Arcadia not selling and Braith is an orphan now?

[HazardousGourd]

Pretty much out of the blue, on a relatively new game (level 6 I think,) I brought Farengar's frost salts to Arcadia, and she stopped being a merchant. I mention this quest, because I'd swear she had the "What do you have for sale" dialogue option available before I selected the quest dialogue.

I've tried a few things, including recycling, resurrecting, dis/enabling, and manually adding her to the merchant faction, as I'd seen suggested for others having the same or similar bugs with merchants, and none of it worked. She simply doesn't have the option to buy and sell. To test this, I started a new game, and went to speak with her, and she still had no merchant option.

Simultaneous to discovering this problem, I went outside and happened to bump into Braith, who was moping about her parents being dead, which is sad and all, except as she was telling me this her ding dang dad walked right on by us. Looking into this, it seems to be another (possibly unrelated?) glitch, where sometimes children (frequently Braith,) just erroneously get assigned to the orphan/adoptable faction, despite their parents or guardians being alive.

I ran every console command I could to fix Braith as well, but again, nothing works, and unlike the Arcadia problem where some folks have been able to resolve it, I can't find anyone concretely fixing the delusional orphanism issue.

This brings me to the irksome "remove mods, see what happens," stage, but I have a ton. Most of which have been working just fine on previous games totaling dozens of hours. So I guess before I go through the hassle of trial-and-error troubleshooting, I just have to ask if anyone has any ideas, solutions, or better ways to get to the root of the problem.

[LeddBate]

I presume you use LOOT. If not, get it, use it, love it.

I also presume you have SSEEdit. If not, get it, use it, love it.

Longshot: Try validating your game (not mod) files through Steam.

[HazardousGourd]

I presume you use LOOT. If not, get it, use it, love it.

I also presume you have SSEEdit. If not, get it, use it, love it.

Longshot: Try validating your game (not mod) files through Steam.

Yes, both LOOT and SSEEdit are in use. I was able to resolve the merchants issue by shutting off every mod that had any known effect on merchants, but I'm still trying to figure out which one was the culprit. Braith is still adoptable, and I guess I can live with that, because she's a pretty cool kid, and I've never actually bothered to adopt any of them, so I guess I'll make the most of that.