Oromë Formal (with Valaróma)
Oromë Formal (without Valaróma)
Vána Formal
Vána Head  (stay-put mesh)

I had thought that this time, I would have only new outfits and no new heads, but I forgot until the last moment that I had redone the mesh for Vána's head so that it's now of the more popular "stay-put" variety.  The skin is identical to the old; the version included in the download is numbered to work with the new mesh.

I had originally attempted to make Vána's gown in some color other than pink (or blue), but found that not only does she look best in pink, but it also complements the colors of Oromë's new outfit quite nicely.  I had also attempted to give her a garland of flowers, but it came off looking too much like either a strange boa or one of the Hawaiian leis the game uses on the dance floor, so I decided to give it a miss.  And rather than giving her a crown, I gave her a necklace (that is actually seen better when the Sim is in motion, you can see it in the head shot below) that is a duplicate of the design of her husband's circlet.

When I first made Oromë, I had started working on giving him the Valaróma -- his great horn, the sound of which struck fear into the hearts of enemies -- but decided he already had too many accessories and stopped working on it.  It didn't help that at the time, I hadn't mastered texture mapping and couldn't make it look right.  Now that I've gotten the hand of that part of skinning and meshing, I decided to use it.  The design "carved" into it is a Celtic zoomorph of hunting hounds, which were beloved of Oromë (as were horses).  The asymmetrical cloak is only with the version carrying the horn; the version without it has a cloak of the same length with a symmetrically curved lower hem (depicted below).

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