Hi all, was hoping to see if anyone had guidance on this, can't seem to find anything about it in comments or threads.

How does one go about settling a wilderness plot as an Elven Refuge? I'm playing as Balin and would like to repopulate Eregion as Elven land, but you can't give settlements to people and I can't make it an Elven Refuge to grant it to an Elf.

I used a mod to switch my character culture (which the mod seems to use to define race as far as elven, dwarven, etc goes) to an Elven culture since the only settlement options are city, temple, castle; my hope was being an Elf it would default the castle to being an Elven refuge but no dice.

Maybe this isn't a problem for actual Elven characters you play as rulers, maybe something else is coded for them that allows them to settle Refuges besides the culture, but wanted to see if anyone had some insight on this.

Solved: You have to be an elven ruler, then you can assign your steward to convert a county into an elven refuge