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I use a mod called Your Soul is Mine which has what you're looking for through an MCM. The idea is that you absorb the souls in Soul Gems and it gives you points to use for whatever tweaks you want. I often play as a conjuror and that's how I extend the duration of summons and even increase the amount of summons I can have.

I use a few mods that delay quests and was hoping someone could make one for Blood on the Ice. Not all of my characters do that quest and it's a bit annoying having to be stopped every time I enter the graveyard. A few options would be great (delay by level or indefinitely). Thanks.

Skyrim Unbound Reborn is an Alternate Start mod that will allow you to skip the beginning quests to be Dragonborn and become Thane of Whiterun by doing the Blessings of Nature quest. You can still become Dragonborn later on if you want to.

I use the Instincts power from Campfire to find both living and dead animals/people.

Here is a telescope if that works for you. Kettlewitch's Telescope SSE Telescope Zoom Fix for Kettlewitch's Telescope

If no one takes you up on this perhaps these two mods might work for you. The first is the hat and the second is the poncho. Plague Doctor Blanket Scarf EDIT: Toxin Doctor may be better that the one I listed above. Also, Apachii Divine Elegance has some cowboy hats and things that might work for the poncho.

What a coincidence, I stopped in here looking for the same thing. Really, I just want to apply some face/warpaint to an NPC Follower without having to do anything in Creation Kit or SSEEdit. I was looking at Project Proteus but I don't need all those features. I just a simple way to edit the NPC appearance.

Removing them from the jobjarlfaction worked! Thank you very much for all of your help. Kudos.

I tried out NFF on a new game but unfortunately Elisif and Balgruuf still do not give me the dialogue options to follow even though it said the NPC could follow after using Force Follower in the MCM. Though, I tried it on other regular NPCs (not Jarls yet) and it did work. I’m not sure how you went about getting them to respond when you tested it but I’ll play around with it a some more. I'm probably missing something or maybe there's a mod conflict. Anyway, I appreciate the recommendation. Some of these features are pretty nice.

I will look into that, thank you.

Well, I switched from AFT to EFF to see if it would work and it did. Those NPCs were able to follow me using that follower framework. Problem is... I don't like EFF. So, I'm putting it out there again. If anyone can throw a mod together that can do this for me I would be so grateful.

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for but I think Weaponized Junk allows you to use flutes, lutes and drums as weapons.

So, I found a mod (Elisif The Fair Follower) for LE that pretty much does what I’m looking for with Elisif but its not on SE. However, in the description under compatibility for this mod, it also references an esp from another mod that is compatible that makes Jarls able to be followers by removing the "Bethesda-set limitation of Jarl’s not being able to follow by modifying DialogueFavorGeneric”. I’m not sure what that mod is because I can’t find it. Anyway, again, is there anyone out there that has experience with this sort of thing that is able and willing to create a mod that can do this for me?

I do a lot of roleplay as a non-Dragonborn using Skyrim Unbound, so I don't do the main quest that often, and occasionally like to use NPCs that wouldn’t normally be followers, however, some just won’t respond (Balgruuf, Elisif, Laila). I’ve tried using RDO, console commands and AFT but no luck with any of them (no dialogue to follow). I thought it might be because they are Jarls but Siddgeir works for me so I’m not sure what’s going on. Are these NPCs just blocked from being followers by the game no matter what? I would really like to find something that would allow me to do this. Is there anything out there already or can someone whip up a mod that makes it happen?

Immersive Wenches adds traveling merchant wenches, an Orc merchant and vampire merchant wenches. Lots More Followers adds several potential followers and many walk the roads of Skyrim and visit taverns and cities. I know there are many more but those are just two I can think of right now that I use.