Hi.

How can I get the hold from my current location?

You will need to learn about Locations and Location-Parents and so on ... start here: http://www.creationkit.com/Location


A hold is merely a set of cells, so I'm not sure you are going to be able to do what you want ... But (in the CK) look at the Parents of any Locations that look interesting ... maybe there is a way ...



If there is, then you'll need some script(s) ...

Take a look at the CRHoldExpansion quest in the Companions/Radiant section, it does exactly this through a set of aliases--if I remember correctly it basically gets the location with keyword LocTypeHold that has the centermarker nearest to the player.

What I need to know is when the player

Thanks. That will help.
My intention is to know when the player traverses from Hold A to B, then refill quest aliases.

Is that seriously how that works? That seems a little flimsy. None of the holds are equal in size or shape.

I do it by using a spell effect on the player that is conditionalized for IsInRegion, and I point the region at the region that spell is designed to represent. One spell for each Hold. Those spells have active effects which fire OnMagicEffectStart events that change a global to a set of known values (1 through 8 I think; 1 = Falkreath, 2 = Whiterun, etc). Then I just look at the global to determine where I am.

I didn't (and don't) have the CK open so can't report exactly how it works, but no, I didn't state it quite right--it doesn't use geographic proximity to a hold's center marker, rather it uses the hierarchy of locations. It isn't going to be wrong just because you're closer to the center of another hold than the hold you're actually in.