Introduction Long before Skyrim was released, i used to look at maps of Tamriel and wonder what could this northern-most city look like. I imagined a truly special city. But after discovering it, i was left with mixed feelings. The position on the cliff is epic, but i can't really feel it when i am inside the city. Entire city is basically one long street. There are disproportionately big empty spaces in its center. And the docks are almst non-existent.
This mod adresses those issues, and makes Solitude a truly special place i imagined it would be - a city on an arch, and you will feel it! Features
20 new houses (11 in the city, 9 in the docks)
59 new citizens
Revamped tunnel entrance
1 new entrance
Overhauled walls
Exterior audio spaces
Parallax ready
Compatible with Open Cities Skyrim
Description
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-City area ... now has 11 new houses (doubles the vanilla amount), with NPCS (which also nearly double the vanilla population of 60) living in them. Much of the redundant city walls have been removed and replaced with much smaller walls and fences. In many places you will be able to look down the cliff, or even jump in the water below (Open Cities required for that).
-People When exploring new streets and passages, you will encounter many new citizens of Solitude. They have lore-friendly names, and no special dialog. Every one of them tells their story trough the type of places they go to, where they live, how they dress, and their attitude.
-Docks ... could now pass for a vanilla city, with 10 cabins (from vanilla 1), an extra longboat, and a windmill.
-Entrances The vanilla docks-windmill teleport entrance has been replaced with a real tunnel you can actually go trough. With Open Cities, the tunnel is without autoload doors.
In addition to that, there is now one extra entrance. On the northern side of the city, there is a narrow trail that will lead you to the Castle Dour.
-Exterior audio spaces Fire an arrow in the tunnel, or talk to a guard in front of the Blue Palace. Every exterior space that is surrounded by stone now has a specific echo.
Compatibility This mod is most probably incompatible with anything that changes Solitude or its surrounding cells. Expand the spoiler below for the list of compatible mods:
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Reported compatible by users: Imperial Mail Hunters world Immersive Laundry Sepolcri Skyrim Sewers Blue Palace Terrace Better City Entrances Notice Board Oblivion Gates in Cities Pirates of the North Solitude exterior add on
Performance This mods adds too much NPCs and objects for Oldrim's engine, you will experience FPS drops at certain places. SE version has much better performance. Installation
Extract the files to your Skyrim/Data folder, and activate the .esp, preferably with a mod manager.
Install the patch for Open Cities and Unofficial Skyrim patch, if you use those mods.
If you decide to keep the mod, run TES5LODGen to see the changes from afar.
Credits Special thanks to Arthmoor for creating Open Cities Skyrim and permitting me make a patch for the two mods. His mod was inspiration for mine.
No less repect and thanks goes to Angilla for making a great modders resource, Elder Statue - Level Asset. I used altered version of it in my mod.
Thanks to everyone else who contributed: Ga-Knomboe Boy (a mesh from The City Mod) Di0nysys (a mesh) my main man Robi (beta testing)
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