Dragonborn in Lordran

Start Dark Souls III as the Dragonborn

Every new Dark Souls III character begins in Skyrim's steel armor: the horned steel helmet, cuirass, gauntlets and boots, with a steel sword and round steel shield in hand. Pick any starting class and you step out of the Cemetery of Ash dressed for Skyrim. Your stats and class still decide how you fight.

How it works

On your first Play, Dragonborn reads your own installed copies of Dark Souls III and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition and builds the gear from them, in about 15 seconds. Nothing from either game is included in the download.

What you need

• Dark Souls III
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition (any version)

Melty installs ModEngine2 for you. Press Play and you're in.

Play offline only

This mod changes Dark Souls III game data, so it must be played offline. Playing online with changed game data can get your account penalized. Use Steam Offline Mode, and in Dark Souls III set System > Network > Launch Setting to Play Offline. Dragonborn warns you before it launches if Steam is online.

Good to know

• Solo only. Existing characters are not changed: the gear is the starting loadout of new characters.
• The inventory icons still show the vanilla Knight icons for now.
• Version 0.1.0, a first release.

Credits and license

Made by cotychristian813 with Claude. Skyrim and Dark Souls III are not affiliated with this mod; they belong to Bethesda Softworks and FromSoftware / Bandai Namco. Code and design sheets are GPL-3.0-or-later; the full source ships inside the download. Built with ModEngine2, SoulsFormats, nifly, Mutagen, BouncyCastle and Microsoft DirectXTex.