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About this mod
ESL-flagged plugin that amends the text of Aunt Agna's letter to Golldir to match Golldir's dialogue and give her more personality. It also improves the text of the other two letters in the Hillgrund's Tomb quest and optionally restores the missing letter to the game.
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In the vanilla game, Aunt Agna's letter to Golldir states that his brother locked him in Hillgrund's Tomb when they were children. In Golldir's conversation with the player, he says that it was his father who locked him in there. This mod changes the letter's text to match his dialogue, and also tweaks the letter's contents to give Agna a bit more personality. It also gives a little more life to and corrects some minor errors in Vals Veran's letter to Golldir and in Golldir's letter to Vals Veran. The latter letter was never implemented in the game, so this mod also optionally restores it in one of two ways (depending on your choice re: compatibility).
The Unofficial Patch already corrects the brother/father error in Agna's Letter (and the missing "of" in Golldir's letter to Vals Veran) but that's all it does. This mod is for those who either do not use the USSEP or simply want a little more personality in these letters than the vanilla game offered.
Download Options:
The Tomb File amends all three letters and places the missing note from Golldir to Vals Veran in the tomb (near one of the braziers, as though Vals meant to burn it in disgust but didn't take the time to make sure it actually ignited; see screenshot). It may require patching with lighting mods (or just make sure it's higher in your load order than your lighting mods and that should be fine tbh; I didn't have to make a patch for the one I use) and with any mod that significantly alters the physical layout of Hillgrund's Tomb, but it makes no edits to any NPCs.
The Inventory File amends all three letters and places the missing note from Golldir to Vals Veran in the latter's inventory. Technically this should be a more compatibility-friendly version, since it only affects one minor NPC's inventory rather than making any wordspace edits that would need patched. However, in the vanilla game Vals Veran uses an NPC Template rather than being a fully-standalone NPC in his own right, so in order to access his inventory this mod had to make him a standalone NPC instead. This has thrown-off the leveling of his available spells, and may prevent mods overhauling NPC leveling/stats/etc from affecting him properly. It should not cause problematic conflicts; you simply may not get the altered stats/abilities/etc of that mod applied to him. Since Vals Veran is a single minor enemy I doubt this will be of major concern, but I wanted you to be aware of the potential for leveling-oddness with him ahead of time if you use such mods. In a vanilla game, he will level appropriately with the player and be his customary easy-but-annoying antagonist.
The Compatibility File only changes the contents of the three letters without restoring the missing letter to the game and as such should conflict with nothing (save for the USSEP, which alters the same files and which will thus be overwritten by the edits in this mod instead; you can ignore any USSEP conflicts you see in xEdit).
LE Version?
Unfortunately I no longer own a copy of Skyrim LE, so I cannot save the esp in the correct Form 43. However, it would be an easy matter to open the esp in TES5Edit and drag the changes it makes into one of your existing LE mods (or to simply resave it in the LE Creation Kit). Given the small size of this mod and the lack of esl-flagging in LE, copying over its edits to another esp is a much better option than wasting a whole plugin slot on this mod anyway; in which case, you shouldn't have to do anything but download, drag over, and then delete the no-longer-needed SE esp.
More Mods:
If you enjoy little tweaks like this, consider Better Hearthfire Into Letter as well...and let me know if you think of any other texts in Skyrim that could stand to be minutely improved, since apparently this is a thing I'm doing now.
The Unofficial Patch already corrects the brother/father error in Agna's Letter (and the missing "of" in Golldir's letter to Vals Veran) but that's all it does. This mod is for those who either do not use the USSEP or simply want a little more personality in these letters than the vanilla game offered.
Download Options:
The Tomb File amends all three letters and places the missing note from Golldir to Vals Veran in the tomb (near one of the braziers, as though Vals meant to burn it in disgust but didn't take the time to make sure it actually ignited; see screenshot). It may require patching with lighting mods (or just make sure it's higher in your load order than your lighting mods and that should be fine tbh; I didn't have to make a patch for the one I use) and with any mod that significantly alters the physical layout of Hillgrund's Tomb, but it makes no edits to any NPCs.
The Inventory File amends all three letters and places the missing note from Golldir to Vals Veran in the latter's inventory. Technically this should be a more compatibility-friendly version, since it only affects one minor NPC's inventory rather than making any wordspace edits that would need patched. However, in the vanilla game Vals Veran uses an NPC Template rather than being a fully-standalone NPC in his own right, so in order to access his inventory this mod had to make him a standalone NPC instead. This has thrown-off the leveling of his available spells, and may prevent mods overhauling NPC leveling/stats/etc from affecting him properly. It should not cause problematic conflicts; you simply may not get the altered stats/abilities/etc of that mod applied to him. Since Vals Veran is a single minor enemy I doubt this will be of major concern, but I wanted you to be aware of the potential for leveling-oddness with him ahead of time if you use such mods. In a vanilla game, he will level appropriately with the player and be his customary easy-but-annoying antagonist.
The Compatibility File only changes the contents of the three letters without restoring the missing letter to the game and as such should conflict with nothing (save for the USSEP, which alters the same files and which will thus be overwritten by the edits in this mod instead; you can ignore any USSEP conflicts you see in xEdit).
LE Version?
Unfortunately I no longer own a copy of Skyrim LE, so I cannot save the esp in the correct Form 43. However, it would be an easy matter to open the esp in TES5Edit and drag the changes it makes into one of your existing LE mods (or to simply resave it in the LE Creation Kit). Given the small size of this mod and the lack of esl-flagging in LE, copying over its edits to another esp is a much better option than wasting a whole plugin slot on this mod anyway; in which case, you shouldn't have to do anything but download, drag over, and then delete the no-longer-needed SE esp.
More Mods:
If you enjoy little tweaks like this, consider Better Hearthfire Into Letter as well...and let me know if you think of any other texts in Skyrim that could stand to be minutely improved, since apparently this is a thing I'm doing now.