Estates of Skyrim - Sim Settlements

All my estates and followers, set up to work together.

Run your own estates with hired staff, then lead your own band on the road. Estates of Skyrim was featured on GAMINGbible, and this is the one-click way to play it with every estate and follower I've made.

Why you'll want it

• Own a home and run it: hire staff who really work, build upgrades, and watch the treasury, income, upkeep and workers of every estate on one screen.
• Hold it against raids: garrisons, sieges, and courts to run at Hjertesten Hall, White Hearth, Halls of Order and Mortum Castle.
• Lead a band: Warband gives your followers places, posts and orders.
• Travel with fully voiced followers: Octavia, Oskar and Cassia, each with their own quest.

The estates are add-ons for Hjertesten Hall - Player Home and Settlement by Thay S, White Hearth by IdomeneusOfCrete, Halls of Order by HerrSchtevie and Mortum Castle by Jbuckhalt. Their homes are included, and their files are not changed.

What's in it

• Estates of Skyrim: the estates screen, the hire line and upgrades behind every estate here. It's a beta.
• Warband: the follower framework and party manager.
• Hjertesten Hall - Extra Jobs and Features: 20+ jobs with real work routines, a farm economy, a livestock shop, a warband with raids and wars, a market and a hotel cellar.
• Hjertesten Hall - Extra Buildings: a barracks, an orphanage with a dormitory, the Court Wizard's tower, a graveyard and four homes for your staff.
• Hjertesten Hall - Stables: stable two horses in the hall's stalls, have your steward send for a horse from any city stable, and change saddles at the hitching post.
• White Hearth - Extra Jobs and Features: hire a household, hold court at the high table, defend your stronghold from sieges and run the treasury.
• Halls of Order - Knights of the Order: raise the Knights of Order under Rubian, hire 15 kinds of staff, run the treasury and defend the Crystal of Order from seven kinds of raids.
• Mortum Castle - Extra Jobs and Features: hold court in the Throne Room, fill 11 posts, rank and pay the garrison, host nobles, face the Thalmor and hold the gate.
• Falkreath Shop: own and run your own store.
• Octavia: a fully voiced shield-sister with 10,461 spoken lines, her own quest and follower system, a romance and long talks.
• Octavia's Frost Arsenal: an enchanted sword, bow, arrows and shield plus a frost spell tome, forged from Stalhrim at any forge.
• Oskar: a fully voiced Nord blacksmith follower or worker, with over 3,400 lines.
• Cassia: a fully voiced Imperial huntress with her own quest, who brings in meat and pelts every day.
• Word Travels: your friends hear about what you've done and come find you to talk about it, 110+ deeds.

Optional: Anniversary Edition homes

These three are optional, because each one needs a Creation Club home from the Anniversary Edition. Leave them off if you don't own it.

• Goldenhills Plantation - Extra Jobs and Features
• Tundra Homestead - Extra Jobs and Features
• Nchuanthumz - Extra Jobs and Features

Good to know

• Built for the latest Skyrim Special Edition / Anniversary Edition (1.7.104). SKSE is included.
• The Estates screen needs Prisma UI and Media Keys Fix, both included.
• Marked adult because CBBE 3BA, Halls of Order and Ashtoreth's Frostwarden Regalia are adult on Nexus.
• Built on NOLVUS Awakening.

Installation

Click Add collection and Vortex installs everything into a new profile. One manual step: Mortum Castle needs High Poly Head, which isn't on Nexus. When Vortex asks for it, open its link, download "High Poly Head v1.4 (SE).zip" (not the LE files) and drop it onto Vortex.

After it installs: this collection includes the XPMSSE skeleton. If you already use another skeleton or animation mods, run Pandora, Nemesis or FNIS again after installing, or your skeleton and animations can break. Vortex can overwrite the skeleton you had before.

No graphics are included. Use your own ENB or Community Shaders setup. The screenshots are from Nolvus.

Credits

• Thay S (Hjertesten Hall), IdomeneusOfCrete (White Hearth), HerrSchtevie (Halls of Order) and Jbuckhalt (Mortum Castle). My add-ons only exist because of their homes. Please endorse the originals.
• Ashtoreth for the Frostwarden Regalia Octavia wears.
• Kanjs (Sigil of the Black Covenant, The Watcher), Kalilies and Stealthic (KS Hairdos), High Poly Head, Northern God Armor SE, Obi - Traveler's Romper Outfit and Kala's Eyes.
• The SKSE team, meh321 (Address Library), powerofthree (Papyrus Extender, Tweaks), Expired (UIExtensions), the SkyUI team, Parapets (MCM Helper), RaceMenu, Prisma UI and Media Keys Fix.
• Built with houseCARL and DevBench.

If you like my mods and want to support me, you can donate here.

About AI use

My mods were built with the help of AI (scripts & records), and the banner art is AI-made. I play them in my own game and fix reports fast, so tell me in the comments if anything's off.