Nightingale Hall Restored - Karliah as a Follower
⚪ Last updated 2023⚠️ Install Order · 3 steps
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 3.3% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #29 of 76 Player homes mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
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Upgrades Nightingale Hall into a more liveable and functional space and allows Karliah to become a follower. Adds a portal to the Twilight Sepulcher, ability to level up Nightingale gear, and other features. These changes will occur after the completion of the quest Darkness Returns.
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EATURES- [] Karliah will now follow the player and has the appropriate voice responses using her own unique voice
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] Portal to the Twilight Sepulcher[] When activated, Nightingale Armor stone now upgrades your Nightingale armor & weapons once you reach the next level.
[] Shrine to Nocturnal
[] Kitchen area with cooking pot
[] Alchemy table, workbench & grindstone
[] Various sacks, barrels & chests for safe and convenient storage
[] Training room with 2 weapon racks & 3 plaques, plus training chest
[] Bedroom with 3 beds and lots of additional storage (beds give well-rested bonus)
[] Two alternate versions of the Nightingale gear to compliment the different Nightingale qualities (see Notes, below for details). In addition, I've added 2 more levels to the vanilla Nightingale gear, so it will continue to scale with your high-level characters.
[] For female characters, I've added an unenchanted version of Karliah's leather armor to dresser in bedroom. This will look like regular Thieves Guild armor on males. I've given it the same base stats as the upgraded Thieves Guild set.
[] Ability to acquire Karliah's unique paralytic poison.
IMPORTANT-- PLEASE READ: Karliah's Knapsack & the training chest are set to respawn their contents every 7 days. This will happen regardless of whether the player enters Nightingale Hall during that time. Do not store anything in these two containers or it will disappear. Every other container in the cell is safe for storage.
The entire cell is set to never respawn, therefore the plants will never regrow once you've picked them. All of the containers are safe for storage with the exception of Karliah's Knapsack & the training chest.
She will now change back to her leather Thieves Guild outfit (minus the hood) after the quest Darkness Returns. After looking in the creation Kit, it appears that she was probably intended to revert back to her original armor at some point during the questline. After Darkness Returns she will also be willing to follow the player.
In addition, I've given her some new perks and altered her stats slightly to make her more suitable as a high-level stealthy follower. She has Lightfoot and won't trigger pressure plates. For fun, and since she supposedly
Nightingale Hall Restored transforms the vanilla Nightingale Hall into a more livable and functional space, adds Karliah as a follower, a portal to the Twilight Sepulcher, and the ability to level up Nightingale gear. With 5,795 endorsements and 176,320 downloads, it's a popular quality-of-life mod for Skyrim players who want to make the thieves' hideout their own.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Huge community trust with 5,795 endorsements and over 176k downloads.
- Turns a boring dungeon into a proper home base with useful amenities.
- Karliah as a follower is a fan-favorite addition for thief-themed playthroughs.
⚠️ Cons
- Last updated in August 2023 — may not be compatible with the latest Skyrim patches or mods.
- Requires the Twilight Sepulcher portal, which might break immersion if you prefer a more grounded experience.
For Skyrim players who love the Thieves Guild and want a functional, cozy hideout that also gives Karliah a chance to shine as a companion. Perfect for stealth archers or nightingale enthusiasts who want to level up their gear without grinding. Skip if you prefer lore-friendly minimalism or don't care about follower mods.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure to install this mod after you've completed the Thieves Guild questline to avoid conflicts with the Nightingale Hall's scripted events.
- If you're using a mod manager like Vortex or MO2, let it handle the file placement to avoid overwriting other mods that touch Nightingale Hall.
- Check if you have any other mods that alter Karliah's appearance or AI — they might conflict with her follower functionality.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim LE Mods
- Author
- kryptopyr
- Version
- 3.2
- Downloads
- 176,320
- Endorsements
- 5,795
- Category
- Player homes
- Created
- 3/25/2012
- Updated
- 8/27/2023
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