
- Alternate Paths: Total progression refreshes for Storm Crown (Shouting), Sacrosanct (Vampirism), Growl (Werebears/Werewolves), and Undeath Classical Lichdom.
- Community Shaders (v1.7.2): High-fidelity modern graphical pipeline featuring Screen Space Global Illumination (SSGI), HDR image spaces, wetness effects, and advanced subsurface scattering.
- Advanced Material Science: Full implementation of Complex Materials and True PBR textures (optimized baseline at 2K). Includes Community Shaders Upscaling to cleanly modernize legacy vanilla items.
- Patchless Lighting: Powered by True Light (utilizing Inverse Square lighting distribution) and Window Shadows Ultimate alongside a built-in True Black listing to keep dungeons atmospheric.
- Simplicity of Sea: Gorgeous, highly performant water architecture that completely eliminates the need for volatile, multi-mod water patching layers.
The modlist provides a dual-profile configuration to match your visual preferences cleanly:
- 3BA / HIMBO Profile: Standard modern physics body layout using CBBE 3BA, The New Gentleman (TNG), and Highly Improved Male Body Overhaul (HIMBO).
- Ultimate Body Enhancer (UBE 2.0) Profile: Next-generation ultra-high-poly head and body framework. Pre-patched with Sayble Skin, Futa options, and a proprietary master patch. Features unique visual overrides for custom followers like Morgaine and Mirai.
For users searching for specific community pillars, this list natively contains complete structural integration for:
- Major Quests: Wyrmstooth, The Forgotten City, Falskaar, Sirenroot, Warden of the Coast, Helgen Reborn, The Second Great War, Civil War Overhaul Redux.
- Immersion Engines: JaySerpa's complete Quest Expansion series, Immersive Wenches, Audio Books of Skyrim (audio seamlessly terminates when closing a book), Bathing in Skyrim Renewed, Candlehearth (Extended Inn Rentals).
- Follower Hubs: Complete integration for Inigo, Lucien, Xelzaz, Remiel, Gore, Bjorn, Sofia, and Song of the Green (Auri).
- VRAM: 8GB Minimum (12GB+ highly recommended).
- Storage: Solid State Drive mandatory (NVME strongly recommended). Do not install on your primary OS drive (
C:\) if possible. - System Frameworks: You must install both variations of the Visual C++ runtimes and all listed .NET layers due to legacy plugin builds:
🔥 CRITICAL CRASH WARNING: The extensive voice lines utilized by the DBVO framework will cause immediate, catastrophic file-system crashes on Windows if your installation folder hierarchy path is too long. You MUST unpack the list into a short, root-level directory.
Recommended Path:
X:\WOM(Where X represents your chosen storage drive).
- Base Game Platform: Skyrim Special Edition (Steam Only, Version 1.6.1170).
- The Rare Curios Check: You must verify your Rare Curios deployment file. It is exclusively case-sensitive.
- Navigate to your local Skyrim Data folder and ensure the asset file is explicitly named:
ccbgssse037-curios.esl - ❌ DO NOT use Steam's "Verify Integrity of Game Files" tool if it is broken or missing! Doing so will force-update your game executable and shatter the list. Instead, boot vanilla Skyrim, enter the official Creation Club Menu (access is completely free), and download the file cleanly through the UI.
- Navigate to your local Skyrim Data folder and ensure the asset file is explicitly named:
- Display Configurations: The list is pre-configured and tested for a 2K display matrix. Adjust your personal monitor resolution layout using Mod Organizer 2's internal text editor via
skyrimpref.iniorSSE Display Tweaks. Do not use BethINI or local system documents. - Antivirus Care: It is highly recommended to add your entire installation directory to your Antivirus white-list exclusions to prevent engine file blocking.
- Bug Reports: All tracking, feedback, and technical diagnostic updates are managed strictly via our official GitHub Repository.
5.Downloads from sites other than Nexus or Github (some may download automatically) here incase you need.
- HPH 1.4 https://drive.google.com/uc?id=15_0njBUjHKidNnJPmLXEygzGVWsA3Zbq&export=download
- PLEASE DOWNLOAD MERGE-PLUGINS-HIDE AND DEORDER PLUGINS: https://github.com/deorder/mo2-plugins/releases/tag/1.4
- CrossHair Event Fixes https://github.com/yeahhowaboutnooo/CrosshairRefEventsFix/releases/download/v0.0.1/CrosshairRefEventsFix_v0.0.1.7z
- EzPG SEAE https://craftian.itch.io/ezpg
- Orpheus SEAE https://craftian.itch.io/orpheus
- ESL High Poly Pretty Face Brows Stand Alone https://mega.nz/file/c4BBECpZ#T6G3QJc9kg-cEtsniiKPrSF7ITiE1eypK5f8olHRzhE
- Mousebell Preset (Free Loverslab account Required) https://www.loverslab.com/files/file/20338-acros-mousebell-body-preset-for-cbbe-3ba/
- Vayne Remastered (GG Mods free account required, Version 1) https://ggmods.com/game/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-special-edition/mod/1264/download/8423
- ColdSun's Visions Asset Pack https://ggmods.com/game/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-special-edition/mod/1105/download/7663
- CVR Follower Voices https://www.loverslab.com/files/file/18294-cvr-follower-voices
- BDOR Hairs SSE 0.23 https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1B1p7p13mZWTrHCE6dsel4jRGtOsHuu7k or https://www.mediafire.com/file/fra7ef7d0zptsku/%5BDint999%5D_BDOR_Hairs_SSE_0.23.7z/file
- Morningstar Wings SMP https://mega.nz/file/PaRXiQBK#PZyU2kfU2XEVIiuT1B1C82MCb8sKv5Ozg8QY9ls1dsY
- Valerica Lust of a mother SL Edition https://www.loverslab.com/files/file/27333-valerica-seranas-mom-has-got-it-goin-on-sexlab-and-flower-girl-editions/
- Coldsun's Visions Coralyn Standard esp https://ggmods.com/game/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-special-edition/mod/1204/download/8036
- Ostim UBE Patch https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1oGYPBBvGB1-bG2jRbikbMbWDTE7O-syj
- UBE Vanilla Armor and Clothes NG https://mega.nz/file/usMQGA4Z#lO6EYKUuYaelZ4EWOfWg8vQZiUAIGGqKQDlruCmrlWo
- Armory Data Manipulator https://mega.nz/file/bwUy0TAY#On27wgYoYLPe4E9MpDq6uvaGUTv1pWuA1EZ1M93JThU
- UBE Community Overlays 3 https://mega.nz/file/UVojFSzJ#ucG-wMI6FmpU1B0hVUigdkRl1jwOJ4Vsmu2TFyktcAQ
- UBE Community Overlays 1 https://mega.nz/file/schAVCYI#XrsHoNBD3NTidyzIps4YnheY3v7GrnRZTkOYyG7oT7A
- H2135 Fantasy Series 8 UBE https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1foHKNLKavKnDRlXd_vOkVzmBuvy41i0e
- H2135 Fantasy Series 8 3BA https://www.mediafire.com/file/ghcib0sjyvc2vqx/H2135's+Fantasy+Series8+[SE]+-+3BA.7z/file
- Tawoba Remastered 6.1 https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1c6Q4AivQcnXN_rio_hNXySf-4x6y5qA1
- Nether's Elana 2.1 https://www.patreon.com/file?h=142697088&m=558575507
- Nether's Elana 2.1 Approach Hotfix https://www.patreon.com/file?h=142697088&m=561858364
- IF YOU ARE HAVING ISSUES ALL COLDSUN'S MODS CAN BE DOWNLOADED MANUALLY FROM https://coldsunscreations.com/ (3BA-CBBE-TBD)
This modlist is not 100% crash-proof. While architectural stability improves with every major milestone revision, modding Skyrim at this scale pushes the limits of the engine. If you encounter an exception, please capture a clean log via the included crash logger and submit a formal report to our GitHub project board.