Wandering Merchants - Skyrim and Solstheim

Mod Summary

Some of them stick mostly to the roads, while others wander to the far edges of the map.

Each merchant is a unique NPC. They're marked as protected, and they don't respawn if you kill them.

Everyone trades in general goods.

Some of them travel solo, while others travel in groups.

The Skyrim merchants are between level 45-50, and the Solstheim ones are 50-55.

Everyone was designed with vanilla character creation, so they should work with whatever hair/skin/body/etc replacers you have.

If you'd like a video summary, Bards College Graduate kindly included this mod in their video here (2:51 - 3:47):

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Mod Details

This mod comes as a FOMOD and has three versions available:

1. Lawful Merchants:

Merchants have crime faction info, and their relationship is set to Ally with the Guard Faction and Friend with the Player.

Choose this one if you want the merchants to side with the law, fight bandits and Forsworn, etc.

2. Neutral Merchants:

Removes crime faction info from the merchants, and sets their relationships to Neutral with both the Player and the Guard Faction.

Merchants are still set to Enemy with Bandits and the Forsworn.

Choose this one if you want them to be mostly neutral regarding crime, but still want them to fight bandits and Forsworn etc.

3. Peaceful Merchants:

Removes crime faction info from the merchants, and sets their relationships to Friend with Bandits, Forsworn, Hagravens, the Player, and the Guards.

Bandits and Forsworn shouldn't attack them, and vice versa. Merchants won't help the Player or the Guards.

Choose this one if you want the merchants to only engage in combat to protect themselves or another merchant.

The FOMOD also comes with a patch for Cutting Room Floor.

Credit

Sheepswirl for the awesome backpacks: Wood Frame Backpacks SSE

GroundAura for all the fixes included in Version 2. 0. 0, along with the CRF patch, the .esl flags, and for making this into a FOMOD.

Patches

For a rebalanced version of the mod: Wandering Merchants Rebalanced.

Thank you LeoneKingzz for the patch.