The Lyngvi Wardens

Four immortal skeletal Wardens who patrol, protect, resurrect, and grow stronger alongside your saga.

The Lyngvi Wardens turns four legendary undead warriors into a persistent honor guard that travels with you through Valheim.

They are not ordinary followers. During peaceful gameplay they patrol around the player instead of crowding at your feet. When combat begins, each Warden shifts into a distinct role: tank, berserker, long-range marksman, or mobile skirmisher.

Their strength scales with your character's boss progression, not the biome you happen to enter.

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The Wardens

Bodvar — The Shield-Bearer

• Role: Tank / frontline defender
• Weapon: Mace
• Shield: Nord Greatshield
• Element: Poison
• Increased health pool
• Active blocking behaviour
• Progression-scaled shield strength
• Built to absorb pressure while the rest of the group fights around him

Starkad — The Berserker

• Role: Melee damage
• Weapon: Flaming greatsword
• Element: Fire
• Uses the burning Brenna-style skeleton body
• Aggressive melee-focused behaviour
• No inherited fire nova

Orvar — The Marksman

• Role: Long-range sniper
• Weapon: Large Charred-style longbow appearance
• Element: Frost
• Prefers the deepest backline position
• Reacts quickly to shared combat threats
• Retreats early when enemies get too close
• Designed to stay at range and keep shooting

Egil — The Skirmisher

• Role: Fast-firing ranged support
• Weapon: Finewood Bow appearance
• Element: Lightning
• Uses the normal skeletal archer body
• Fires more aggressively than before
• Custom movement is now limited mainly to close-range retreat
• No longer spends most of combat slowly strafing from side to side
• Fights closer to the action than Orvar

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Version 1.2.0

Version 1.2 focuses on improving the visual and combat identity of the two ranged Wardens.

Egil Rework

• Replaced the Charred Marksman body with the normal skeleton body
• Replaced the oversized Charred longbow with a Finewood Bow appearance
• Increased his firing frequency
• Removed the constant forced flanking loop
• Greatly reduced unnecessary side-to-side movement
• Egil now relies on normal ranged AI while safely positioned
• Custom retreat behaviour only activates when enemies get too close
• Keeps his Lightning damage and close-support identity

Orvar Visual Update

• Orvar now uses the large Charred-style longbow appearance
• This better fits his identity as the dedicated long-range marksman
• The bow remains mechanically normalized for Warden balance
• Orvar does not inherit Ashlands weapon damage

Ranged Roles

The backline is now intentionally split into two different styles:

Orvar

• Longer preferred range
• Earlier retreat
• Frost
• Patient long-range marksman

Egil

• Shorter preferred range
• Faster firing
• Lightning
• More aggressive ranged support

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Features

• Four persistent named Wardens
• Autonomous honor guard patrol behaviour
• Shared combat awareness
• Distinct combat roles
• Boss-progression-based scaling
• 20-second individual resurrection
• 2% max-health regeneration per second
• Fixed Warden loadouts
• Dungeon and interior transfer support
• Anti-stuck and emergency catch-up behaviour
• No companion loot drops

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Progression

The Wardens scale with your character's boss kills.

This means entering a late-game biome early will not instantly power up the Wardens, and returning to an early biome will not weaken them.

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Requirements

• BepInExPack for Valheim
• Jötunn

Developed and tested around:

• Valheim 1.0.x
• BepInEx 5.4.23.x
• Jötunn 2.30.x

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Installation

r2modman / Thunderstore Mod Manager

Install the package normally together with its required dependencies.

Manual

Place:

TheLyngviWardens.dll

inside:

Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/TheLyngviWardens/

Make sure BepInEx and Jötunn are installed first.

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Updating to 1.2.0

Replace the old DLL with the new 1.2.0 DLL.

The mod contains migration handling for the redesigned ranged Wardens so outdated saved Orvar/Egil bodies can be replaced with the new versions.

As with any gameplay mod update, keeping a backup of your world before updating is recommended.

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Compatibility

Single-player is the primary tested environment.

Hosted multiplayer and dedicated-server behaviour should currently be considered experimental.

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Bug Reports

When reporting a problem, please include:

• Valheim version
• BepInEx version
• Jötunn version
• Single-player / hosted multiplayer / dedicated server
• LogOutput.log
• Which Warden was affected
• What happened immediately before the issue

For combat-AI issues, a short description of the battlefield situation is especially useful.

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Credits

The Lyngvi Wardens is an independent Valheim mod built using BepInEx and Jötunn.

The Wardens are fictional companions inspired by figures from medieval Norse legendary literature and are not intended as historically exact representations.

The mod was developed with substantial assistance from OpenAI ChatGPT, including programming, debugging, design iteration, documentation, and release preparation.

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Bodvar holds the line.
Starkad breaks it.
Orvar controls the distance.
Egil keeps the pressure on.

Together, they are The Lyngvi Wardens.

Changelog

1.3.0

• Added a configurable summon/dismiss hotkey. Default: Left Alt + Z.
• Added wardens summon, wardens dismiss, wardens toggle, and wardens regroup console commands.
• Added per-character persistence for the summoned/dismissed state.
• Warden health percentage is stored when dismissed and restored when summoned again.
• Remaining resurrection time is preserved when a dead Warden is dismissed.
• Added player-to-Warden collision ignoring.
• Added Warden-to-Warden collision ignoring.
• Added compact interior collider profiles for Bodvar and Starkad.
• Bodvar and Starkad now use the standard Skeleton pathfinding agent.
• Added faster stuck detection and recovery inside interiors.
• Added manual Warden regrouping through the console command.
• Increased Bodvar's outdoor patrol range to 12–18 metres.
• Added an 8.5 metre peaceful personal-space threshold for Bodvar outdoors.
• Starkad retains the closer 8–14 metre melee patrol range.

1.2.0

• Changed Egil from the Charred Marksman body to a normal Skeleton body.
• Changed Egil to a Finewood Bow appearance.
• Increased Egil's firing frequency.
• Removed Egil's constant forced flanking loop.
• Reduced Egil's unnecessary side-to-side combat movement.
• Egil's custom movement now focuses mainly on retreating from close threats.
• Changed Orvar to a large Charred-style longbow appearance.
• Orvar's bow remains mechanically normalized for Warden balance.
• Added migration handling for the updated Orvar and Egil prefabs.

1.1.0

• Added Egil, the fourth Lyngvi Warden.
• Added Lightning elemental damage for Egil.
• Increased Bodvar's base health from 70 to 150.
• Replaced Bodvar's Bronze Buckler with a Nord Greatshield.
• Added active shield-blocking behaviour for Bodvar.
• Added progression-scaled shield block strength.
• Removed inherited Rancid Remains blunt and fire weaknesses from Bodvar.
• Improved Orvar's combat awareness.
• Added ranged kiting and minimum-distance behaviour.
• Changed Orvar to a Finewood Bow appearance.
• Added shared Warden threat awareness.
• Added distinct long-range Marksman and closer Skirmisher ranged roles.

1.0.0

• Initial public release of The Lyngvi Wardens.
• Added Bodvar, Starkad and Orvar.
• Added autonomous honor-guard patrol behaviour.
• Added character-based boss progression scaling.
• Added persistent companions.
• Added individual 20-second resurrection.
• Added 2% maximum-health regeneration per second.
• Added dungeon and interior transfer support.
• Added anti-stuck and emergency catch-up behaviour.
• Added fixed Warden loadouts.
• Added Poison, Fire and Frost elemental identities.