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🦌 Hymns of Hircine
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Introduction
Hymns of Hircine (HOH) is the immersive challenge modlist from the Scrolls of Schtevie team.
This list transforms Skyrim into a merciless Hunting Ground where survival is never guaranteed. You will battle hunger, cold, exhaustion, and predators that stalk your every step, with Hircine’s blessing only granted through blood and perseverance.
HOH is designed to be difficult, immersive, and role-play focused, encouraging you to step fully into the role of a hunter in a dangerous, unforgiving world. Every system — survival mechanics, combat, economy, and immersion mods — works together to create a relentless challenge that rewards patience, strategy, and role-play above all else.
Featuring full integration of adult content, complete visual overhauls, quest expansions, and refined combat, HOH creates an immersive, replayable experience for players who want both intensity and intimacy. Built on the bones of NGVO, this is Skyrim reimagined — darker, deeper, and far more dangerous.
🛡️ Choose Your Profile
HOH offers two profiles tailored to your system’s capabilities and preferred experience:
- Lord’s Vision – Multiple ENB presets, full graphics, and all features enabled
- Performance – Community Shaders, same gameplay experience with optimized graphics for smoother play on lower-end systems
🔮 Quests, Lore & Exploration
From ancient Dwemer ruins to Daedric realms and underground cults, HOH includes dozens of lore-rich quests that expand Skyrim’s world in meaningful and mysterious ways.
Major quests include Legacy of the Dragonborn, The Forgotten City, VIGILANT, Project AHO, Wyrmstooth, GLEN-MORIL, Unslaad, Carved Brink, The Tools of Kagrenac, The Gray Cowl of Nocturnal, Sirenroot, Olenveld, DAc0da, Moon and Star, Legends of Aetherium, Heart of the Reach, Ascend, Sleepwalking into a Nightmare, and many more — all patched and rebalanced to fit seamlessly into your journey.
⚔️ Combat and Skill Progression
Combat is brutal, punishing, and designed to test both your skill and your determination with modern animation and progression systems.
• MCO combat featuring For Honor in Skyrim.
• The Last Breath - Combat Overhaul, made exclusively for HOH by Heisen.
• True directional movement, stamina-based dodge rolling.
• Perk overhaul from Synergy - Skills and Perks Reimagined
with support from Mannaz, Freyr, Sacrilege, Growl, and Wintersun.
🏕️ Survival and Hunting
This list makes survival a constant struggle, tying hunting, needs, and the elements directly into the gameplay loop.
• Survival overhauls — Last Seed, Frostfall, Campfire, Stress and Fear, and Bathing in Skryim — add hunger, thirst, exhaustion, fear, etc.
• Hunting overhauls — Simple Hunting Overhaul, Hunters Loot, Carry Your Carcasses — turn every hunt into skinning, butchering, and hauling your spoils
• Immersive progression systems make survival choices matter: when to camp, what to eat, and what to carry
• Additional immersion mods ground every step of your journey in realism
☠️ Deleveled World
This list removes level-scaling, grounding Skyrim in a harsh, static danger curve where strength must be earned.
• MorrowLoot Ultimate and SkyValor create a fixed-zone progression with no mercy for the unprepared
• Low-level areas remain approachable, while high-level regions demand caution and preparation
• Powerful gear is placed in dangerous locations, rewarding exploration and risk-taking
• Every step into the wild feels like trespassing into a predator’s domain
🌄 Visuals, Atmosphere & World Overhaul
• Complete city and terrain overhauls via JK’s Skyrim, Cities of the North, and The Great Cities
• Enhanced lighting and weather using Lux, EmbersXD, Obsidian Weathers, and more
• High-res textures, handpicked ENB support, lush foliage, dense forests, and region-specific landscapes
🧙♂️ Armors, Magic, & Loot
• Massive collection of armors and clothing — a curated blend of lore-friendly and NSFW styles — fully integrated for 3BA, HIMBO, and dynamic in-game distribution
• Expanded weapon variety including spears, halberds, katanas, javelins, shortswords, and more
• Comprehensive magic overhaul featuring Odin - Skyrim Magic Overhaul, Darenii Spells, Apocalypse, Conduit, and Lost Grimoire
🔞 Adult Content Integration
HOH fully integrates adult content in a way that enhances immersion — without spam or forced encounters.
• OStim Standalone, OBody, 3BA, HIMBO, and Amorous Adventures for OStim support
• Every scene and animation is optional
• No defeat mods, no bloat — just smooth, balanced, immersive NSFW gameplay
• All NSFW elements are within the player’s control — nothing “in your face”
🧑🤝🧑 NPC & Follower Overhauls
• Every named NPC and follower has been visually enhanced using a custom NPC Plugin Chooser 2 merge
• Full compatibility with AI Overhaul, Follower Dialogue Expansion, 3DNPC, and more
• Dynamic outfits, follower support for OStim, and consistent visual tone across regions
• Includes fully-voiced followers like: Kaidan, Remiel, Auri, Xelzaz, Lucien, Inigo, Hoth, Jesper, Taliesin, Gore, Caesia, Lyssia, M'rissi, Katana, Redcap, Thogra, Merlin, Khajiit Will Follow, and many more
• For details on how to find and recruit followers, see the SOS Follower Guide
💻 Performance & Requirements
These are hard requirements. The modlist will not function without them.
- Skyrim Anniversary Edition (AE) – full version with all Creation Club content
- Skyrim Special Edition Creation Kit – must be installed via Steam on the same drive as Skyrim
- SSD (HDDs will cause freezing/crashes)
- Pagefile set to at least 40GB
- Latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable
- .NET Framework
- .NET SDK – both .NET 8 and .NET 9 required
Disk Space: 276GB download • 576GB installed • ~852GB total
Windows language: must be set to English
Lord’s Vision Profile – Full graphics, ENB, all features
- CPU: i5 10th Gen / Ryzen 5 3000 (min) — i7 12th Gen / Ryzen 7 5000 (ideal)
- GPU: RTX 3060 Ti / RX 6600 XT (min) — RTX 4070 Ti / RX 7800 XT (ideal)
- RAM: 16GB (min), 32GB (ideal)
Performance Profile – Optimized visuals, Community Shaders
- CPU: i5-6500 / Ryzen 5 1st Gen (min) — i5 10th Gen / Ryzen 5 3000 (ideal)
- GPU: RTX 2060 / RX 5600 XT (min) — RTX 3060 Ti / RX 6600 XT (ideal)
- RAM: 16GB (min), 16–32GB (ideal)
🛠️ Installation via Wabbajack
HOH installs using Wabbajack, the automated modlist installer. No modding experience is required.
🤝 Join the Community
Need help? Want to show off your build? Curious about upcoming patches or modlist forks?
Come join us on Discord — feedback and chaos always welcome.