Alvor (Riverwood Blacksmith) found in Whiterun - Belethor's Shop

[monkinsane]

OK,

I'm stumped as to why but was looking for Alvor in Riverwood to buy stuff - he was nowhere to be found. So I headed over to Whiterun instead. Walking into Belethor's shop - here stands Alvor - in front of Belethor's counter.

Anyone ever encounter this? 

 

[nilead]

Id really like to, as it would give an illusion that Skyrim NPCs, static dummies as they are, actually do stuff like travel. Hell, with mantella in tow it could even generate some sort of story for it. So a mod that would produce such encounters would be real nice.

 Click on him in console and check, it should show you his reference ID, wich may or may not be the same as Alvor, indicating if he is actually moved or cloned instead.

Im not sure if its vanilla console behaviour, but with console util NG it shows you outright what mod last edited the selected object, wich might give you an answer outright.

 If onsole does not give you an answer (As well as checking if you have any mods that would purposefully place him there), check for mods that would make NPCs follow player and try their debug options, odds are he followed you there and got stuck.

[Mister_Discrete]

It may be something going wonky with Immersive Citizens AI Overhaul (if you have it) and Populated Skyrim Hell Edition (if you have that). I've had NPCs just sort of apparate in towns they're not supposed to be in because of how those mods use markers for NPCs to interact with.