Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch

Wouldn't this be sufficient to fix that? Just have the alias set the name and clear it when the quest ends,

Attached Files:

34296.esp

That does work, though apparently not on an existing game where you've been anywhere near Treva's Watch already. Approaching Stalleo's camp seemingly advances the quest stage from 0 to 1 and fills the aliases. From looking through my saves, that happened early on. I expect in most cases it would be a non-retroactive fix, unless there's some way to use a script to make it retroactive. That probably isn't a high priority, though, especially for such a minor issue.

Something else I thought of is that there's a random possibility that Brurid may be a female bandit boss based on the template that is used. It likely doesn't matter though since Stalleo never specifically mentions in any of his dialogue whether Brurid is male or female.

There is apparently one line where Stalleo specifically called Brurid “he”.

Tweaked to make him always male

Attached Files:

34296.esp

"He's a rogue mage who defected at the beginning of the war. I turned him in... but apparently he escaped... and now this."

There's another problem: he's a mage according to that dialogue line (which is used in the game). It seems as though you may have to create a unique actor after all, unless there's another template that could be used. I don't see a bandit boss template that is a magic user.

Could just be that he's not using magic anymore now that he's a bandit.

Yeah, that assumption works for me. Since the developers didn't make him a magic user, there's no need to make it unnecessarily complicated and try to change that. Your fix handles the issue just fine.