Honed Metal -NPC Crafting and Enchanting Services-

INTRODUCTIONSkyrim is a land of Blacksmiths. The Nords are praised and celebrated for their legendary crafting skills and all throughout Tamriel, their might and prowess at the forge is widely known. Yet for all that, not a single smith in the game will bother to craft a shoehorn for you. No amount of coaxing, bribery or coercion will bend their will. They are determined. It's like they have joined a secret organization with the sole purpose of depriving you -the poor adventurer- of proper and adequate protection.

Not to mention the unhinged mages at Winterhold who make a living by enchanting things for the Nords -according to themselves- yet refuse to acknowledge your most trivial enchanting requests.

This mod is a humble attempt at thwarting this conspiracy.

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Foreword

With simplicity at its core, the mod was developed according to these principles:

• []Minimize conflicts with other mods.

  []Allow installation and removal at any point in a play-through, cleaning after itself in order not to leave trash in users' save files.

  []Inform users of runtime errors, stopping itself if necessary.

  []Avoid the generation of Papyrus warnings and errors.

  []Give priority to performance and efficiency. No polls or monitoring in the background, scripts should run on demand and stop when the tasks are completed.

[]The skill level of the blacksmith /enchanter determines what perks they get, the type of equipment they can work with and the cost of their work. The cost will also depend on the value of the item, the materials used by the NPC and your barter skill and game economic settings.

[]If a blacksmith can't craft or temper an item, find another with higher skill level, or change their skill via the MCM menu.

[]The higher the skill of the blacksmith the higher the stats on crafted/tempered items. Low skill smiths are cheaper, but so is their work.

[]The higher the skill of the enchanter the more powerful the enchantments will be, and the costlier.

[]Money used to pay for services will go straight to the blacksmith/enchanter's inventory.

[*]Blacksmiths will use their own materials and can acquire what they don't