Oblivion:Roleplaying/Collector

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Contents 1 Possible Activities 2 Variations 2.1 Ayleid Collector 2.2 Librarian 2.3 Wine Collector 2.4 Pack Rat 3 Possible Role Models

Collectors are characters whose primary motivation is to collect as many items as possible. In general, this concept applies to any race or gender.

• Decide whether you want to specialize in certain types of items (e.g., books, Ayleid items, artifacts, etc.) or whether you want to collect everything, including clutter.
• Collectible items include:
  • Varla Stones
  • Welkynd Stones
  • Soul Gems
  • Ayleid Statues
  • Jewels
  • Amulets and rings, especially if enchanted.
  • Daedric Artifacts
  • Items listed in Tamrielic Lore
  • Ingredients, including those from the Shivering Isles if you have the expansion

[edit] Possible Activities

• Explore every ruin looking for collectible items.
• Quests to complete include:
  • Umbacano's quests (choose whether he is a colleague, benefactor, or competition)
  • Vahtacen's Secret
  • Lifting the Vale (including The Forgotten Chests of Pale Pass)
  • Blood of the Divines and Miscarcand
• 100% Completion lists several accomplishments that a collector may wish to complete.
• Put your collectibles on display in your house.
• Do not use items that you collect, in order to keep them in mint condition.
  • Only Rosethorn Hall in Skingrad and Battlehorn Castle (from the Fighter's Stronghold official plug-in) contain display cases.
  • Put your most treasured items in the most prominent locations
  • See house-related roleplaying for general ideas on how to display items in your house.
• When you have Followers, bring them to your house and give them a tour of your collection.

[edit] Variations

[edit] Ayleid Collector

Be a collector of Ayleid artifacts (see also Archaeologist):

• Visit all of the Ayleid Ruins.
• Collect all of the items related to the Ayleids.
• Gather all books that make reference to the Ayleids.

[edit] Librarian

• Collect all books, including all volumes of multi-volume series and all rare books.
• Collect newspapers.
  • Finish all quests that cause a special newspaper edition to be printed and add it to your collection.
• Encourage reading by distributing books in places where the public hangs out (inns, pubs).
  • Take books out to small settlements away from large cities.
  • Collect books for the refugees from Kvatch.
• Start a book club in Seridur's basement, or other places where the residents are frequently reading books.
• Store rare books in a protected area to ensure they are not damaged or lost.

[edit] Wine Collector

• Collect all the rare varieties of wine.
  • If you have Shivering Isles, be sure to collect the new wines added by the expansion.
• Store wine in your house's wine cellar:
  • Benirus Manor and Battlehorn Castle have good wine cellars.
  • Rosethorn Hall has a basement and is located in the center of the wine industry.
• Complete the quest A Venerable Vintage.
• Make your own wines: combine Grapes with other alchemy ingredients and give your potion an appropriate name (see Alchemist).
• Befriend Tamika and the other winemakers in Skingrad.
  • Harvest the grapes from the vineyards as if you had a contract with the vineyard owners.
• Get the Battlehorn castle Vintner to make his special wines and add them to your collection.
• Activate the hidden gravestones in the Frostcrag spire Vault to obtain the Daedra Whiskey.

[edit] Pack Rat

• Collect everything and anything possible.
  • Goal To Achieve: Collect at least one of every item in the whole game.
• Recommended Race: Argonian, Khajiit, or Wood Elf.
• Recommended Clothes: Beggar type clothes. Nothing too fancy.
• Buy a house, either the Imperial City house,the sewers, or even live in a cave! Your items may disappear if you live in the cave though.
  • Throw all your junk in your house, dropping each item one by one to make your house look like a pit.
  • Organize your items if you wish. Much like Big-Head's house in The Shivering Isles.
• As a pack rat, you never throw anything away. Instead, keep everything in your house, cave, or sewer storage space.

[edit] Possible Role Models

• Herminia Cinna
• Umbacano
• Nerussa

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