Oblivion talk:Shadowmere

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Contents 1 Shadowmere's Gender 2 Greater soul? 3 A bit odd 4 Can Shadowmere drown? 5 Never Return to Fort Farragut? 6 Shadowmere Disappearing 7 Shadowmere and Detect Life

[edit] Shadowmere's Gender

Definitely female. Lucien's line when he presents her to you is "Waiting just outside is a magnificent steed named Shadowmere. She has served me well. I present her now to you, as a token of my trust and love." I thought I'd better mention this as the original post comment was rather equivocal. --Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 02:25, 4 December 2007 (EST)

[edit] Greater soul?

How can you trap Shadowmere's soul, I thought she was Essential. Is it useful to tell that she has a greater soul? - Korunox 18:16, 17 February 2008 (EST)

You generally can't trap Shadowmere's soul, at least not without using the Console, and although it may seem useless to put the soul level here, it's probably just standard protocol to put the soul level of a creature in that spot on the page.

[edit] A bit odd

After I recieved Shadowmere, I thought that I would find that I owned one horse. However, I do not. Shadowmere still seems to show up when I fast travel though. If I mount another horse will Shadowmere disappear as my horse? For example, I haven't touched the main qiest yet where you get the horse from the priory, and Shadowmere is clearly a superior horse so that paint horse. I don't want the prior's paint horse over Shadowmere. --Mole126^Talk

Shadowmere doesn't count towards your total of owned horses, which is a bit odd but it's just the way it goes. Fast travel always uses the last horse you rode, so yes - if you use the paint horse it'll switch to that one. If you don't want that to happen, don't ride the paint horse. –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 05:05, 5 March 2008 (EST)

[edit] Can Shadowmere drown?

If she's knocked out and slides into a river or lake, will she drown (never wake up)?

> (76.18.81.152 21:16, 13 August 2008 (EDT)) I accidentally knocked her off a cliff by the Boethia shrine, as I saw her fly away I got the message "Shadowmere is unconscious" and that was the last I saw of her. I fast-traveled, I went to Fort Farragut, I waited.... nothing. How long does it take until she reappears? Or can you actually kill her like the Adoring Fan and kick her off Dive Rock? (I'm on 360 btw, I cant use console commands, I have to load a prior save)

[edit] Never Return to Fort Farragut?

I armored Shadowmere and now she has disappeared and is not returning to Fort Farragut. Is she like deleted or still wandering around somewhere and I have to find her?

She wanders off - it's a known problem discussed here. If you're on the pc you may be able to find her using the console. Type player.moveto xx002116 if she's wearing Elven armor or player.moveto xx000ce6 for steel. Replace the xx as described here. –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 03:21, 12 March 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Shadowmere Disappearing

I am on a xbox 360 and have lost Shadowmere what can I do to find her? She did have the armor pack but I removed it from the system hoping that she would show back up at the fort. currently I am riding a horse from the Nine does this hinder my chance of getting shadowmere back? She has not returned yet. If anyone can help please let me know. ^{—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pfrogne (talk • contribs).}

I seem to be having the same problem, it happened once I got pretty far into the shivering Isles. I accidentally knocked shadowmere unconscious, and s/he fell underwater. I loaded a previous save, with no luck. Oh well though, I never used him/her anyway. ^{—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Doomination (talk • contribs).}

If you removed the horse armor after you armored Shadowmere, she's gone for good as the id that references Shadowmere (Armored) is only defined in the plugin. The other problem is nothing to do with the first. If she's underwater and you can't get her out, try fast travel. –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 10:23, 4 April 2008 (EDT)

Shadowmere doesn't dissappear for ever. She's at fort farragut or if she's not there she's probably in a stable outside the city. To verify this, if you cannot find her in fort farragut, just try travel to a cave or a ruin (fast travel). As soon as you reach there, look around you and you should see her. If you don't see her and she's not at fort farragut , then u might have a serious problem that needs patching.

Shadowmere has ran away several times for me. Usually she runs away only when she gets hurt, or you try to knock her out to store stuff in her. So every time you unmount her make sure she stops within few yards. If she keeps going, just mount her for 40secs to a minute and unmount and she will stay put. Only then leave her. Otherwise she gets so emotional as she's so attached to you. ;-)

[edit] Shadowmere and Detect Life

(moved from the article)

• At times, Shadowmere may not appear 'alive' as far as Life Detect goes. While this issue will fix itself at some point and doesn't seem to negatively affect anything else about the horse, it can be annoying when you've left her somewhere and want to find her again.

I moved this because it's more likely to be a one-off experience for a particular user. Of course, if other users have had the same problem it can go back on the article but until then it's better here. –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 13:22, 25 July 2008 (EDT)