Undying Nights

Every night after Helgen, the dead rise. Undying Nights turns Skyrim's nights into round-based undead survival in the spirit of classic zombies modes, told as Skyrim lore: at Helgen the World-Eater sang the Undying Dirge, and now every grave in the holds answers it after dark. Survive the night, earn septims of the dead, and break the curse city by city.

What you get

• Nights of the dead. From dusk to dawn the Risen climb out of the earth around you, more and stronger each night. Iron Reapers swing great blades; Voidbound Necromancers raise skeletons. Dawn turns them to ash.
• Event nights (1 in 4): Blood Moon (more dead, faster), Fog Night (Grimmvar, the Undying Wyrm, hunts you), Ash Storm (the dead run, double points), Night of Iron (the champions march).
• Stations outside every city: a Nordic shrine with Sheogorath's Coffer (a random magic staff or elemental bow), the Brew Machine (nine brews) and the Atronach Reforge (three levels; level 3 makes a weapon's charged move Ascendant: harder, sooner, and it strikes twice).
• Staffs and bows built for it. Every weapon has a normal shot and a charged signature move (hold, release): black holes, orbital star strikes, doom marks, a plague that spreads, a FUS RO DAH bow, and more.
• The Undying Dirge: four night quests in each of ten cities (the Ashen Tithe, the Ward-Fires, the Herald in the Fog, Dawn over the city). A freed city is a sanctuary, and gives you its relic, one of ten wonder weapons. The lore is in a book in your pack.
• Power-ups: Insta-Kill, Double Points, Nuke, Fire Sale.
• Faster movement: quicker running, strafing as fast as running forward, jumps that keep your momentum, light air control.
• Townsfolk and followers are safe from the night's magic; Skyrim's own enemies still fight you as normal.

Controls

| Key | Action | |---|---| | G | tap: next weapon / hold: put weapons away | | Left mouse | fire (hold and release for the charged move) | | Right mouse | aim | | V | quick knife | | E on a station | use it (Coffer, Brew Machine: 1-9 to pick, Reforge, Shrine of the Dirge) |

Requirements

• Skyrim Special Edition / Anniversary Edition 1.7.104 (the current Steam version), with Dawnguard and Dragonborn (included in SE/AE).
• Melty installs everything else it needs. Start a new game or load one: the nights begin once you've escaped Helgen.

Optional look (not required): Skyland AIO, Azurite Weathers III, Realistic Water Two, Lux, Lux Via, Lux Orbis, Happy Little Trees, Skoglendi, SMIM.

Single player. This release is played solo.

Credits

• Built by Noah Grove with Claude (AI).
• Address Library for SKSE Plugins by meh321 (bundled versionlib-1-7-104-0.bin, with permission for free mods).
• CommonLibSSE-NG (GPL-3.0 with modding exceptions), Dear ImGui (MIT), spdlog (MIT); Present hook after SkyCraft by chasmlol (MIT).
• Station architecture uses Skyrim's own Whiterun textures by reference (nothing of the game is included).
• Fan project, not affiliated with Bethesda. You need to own Skyrim.