Baurus is Always Essential - With optional makeover

The main plugin edits Baurus' attached script to make sure he is always marked essential and thus cannot fall in battle, at least throughout the main quest, because I'm a simp because I know he canonically has a chance to stay alive, so I thought "Why not bring the odds to the max?" And perhaps later on I might make an alternate/expanded version of the plugin where you can get him as a follower, after the Oblivion crisis.

Optionally, I've also given Baurus a complete visual overhaul, loosely based on this OG mod I made years ago. While I literally got excited over the fact that he has a beard in the Remaster (which is something I had previously headcanoned him to have), there were a few other things about his looks that didn't quite fullfill my standards, like his generally rough appearance. His bright eyelashes kinda looked like they were covered in boogers, but I gave him amber-coloured eyes instead. And I gave him the cropped hairdo that resembles his OG hair a bit more, I think that also gives him a "softer" vibe compared to the modern curly hairstyle with shaved temples. So I have created this preset entirely from scratch, while also trying to stay true to his character, giving your loyal servant of the Septim bloodline the amount of charisma he deserves.

I have the following mods (which may have an impact on how he looks in my screenshots):

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  Stylized Head Meshes

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  H. U. E

  Installation:

  You can download this mod archive and install it with a mod manager like Vortex or MO2, OR you can manually extract the .esp file into the following destination-

  C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Oblivion Remastered\OblivionRemastered\Content\Dev\ObvData\Data

  Then you add "BaurusIsEssential.esp" as a new row into the Plugins.txt file

  If you download the makeover, you can simply extract the content to the game's root folder-

  C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Oblivion Remastered\