Sorry if this has be posted about before but I was unable to find the answer in my searches, so If anyone would like to point me to a current thread on the topic that would be great.

But any how. So I've started to run into these characters, the master thief out side riverwood, the marauder on the way to Bleakfalls barrow, and so on. and I was wondering if they are meant to be in the game since the last up date?

I only recently started to play skyrim again on pc, and these guys are a right pain in the back side. If their not meant to be in game does anyone know how to remove them outside of a complete uninstall reinstall, or are they meant to be here and I'll just have to live with it.

I'm not sure if it was some of the mods I had installed, so removed them all and the characters are still showing up?

I would like to get this sorted as I don't want to get to far into the game with my new character just to find that it's actuall broken because of this.

Thanks

Are they are just bandits with an Iron helmet and some armour.

Nope, the thief outside riverwood has the full master armor on, same with the marauder on the way to BFB he's wearing the full Orc armor set with just the name Marauder?

Their really challanging which normally I don't mind but right now just looking fo chill with some dova goodness:)

I have never seen a Marauder. I think you have a mod that adds them.

Was thinking that so removed them all, I'll try a reinstall and see how it goes with out mods.

I'm pretty sure it's a mod.

I'm not so sure it is, i did a similar search on the nexus and it seems that people have had this problem on a fresh install without mods.

I don't really mind I'm just worried it'll break the game later on. I heard it causes problems with the thiefs guild later on.

Do you have the mod "Undeath" installed? I heard it accidently adds E3 Demo stuff back to the game.

Hmm. http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/744479-strange-high-level-thief-random-encounter-near-riverwood-with-guild-master-armor/ an interesting thread about this problem.

ah good stuff, the last post on that thread give's me some hope.

Any how thanks guys.

I think Marauder are just renamed to something like "Orc", "Redguard".

That sounds cool. Are they tough battles?

For me they are, the thief out side riverwood killed me in two shots, the marauder with one hit. but having said that I only encounter them at level one.

What E3 stuff was taken out of the game? I remember that the whole economy thing didn't make the final release which was a bit disappointing but I can't remember what other stuff didn't make it.

edit: scratch that, I didn't realise you were talking about the E3 scripted events.

So all mods and skyrim plus dlc completely removed, Re-downloaded Skyrim + DLC and no sign of the extra characters from the E3 thingy. So I guess one of the mods must be pulling that data out of the game files. The only one I can think of was mentioned above 'Undeath' as this is fairly new and I don't remember having this problem with any of the other mods I used in the past, which where mainly Skyre, Frostfall, and a few UI mods.

Any how thanks for getting back to me today.