Socalista Winterhold

Winterhold to me is the saddest "town" in Skyrim - a paltry four buildings. Many mods over the years have (successfully) sought to address this. This is my take on it. This mod is designed in very limited scope, not touching anything beyond the footprints of the four ruined vanilla buildings in Winterhold. I intend for folks to use it alongside other Winterhold mods that add walls and ruins to the city - or (as I personally do) along ClefJ's Winterhold - which does a fantastic job of overhauling the town. Running it alongside these other mods will maintain the "ruined" feeling referenced in vanilla dialogue, while adding new services and npcs to populate the town, but not too many services or too much of a population!

The mod is set up to use either vanilla meshes for the farmhouses (in which case they will shift appropriately according to any farmhouse mesh/texture replacers you have installed, to match the other buildings in Winterhold) or new meshes to match ClefJ's Winterhold aesthetic. Screenshots are taken using the ClefJ's Winterhold version. If anyone wants to take screenshots using the vanilla version, please do so and I'll feature them.

Thane Bjorkild and his wife Eddrun live in the larger of the three added houses. They are wealthy by Winterhold standards, and serve as local minor nobles that owe allegiance to Jarl Korir.

Olga lives in and manages Olga's Ointments, a poorly stocked herbalist shoppe. She's not much of an alchemist, though she's able to brew a cure disease or restore health/magicka/stamina potion or two.

Velka lives in the smaller house behind the inn - her husband is away at war and she finds herself a bit aimless.

Keldir lives in a (still ruined) house, which he has partially repaired into a hunter shack. He uses the rest of the house to store and prepare his kills - which he provides to the Frozen Hearth (he is intentionally not a merchant). He's not a particularly good hunter (don't expect any bear or wolf trophies) but he can kill a deer. Yes, he's cold. Yes, his life sucks.

All of the NPCs are Nords - this is to represet Winterhold's culture and history as one of the oldest and most "Nordic" cities in Skyrim.

Compatibilities / Patches

I will make a Fomod for this when there are a few more patches.

These mods are excellent options to pair with mine, and are compatible (or will swiftly be made so with a patch when I'm notified):

ClefJ Winterhold - Compatible - Use the ClefJ version of this mod

JK's Skyrim - Compatible

Winterhold Expanded Ruins - Compatible

Various Winterhold gate/wall/ruins mods - Compatible unless they move the locations of the vanilla ruined house