Alternate Perspective - Kaidan 2 or Vanilla - Abandoned Prison Start
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 7.0% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #109 of 166 Immersion mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Alternate Perspective - Kaidan 2 or Vanilla - Abandoned Prison Start
This mod puts you in a predicament where you are tossed into the prison and left with nothing. Find out who took your stuff to complete the quest.
Works with or without Kaidan. I made the mod with Kaidan in mind before there was an alternate solution. This reworks the original prison location start area and is specifically designed for using Alternate Perspective only.
The Reimperialized Abandoned Prison - Location Overhaul patch is of the same concept and is a bit harder, especially when using it with Kaidan. Either of these patches are a stand-alone file and does not require the main download to work.
This mod requires a new game for the scripts to work.
Will this mod conflict with something else?
It will conflict with any mod that reworks the same areas. It won't conflict with NPC replacers, just moves some of the NPC's locations. Other NPC's added by my mod have been generated for facegen files. Shouldn't conflict with Kaidan AiO (Immersive Features).
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Alternate Perspective - Kaidan 2 or Vanilla - Abandoned Prison Start enhances the vanilla abandoned prison start in Skyrim by adding a more immersive introduction, replacing the abrupt spawn with a narrative-driven beginning. With 4,647 endorsements and 66,063 downloads, it's a popular immersion mod for players who want a smoother start.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Community favorite with 4,647 endorsements and over 66k downloads—clearly hits the mark for immersion fans.
- Fixes one of the most jarring moments in Skyrim's start, making the prison escape feel like part of the story.
- Works with both Kaidan 2 and vanilla, so it's flexible whether you run that mod or not.
⚠️ Cons
- Only covers the abandoned prison start—if you want overhauls for other beginnings, this won't help.
- Since it's tied to Alternate Perspective, you'll need that framework installed, which adds an extra dependency.
- Potential conflicts with other mods that alter the same starting sequence—check your load order carefully.
For Skyrim players who hate the abrupt vanilla intro and want a more narrative-driven start, especially if you use Kaidan 2. If you're fine with the default prison start or don't care about immersion at the beginning, you can skip this.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure you have Alternate Perspective installed first, as this mod builds on it.
- If you're using Kaidan 2, double-check that the mod's load order places it after Alternate Perspective to avoid conflicts.
- Use a mod manager like Vortex or MO2 to handle the install and keep track of overwrites.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- Chardero the Lupe
- Version
- 1.0.1
- Downloads
- 66,063
- Endorsements
- 4,647
- Category
- Immersion
- Created
- 6/29/2025
- Updated
- 2/5/2026
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