Haunted Skyrim is an addon for Shattered (formerly Alternate Skyrim) by Scrabbulor.  It adds ghosts to some of the ruined cities and towns.  Also adds a few battles between ghostly Stormcloaks and ghostly Legionnaires.  If you look closely, you might spot a few familiar faces among the walking dead...



HAUNTED SKYRIM:

The ghosts of named NPCs are placed in locations they could be seen in Skyrim (see images for examples).  For example, if you walk through the ruins of Whiterun's marketplace, you'll bump into some former citizens of Whiterun.  Not everyone has come back to walk the places they did in life, just a few characters who may have had some unfinished business, devotion to duty, or just a daily routine.  Old habits are hard to break.



DETAILS:

Haunted Skyrim adds ghostly duplicates of some vanilla NPCs, it does not alter vanilla NPC records.  None of these ghosts will have dialogue beyond the generic lines for their voice type, so no quest dialogue, idles, etc.  They're ghosts, they don't have a lot to talk about anymore.  And while they'll ignore you for the most part, they won't take kindly to being attacked.  You've been warned.



REQUIREMENTS AND COMPATIBILITY:

Requires Shattered and any mods it requires, obviously.  And give Scrabbulor an endorsement and a kudo while you're at it, a lot of work went into Alternate Skyrim.

Haunted Skyrim should be compatible with everything, technically, though if you use a mod that restores the named vanilla NPCs this mod duplicates for the ghosts, you'll have a living version and a ghost version of those NPCs walking around.  I suppose that's not the strangest thing you could see in Skyrim.

The ghost NPCs are duplicates, they don't use the actual vanilla actor records, so while they will use whatever skin/body mods you have installed, appearance overhauls will NOT apply to them, they'll keep their vanilla looks.  They're ghosts.  They don't care what they look like.  You are welcome to make patches for appearance overhauls if you wish, I will not be making patches for them.



OPTIONAL ADDITIONS:

The Extra Battles module adds several more battles around Skyrim.  This addition is designed to be used with Skyrim Battle Aftermath, but technically doesn't require it.



INSTALLATION/UNINSTALLATION AND LOAD ORDER:

While this mod only adds things and doesn't alter any vanilla records, it's never a good idea to add or remove mods mid-game.

This mod should come after Alternate Skyrim in your load order.

There are two versions: an ESP and an ESPFE.  Use only one of them in your game.


FUTURE PLANS:

I made this for my game.  My goal was not to return every unique vanilla NPC to life (undeath?), just to hint at what existed before whatever catastrophe happened that destroyed the land of Skyrim.  I will fix any bugs that pop up, but I don't have any specific plans for it beyond that.


RECOMMENDED MODS:

Shattered, obviously.

Skyrim Battle Aftermath goes really well with this mod.  I did not add ghosts to the battlefields added by that mod, but I might do so in a patch at some point.

Many of the walled settlements in the "Thanedom of..." and "Hamlets of..." mods by Axis1211 work well with Alternate Skyrim generally.

Schlitzohr's villages also add some life to the now-barren Skyrim.


PERMISSIONS:

You may patch this, expand this, convert it for LE or console, just credit me with the original idea and link back to this mod page.  You may NOT sell this mod, lock it behind a paywall or repost it in such a way that you take credit for it or Delphine will haunt you.  You don't want that, do you?