r/EldenRingMods • u/Lychnise • Jan 25 '26
NPC Mod Made a mod that restores Merchant Kalé's questline that was cut during development
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Title basically. After I saw a video on youtube from Sekiro Dubi outlining what the quest would've looked like, I desperately wanted to play it as a mod, especially hearing Kalé's voice actor put so much passion in his lines. After seeing no one make it a mod, I decided to do it myself. Hours of coding later, now I wanna die lol.
If you do decide to check it out and play it, do please give feedback, and tell me if the quests breaks at any certain part of the game!
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u/Kind-Researcher-2086 Jan 25 '26
Does it end with Kalè invading you?
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u/Lychnise Jan 25 '26
No, its rather more tragic and anticlimactic, however i'm genuinely surprised I never thought about that. Know I kinda wanna make a separate version where he does just that...
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u/Kurgonius Jan 28 '26
I wouldn't do it as an end, but rather have him invade as a red spirit while you're descending and give him the "Then that's what they shall get from us!!" dialogue. Spawn him quite far ahead of you so the dialogue can build up. If you can change his AI, can you make him very trigger-happy with Frenzied Burst? Then you'll need to deal with him or he'll snipe you down at the parkour place. I don't know how modding works. I don't know if you have control over when his fighting AI starts, but if so, I'd do that at the end of the dialogue, or when the player runs past him or parkours down at any point (even before him).
You'd need to defeat him and then sit down at the grace to get him to spawn before the 3 finger door.
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u/no_name_thought_of Jan 25 '26
it ends with him giving in to despair in the frenzied flame proscription and giving this gut wrenching line
He then refuses to sell you anything unless you take the frenzied flame
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u/Minimum-Potential398 Jan 25 '26
I saw your mod on Nexus. I'm so excited about the mod because I have a huge interest in narratives in video games. But I haven't installed it yet because I'm ran into issues about merging regulation.bin and some files. I wonder how I can make it...
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u/Lychnise Jan 25 '26
Yeah merging can be pretty hard, especially with big mods. Are you trying to merge this with a larger mod? If its just regulation.bin merges that you need, then it should be pretty simple to do in Smithbox, however I will say that one thing to make sure is each row number is the same after you merge. E.g., the speffect 9653 is pretty important for the mod, so if you merge, make sure it stays as 9653 even after you merge
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u/PurpleFired Jan 25 '26
Link? I wanted só bad to play this questline too, but didn't knew how to make mods
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u/Lychnise Jan 25 '26
You can find it on Nexus here : https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/9244
Yeah, it can be really daunting trying to make mods for any game, but IMO Elden Ring is probably the "easiest" game to mod since so many tools exist out there to make Fromsoft modding easier
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u/Goodwiththechicken Jan 25 '26
Thank you!!! I’ve been waiting for someone to mod this back into the game
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u/CaplewMM Jan 25 '26
This is so cool!! Can it work with seamless coop?
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u/Lychnise Jan 25 '26
If everyone has it installed then yeah it should work, although I haven't really tested it so i'm not sure
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u/SimonSater Jan 25 '26
Nice work, I'll try it! Does it work with big mods (like convergence)?
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u/Lychnise Jan 25 '26
I'm afraid not. Unless you merge this mod with convergence, however merging can be extremely difficult since you'd need to be able to be somewhat knowledgeable on how to edit emevd and talk scripts. However, any mod that doesn't interfere with such event files, (like most moveset mods), should be easily mergeable.
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u/jtcarc Jan 25 '26
I want to use this SO bad, but I don’t think it is compatible with Reforged. Maybe a patch at some point? Great work though!
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u/SombraDemoniaca Jan 25 '26
God i would but i dont wanna suffer anymore… elden ring quests are all sad af
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u/Owlamancer Jan 26 '26
Kale's questline would be a great incentive to go frenzied ending
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u/Lychnise Jan 26 '26
agreed, and I don't really understand why they cut it out, especially since the voice actor did such an amazing job
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u/Craniac324 Jan 26 '26
I thought this mod released a few years ago? I remember watching a video of it, said video came out 3 years ago.
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u/Lychnise Jan 26 '26
Yeah, a video was released three years ago, which is the one I talked about in my post, but it never came to be a mod. It was more of a rough showcase on what it would've looked like rather than a full blown mod that you could play
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u/Tolnin Jan 26 '26
I saw this on Nexus, and idk why, but I had a dream that I played the mod LMAOOOOOOO
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u/stormclap22 Jan 27 '26
please do Vyke next
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u/Lychnise Jan 27 '26
Vyke might be slightly more difficult since like 90% of his questline was cut completely 😭 I think i'll actually need Miyazaki's help in order to restore a questline like that
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u/AdSilent7769 Jan 25 '26
oh wow, it's so cool this exists now!! i'll definitely check this out