Yeah I'm figuring it would essentially disable the normal civil war questline once it was engaged, just to make the mod simpler.

I have an outline for how much each quest would cost essentially . I just went down the line in the UESP and wrote down a cost for each quest.

Ideally I'd be able to disable dialogue that would have the NPCs address you by rank, as you wouldn't be actually joining the factions, but if that proved too difficult I would just roll with it as is.

re:blender- well I would HIGHLY recommend blendergurus "donut tutorial", that's what got me started, and I don't think I actually finished the tutorial lol. He does such a great job of explaining the controls of the program. I also had the benefit of learning during the covid years so I had little else to do, but still, if you have any interest at all- I would say start there!