Glass & enchanted weapons / armor in Border Watch Description: There is a city called Border Watch, northwest of Leyawiin. Everyone there has nice Glass weapons, some of which are enchanted. You cannot steal them while they are sleeping, but can steal their armor (mithril). Go to the Sheregoth Shrine to do a quest. The Daedric will ask you to fulfill a prophesy. Do the quest, which includes 3 tasks. After this, go to one of the people's houses. You should be about level 15. Have a good sword ready, then go into Sneak mode and hit the person with a Sneak Attack x6. Do not stop and they will appear dazed. Once they are dead you can get their items, which are worth a lot of gold. Do this repeatedly to any house desired. Do not do it to the Shaman unless you are at a higher level. Some houses have 2 people inside. You can sometimes kill one person without the other waking up, then kill the other person.
Berserk skulls Description: When you must make your way through a series of caves at the beginning of the game, there will be some ropes hanging from the ceiling with 4 skulls attached to them toward the end of those caves (just before you get outside). Shoot the far top and far right skull with your bow. This should make that line of skulls go berserk.
Main quest glitch Description: This trick requires 10 to 15 paintbrushes, which can be found anywhere in the game, particularly in boxes, shelves, etc. You can use this glitch even if you have not started the main quest yet.
How to: Once you get the paintbrushes, go in front of the Temple Of The One in the Imperial City Temple District. Climb your way to the top using the "Floating paintbrushes" trick. Once you are close to the top, jump on the roof. You will go through, landing inside The Temple Of The One. You can see everybody else but they cannot see you. Walk close to where the door would be if you were inside it normally. You will see the top half of the same door you are in front of. Select it to enter the real interior of The Temple Of The One. Notice the hole in the ceiling where the light comes down. You will see a red sky. Walk outside and and 2 Oblivion Gates will be opened. Your quest will be updated, stating that Dagon is here and that you should chat to Martin. Go inside both of the Oblivion Gates and get the Sigil Stones. Later you will end up crossing over Dagon. Kill him then chat to Martin in the Cloud Ruler temple.
Easy gold A quick way to get gold without stealing or fighting for it is to join a guild. When you join a guild you will have access to a number of guild halls all over Tamriel. You can pick up nearly any item in the various guilds without making it a crime, and without labeling your items as stolen. By doing this you can just loot the guild halls and sell them to the closest merchant for an easy profit.
Defeat Caminalda on the Anvil Recommendation quest for the mages guild, then search her body for gold and her room key for the inn. Use her room key on the upper door in the inn. You will find a treasure chest in the back of the room. Open the unlocked chest to get all the gold inside.
Stealing 101 Description: Get the Gray Fox's mask and put it on. Steal something and wait for the guards to tell you, "So you are the Gray Fox. I'm going to get you". Select "Resist Arrest". Now, go to your inventory and take off the mask. Exit the menu, then yield to the guard by holding Block and pressing A to chat to him at the same time. He should walk away. You will not have a bounty, and you will still have the stolen item.
Cure for vampiricy How to: You must 1st have acceess to Arcane University. Go in and chat to the mage and he will tell you to chat to a man in Skingrad. Do as he says and run errands for whoever you need to chat to. Eventually you will be allowed to get rid of your vampiricy.
Stuck in jail forever *** Save your game before attempting this glitch. Do something bad so that the guards will go after you. When they catch you, chose go to jail. While in jail, stand next to the cell door while in Sneak/Crouch mode. The guard should walk by after a few minutes. When he does, press A to pickpocket him. Keep stealing from him until he catches you. This time the guard will not ask you to go to jail, pay the fine, etc., he will just try to kill you. The guard however cannot open the cell door. He will just keep running toward you, but cannot do anything. You cannot hurt him because you cannot punch through the cell door. If you go to your bed and select "Sleep your sentence", it will say that you cannot because enemies are nearby. You are now stuck in jail forever, or until you load another game.
Infinite health Use the "Duplicate items" trick on a potion of strong health. Repeat the duplication to get the desired amount of potions. Open the inventory screen and go to the strong potion of health. Hold Y and quick link it to one of the Analog-stick directions. When you are low on health, just tap the hotkey direction to use a potion. When running low on health potions, repeat the duplication process.
Easy magic skills How to: Complete all the Mage Guild Recommendation Quests to gain access to Arcane University. Now, buy the cheapest spell you can find for each of the magic based skills (Illusion, Conjuration, Alteration, Mysticism, Restoration, and Destruction). For Destruction, a Drain Spell is recommended. Go to where you make your own spells and select a spell. Make it so you only use up 1 Magicka and the spell is on "Self". Name the spell and create it. Do this with all the other types of magic based skills then make them all on "Self", including Destruction. If you used a Drain spell, when you use it on yourself it may appear you took damage but you do not, because you drain it from yourself to yourself. Cast the spells all the time when you are walking around or whenever possible. Your skills will increase quickly without having to wait between spellcastings. *** This trick will only work if the spells are cast on "Self". Spells do not count towards experience unless they have an effect on something.
Easy Lockpicks & Sneak level How to: When you are at Imperial Water Front Garden to join the Thieves Guild, you can steal lockpicks from Armand Christope. After you steal all his lockpicks, if you go to diologue and buy lockpicks that he does not have they will still appear in your inventory. Now, go into Sneak mode and steal back your money.
*** Repeat as many times as desired for free lockpicks and to increase your Sneak level.
Benefits & Weaknesses of being a vampire Description: Vampires get a boost in many of their stats & abilities. however these increase may not be the standard for vampires how you think it should be. The increase in abilities of a vampire is not determined by how much they sleep but by how much they go without feeding. Each day a vampire goes without feeding, he will get 5 point increase to his vampire stats and skills. To receive these increases the vampire must sleep or wait. The game will notify you of these stat chages. If the vampire is well fed, light will not harm him, but he will have 25% weakness to fire. After the 1st stat boost (which boosts vampire stats from 5 to 10), he will loose this weakness to fire. By looking under the magic tab, then the last of the five tabs in the magic section, one can see all the current effects on his character. The 1st thing is a "vampire meter" that has a percentage of how much one is a vampire (25% increments, beginning at 25% going up to 100 in 4 stages). Depending on how high that percentage is, the sun will do more or less damage to you, from Sun Damage 1 all the way to 8. Furthermore, the time of the day is also important for sun damage. At dusk and dawn the damage dealt is very small, even to a 100% vampire. However, noon is a very dangerous time for a full vampire as he will have just enough time to run from one house on one side of the street to the other (depending on how much life he has). The stats that being a vampire increases are: Vampire Stats, Strength, Speed, Willpower, Sneak, Mysticism, Illusion, Hand to Hand, Destruction, Athletics, Acrobatics, and Resist Normal Weapons. Depending on which stage of the vampire you are in, you will get from 5 to 20 points in each of these stats (25% vampire = 5 points; 25% vampire = base vampire, fully fed). Other special stats or skills get added depending on the vampire level. Vampire Skills that are always present are: Hunter's Sight (Nighteye and Detect Life), Resist Disease 100%, and Resist Paralysis 100%.
Vampire 25% Weakness to Fire: 20 +5 to all of the vampire stats
Vampire 50% Vampiric Seduction (charm on touch) +10 to all of the vampire stats
Vampire 75% Reign of Terror (fear) +15 to all of the vampire stats
Vampire 100% Embrace of Shadows (Invisibility + Night Eye) +20 to all of the vampire stats *** Most people & merchants will not chat to you in this form.
At base level you get +5 to Strength, Willpower, Speed, Acrobatics, Athletics, Destruction, Hand 2 Hand, Illusion, Mysticism, and Sneak. You also get a resistance to disease and paralysis, and a small resistance to normal weapons. For every day you go without feeding (up to a maximum of 4 days), your boosted skills will go up by an additional 5, as will your resistance to normal weapons. You also get a spell for each of the 4 days; on day one Hunter's Sight (Night Eye/Detect life), on day 2 Vampire's Seduction (Charm), on day 3 Reign of Terror (silence/demoralise area), and finally on day 4 Embrace of the Shadows (180 seconds Invisibliity, 90 seconds Night Eye). The weaknesses are, on day one (within 24 hours of last feeding) weakness to fire, you are safe from the sun; on day 2 (48 hours from last feeding), burn in sunlight; on day 3 (72 hours from last feeding), increased damage from sun; and on day 4 (over 96 hours from last feeding), everyone will recognize you as a vampire and most will not interact with you and there will be another increase in sun damage. This is a pretty cool feature of the game but end the end it is not really worth it and you best to have a saved game to go back to once you check it out.
Becoming a Vampire Description: Save the game before you become a Vampire so you can go back if you want easy. We do not think the benefits of being a vampire outweigh the cons of being a vampire.
*** You should be a member of the Mages Guild before becoming a vampire and have access to the Arcane University, and either a member of the Dark Brotherhood or started the Order of Virtuous Blood quest.
Dark Brotherhood Story Become a member of the Dark Brotherhood by killing an innocent person, going to sleep in an inn, traveling to the Inn of Ill Omen, and killing Rufio. Travel to the Sanctuary and chat to Vicente and finish all of his contracts. He will then ask if you wish to become a vampire. Say "Yes", then sleep on the slab. When you wake up, sleep again for twenty 4 hours 3 times. You are now a vampire. Good hunting!
Order Of Virtuous Blood Story It is not required to begin the quest, but if you do, the vampires will be easier to kill. If you have not, travel along the river just to the east of Imperial City until you find a cave. Go in and you should find lots of vampires. Attack one and let it hit you a few times. Kill it, then go back to Imperial City. Get a room in an inn and sleep for 24 hours 3 times. You are now a vampire, blood sucker! Watch out for the SUN!
Cure for Vampiricy *** You must 1st have access to Arcane University.
How to: Go in and chat to the mage & he will tell you to chat to a man in Skingrad. Do as he says and run errands for whoever you need to do. Eventually you will be allowed to get rid of your vampiricy. It takes a while but you can do it. Best if you just go back to the saved gave if you have one.
Easy Acrobatics skill How to: While moving around on foot, just keep jumping instead of walking to your desired location to easily increase your Acrobatics skill.
Unicorn The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Description: The Unicorn can be found northeast of Inn Of III Omen and east of Mingo Cave at a place called Harcane's Grove. It is protected by 4 Minotaurs. The easiest way to reach this area is to move west/southwest from Fort Variela, which is on the coast of the upper Niben River. By doing this, you will see the Unicorn before the Minotaurs see you. *** If you do encounter the Minotaurs, do not start fighting them close to the Unicorn or the Unicorn will join with them against you, and you will not be able to mount it. Just run up to the Unicorn, mount it, and run away. The Unicorn is both fast and immune to regular weapons. *** The Unicorn cannot be tamed or captured. Once you find it in the Harcane Grove, you can ride it. However, once you ride a distance from the grove and you get off the horse, it will start walking away and return to the Harcane Grove. It does not matter if you approach it without a weapon or kill the minotaurs guarding it.
Easy Ebony & Umbra Sword How to: Go to the Arena & get a few claymores. Now, go directly south of the Imperial Waterfront to a place called the Old Bridge. Move west and follow the road until you reach a ruin that starts with a "V". Go inside and get past the minor creatures. You will find a girl named Umbra. There is one broken pillar in the room. Use the bench next to it to jump on top of it, then stand at the edge. Use a ranged attack to have her start attacking you. Now, take out the claymore and just start hitting her. She has a lot of health and does a lot of damage - do not fall off the pillar. If done correctly, you will have full Ebony and a great sword without getting touched. Try it!
Easy lock picking *The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion* How to: When picking a lock, do the very 1st spring manually. Once it is in place, as you press the Analog-stick to go to the next spring, press X a split 2nd afterwards. The arrow should be in between the 1st and 2nd springs as you press X. If done correctly, the lock should open on the very 1st try.
Easy items Description: Enter any store, but do not break in. Find a location where it is dark enough so that when you crouch down, the eye becomes transparent. Now, find items laying around the store (weapons and armor shop) and punch them into the dark corner. Crouch down and pick it up undetected. This is useful for advancing in the Theives Guild.
If you try and kill important people (for example, counts and leaders of guilds), instead of dying they will become unconscious. There is a way to use this to your advantage. Find sum1 important in the game and try to kill that person in one shot (a power attack with a sword is recommended). When they fall unconscious, immediately go into Sneak mode and keep pressing A while aiming at them to try to steal from them. Eventually it will work. *** Press A as fast as possible because if you do it while they are getting up you can get caught. You will have no bounty on your head and no one disliking you any more than they did before.
Easy kills in The Purification quest How to: While doing the "The Purification" quest for the Dark Brotherhood, use the following trick to easily kill some of the members in the santuary such as Ocheeva and Vincent. First, get your Disposition with them as high as possible, then sneak attack them with a dagger. Before they have a time to retaliate, propose a yeild. You can attack and yeild repetedly until they are killed.
Get behind Arena gate How to: Go into 3rd person view in the Arena. Go left when the gate drops and jump on the ledge where the other locked gate is. While pointing toward the gap, look left and right a few times to wiggle through the gap to get behind the gate. You cannot get hit and can just conjure skeletons to do all the work. Do the same thing to get out.
Secret treasure Location: Buy the house in Skingrad, then go to the top floor and look for the room with the deer mantle. Jump on top of the mantle, then jump again onto the loft design in the back corner. You will find an old note that has a riddle on it which leads to a treasure.
Bonuses from quest items retained Description: There is a quest in the Mage Guild that requires you to enter a Mage's dream name "Through A Nightmare, Darkly" for Henantier. As soon as you enter, the text states that you lost all your items but will keep your skill levels. However, if you have a quest item such as the Ring Of The Vipereye or Boots Of Springheel Jack, you will keep the bonuses, even after you get out of the dream and get your items back. The items will not be equipped but the skill bonus will still be there. You cannot re-equip the items, but you can equip other rings or boots and get their bonuses as well.
Good armor At the beginning of the game after the King's convoy is attacked, quickly take the dead guard's katana and armor. This will make defeating the rats and trolls much easier.
Sneak skill 101 -The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion How to: An great way to increase your Sneak skill is to find sum1 who is sleeping. Find a wall that they are near, then run against the wall while sneaking. As long as no one can see you, your skill will increase until the person wakes. If this happens, wait until night and allow them go back to sleep.
When you have the option to join the Thieves Guild by meeting Armand Christope at the Imperial Water Front garden around 11 p.m., accept his task. He will offer you the option to buy lockpicks, but do not buy any. Go into Sneak mode and get behind him. Not only will you get the lockpicks from him, you can also repeatedly pickpocket him to build up your Sneak skill. He will just tell you to go ahead, and that he does not need it anyway.
After Emperor Uriel Septim gets killed (during the opening mission), leave the Emperor's body with one of his guards, Baurus. Walk down the newly opened passage, then turn around. You should still be able to see Emperor Septim's body and part of Baurus. Walk to the nearest corner (to your left), go into Sneak mode, then walk forward to quickly increase your Sneak level. If you have a wired controller, you can keep the Analog-stick held Forward and allow the game to idle. Check back about every fifteen minutes, as the game will pause as you reach Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert, or Master classifications. If done correctly, you should be at 100 Sneak within ninety minutes.
Join the Dark Brotherhood. When you receive your 1st quest to kill Rufio, enter his room and go into Sneak mode. Rufio sleeps for 20 hours a day. Walk around in his room, or use a rubber band to hold the Analog-stick so that you are running directly into the wall, to gain very easy Sneak levels.
Complete the Fighting Arena in the Imperial City and become Grand Champion. Once you collect all your money from the Bloodworks person, go outside. There will be a kid that runs up to you and says that he is your biggest fan and ask if he can follow you around. Select "Yes you may follow me around" and he will go wherever you go. Go to any place that is away from guards and people. Go into Sneak mode and select "Pickpocket" on the kid. You will be brought into his inventory. Press B to exit out of his inventory. Do not steal anything. Repeat this by pressing A to pick pocket and B to exit. You will gain Sneak experience very quickly. He does not care if you pickpocket him because he is your "biggest fan".
While in jail, go into Sneak mode. Move around for awhile to increase your sneak level.
Imperial Arena attacking spot Description: Get a bow or some decent spells. Make sure you have at least 30 in Acrobatics. Immediately after the gate drops, run to your right, to where the right gate meets the fence. Jump onto the stone piece that juts out, then jump again to get on top of the little piece sticking out above it. Once on top, turn and fire on your helpless victims. When you have to fight mages or archers, stay on the ground and strafe behind the 4 central pillars for easy kills.
Once you are a Champion in the Arena, chat to the Grand Champion about his nobility and how he needs proof of his nobility. He will send you on a quest to Crowhaven and gives you a key. Travel system to get to Anvil. You will then need to travel NW to get to the Crowhaven ruin. Beware of the skeleton archer and skeleton guardian. The archer is easy, but the guardian is not. Just block and strike and you will eventually kill the guardian. Once you get inside the ruin, watch out for wolves. There will be one to the right as you enter. Just follow the path through the ruin, killing the wolves and skeleton archers. When you get to the gate that needs a key, use the key the Grand Champ gave you to unlock it. Walk through the gate and the only monster will be a half naked man with an Elven dagger. Take your time and block and strike twice. Do not underestimate the little dagger. Once he is dead, find the journal and your quest will be updated. When you go out of the gate that you unlocked with the key, there is a door down to your left. Beware, as there are 3 vampires and one wolf. The vampires will give you a disease. There is not anything special down here, and is an optional area. Exit the ruin and fast travel back to the Arena. Chat to the Grand Championand he will become extremely depressed and not want to live. Challenge him in the arena. Chat to Ysabela about the challenge. Go up to the Arena. Once the gates drop he will charge at you. However, he will not attack you. He will tell you to kill him to put him out of his misery. Hack away at him. Once he dies you will get an Elven longsword and Dwarven shield (heavy). Bring back his Raiment Of Valor to get your own.
Infinite Arrows Glitch Go to the Bloodworks in the arena and find the gladiator that is practicing with his bow on a target. Stand close by him and when there are five to 10 arrows in the target, take them before he does. He will just continue shooting when you move out of the way. This is an unlimited source of iron arrows, which can be sold to almost any merchant and therefore also makes an unlimited source of gold.
Go outside of the Inn Of Ill Omen where the man is practicing his archery. He is using steel arrows. Go in front of him and pick up the arrows. He will not hit you and just wait until you move out of his way. You will not get into trouble with the guards. Repeat this as many times as desired.
Go to Bazur gro-Gharz's house in Cheydinhal. He sleeps about 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. Kill him while he is sleeping, then check his body. To get unlimited arrows you must take the arrows first, then keep taking them in quantities of twenty. The game should glitch and you will get as many arrows as desired.
Easy Athletics skill Get an enchanted amulet, ring, or other item you can enchant with Water Breathing. Make sure it is a constant effect. Equip the item with Water Breathing, then jump in some water. Swim to the bottom, then hold the Analog-stick Up (or use a rubber band to hold the Analog-stick Up) to keep swimming into the floor. Your Athletics skill will greatly increase in just five minutes.
Different weapons in Taking Care Of Lex quest Description: While performing Taking Care Of Lex quest for the Thieves Guild, you must scald the paper with Lex's seal. Just beside the desk where the seal is, you will see a chest. 1) If you come in the door directly behind the chest, you will get an Elven longsword, Glass longsword, Orcish helmet, and a Mythril sheild. 2) If you come in from the door upstairs, you will get an Elven longsword and Dwarven greaves. 3) If you come in the exact entrance, you will not be able to open the chest.
Nocternal's Cown *The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion* Description: Complete all quests in the Thieves Guild and the Gray Fox will give you the promotion of Guild Master, and the Nocternal's Cown. Nocternal's Cown will let you see living things as energy even through walls. *** When you equip Nocternal's Cown, you are the Gray Fox -- when guards see you they will try to arrest you. Nocternal's Cown also lets you carry more items and increases your Sneaking skill.
Glass weapons & armor in Rockmilk Cave It is recommended that you are at level 15 or higher before attempting this, as there will be better armor and weapons inside. Travel on the west road from Leyawiin and keep walking on the trail until you get to Waters Edge (a small town). From Waters Edge, walk northwest until you reach Rockmilk Cave. This cave is very close to Waters Edge. Go inside and follow the trails. You will encounter some thieves inside the cave. If they do not notice you they will fight each other. You can let them fight or join in. They are not difficult to defeat if you are leveled up. Go through the cave and you will find at least fifteen people inside. Each of them has their own set of Glass, Orcish, Daedric, or Elven armor and weapons. You can fill up with items and sell them for a good profit.
Unnamed sword Description: Use the Duplicate items trick on a paintbrush. After getting at least twenty paint brushes, go outside of A Fighting Chance in the Imperial City Market District at midnight. Drop a paintbrush. Notice that it will float. Get on top of the brush and repeat the process to form a set of stairs. Once you get high enough to reach the top of the A Fighting Chance store, get on top of the building and look for a chest that is locked. The lockpick level is very difficult. Lockpick it and look inside to find an odd sword without a name. The sword has no attack, breaks easily, and cannot be sold.
Getting desired Sigil Stones While in Sigillum Sanguis (the Sigil Keep at the top of an Oblivion Citadel), save the game while standing in front of the Sigil Stone, before grabbing it. If you do not get the desired effects from the stone, load from the point before you grabbed it and try again. The Sigil Stone you get is chosen at random upon removing it.
Duplicate items (The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion) How to: Equip a bow and any set of arrows, then draw your bow back. While it is drawn back, press B to go to the inventory screen. Select the arrows that you are using, then go to the item to be duplicated. Press X to drop the item, then leave the equipment screen and resume the game. The item that you dropped will be duplicated. You can pick up all the duplicates and use or sell them. The amount of copies of an item you make depends on how many arrows you have equipped. For example, 10 arrows allows 10 copies. This works with most, but not all, items and weapons. *** Do not try to duplicate more than 250 copies of an item or the game may freeze.
Good weapon Description: Fill a Black Soul Gem with a Human Soul. Take a weapon that is not already enchanted and give it fire, frost, or shock damage. Now, give a weakness to whatever damage you just gave it. When you swing it the 1st time, it will do the fire, frost, or shock damage, then give a weakness to it. The 2nd swing will do a lot more damage.
Easy Alteration skill How to: To get quickly increase your Alteration skill, make sure you have these spells: Open Average Lock, Open Easy Lock, and Open Very Easy Lock. Now, find a chest that you would normaly need a key or have to lockpick. Use the opposite spell of the chest. For example, if the chest requires the easy spell, use the very easy spell on it. Make sure you have some Magicka potions or you can just wait an hour every time you exhaust your Magicka supply. In a short period of time you will have leveled your Alteration skill dramaticaly.
Floating paintbrushes Description: There are paintbrushes stored in random containers at various locations. If you take one out and drop it, it will not fall. It will just float in the location you were looking at when you dropped it. You can drop them in sets of 2 or more and use them as steps to reach high places. You can also use them as barriers between you and enemies.
Cannot fast travel anywhere *** This glitch requires that you are a part of the Thieves Guild. This glitch will be easier to undo if you save your game beforehand so that it can be reloaded. Do something to where a guard will chase you. When he confronts you, select "Resist Arrest". Run to any person in the Thieves Guild that can take your bounty away. Once you get to that person, make sure that the guards are still by you and are chasing you. Before the guards can get to you, chat to that thief and select the "Take Off My Bounty" option. After he takes it off, the guards will still be chasing you. Go up to a guard, hold Block, and select "Talk" to say that you surrender. This is in the game because if you hurt a friend and he starts hitting you, it allows you to tell the friend that you are sorry and he will stop. The guard will stop hitting you. Go to your map and try to fast travel anywhere. The game will say you cannot because guards are chasing you.
Knock man off roof (The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion) How to: Go to Anvil light house; it can be fast traveled. A man named Ulfgar Fog-Eye should be waiting at the top. If he is not there, wait a few hours. You can knock him unconscious off the roof over the Iron Gate surrounding the area. He will only fight you the 1st time you attack him and knock him unconscious. After that, he will let you beat him unconscious. During the 1st fight he will run away when he is near unconsciousness. However after you defeat him, he will not try to escape again. He is pretty easy to defeat in the 1st fight and is good training because he does not fight back after he is 1st knocked unconscious. This may require a few attempts, but try to get him close to the gate just before the finishing blow, where he is knocked a few feet back. He will not call the guards unless during the 1st fight, when he attempts to retreat, you allow him go outside the lighthouse.
Enemy and item levels All enemies outside the cities and some inside will level as you level. For example, if you are at level 10 and are fighting Boars outside the city, when you reach level 15 you will be fighting a Troll. The same goes for missions such as the Forlorn Watchman. If you do the quest at level 10, you will fight Ghosts on the ship. If you do it at level 20, you will fight Wraiths. Do not waste time trying to level up just to beat one opponent in a quest because they could be set to always be 3 levels above you. This same style of progression also works with armor and weapons:
Armor
Fur/Iron
Level 1
Leather/Steel
Level 13
Chain/Dwarven
Level 16
Mithril/Orchish
Level 110
Elven/Ebony
Level 115
Glass/Daedric
Level 120
Weapons
Iron
Level 11
Steel
Level 12
Silver
Level 14
Dwarven
Level 16
Elven
Level 19
Glass
Level 112
Ebony
Level 116
Daedric
Level 120
*** The armor and weapons usually do not appear at traders until you are 2 levels above them, sometimes longer. Also, any "secret" weapons such as the Umbra and the NPCs with them or wearing the "secret" armor are level locked. They will not get any more difficult because usually their levels are already about 22 to 30. However, as you become better with a blade (in the Umbra's case), the better the attack will be.
Making stolen items authentic How to: When you steal items, most of the merchants will not buy them. Use the following trick to authenticate them. Get in the jail and escape. Take your items authenticated or pay for your days in jail and you will have the items authenticated again.
Keeping quest items after theft How to: If you steal a quest item, for example the Ahdarji's Heirloom (a ring of a countess), and get caught, you will lose all the stolen items except for the quest item because quest items cannot be taken out of your inventory except to further the quest.
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Q: I'm on the Lex quest where I need to meet the master forger, I'm
at his house but he's not, the locater arrow is green what's the trick for this one?
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