[ripe]

By modified the Xterm part of your .Xdefaults on what you wrote + by modified the nord theme, I mixed something near what it may be expect for the nord theme as far as I can do:


As I do not understand all the code, use at your own risks, "In general you shouldn't compile programs you don't understand anyway." (Allegro Vivace).
Code of .Xdefaults

! From:
! Copyright (c) 2016-present Arctic Ice Studio <development@arcticicestudio.com>
! Copyright (c) 2016-present Sven Greb <code@svengreb.de>

! Project:    Nord XResources
! Version:    0.1.0
! Repository: https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-xresources
! License:    MIT

! From:
! shep made the original .Xdefaults, refer to the original.
! ripe modified code of shep and nord theme

XTerm*foreground:   #D8DEE9
XTerm*background:   #2E3440

XTerm*scrollBar: true
XTerm*rightScrollBar: true
XTerm*multiScroll: on
XTerm*jumpScroll: on
XTerm*locale: true
XTerm*faceName: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
XTerm*faceSize: 10
XTerm*eightBitInput: true
XTerm*pointerShape: left_ptr
XTerm*showBlinkAsBold: true
XTerm*colorBDMode: true
XTerm*ActiveIcon: true
XTerm*scrollbar.foreground: #4C566A
XTerm*scrollbar.background: #E5E9F0
XTerm*scrollbar.thumb: black
XTerm*VT100.scrollbar.translations:  #override \n\
        <Btn5Down>:     StartScroll(Forward) \n\
        <Btn1Down>:     StartScroll(Continuous) MoveThumb() NotifyThumb() \n\
        <Btn4Down>:     StartScroll(Backward) \n\
        <Btn1Motion>:   MoveThumb() NotifyThumb() \n\
        <BtnUp>:        NotifyScroll(Proportional) EndScroll()
XTerm*VT100.color1: #BF616A

XTerm*cursorColor:  #D8DEE9
XTerm*fading: 35
XTerm*fadeColor: #4C566A

XTerm*color0: #3B4252
XTerm*color1: #BF616A
XTerm*color2: #A3BE8C
XTerm*color3: #EBCB8B
XTerm*color4: #81A1C1
XTerm*color5: #BF616A
XTerm*color6: #88C0D0
XTerm*color7: #E5E9F0
XTerm*color8: #4C566A
XTerm*color9: #BF616A
XTerm*color10: #A3BE8C
XTerm*color11: #EBCB8B
XTerm*color12: #81A1C1
XTerm*color13: #BF616A
XTerm*color14: #8FBCBB
XTerm*color15: #ECEFF4

For using the nord theme for vim, refer the "Dracula theme for Vim". Download the nord-vim theme and do the same as Dracula. More information here.