Knightly Orders for Cities

Welcome to the forty eighth installment to my Oblivion Immersion Series.  The knightly orders that appear in Cyrodiil were an interesting addition to the game.  First, there is the Knights of the White Stallion.  Second, there is the frat house order of the Knights of the Thorn.

But where are the other orders for the remaining cities?  Did they just all decide to have their landed gentry not do anything useful?  Having a knightly order not only provided martial power, but also displayed wealth and prestige, which is something that pre-modern society would absolutely care about.  Not to mention that knighthood also served to fill in the lower nobility, which Cyrodiil is sorely lacking in.  Naturally, the number and wealth of the knights will scale with the wealth of the city they represent (and apparently the count of Leyawiin is a cheapskate lol).

So this mod adds a knights lodge for each city that previously lacked one.  None of them offer any quests, but per my usual they offer services as class trainers and merchants.  A few minor changes have been made to the Knights of the White Stallion and Knights of the Thorn.  Both have a basement added/rearranged with blacksmith and maid added as members, whom act as merchants.  Further, the shield model for the Knights of the Thorn was swapped out for the Cheydinhal guard shield to make it match the other knightly orders better.

This mod comes in two versions.  The first is the vanilla-esque version, where the Knights of the Wolf at Kvatch patrol the refugee camp for the duration of the game.  The knights at Kvatch ought to be doing something useful while the town guard launches the counter-offensive, right?  The second version is the Kvatch Rebuilt Patch, which makes use of building assets from it and restructures the AI to make the knights better fit the quest structure of KR.  Now, the knights will stay at their HQ prior to the attack on Kvatch, patrol the refugee camp once the city is demolished, and then return to their lodge after the Breaking the Siege of Kvatch quest is completed.

Version 1. 1 offers some minor bug fixes (see Change Log for details) and diversifies the AI of the knights to make them more involved in town life.  Some knights will now do things like visit the local armory, Fighters Guild chapter, chapel, or other acceptable location for a knight to patronize.

V1. 2 makes no changes beyond re-cleaning the mod with the latest version of TES4Edit.

V1. 3 makes some minor changes and features revised and expanded compatibility patches

Link to the Kvatch Rebuilt here:

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/15412

Requirements

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Oblivion Version 1. 2. 0416

Installation Instructions

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Copy contents into your Oblivion data folder

Uninstallation Instructions

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