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Khajiit "Eye of Fear"

Eye of Fear is a Khajiit racial ability featured in Morrowind and Oblivion. It's a power (one use per day only!) which causes a single enemy to run in fear for 30 seconds.

For some reason, Eye of Fear didn't make it into Skyrim. As a method of learning the Creation Kit, I've restored this ability. It was... somewhat harder than I expected.

Getting the ability to cast and getting people to run away was simple, and happened in just a few minutes. Getting a sound effect to play? Now that was hard.

NOTES:

Katia Managan (she of the preview image) and inspiration to restore this ability by Kazerad. Kindly visit http://www.prequeladventure.com/ to follow her adventures and discover how to use (and how NOT to use) Eye of Fear in practice.

If you try to use this power on a target at medium-long range and miss, you won't hear any sound. This is due to the fact that sounds attached to projectiles have an absolute maximum range beyond which you'll hear nothing. If you hit your target, you'll always hear the sound no matter what - it's scripted.

COMPATABILITY:

This plugin modifies the Khajiit (and now KhajiitVampire) Race in order to add this power. While it WILL CONFLICT with other Khajiit-race modifications (only those that modify the Race type - not textures or meshes, for example), it should be perfectly functional so long as it's loaded after the other plugin. It'll most likely suppress the changes made to KhajiitRace and KhajiitVampire in that other mod, but not any other changes.

OTHER RECOMMENDED MODS FOR KHAJIITI CHARACTERS:

Adaptive Night-Eye: A less intrusive, more natural alternative to the vanilla night eye power.
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/17438
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=73005460

OR

Toggleable Night-Eye: Exactly what it suggests. No more 30 second duration!
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=7541

Coverkhajiits: Magnificent high-resolution Khajiit face retexture. Highly recommended.
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/5941

Khajiit Speak: Rewrites ALL of the player dialogue to mimic the Khajiit style of speech. A huge undertaking brilliantly executed. I bloody love this mod.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/14513

NEXT:

This is pretty much done, and I'm finally satisfied with it. I'll check in periodically to make sure an update doesn't break it in some way (again).

TECHNICAL THINGS:

This was a real pain in the backside to get working, for a variety of reasons. To read about my earlier efforts to get this working, have a look at my Internet Weblog:
http://durkonkell.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/the-custom-scrolls-skyrim-the-creation-kit-and-fear/

If you're having trouble getting the spell to appear, you can enter into the console
player.addspell XX000D63
with XX being dependant on the mod's position in your load order. Try typing into the console:
help "eye of fear"
which should show you the correct ID for your game under the 'SPEL' category.

Questions? Comments? Let me know!