Oblivion:Selena Orania

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Selena Orania (RefID: 00003461)
Home City	Bruma
Location	Bruma Mages Guild
Race	Imperial	Gender	Female
Level	10	Class	Alchemist
RefID	00003461	BaseID	0002D020
Services
Available	Randomly between 8am and 1am
Merchant
Gold	800	Mercantile	Apprentice (40)
Sells	Alchemy supplies
Buys	Ingredients Potions Apparatus Misc. Items
Spells
Other Information
Health	73	Magicka	180
Respons.	100	Aggress.	5
Faction(s)	Bruma Citizens; Mages Guild (JourneymanJourneyman )

Selena in the Bruma Mages Guild Hall

Selena Orania, an Imperial alchemist, is a Journeyman of the Mages Guild who sells alchemical supplies and spells at the Bruma Guild Hall.

Between 8am and 6pm, she has a 50% chance each of either reading a book from the guild library or mixing up potions with her Mortar & Pestle; every two hours she will get bored and consider switching activities. At 6pm she will stop to eat dinner in the basement dining room for two hours. At 8pm she will again have a 50% chance each of either studying Alchemy by reading the common text Fundaments of Alchemy or wandering around aimlessly, and will perform her chosen action in a room in the Guild basement for five hours. At 1am she calls it a day and sleeps for seven hours. Like most of the Bruma chapter, she is killed when the hall is attacked during the A Plot Revealed quest.

When approached for the first time, she will introduce herself: "My name is Selena Orania. I'm a Mages Guild Journeyman." Like fellow guild member Volanaro, she would rather live somewhere else: "Well, sometimes I feel we're not welcome here. The Nords don't like Heartlanders very much." Before you join the guild, she will have a piece of advice for you: "Volanaro has a twisted sense of humor, but he also has a few nice spells up his sleeve. If you want to summon a Bound sword, talk to him." She's also not too fond of his and J'skar's constant pranks on their self-centered leader, Jeanne Frasoric: "Look. I like you and all, but I really don't want to get in the middle of this. If Volanaro and J'skar want to have their fun, fine. I'm not going to participate, and I'm not saying another word about it. Take it up with them."

She has 800 gold and a Mercantile skill of 40. She will buy ingredients, potions, alchemical apparatus and miscellaneous items from you whilst selling only alchemical supplies. She will offer her bartering and spell-selling services when not eating, sleeping or studying Alchemy. Make sure to buy any spells that you want before she dies, particularly the Fortify Health spell, which is the only non-Expert level spell with that effect.

She wears upper-class attire consisting of a Blue Velvet Outfit and a pair of Blue Suede Shoes. She also carries her book, her Mortar & Pestle, an empty Grand soul gem, a Mages Guild Key and a sizable amount of gold. She doesn't carry any weapons, relying instead on a series of medium-level spells from all of the magical schools; these are also the same spells that she will sell you.

She owns two chests: her merchant chest and another Mages Guild chest. Both are locked and inaccessible, since they are found underneath the ground floor of the Guild building. She also owns all of the items found inside her room on the ground floor. These include two copies of the standard text Fundaments of Alchemy, two empty soul gems, almost three complete sets (one misses a Calcinator) of Novice-level apparatus, three scrolls (two Light and one Frost Damage), three potions (two Restore Health and one Restore Intelligence) and the Minotaur Horn found in the main hall.

[edit] Notes

• She is among the few NPCs in the game to be marked for a Scripted Death but not to be flagged as essential. Thus it is possible for her to effectively "die twice".

[edit] Related Quests

• Seeking Your Roots: After discovering a peculiar plant called Nirnroot, you decide to investigate it further.

[edit] Spells

She sells the following spells:

* Indicates spells which cannot be purchased from anyone else. (However, spells with the same effects at different magnitudes can be purchased elsewhere.)

[edit] Purchased Spell Notes

• The magicka cost for most purchasable spells matches the value you would calculate from the Spell Cost equation. In other words, if you were to create the same spell at the Spellmaking Altar, it would have the same magicka cost as the purchasable spell. There are a few exceptions. Spells that are a bad deal, i.e. more expensive than a custom spell, are in red; spells that are a good deal are in green. The magicka cost if you were to create a custom spell at the Spellmaking Altar is shown in parentheses.
• The magicka cost for spells is dependent upon your skill in the school (as modified by Luck, see Magic Overview). The provided baseline values are the magicka cost when your skill level is 33. For other skill levels the magicka cost can be determined from:

Cost * (1.4 - 0.012 * Skill)

• More powerful spells cost more to buy, have a higher skill requirement, and consume more Magicka.
• Level indicates what skill level you must reach (or surpass) in order to use a spell. Skill Level 0-24 = Novice, 25-49 = Apprentice, 50-74 = Journeyman, 75-99 = Expert, 100 = Master.
• The base cost in gold that you must pay to purchase a spell is always three times the current magicka cost of the spell, taking into account your character's skill level and Luck. (The actual cost you pay is further increased based on how well you haggle with the merchant). Therefore, if you have any Fortify Skill or Fortify Luck spells/potions handy, you can get significantly better deals when purchasing spells.