Oblivion:Roleplaying/Archaeologist

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Learn all you can about the Ayleid, and collect artifacts.

Explore every ruin you can find and try to learn the ruin's “real” story.
Remember, Umbacano in the Imperial City is now your competitor. Of course that doesn't mean you can't use him as a gullible source of information.
Search for all the Ayleid Wells you can find and try to find clues as to how they still work even after all these years.
Gather all reading material that makes reference to the Ayleids.
Make sure to keep a trusty weapon (enchanted or silver shortsword preferably) next to you, just in case you meet an angry skeleton or ghost!
Wear a plaid shirt (in the Fighter's Guild dining area in Anvil or in Cloud Ruler Temple), green felt linens, and leather boots. Now you look like an archaeologist!
Make sure to keep an Ayleid book with a reference book with you ex,(Magic From the Sky) when exploring to look up information on Welkynd Stones and Varla Stones.
Buy a house (it should not be any better than the Bruma house; this means no Cheydinhal, Chorrol, or Skingrad). Put any Ayleid artifacts on a table along with Ayleid reference material, inkwell, parchment (or a Black Horse Courier copy to look like you wrote a lot) and quill, and take notes on it. Make that your study hovel. If you have the Bruma House or Benirus Manor, dedicate the kitchen or the secret basement respectively to your Ayleid studies. If you want to get morbid with it, pretend the corpse in Benirus Manor is an ancient Ayleid king and the skeletons' are his servants and study them.
Be Irlav Jarol's apprentice if you're in the Mages Guild! Take part in the Vahtacen's Secret quest.
Do the quests for Umbacano, and pretend he is your benefactor, much as Carnarvon was for Howard Carter.
Gather all of your followers, and when on an expedition, tell them to wait in the cleared out dungeon. When you find something interesting, 'drag' it to your closest teammate and pretend you are examining it with them, or alternatively tell them to follow you to the place.
Put 'artifacts' (Ayleid equipment, loot, and bones) on a study area in your house and pretend to research them. Put a related book next to it, if you want.
(PC Only) Download or create a small mod that adds physics to paintbrushes. Then, 'drag' the paintbrush over the artifacts to pretend you are getting the dust and dirt off of it.
Do the quest Lifting the Vale for the countess of Bruma, and after it is done, steal (without getting seen!) the Draconian Madstone and pretend the countess wants you to study it further. Also get the Circlet of Omnipotence.
Don't limit yourself to Ayleid ruins and Pale Pass. Here are some other good places:

Goblin Caves (study the tribe and their culture)

Imperial City Sewers (Pretend it is the 'underworld' of the Imperial City (After all, every other Ayleid place is underground, why not the grandest?))

Cloud Ruler Temple (Pretend asking them about the people from Akavir and about the temple)

Rune/Doomstones and Ayleid Wells (see below)

Pretend you are sending letters to the Council of Mages, to ask them to ban the use of Ayleid items so that more research can be done (After all, they don't even know how to restore power to Welkynd or Varla stones)
At least do the Blood of the Divines and Miscarcand quests for Martin.
Tell your team to wait at a rune/doom stone or an Ayleid Well, and pretend that they and you are taking notes of its features (don't forget to bring the book Magic From the Sky!)
Take the stone bricks from Vilverin to your house and study the way it was made.
Go on treasure hunts! Take a powerful artifact (or enchant your own) and hide it in some long dungeon (Miscarcand, Garlas Malatar etc.) Use invisibility or a good sneak if you want to have your foes alive. Maybe even pretend it's some demonic artifact and hide it as a good guy, then return as an evil person and try to get it back. Start somewhere and pretend to learn about the artifact, ask people about it, and follow a trail of hints to the dungeon. Then fight your way through to your prize. Maybe even hide multiple items and pretend that when you acquire all of them you will be invincible!
(PC Only) Download The Lost Spires mod, it adds an archaeologist guild. [1]