College Days Winterhold Remade 10042025

College Days: Winterhold is back for SE/AE! Completely redone from scratch.

Ever wondered how you could be Archmage of the most prestigious school for magic on Nirn without actually knowing much magic? Probably not because you probably already have mods that fix that. Well, now you can have another!

Features (and how they differ from the original CDW):
- Faralda will now direct you to your advisor, Ryner Morrem, who will gaze upon you with disgust and give you a magical scan to see if you are really college material. 

- Choose whether to pay ever more exorbitant fees for your studies or not (a much-requested option in CDW).

- Choose a school of magic in which to major. Don't worry, you can request a change to a different school from Professor Morrem at any time (for a fee, if enabled)

- Professor Morrem spends most of the time in the Arcaneum being grumpy alongside Urag. They get along well! If he is not there, he may be at the tavern in Winterhold or sleeping in his bed in the teachers' dormitory. 

- Another student, Kelwe Dans, also spends her time in the Arcaneum but she has decided she wants to go home, so she is selling her books to finance the journey. See her for spell tomes.

- Just like before, parts of the college questline will only be accessible after you have been reassessed and granted the next level. The timing of these has changed - it made no sense for the professors to demand you get better before you could help with the pressing issues that happen once you have been to Labyrinthian, so now you will need to advance to level 90 in at least one school (and be reassessed by Professor Morrem) before you can start the last portions of the questline. 

This chops the early portions of the questline up a little more than before, so the spacing of your leveling and the questline is not as even throughout but makes much more sense, storywise.

Compatibility

Seems mostly compatible with College of Winterhold - Quest Expansion and Improved College Entry - Questline Tweaks. Both could use some patches for the smoothest ride but until I get time to make those (or some other kind individual beats me to it), put this mod after those in your load order.

Thanks to Vauthil for doing this testing.- see the details for both mods in the support thread on Nexus.

Partially voiced (and soon to be fully voiced)!
Faralda's and Mirabelle's new lines are done by Alice Irvin.
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Ryner Morrem's lines are being worked on. I have added a few at the beginning from one prospect - please let me know what you think. Alas, the two I used last time are unavailable to reprise this one and the lines have changed significantly enough that I was unable to reuse the old ones.