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About this mod
A lore-friendly overhaul of 78 NPCs in Riften and the surrounding area
(BB's The Rift available here as alternative legacy option)
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
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Translations
- Russian
- Changelogs

This mod overhauls a total of 78 NPCs in the Rift area with an emphasis on detailed realistic faces.
The general appearance of NPCs is achieved through a combination of sculpting and normal maps.
This isn't a beauty mod.
There are some pretty NPCs. There are ugly NPCs. There are average NPCs. There are aged NPCs. There are young NPCs.
The goal is to make the worldspace feel that it is inhabited by authentic characters rather than virtual dolls.
Expressive Facial Animations the only soft requirements for this mod.
The mod will function without it, but it is strongly recommended. Everything else you need is in the installer.
There are some options in the FOMOD/download page for you to get this working properly with your set up.
- choose whether to use all NPCs, just males or just females
- compatibility for vanilla, CBBE and UNP bodies
- compatibility options for RBT users
- 1K facetint by default; 2K Face Tint files on downloads page for high res screens.
- BB's Riften can be found under "old versions" as a legacy option.
I struggle to keep up when they are in the comments.
Thank you kindly ♡
NightmareZone@PATREON
Everyone is welcome over on my Patreon and not all of my content is hidden by tiers, like early version of upcoming mods. ANY support is amazing. Sub for a month, or longer, or not at all - I understand that donating isn't for everyone (I myself live the broke student life), so other ways you can support me is downloading and talking about my mods, patching, translating, taking cool screenshots and sharing them here on Nexus or over on R/skyrimmods, etcetera ❤

Requirements:
As of v.1.2, Expressive Facial Animations for Males and Females is a soft requirement (see requirements tab & stickied post)
Recommendation: This mod looks best with a skin texture mod. Vanilla skins don't look good.
My recommendation will always be BnP Female Skin and BnP Male Skin since NITHI series is built to work best with it.
If you PC is a potato, try the 2K textures or downscale them to 1K if you need to, using something like CAO.
INSTALL:
1) Download the requirements and the FOMOD installer.
If you are updating, uninstall the old version before installing the new version.
2) Choose your install type and patches.
3) Check the plugins is loading late. You may have to do this manually with vortex.
4) If you want the 2K tints, get them now from Optional Files and install them over the main mod.
5) Play!
If you want your NPCs to look like exactly like mine you will need:
- RBT (Race Based Textures)
- BnP Skin 2 or 4K for Females & males (RBT files)
- Obsidian Weathers
- Pi-Cho ENB for Obsidian Weathers
- LUX

NITHI NPC ENHANCEMENT
- DAWNGUARD DLC
- SERANA
- WHITERUN
- MARKARTH & THE REACH
- THE COMPANIONS
- THIEVES GUILD
- NITHI NPC CHARACTER PRESET ARCHIVE
PROJECT COUGAR ELDERS
- Bergritte Battleborn
- Fralia Greymane
- Olava the Feeble
- Tilma the Haggard
- Hilde from Riverwood
- Lillith Maiden-Loom
- Inge Six-Fingers
- Idgrod Ravencrone
- Hafjorg

Check them out and show them some love by downloading and endorsing!
HEAD AND SKIN:
- High Poly Head by KouLeifoh - Offsite
- Expressive Facegen Morphs by Niroku*
- UNP Body Renewal by dimon99, hello santa, Reize and Shiva182
- BHUNP by Bakafactory and Haeun
- ALT2 by Khisartin at DDS Workshop
- BnP Skin Female by swefrida
- Ugly Useless Face Resource by Vobla
- Fair Skin Complexion by HHaleyy
- Smashin Face Reloaded by TheKingofSass
- Frieds Male Skin Textures by TheFriedturkey
- BodySlide and Outfit Studio by ousnius and Caliente*
- Vitruvia Skin Texture Overhaul by Mandragorasprouts
FRECKLES, MAKE-UP & SCARS:
- Northborn Scars by Northborn
- Wolfpaint by DomainWolf*
- Koralina's Freckles and Moles by Koralina*
- Even More Makeup by Koralina*
- Lamenthia's Marks of Beauty by Lamenthia*
- Pocky's 4K Human Female Makeup by PockyPunk1*
EYES:
- The Eyes of Beauty by LogRaam; SE port by docteure, and 2K remaster by wammy
- SG Female Brows by Hello Santa, ported by Senturos
- HN66s Long Eye Lashes SE by HumanNature66, port/fixes by XONextGenXO*
- Invisibility and Eye Mesh Fixes by HHaleyy*
- Eye Normal Map Fix SSE by Mr. Dave
HAIR:
- ApachiiSkyHair SSE by Apachii
- KS Hairdo's SSE by Kalilies
- HG Hairdos and HG Hairdos 2 (NSFW)
- Beards of Power by Mharlek1
* no assets used directly, but are baked in the NPC mesh or tint files