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[karurawasabi]

Aaaaand Riften/Morthal update (I can already tell updating this mod is gonna be hell with how dreamwidth is formatted).

Version 2 covers everything from the first (Whiterun Hold and Falkreath) with the addition of The Rift Hold (Rift Hold, Ivarstead, Shor's Stone, including the Thieves Guild), Morthal, Stonehills, and a few NPCs on Dawnstar.

It has a lot of requirements and recommendations, but none of them is strictly needed to make the mod functional (you just won't get the full distribution if you lack a mod or two). The exception would be Fishing CC, which has some textures needed for a particular mashup. If you somehow still don't have that piece of CC, Xavbio's common clothes retexture can be used instead.

Previews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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ESL-flagged patches:

The distribution uses several pieces from mods that aren't originally ESL-flagged, but I already ESL-flagged it for my personal load order so the formID might have changed, so in order to use them (and only if you want to use them), you'll have to grab my ESL-flagged patches too.

The original post already has patches for Ophelia (flower crowns) and zzMaidOutfit (zzjay's maid/peasant clothes). Please keep in mind that if you already have any of these mods prior and they're not ESL-flagged, making them ESL mid-playthrough is probably not safe!

• NordWarUA's Steel Plate Armors ESL-flagged
• Noblesse Oblige, my tweaks--ESL flagged, redone normal maps and fixed cubemap on meshes. CBBE-based, everything is included in the download.

At the present these two aren't too important for the full distr (steel plate is only used for Black-Briar mercenaries and Noblesse Oblige for Indaryn), but I'll probably pepper them over to other NPCs in the future.

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Features, changes, etc:

Fix: Njada's distribution line is correctly moved to the warrior addon, instead of the original mod. Textures for Nazeem's accessories fixed.

For the Thieves Guild specifically, almost every member now has their own individual garb. It makes little sense to me that a crime organization (especially something as loose as a rogue/thief group) would have standardized uniform... maybe an insignia or some signature belts or somethiing, but the whole getup? No no.

Brynjolf now wears something similar between his fine outfit and thieving outfit. Rune now wears the "strange runes" he talks about, and Niruin is still wearing his old Silver Crescent armor. Some members here and there are still wearing vanilla Thieves Guild so they're not gone 100%.

The Black-Briars wear mostly blacks and gaudy purples (because Riften... purple... I thought I'm being clever). Wylandriah's glasses are just a teeny bit crooked. Balimund the castle blacksmith wears RIften's insignia on his apron, while some Dunmer residents wear Dragonborn DLC's added Dunmer outfits--some sleeveless, new green retex.

Illia wears a raggedy Morrigan-esque mashup that some people will probably hate while her mother Silvia wears a Forsworn-like robes, kind of like Wyress Robes but with a different top. I tried to make the witch/hag enemies wear something similar but neither Skypatcher nor SPID wants to cooperate with me for enemy outfits ;-;

In Morthal and Stonehills, Aslfur (the jarl's husband and steward) and Sorli (a potential jarl) get a bit more upgrade. Teeba-Ei is a potential steward, so he gets some too. The other miners in Stonehills wear scarves now.

Outside of Riften, Valga VInicia, Kerah, Beitild, Rustleif and Seren get some new things as well.

In the priest and warriors addon, Dibella priestesses are wearing new white dresses based on Ashara's Imperial Outfits, with a variation for Mother Hamal.

There's also two mashups for Serana--one a Dawnguard kitbash, the other a dress (Fuse00's Akasha top with long skirt).

There's also a few mashups with extra recolors that aren't or haven't been assigned to any NPC that you can wear if you want, they just don't have proper inventory models. I made way too many variants of Aduri's dress, and Maven also has an unused sleeveless variant of her dress with the armor record all set up.

One more thing--I also attempted to remove daggers on some NPCs' inventory if they clip with the skirt or dress, but the removal line I used isn't very successful lol. Not a big deal honestly; a floating iron dagger on a noble's fancy dress is just a bit of an eyesore.

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Clothing mods used (copied from the original post, with new additions at the end):

• AE recommended; I'll use bits and bobs from Creation Club stuff eventually. Fishing CC is required for some textures.
• Common Clothing Expanded (link, link, link) - strongly recommended. It contains the bulk of the outfit distributions, and I made the color variants so download it dammit
• Maid Outfits (link, link) - recommended. Used for some female Nord farmers, innkeepers, and some noble ladies. The recolor is recommended too; I made the distribution with it in mind.
• Traveling Priest (link) - recommended. Used for some... wait for it.... priests. It's kind of recommended but not really, because I have my own color-coding headcanon for the priests in Skyrim, but a more refined player might want someone else's distribution or Gods and Worship instead.
• Publican Outfits (link) - Used for a few NPCs
• Merchantress Outfits (link) - Used for a few NPCs.
• Wandering Mercenary (link) - Used for a few... you get the point ok
• Traveler's Armor (link) - Used for a few NPCs.
• Fuse's Adventurer Armor (link, link) - Xtudo's patch is recommended. Used for a few carriage drivers and the courier
• Adventurer's Tunics (link) - Used for a few hostlers and random adventurers here and there--this will be overused in the future lol so I might bump this up to recommended eventually
• Southbound Scouts (link, link) - Used for a few farmers, and some randos here and there
• Court Wizard Robes (link) - Used for some court wizards. Similar instance as below.
• Cultural Bards (link) - Used for some bards (duh). I know the mod has its own distribution; Skypatcher INIs are easy to edit to your liking thankfully.
• Nord Tribal Armor (link) - Used for some hunters
• Helga Dress (link, link) - this and the retexture. Used for Valga and Idgrod the Younger. Grab Xtudo's patch if you want a non-SMP version.
• Alchemist Outfit Variations (link) - used for Syndus. Accessories used for some alchemists.
• Ghosts of the Tribunal CC - used for Brand-Shei, eventually gonna use it for more Dunmer nobles.
• Elmlock Armor and color variants (link, link) - used for Medresi Dran.
• Noblesse Oblige (link--but I recommend getting my version linked above instead) - used for Indaryn.
• Casual Pirate Outfit (link) - Used for Louis Letrush (don't ask), and eventually some pirates later. Grab the 3BA patch if you want a female version, idk if I'll ever use it on a female NPC though.
• Arcane Mage Armor (link) - Used for Wylandriah.
• Stormhold Warrior Armor (link) - Used for From-Deepest-Fathoms and... her brother? Or just her brother. My brain's not braining rn
• Sforzinda's Sartorial Sorcery (link) - Used for that one dead mage scholar in Folgunthur. Yeah.
• Leon Armor set (link, link) - Used for Mercer. Xtudo's patch is needed.
• Master Thief Armor (link) - Used for Karliah.

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Armor mods used:

• Chevalier's Set (link) - honestly my distribution for these is kinda lame, so... whatever.
• Steelheart Armors (link) - Recommended. Used for a few Nord warriors.
• Infantry Armor (link, link) - Recommended. Used for a few warriors. Xtudo's patch is needed because I distributed their steel variants too.
• Northern God (link) - Used for Kodlak.
• Highlander Armor (link) - Used for only Ria, so far.
• Nordplate Expansion (link) - Recommended. Used for some housecarls, and Balgruuf's battle outfit.
• East Empire Brigandines (link) - Used for only Adelaisa so far.
• Dragonstar Armor (link) - Used for only Salma. Be warned; this is the only armor mod in this set that isn't ESL-flagged, and I'm not gonna patch it bc it has a quest attached to it!

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Accessories used:

• Nirn Necessities (link) - Recommended.
• Scarves of Skyrim (link) - Recommended
• Blanket Scarves Earth Tones(link)
• Ophelia Circlets (link)
• Jewelry Collection (link) - Recommended
• Reading Glasses (link) - Recommended

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NPCs with custom mashups added:

• Maven Black-Briar
• Ingun
• The Thieves Guild (Brynjolf, Vex, Delvin, Niruin, Rune, Cynric, Sapphire)
• Some blacksmith apprentices (Asbjorn, Tacitus)
• Nivenor
• Anuriel
• Short-sleeved Dunmer outfits for some Dunmer
• Aduri (Girl's Travel Outfit with a longer skirt, basically)
• Some unique recolors for Hemming and Bolli

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Known issues:

• Minor clipping here and there; hopefully nothing too egregious?

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Download link added to the original post!

Or link to the entire Mediafire folder instead.

Additional credits for assets included:

Noblesse Oblige, and Noble Dress Retextured
Fuse00's Akasha , Scout, Arianna and Freija armor
dint999's Aloy outfit
Suna203's Girl's Travel Outfit
sumojellybean and CD Projekt Red's Henrietta and Syanna outfits
Amulets of Skyrim