Two wandering Stormcloaks attacking Rorikstead

[WhatRules]

A Stormcloak Soldier and a "Stormcloak Mage". I think they are from 'Immersive' Encounters, because they were wandering the wilderness north of Rorikstead, but according to the console they were from vanilla Skyrim. They also warned me when getting too close which is typical for a world encounter patrol. Either way, I followed them for a bit to see what they were about and to my shock they got into a fight with the guards in Rorikstead, killing some of them before getting chopped down. My only solution was to reload and delete them since I can't accept guards getting killed so casually.

 

Whiterun haven't chosen a side in my game so they shouldn't be at war with the Stormcloaks. Is this normal or a bug? Should they even take the path through Rorikstead at all?

[WhatRules]

On 9/22/2020 at 5:08 PM, SBA3 said:

For what it's worth, it's a pretty normal occurrence in my game. I've showed up to some towns and most of the guards are dead but what's annoying is named npcs dying from random attacks like this and getting inheritance letters from people I don't' recall or all the npcs saying "my friend is dead". Have you tried using more information console mod to see if there is more info on them? It can mention if the vanilla .esm is being changed by another mod. 

Yes, I've played with that all the time and there is no more info on them.

[anjenthedog]

Immersive Creatures adds some aggressive human (patrol) encounters like this, so while I wouldn't say it's "normal", it does have some precedence in another "immersive ..." mod.