Immersive Dane's Refuge

In vanilla, Dane's Refuge doesn't look that different from a normal, peaceful tavern. During our stay in the village, we can learn it shouldn't be so. A conversation with the Helpful Villager, who stands in front of Dane's Refuge:

Helpful Villager: You might not want to go in. Tavern's full, and those soldiers are being a nuisance.

Warden: Why is the tavern full?

Helpful Villager: Same reason the chantry's full. Packed with people who fled their homes. The tavern keeper's letting folks sleep on the floors, but he can only fit so many. And those soldiers are getting restless.

Around twenty ambient characters and a few placeables have been added in the tavern, to give justice to that description. No placement is accidental here - near the door, you'll find more of a rough sort, hunters, marauders. They prefer to sit close to the entrance, perhaps in case there was a need for a quick escape if necessary.

In the general area, you find various locals and refugees, drinking their worries away, or recovering after escaping their former home.

Up the stairs, there are mothers with children, who tried to find a safe place for their families.

I recreated the placement and ambient of a few existing characters from Improved Atmosphere's version of the .are file. If you use IA, you can either remove/backup its identical .are, or do nothing at all - my mod is ensured to load after, it suffices in case of a file conflict.

A reminder: the .are (Dane's Refuge) must be loaded for the first time. It means it can work if the player is in Lothering by now, as long as the inn hasn't been visited.

Installation:

Documents/Bioware/Dragon Age/packages/core/override

Uninstallation:

Remove from the folder