Blade & Soul - Rising Flame (Gon Outfit) Mod

Just last week, a patron made a request for the Gon Rising Flame outfit. Since I do not have another outfit in mind to mod just yet, I decided to go ahead with it.

For players of the game, you will know that this is quite a rare outfit as it can only be obtained as a random drop from the last boss - Dark Vicar in Ebondrake Lair dungeon. Previously, it can only dropped in the Hard Mode dungeon but since the Hard Mode version has been removed, the outfit can now be obtained from the Normal Mode dungeon.

Its rarity is comparable to the Oblivion outfit from Desolate Tomb but on a higher level dungeon. The rarity is not due to the dungeons being hard to beat but our beloved RNG Goddess. If you don't pray hard enough, you might not even get to see it once in two hundred runs. 😅

The reason the outfit is called Rising Flame has nothing to do with the Dark Vicar, although the outfit drops off him. And the fact is that nothing on the outfit is really related to flame other than the red color. So why is it call the Rising Flame?

Well, if you actually keep an eye open when you fight through the dungeon, you will probably only see two enemy NPCs wearing this outfit, which is very different from the black-gold colored outfit that other Ebondrake cultists wear. They are the first mini bosses that your party will face in Ebondrake Lair - Adept Myna and Adept Starling. These two NPCs who are standing on a stage addressing a group of newly recruited zealots, when you barge in, will exclaim "You shall be purified!".

Since they are addressing new recruits, we can assume that they are not very high ranking. But since they are addressed as Adept, it would mean that they are also elites who are assigned to inspire the new recruits. Low ranking elites rising through the ranks with twisted flame of passion. And thus, Rising Flame. Or maybe simply because they are flaming the passions of the new recruits. 😆

Now that we got the information about the outfit out of the way, let's check out the original outfit in the images below.

Front View - Original Outfit

Front Close-up View - Original Outfit

The base outfit is made up of three separate pieces, which includes a read colored top over a base white dress. The pair of sleeves is the separate third piece.

The base white dress has laced layer on the torso portion and extends downward in a tapered fashion. A red ball, which looks like a dragon fruit, hangs at the bottom of the tapered dress.

The outfit also comes with a wing accessory that hangs on the back, but I did not show it here so as not to obscure the outfit.

Rear View - Original Outfit

The rear looks much more simpler when compared to the front view.

Rear Close-up View - Original Outfit

Side View - Original Outfit

The white dress' front and back portion is split by two slits on the sides, starting from the waist level. As such the panties' straps are visible.

Side Close-up View - Original Outfit

So did you find anything that indicates the outfit's name - Rising Flame? 😆

In the mod, I tried to trim the red top so it will reveal more of the torso. Players who actually looks upward from below the outfit (which I can't since I do not have the outfit), will notice that there is a laced layer immediately below the red top, and below that, a full opaque white layer acting as the bra. I know because this can also be seen in the 3D model. 😆

Since I wanted to trim the red top, I first have to remove the laced layer directly below it. However, after this is done, all we will see is the bottom of the white bra. As such, I recolored the white bra portion into skin, so instead of looking at a white layer, we can see the bottom of the breasts (something like the Dreamcutter outfit). Unfortunately, I cannot trim the red top too much because the mesh for the top half of the torso is missing. 😓

Next, I trimmed or rather modified the bottom of the dress from a tapered end to a rounded end. While shortening the dress, the red dragon fruit was also sacrificed as a result since it cannot be left hanging in thin air. 😓 But simply rounding off the dress looks too simple so I copied the laced layer from the torso and duplicated it at the bottom of the dress, on both the front and back.

Let us now take a look at the modified outfit below.

Front View - Modified Outfit

The dress can be seen shortened to thigh level and the rounded bottom part is replaced with lace layer.

Front Close-up View - Modified Outfit

We can see the trimmed red top and a bit of the under boobs. But why is the lace layer still there? 😓

Rear View - Modified Outfit

Rear Close-up View - Modified Outfit

The back of the dress is similarly modified like the front portion.

Side View - Modified Outfit

Ah! The panties' straps remain. 😑 That is because the straps are not painted on the thighs but the entire panties is a separate mesh from the legs. In this case, recoloring away the straps will be difficult due to color matching (i.e. we will see a patch of color where the panties straps are after recoloring, not forgetting uneven edges between the leg and panties 😥 ).

Side Close-up View - Modified Outfit

This brings us to the end of this mod. But I have not explained why is the lace layer still present beneath the red top. To make it simpler, refer to the image below.

Holes!

Although the front image may not reveal them, the holes show up when we have the chance to look up from below. As such, I retain a portion of the lace layer beneath the red top so that the holes will not be too obvious. 😥

Fortunately, the video editor still seems to work okay, so you get to watch the video below for closer views. But since I do not have the outfit, I can only make the video using the in-game Tailorshop. 😅

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