By Azura! I agree - the best of all worlds and it looks fabulous. Great taste, SubRosa! Ghastley, once again your talent with the CK shines through!

Here is how Saya and Kireteki look together

I also spent much of today integrating the Silvernight black and red retexture into my existing Silverlight Armor mod, so the black and red is a standalone alongside the original silver. I even took the mail from the original silver version and created a black and red mailed version.

So naturally I had to take a picture of that as well. I have always loved that armor, but it feels just too exotic for Skyrim. It worked great in Oblivion though.

I'll be sticking with the Ordinator Armor for Saya though. Now I will have to start looking at stats for her armor and mace. I also need to look at the same for Kireteki. I gave her a Daedric Sword for the moment, but I might just want to let her use her claws. I also want her to have some spells, so she can shoot Saya in the back.

I also need to decide whether I want her to level up with Saya. That would allow me to use just one spell to summon her for the entire game. Or I could go the standard route and make two versions of Kireteki, a regular one and a Potent one unlocked by the Elemental Potency perk. Which leads me to another question. Do I want Saya to start being able to summon Kireteki? Or should she start with the standard Flame/Frost/Storm Astronauts first?

I'd let her summon Kireteki right away, but level her. That avoids the situation where the atronach might be a better choice because of resistances etc. If Saya has a regular summon, she won't get into a habit of using the others.

I'm not excited about this armor; prefer the Witch one to this.







MUCH better !!! But can you color the jewel in her tiara to the same color as her loincloth?







This looks AWESOME !!!! Perfect !!!!

The second picture of them together in red that you linked just didn't do it for me at all.

The third picture in Oblivion looked great !!!

I spent the afternoon tweaking the Winged Twilight mod more. I did make Kireteki level with the player, with a minimum level of 8 and a max of 80 (I have never had a character get that high). I gave her the starting shock, healing, and a mid-level vampire drain. I also created a Potent Twilight Race, with higher stats, and used that to create a Potent Kireteki that is summoned with the Elemental Potency perk. She also has higher level versions of the same spells. I decided not to go with weapons, but instead increased the Twilight race's unarmed damage.

I also did some final tweaks on Saya - adding modded spells like night eye, open locks, etc... I also worked a bit on her face, since her cheeks looked a little hollow to me. While I was at it, I decided to visit the hair salon...

Valdi-Saya

Saya with a ponytail

If Saya was a movie star

Help me Obi-Wan...

I came so close to making this one permanent

Punk Saya

Another movie star look

If Saya went native

But I will be sticking with her side-parted bob, at least for now

Now I just need to decided where to start her out. Saya was last seen in Cyrodiil. But that was back in the 3rd Era. Her Ordinator armor points to a visit to Morrowind. So she might start at the Morrowind-Skyrim border, either on the road east of Windhelm, or the one east of Riften. I am toying with starting her on Solstheim. But I think the monsters there are scaled up higher than normal, which would make it a bad place for a 1st level character.

What a fun day Saya must have had at the hairstylist! I'm glad you settled back with 'her' style - I think it really does suit her.

Since your focus here was on hair, it really struck me that the golden blonde seems a bit. . . warm for Saya (both her nature and other coloring). Cooling it to more of a platinum or even white might suit her well? In fact, was not her original hair color from TF days white?

Edit: Oh - starting location. All three of the options you mentioned are good. I think I'd pick the road to Windhelm. As you say, it clearly comes from Morrowind. It also boasts the following that I think would suit well:
- A harsh inhospitable climate.
- A harsh inhospitable city (to Dunmer).
- Proximity to the College of Winterhold.

She actually started out black when I first created her in Oblivion. But when she switched to white she really came into her own.

Unfortunately some of those hairstyles just won't do white. The blond/auburn color is literally the closest they will come.

Oh, I know what you mean. Well, we'll just rely on the gold highlights in her beautiful armor to tie things together and it will work wonderfully!

This is my favorite hair - the one she had before the wig-athon, lol. I'd have to see something a lot better than this to switch my opinion; and none of the other wigs quite made it; though the one sided one you liked came close (and I technically liked the tribal one too, but maybe not on Saya, lol)

I didn't realize Solstheim was so tough! I did go ahead and buy the DLC, but haven't actually played it yet.

The side-part one does follow on from her Oblivion style, better than all the others.

I'm personally biased towards styles that reveal an elf's ears, as they're one of the significant differences with the man races, so don't ask me.

A Solstheim start needs a level 20 character, so I'd save that to later. Also the cultists may still appear on the mainland, and if they're too high-level, nobody will survive.

Oh wow, Saya and Kireteki just keep looking better and better! Kireteki’s ghastley-modified armor looks perfect on her!

Valdi-Saya, lol. I’m guessing that Saya did NOT vote for that hairstyle!

I love the almost-permanent one, but I still think her bob is best. It reminds me so much of her Oblivion look.

Here’s another vote for starting her on the road near Windhelm, where she would have come through the Dunmeth Pass. I think it would be great to explore Solstheim with her at a higher level, though. Perhaps she will have some personal reason to go there.

Although I only tweaked the mesh, I did think about dulling down the bright design on the armour. It's almost white, rather than silvery, and could probably use reducing to a mid-grey, putting the shine back in the specular instead.