A revamp of some base game NPCs in my highly questionable and admittedly niche style.

They're not pretty.

I'm not going for pretty. I'm not going for the standard 'Nexus airbrushed supermodels' pretty. Young NPCs look young, mature and old NPCs look old. They have pores and wrinkles, moles and other skin details. If you want to laugh and ridicule my choices, heck, feel free. If you want to complain about my same-face-ness feel free too.

And, spoiler alert: I personally don't think this overhaul is any good either! It could just be impostor syndrome or some sh*t, but I changed my mind a lot, and the more I look at this the more I go "hmmm, coulda been better". I'm still keeping it up anyway because I could always (and will) update the NPCs at a later date; it's much easier to get everyone done first and then fine-tune and tweak some later, instead of spending a week perfecting every single NPC before releasing. In other words: this mod is still a big fat Work In Progress.

You've probably noticed I'm mostly doing female NPCs and elves. I'm using RedguardDiaspora's terrific True Sons of Skyrim and Men of Skyrim for most of the dudes, overwritten by my other overhauls. 

Most of the screenshots are quickly taken in a test cell with crappy lantern lighting and absolutely NO enb lol (only Reshade). The in-game screenshots (the ones taken during my playthrough and not in a test cell) are from the newer and updated version, while the ones in a test cell are older.

Feel free to make a bug report or PM me if there's any issues. I'd gladly help.


Other things:
- Some NPCs have been given the potential marriage faction, for funsies.
- Some NPCs have been given a light amount of perks, removed the level cap, etc. Forwarded BUVARP's changes to Sven to make him a Speechcraft trainer.
- Some NPCs have been given new AI packages. Aerin won't follow Mjoll around like a puppy anymore. Jenassa patrols around Whiterun during daytime and pleasant weather.
- Bosmer antlers pictured (except Wylandriah's) are not included. They're from this mod.


Technical details/known bugs:
- No unique body meshes included. They use your default body. The different versions (UNP, CBBE) are so that their standalone textures match your default body meshes. Vanilla users should be fine with UNP.
- No NPC weight are changed. Safe to install mid-game (you might want to resetinventory some NPCs if they end up naked).
- There's some clipping with Kerah's eyes. If anyone knows how to fix it (preferably without remaking the sculpt from scratch or regenerating the facegen), hit me up. I think I could just move the eyes a bit back with Nifskope, Idk.
- Elder bodies (Grelod, Silvia) are not CBBE-compatible because ICBA (it's based on upscaled vanilla granny body textures). I'm not about to put skimpy clothes on my pixel grannies anyway.
- They have custom races. Yes I know that's not ideal for compatibility purposes, yes I know there's a way to make them use vanilla race. This is like, pre-pre-alpha version where I'm just trying to get everyone right so please cut me some slack. I'll fix it proper in the future (maybe). Version 0.77 and up are compatible with vanilla race now.


Credits:

m4mk203 for Charmers of the Reach
DamiLovesSunflowers for High Poly CotR and CotR Overhaul
Bioware for some of the face and eye textures
Enaya13 for some of the face textures and Varric's hair
Mandragorasprouts for Vitruvia skin
HHaley for Fair Skin Complexion
DomainWolf for Skin Feature Overlays and Wolfpaint
CoralineKoralina for Koralina's CotR Face Details and Koralina's Makeup for CotR
Lamenthia for Lamenthia's Marks of Beauty
ak0d and Plangkye for Dunmer Scarifications
Nouk and zzjay for Nouks hairstyles - Dreadlocks
apachii for ApachiiSkyHairMale
HelloSanta for SGHairs
tktk1 for saLa Hair
Kalilies and Stealthic for KS Hairdos
lemonbalmtea/summerdew for Holiday Gift Hairdos & HG Hairdos 2 (LL site)
guidethisonekalaheria for Kala's Eyes
Lograam for the Eyes of Beauty
jg1 for Vanilla Hair Remake
ShinglesCat for SC - Vanilla Hair Retex
TheDNightshade for Equippable Horns
Hvergeimer for Beards
shadowtigers for SV Beards
OnHolyServiceBound for Racial Body Morphs (*not included anymore; but I still recommend this as the NPCs are adjusted with these skeleton changes in mind. I use the Standard version)


Armor and clothing mods seen in screenshots (if there's no link provided just search the name on Nexus):

Apachii Divine Elegance
Lots of stuff by zzjay--Maid outfits, Skyrim attire, TW3 armors, Triss' Dresses
Noblesse Oblige
The "vanilla matches" series by Tathrin
Adrianne is wearing a recolor of the blacksmith dress, it's from a WIP mod of mine that adds more color variants to vanilla outfits and stuff
Some Beyond Skyrim: Bruma outfits
Some Creation Club armors
Traveling Mage by Fuse00 and Xtudo
Nord Steelheart by PrincessAries
Practical Female Armors by JZBai (random unhinged side tangent: while I'm a believer in "boob armors can work in a tasteful and lore-friendly way", vanilla steel plate boob sockets in Skyrim look SO FUNNY I can't not replace it with a more sensible boobless variant. this mod is a godsend for my sanity)
Muiri is wearing a clothing conversion by captain-heiko on Tumblr. too lazy to find the link rn. I know it's for LE originally tho