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Ashe & Serana: Playthrough Guide

Version 1.1 Early Access is available through Patreon on PC and Xbox. Its requirements and encounter guide are below; older public integration downloads are separate releases.

Install the Three Parts

  1. For Asherana 1.1, install at least Ashe 1.4 Early Access through Ashe’s main FOMOD and the public SDA 4.4 release. Public Ashe 1.3 is not compatible with 1.1.
  2. Install the separate optional Asherana 1.1 file after both companions. The integration has its own public mod page.
  3. You can replace Asherana 1.0.x with 1.1 on an existing save; this has worked in Marty’s testing. Report problems with both old and new versions.

Do not use the legacy Slower or Much Slower Banter Cooldown files with the current per-conversation cooldown system. Asherana has no MCM; Ashe’s optional alpha MCM controls Ashe.

Start with Ashe

  1. Recruit Ashe at the Winking Skeever in Solitude.
  2. Play through Chapter 1, A Borrowed Soul.
  3. Start Dawnguard and recruit Serana.
  4. Continue either questline first, then finish the other.

Open Ashe’s hints-first walkthrough.

Start with Serana

  1. Start Dawnguard and recruit Serana.
  2. Return her home and complete the early beats until she joins you again.
  3. Recruit Ashe and complete A Borrowed Soul.
  4. Continue whichever questline you prefer first, then complete the other.

The two starting routes offer different scripted banter and emotional pacing.

Relationship Routes

Reveal relationship choices — story spoilers

The integration’s point-of-no-return choice occurs around Serana’s confession late in Dawnguard. Choose Ashe, Serana, or Fantasy Mode.

  • Ashe route: commit to Ashe; Serana remains a close friend.
  • Serana route: commit to Serana; Ashe remains a close friend.
  • Fantasy Mode: keep both relationships in a canon-adjacent option.

Fantasy Mode does not disable either mod’s later romance quests. The choice changes their shared awareness and banter. In the 1.0 release, monogamous routes have more of their duo material before the choice, while Fantasy Mode has more relationship-aware banter afterward.

Version 1.1 also covers a later confrontation when Serana is already fully romanced and the player pursues Ashe, provided the applicable prior point-of-no-return choice was not consumed. Ashe must have an established romance or at least 6 romance-meter points.

What’s New in 1.1?

Version 1.1 adds travel, dungeon, post-combat, suspicion, relationship, and shared quest conversations alongside Ashe 1.4. Its download is available in Early Access through Patreon; this content is not enabled by an older integration release.

Open the 1.1 encounter guide for the actual locations and progression conditions. The already-released 1.0.x cooldown fixes remain in release history.

If a Conversation Does Not Start

Check both companions are nearby, versions match, and you are still within the relevant story window. Allow dialogue and scenes to finish and cooldowns to pass. Suspicion requires vampire Serana and Ashe’s unrevealed automaton state; later relationship banter has separate progression gates. Not every general exchange requires their friendship flag.

One-time conversations are not guaranteed to replay after a missed window or interruption. Do not install retired cooldown files to solve missing banter.

Report integration issues on Tally with the opening line, location, quest/objective, relationship route, whether both followers were present, exact versions, and reproduction steps. You can also ask in Discord.