Hey I played the Thieves Guild once before all the way through but that was a year ago and well now I am on PC so here I am trying it over again. Question is; I remember that when I was near the end of my last game play the Guild filled the empty spaces with all new shop owners and blacksmith, but everyone above ground in Riften was killed. Do all the above ground NPC's have to die in order to fill the space below in the Guilds rat ways?

Of course not. New people come to the guild as you complete special jobs, but it doesn't affect other NPCs in the city. How did they all die, dragon attack?

Wouldn't that be something? Probably the dragons as said. Or those darn vampires...

Since you're on the PC, you could just resurrect them anyways

Um . . .

No they don't.

Dragon or vampire attacks?

Or did you go on a mindless rampage in the city as a werewolf and forgot you killed everyone?

Or did you go on a huge murder spree of the city and forgot that you did it?

I HATE when that happens.