I present my attempt at a Illustrious character LoRA for Alistair Theirin from Dragon Age.

V4 is my fourth version and attempt to improve the face details. I again revised the training set to improve on the tagging and quality.

LoRA strength recommendations

• Use LoRA strength 0.7 with CFG 4

The tags for V4 are as follows:

main tags

daalistair, 1boy, mature, adult male, goatee stubble, brown eyes, dark blonde hair, short hair, crew cut, hair forward

outfit tags:

outfit 1

warden pauldrons, warden breastplate, warden chainmail, warden belt, warden tassets, warden gauntlets, black pants, warden boots

outfit 2

alternate pauldrons, alternate chestpiece, alternate bracers, fingerless gloves, leather belt, alternate chausses, alternate boots

The settings I used for my generation testing were 4 CFG, 30 steps, DPM++ 2M SDE - Karras on Forge with an adetailer (specifically face_yolov8s).

V3 is my third version and attempt to fix his face and hair. I revised the training set for this one and the results are more consistent. I also managed to fix the 2nd outfit tags to not bleed together with the warden armor.

LoRA strength recommendations

• Use LoRA strength 0.7-0.8 with about CFG 3-4.

The tags for V3 are as follows:

main tags

daalistair, 1boy, mature male, goatee stubble

outfit tags:

outfit 1

warden pauldrons, warden breastplate, warden chainmail, warden belt, warden tassets, warden gauntlets, black pants, warden boots

outfit 2

alternate pauldrons, alternate chestpiece, alternate bracers, fingerless gloves, leather belt, alternate chausses, alternate boots

The settings I used for my generation testing were 3-4 CFG, 20 steps, DPM++ 2M SDE - Karras on Forge with an adetailer (specifically face_yolov8s).

V2 is my second version and produces very nice results. I wanted his hair to look shorter and more consistent with how it was with his Origins look so I made tweaks to his training data. I also trained this one on different settings (same settings as V2 for Cullen).

LoRA strength recommendations

• Use LoRA strength 0.7-0.8 with about CFG 3-5.

The tags for V2 are as follows:

main tags

da_alistair, 1boy, mature male, crew cut, very short hair, brown eyes, stubble

outfit tags

warden pauldrons, warden breastplate, warden chainmail, warden belt, warden tassets, warden gauntlets, black pants, warden boots

The settings I used for my generation testing were 3-5 CFG, 20 steps, DPM++ 2M SDE - Karras on Forge with an adetailer (specifically face_yolov8s).

V1 is my initial attempt and produced very nice results. You may need to add helm or warden helmet to your negative prompt for armored generations if his face keeps getting covered. I didn't have this issue with Pony but it random in this case and didn't happen too often.

LoRA strength recommendations

• Use LoRA strength 0.7-0.8 with about CFG 3-5.

The tags for V2 are as follows:

main tags

da_alistair, 1boy, mature male, very short hair, brown eyes, stubble

outfit tags

warden pauldrons, warden breastplate, warden chainmail, warden belt, warden tassets, warden gauntlets, black pants, warden boots

The settings I used for my generation testing were 3-5 CFG, 20 steps, DPM++ 2M SDE - Karras on Forge with an adetailer (specifically face_yolov8s).