this blades work great. thx ... rate up and fav...

awesome blades. is it possible to make a matching bow and arrows to complete the set.

i see the book and the skeleton, but no pressure plate?

does it need dragonborn dlc?

These weapons are truly...Bitchin'!

Fantastic! Bravo!

So what's the base damage?

greate mod! but i was thinking, the binding on the handle doesnt realy match the texture of the blade. do you think you could could possably add more detail on it. other than that you got an OCD guys love!

Hi, I done it again, inspired by your daggers.
The more links to your mod the better ;)
you might like to lend your support too ;)
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=232155077

Hi, Love the this mod and have added it to this collection.
I hope you like it and take it as a high compliment ;)
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=228285590

this needs to have a matching bow set.....or not......maybe....

the nightangale armor?thats no mod!

and what mod is with that black armor? (add me and write)

its cool but just an idea u should put something like this near the handle I_I except conected thats just my idea

I love the look of these. One idea though. I recently downloaded scout armor and it has a reversed dagger you can use as a shield. thought that would be awesome with these blades.

Superbes épées

i love how you bluntltly labeled that picture.

1. They look absolutely cool
2. After reading the "Black sting Journal" I think you should add a assassin that follows you, makes suspiciuos noises and eventually attacks you.

omg. the black sting is like an assasins dream. I honestly think though, you should add a quest and some spliced voice audio and make them a quest reward.

I have a request if you could do a small change. I wonder if you can make the 2h black sting a little taller. for me it looks like a normal 1 handed sword :P (No offense)
Other then that, I love this mod and suits me well when it comes to use dual weapon and sneaky kills. :)

gonna try it again right away! i just dld a stand alone armor called 'RAZOR' which i think will be a blast with those weapons ^^

What armor is that?

problem one of my sword's disapeared! and now i can't get it back! can you please make this smithable

ALL MY YES! I have seen this for Oblivion and NOW FOR SKYRIM! Fear ME!

Sounds very interesting and seems that you've put a lot of thought into it. Unfortunately, I don't have the knowledge or experience to excecute such an elaborate mod idea. It would take scripting ability and extensive knowlegde of Skyrim. In the Skyrim modding world weapon mods are probably the easiest to implement. If you know how to make 3D models and textures, it's pretty simple to put a weapon in-game. I dont plan on learning the papyrus scripting language or how to use it. Thanks for the time and thought you put into all that, but I can't implement it at the moment.

(first post is the bottom one as usual!)

tldr here an idea to add some material to your nice weapon set ^^

the contracts can come up as a paper stuck in the wall of the room we slept once in a while with only the name of the victim, the town/city/village where they live and the symbol of the black sting. or maybe added in the last page of the book, which we'll have to check every once in a while or at decided times each day one full week/month after we agreed to the deal. blood price to use those weapons and stay alive hehe. victims could be chosen randomly between any non essential/merchant npc chosen in the area we just slept in. like one per month in gametime or something.

it would be hard for the nerves and have a sense of 'duty' as an assassin, everything have a price are we willing to pay it? it's a bit easy to find nice good looking weapons which are legendary for free cause we just stumbled on em by chance ^^ what you think?

let say a dark assassin disrupts your sleep once in a while (one which levels up with you to be enough of a threat) and vanishing when dead like it was only a nightmare, but for the wounds he left you. (a bit like in Morrowind when the dark brotherhood was after us on random rest till the quest was done)
let's say the only way to get rid of that is try and put back the weapons in the old sanctum where they belong. (you can add in the book something like 'i should have accomplished the deeds or put em back in place when i had the chance'. Once we go back the the location, an off gravy voice tells us we have to choose between becoming their true master, by keeping em and getting random kill contracts (which we would have a limited time to attend too before dark assassins bother us again) or put em back now and walk away freely, never to come back.

Thx mate! just changed computer, gonna go for a new toon. since i already made warrior and mage archetypes which are OP beasts eating up ancestral dragons for breakfast, i'll try the sneaky assassin this time more challenging maybe. but that x15 dagger dmg on backstab while sneaking in plain sight seems a good one shot kill too hehe.

Any chance you can do something for us role playing lovers? i feel like since we read the book and take the weapons anyway, our lives should be threatenned. so maybe you can set up a 'mini quest'. here's an idea.

these weapons are awsome

Очень хороший комплект!!! Классно!!!

Ok, I've finally narrowed down what I think is the problem. The issue is caused by me not saving the textures with mip maps. Basically, what a mip maps are are progressively reduced sizes of the texture saved with the texture (orig is 2048x2048 and is saved with 1024x1024, 512x512, 256x256 sized versions). Mip maps are used to reduce system load due to the res of textures on distant objects. A progressively smaller size is used the farther the player gets from an object. Saving a texture without mip maps reduces it's size and that is why I was doing this. I was actually causing the pause I was trying to avoid. I think the pause occurs because Skyrim's engine is generating mip maps for the textures which do not have them at load time (when the weapon is equipped the textures are loaded into memory). Although, not saving mip maps with the textures reduced thier size, it's a better trade-off to have the bigger file with mip maps. I will be updating the file soon with updated textures.

yeah about that, don't worry i merely use the weapon for the great way it looks. since i hit 100 enchant, i just enchanted my gear so i have -100% cost destru and alteration, so i'm never oom anymore ^^ i wonder about rerolling a assassin archetype character, but then i'll use dual wielding so i won't be changing often neither, so it's no big deal ^^ have fun with whatever you're doing now!

@T3h Gr33n Rock3tM@n
It should work. I don't remember a specific time seeing it in action, but I don't play Skyrim much at this point. As far as I know, there isn't anything that would prevent it when using a custom weapon.

@s33k3r
This is an issue I am aware of. I used to think it was unavoidable with the resolution of the textures I used on the weapons, but I have made weapons that have similar res textures that do not have the issue. The issue may be something different from texture res, so I need to look into it.

Hey yo!

First of, nice work, the skin of these weapons are top notch.

Now to my problem, whenever i equip one of the black sting weapon, there is a 'lag'. Same as when you quicksave while moving you see? The game freezes for a sec then it's equipped. Thing wasn't so boring until i started using the dagger each time i was oom, cause i enchanted it with magicka drain at last. Hell i'm in an epic fight requiring tactical moves with a death overlord draugr and his 2 deathlords friends (they basically 2 shots me, cause of enhanced difficulty + enhanced AI mods and i'm playing in expert right now) and it's just goes on 'pause' then bam started again, each time i hit the hotkey to the dagger. it's becoming kinda annoying for it breaks the immersion a bit, and each time i'm like 'nooo don't crash now! i didn't save since the last auto! ah yeah it's just the dagger coming in hand' ^^

so if you know why and can fix it, or if i can do something to fix it, i'd like to know ^^

Can you do kill moves like slit throat?

@miragesabourin & -AD- Azael
Thanks :)

@That Guy
It should be compatible with almost every mod. The only exception being weapon rebalancing mods and mods that modify the models and/or terrian around the shadow stone.

Is it compatible with other mods?

i would love to be able to craft the daggers, pity. didnt subscribe but they look awesome 9/10 :)

This certainly looks much better than any single handed swords I'm using right now (going for more of a Dark Knight look.)

@Mannimarco
Thanks, it is very unlikely, but I might make armor and/or a bow.

thank you for the help it worked perfecttly this time and the blades are beautifull keep up the good work id love to see a black sting armour and bow some day if posible

@Mannimacro
Is Skyrim fully updated to it's latest stable version?

I deleted the mod's files from my computer and let steam download them over again. As fas as I can tell, everything worked as it should. I still had the weapons in my inventory after the full mod re-install. I had no errors appear. What I can suggest is that you do the same as I did. Start the skyrim launcher and select DATA FILES. Next highlight(click) ISDBlackSting.esp and click delete selected. Now, agree to delete all associated files and unsubscribe from the mod (you will be prompted to unsubscribe when you delete the mod in this way). This should delete the mod, the esp and bsa. Next thing you should do is close the skyrim launcher and navigate back to the mod page (if you had it open during this process you should reload the page [f5]) and subscribe back to the mod. If that doesn't resolve the issue, then I'm not sure what else to do. You could try searching for a solution to your error online.

tryed to install but it kept telling me there was an error please update i really want these swords and daggers for my assassin

Well, I guess it doesn't matter, because that I accidentally deleted that save a while back. It really sucks though because I was a level 55 warrior. Oh well, that one was getting boring anyway.

When I say backup, I just mean make a copy of the saves folder and place it elsewhere. I don't think uninstalling skyrim would delete the saves folder, but it could. It's just a precaution.

I tried all of that, except for reinstalling it. I have no idea how to use backups though.

I have no idea. It is a possibility. I installed/downloaded my copy through steam. Can you find any vanilla (available in the unmoddified-game) weapons any where in the game? One thing you could try is the command
help steel 4
or
help "steel"
or
help "steel" 0
Alternatively, you could "verify the integrity of the game cache" through steam. Go to your steam library, right click skyrim, select properties, select the local files tab, and click "verify the integrity of the game cache". If none of that works, then you could try reinstalling skyrim. If you do decide to reinstall, backup your saves, which are located in your documents/my games/skyrim/saves folder.

Yeah, I was thinking it might be something with the installation. I did intall it from the disc, though. Would that do it?