The loft is an inexpensive starter home, suitable for those who want to live in the big city, that with a few clicks you can redecorate to suit your playstyle.

Speak to Corpulus behind the bar of The Winking Skeever, and ask him about his long term lodgings.

Featuring
Lots of options for the busy adventurer and a balcony with a lovely view overlooking Solitude that you can relax on at the end of a hard day in the field slaying your enemies.

Configurable decor - you can configure the guest room, your work desk, the seating area, set the dining table for several different uses,
set out chairs or stools on the balcony and set the balcony table for several different uses.

Hidden places of beauty which, with luck and care, you may be able to access from surprising places around Tamriel. Will you find the Glade?

A mystery to solve - what happened to the beautiful mage Aceh, the previous tenant who has disappeared without a trace?

A powerful artifact upstairs - experiment with it and see what sort of effects you can find.

All the usual crafting - smithing, alchemy, enchanting, cooking, baking.

Dynamic lighting - the light changes throughout the day and it's lit by candles at night. It has a cosy fireplace you can light to brighten the place up, but you might need a lantern when poking around parts of the house at midnight! Lights optimised so pulling out a torch indoors won't cause flickering.

Linked storage - containers found around the house will be accessible from different places depending on how you configure the work areas, but even if you configure a work area so that you can't see a container you were using any more, your items will never be lost. Just change the setup back to what it was and the container will reappear again, with your stuff still in it.

Reactive storage displays - some containers (not all, as there's never enough time to do everything) will react depending on how much stuff you put in them. Meat will appear & disappear from hooks, piles of gold will get bigger, shelves will appear empty or full, that sort of thing.

Linked bookcases - you can access any of the bookshelves around the loft from any of the open books left lying around the house. The bookshelves are organised by category so you can organise your book collection nicely for future reference.

For those who pursue the mystery, it has some powerful artifacts scattered in far off hidden places, one in particular is a powerful easter egg I
don't expect many people to find, even those who think they've finished everything.

For those who complete the mystery, it may not be just a starter home after all. If you've completed it, you might want to download the map in the spoiler file on the nexus. If you don't know what it's for, I wouldn't go looking for it yet.


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Send bugs, suggestions, helpful comments to the author here on nexusmods.com.

If you find this mod clashes with some other Solitude mod so you can't use it, let me know and I'll see if it's possible to make a patch - there are a few already done on the files, but I'm not going out looking for them, I'll only make up patches as they're reported to me and requested here.

Decor is all static, so it won't go flying around, though most of the containers that have decor displays also contain objects similar to those displays when you first move in.

All storage is safe, aside from that marked in game with a *. The waste basket, alchemy waste, sweet roll treats and ale barrel all respawn as they are restocked by Minette from downstairs in the bar.

This is my first mod, the result of a misspent coronavirus lockdown, so be nice. Pleasant feedback will be taken on board and unpleasant will be ignored.

Note - I haven't done voice acting for Corpulus, so when you first buy the loft I turn on subtitles while you are talking to him. I didn't want to introduce a dependency on SKSE, so without that you can't tell if you had subtitles on or not originally, so I couldn't reset them to your original preference. Just turn them back off in preferences. They won't come back on again.








Compatibility
You can now fit three separate player homes into The Winking Skeever at the same time, with three separate entrances! Patches exist for:

Better Cities
Dawn of Skyrim
Enhanced Solitude
JKs Skyrim
JKs Winking Skeever
The Lucky Skeever
Open Cities Skyrim* [patch has a problem with balcony door - use at own risk]
Thanks to WredWolf for making the Open Cities Skyrim patch!

JKs Winking Skeever Notes
There are actually two versions of patches for JKs Winking Skeever - WSL_Patch_JKs_Skeever_OriginalRafters which leaves his player home completely unchanged, and WSL_Patch_JKs_Skeever_FlatCeiling which replaces his player homes high rafters with a flat ceiling so its a more immersive experience, as this loft is on the floor above his. I've noticed on the first time loading JKs Winking Skeever and the flat ceiling patch, the elk head does not remove correctly from his room and clips through the ceiling, however the next time you start skyrim it will be gone.

This means using this mod, JKs Winking Skeever, The Lucky Skeever and the patches above you can now have THREE player homes in The Winking Skeever at the same time! The door to this one is in the alley around the back, the door to JKs is upstairs, and the door to the Lucky Skeever is high on the city walls. With all three installed there will be two balconies - JKs is the lower one and this mods the upper. The Lucky Skeever and this mods balcony exits both lead to the upper balcony, and when you exit the upper balcony you will return to whichever player home you entered it from.

If you install JKs mod, I've renamed his "Loft" to "Private Chambers". You buy the key to JKs chambers from Corpulus's shop, and you still talk with him about "long term lodgings" to lease the Winking Skeever Loft.




Credits
WredWolf for the Open Cities Skyrim patch.
Elianora and Darkfox127 for their youtube tutorials.
Febrith Darkstar for her player home videos inspiring me to give making a mod of my own a go.
Nikinoodles and Nazenn for Cloaks of Skyrim for the models of hanging up cloaks.
Volvaga0 from iNeed for the waterskin models.
Blary and Stoverjm for Open Books Library for the open book model.
The creators of The Book of Kells, the Hereford Mappa Mundi and the real world Poetic Edda for the pages in the open books.
Jet4571 and Betterbecause for HQ Real Paintings Modders Resource for the painting frames.
The artists listed below for their images.
Oaristys and Tony67 for Modders Resource for several decoration objects.
Estroya's Resources for the alchemy glassware.
Monk_ide and Icecreamassassin for Upper Class Furniture Pack v2.0 for some of the furniture.
Antistars Clockwork Castle, for the spiral stairs.
And finally, mrpdean for the kitchen table.

Music
Wagner - Götterdämmerung - Siegfried's Funeral March
Barber - Agnus Dei

Paintings
Titian - A monk with a book (1550)
Caravaggio - Basket of Fruit (1599)
Caravaggio - Judith Beheading Holofernes (1599)
Peter Paul Rubens - Two Women with a Candle (1616-1617)
Anthony van Dyck - The Apostle Matthew (1619)
Bartolomeo Manfredi - Tavern Scene with a Lute Player (1621)
Gerard van Honthorst - The Matchmaker (1625)
Frans Hals - The Gypsy Girl (1628)
Nicolas Poussin - The Massacre of the Innocents (1625-29)
Jusepe de Ribera - Saint Jerome (1652)
Willem Kalf - Still Life with a Silver Jug and a Porcelain Bowl (1656)
Salvator Rosa - Human Frailty (1656)
Joseph Wright of Derby - An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768)
Joseph Wright of Derby - The Alchemist (1771)
Joseph Wright of Derby - An Iron Forge (1772)
Johan Christian Dahl - Winter at the Sognefjord (1827)
Thomas Cole - The Course of Empire. Desolation (1836)
Johan Christian Dahl - Lyshornet near Bergen (1836)
John Martin - Pandemonium (1841)
Hans Gude - Landscape Study from Vågå (1846)
Hans Gude - By the Mill Pond (1850)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850)
Johan Christian Dahl - Stugunøset at Filefjell (1851)
William Holman Hunt - The Hireling Shepherd (1851)
John Martin - The Great Day of His Wrath (1851-1853)
Johan Wilhelm Cordes - The Wild Hunt (1856)
Frederic Edwin Church - The Icebergs (1861)
Jan Matejko - Stańczyk during a ball at the court of Queen Bona in the face of the loss of Smolensk (1862)
Peter Nicolai Arbo - Valkyrie (1864)
Peter Nicolai Arbo - The Ride of Asgard (1872)
Pierre Auguste Cot - Springtime (1873)
Viktor Vasnetsov - The Flying Carpet (1880)
Vincent van Gogh - Pink Peach Tree in Blossom (Souvenir de Mauve) (1888)
Edmund Leighton - Tristan and Isolde (1902)
John William Waterhouse - I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott (1915)