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Windhelm - Bigger and Bolder

Proudly presenting my lore-friendly expansion of the ancient city of Windhelm, stronghold of the Stormcloaks, as an addition to the Bigger and Bolder project. Being largely unsatisfied with other expansion mods for a number of different reasons, I decided to make this series, which aims to expand and enlarge each town in Skyrim to its fullest potential without changing the core feel or the familiar layout. This expansion features:

- New Hold banners hung all over the city to add to its grandeur;

- A vastly expanded, spacious market square worthy of the mighty and ancient capital, which includes a new jewelry stall and merchant (Jasmina), a book merchant (Asta Snow-Eye) with her own huge store, and a large bakery run by a Breton couple (Alban and Fleur Evrard);

- The Pit, Windhelm's fabled battle arena that was going to be included in the vanilla game but unfortunately was left out of the final release, has returned, though not to the extent that some might hope. Due to my sad incompetence at scripting, there will unfortunately be no epic Conan the Barbarian-esque pit fights to enter for wealth and glory. Instead, though the Pit itself is included in my mod, it has been disbanded and sealed off, the details of which can be discovered through a bit of detective work around the Palace of the Kings, along with the location of a key that will allow access into the arena, where the equipment of long-dead warriors lies waiting to be scavenged and the bloodied arcitecture admired;

- An extra room in the Bloodworks to serve as the antechamber to the Pit, filled with practice targets and cages strewn with the bones and equipment of more dead combatants and creatures captured to fight in the Pit before its abandonment;

- A new house in the town square, home of a retired Stormcloak soldier (Jiliak), and two new houses in the Gray Quarter with Dark Elf inhabitants (Endir, Atheli, Sondeth Ari, Kadu Voreyn, Malvila Reyna), to give it the feel more of an actual city district or at least a neighborhood rather than a measly back alley with a mere four buildings- see if you can guess at some of these new characters' backstories/personalities based on their living conditions and things found around their homes. Interiors of all new houses were hand-furnished to perfection;

- A couple of Dark Elf beggars living on the streets of the Gray Quarter (Ivali and Hadathu), who will of course accept your charity, to further add to the idea of it being the residence of most of the city's Dunmer population;

- Dead tree husks are replaced with snow-covered pines, with a couple extra ones added here and there as well, to take away some of the bleakness of the city and make it a more desireable place to hang around;

- Hjerim, the house that can eventually be purchased, has a slightly expanded yard with a wood chopping block on one side and a pile of crates and barrels around the other.

A good deal of time and thought has gone into the Bigger and Bolder project, and it's my sincere hope that this mod helps enhance the experience of all who opt to use it, and draws them deeper into the magnificent world of Skyrim. Be sure to check out my other mods in the Bigger and Bolder series here on the Steam Workshop as well.

Update 1.0 - Packed FaceGen Data in archive with upload, hopefully this fixes the dark face bug on all added NPCs.