Solitude Weaver's Lane

Solitude Weaver's Lane

Adds a tavern, a bookstore, and four homes just outside the Solitude main gate. Be sure to check out Miggyluv's NPC Replacers - Solitude Weaver's Lane. This is my preferred look for these NPCs.

Solitude to me is a very well done city with a strong aesthetic. However as the capital and "largest city" of Skyrim, it still feels a bit small. There are plenty of excellent mods that overhaul the Solitude worldspace inside the gates, and plenty of excellent mods that overhaul the docks area, but none I could find that adjusted the entrance outside the gates to my preferences. So I made one.

Solitude Weaver's Lane is thus named because a number of its inhabitants engage in weaving as a profession - if you peek inside their houses you will indeed find spinning wheels, wool/flax baskets, and tailoring tools. They are not tailors themselves - but do sell their wares to the ladies at Radiant Raiments. Solitude Weaver's Lane is located just outside the main gates of Solitude, offering a vibrant and prosperous little district to extend Solitude to be more like the city it should be.

The mod is set up to use vanilla Solitude meshes for the exteriors and interiors of the buildings, which means they should shift appropriately according to any/all mesh or texture replacers you use.

Inhabitants

Matilis and Storjar run The Bull and Bear Roadhouse, a tavern and restaurant just outside the main gate of Solitude. Matilis is recently retired from the Imperial Legion, and Storjar is a former member of Ulfric's militia (the original one, from the Markarth Incident 20 years past). The one rule of the Roadhouse is that everyone leaves talk of the war outside, and is civil to each other inside.

Ansbi Winter-Light is an independently wealthy older woman who runs Tell Another Tale, a well stocked bookstore along the main road into Solitude. She sells a wide variety of books, as well as a few scrolls and minor spell tomes. Ansbi also keeps her guest room open for travelers, as she likes the company (safe storage containers and two free beds on the upper floor).

Bronlod the Bold lives in the house just by the walls, and is a member of the Solitude Guard. His wife Rettia works part time in The Bull and Bear Tavern, and has a bit of a chequered past she is attempting to move beyond.

Sebione lives in the second home as you head towards Solitude. She makes a living weaving, bringing in wool from connections back in High Rock.

Kjolda lives in the third home and is