Metadata for Chidren of The North

[Potato95]

Children of the North should load after RSChildren and most of its default patches, such as patches for AI Overhaul and USSEP

[sibir-ine]

Children of the North has both RS Children plugins as masters, so it will be sorted after them by default. The only patch on the RSC page is the Bruma one which doesn't conflict with CotN, & the USSEP & AI Overhaul "patches" on CotN's page are just alternate versions of the plugin with appropriate masters as well. Are there any patches in particular that CotN needs to sort after that LOOT isn't sorting correctly?

[Potato95]

Sorry, I forgot to mention that some of these were other mods. Loot put CotN's esp higher than these:

RS Children Patch Compendium (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/13409)
RSChildren + AI Overhaul Patch.esp

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/118629
RSChildren-Patch-IWI-SD.esp
RSChildren-Patch-base-SD.esp

I don't use "RSChildren + AI Overhaul Patch.esp", "RSChildren-Patch-base-SD.esp" or "RSChildren-Patch-IWI-SD.esp" at the same time. Isolated, all three ended up lower that CotN.

[sibir-ine]

I don't understand what the point is of using any of those plugins with CotN. The AI Overhaul version of CotN already makes them compatible, so loading those patches are completely redundant when loaded before CotN, & loading them after undoes CotN's changes as I'm sure you're already aware. As for the IWI patch, that just resolves conflicts between IWI & RS Children, so loading it before CotN will also make it completely redundant. At that point, you need to just make your own patch between IWI & CotN (or just use a Bashed Patch, IWI already has the appropriate tags to do this automatically).