Oblivion:Alves Uvenim

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Alves Uvenim (RefID: 000314E5)
Home City	Leyawiin
Location	Leyawiin Mages Guild
Race	Dunmer	Gender	Female
Level	10	Class	Alchemist
RefID	000314E5	BaseID	0002D027
Services
Available	7am-8pm every day
Merchant
Gold	800	Mercantile	Apprentice (40)
Buys	Ingredients Potions Apparatus Misc. Items
Spells
Other Information
Health	68	Magicka	180
Respons.	100	Aggress.	5
Essential	Always
Faction(s)	Leyawiin; Mages Guild (JourneymanJourneyman )

Alves Uvenim in the Leyawiin Guild Hall

Alves Uvenim, a Dunmer alchemist, is Journeyman of the Mages Guild who sells alchemical supplies and spells at the Leyawiin Guild Hall. During the Whom Gods Annoy quest, she will tell you what to do to get rid of the Staff of the Everscamp.

She has a very laid-back lifestyle: she sleeps from midnight until 7am in her room in the ground floor of the guild building. For the next three hours, she will wander around the ground floor before starting to mix up potions with her mortar & pestle. She will stop at 4pm, when she will select an alchemical book and read it for four hours seated by the desk in the eastern wing of the ground floor. Between 8pm and 10pm she will eat dinner in the ground floor dining room with her fellow guild members. She will then spend the last two hours of her day wandering around sleepily.

She has 800 gold and a Mercantile skill of 40. She will buy ingredients, potions, alchemical apparatus and miscellaneous items from you. She will offer both her spell merchant and her bartering services at all times except when eating, sleeping or when wandering in the evening.

She wears middle-class attire consisting of a blue & green outfit and a pair of quilted shoes. She also carries her mortar & pestle, an empty grand soul gem, and a leveled amount of gold. She doesn't wield any weapons, relying instead on a set of lower-level spells from all of the magical schools but Illusion.

When asked about the city of Leyawiin she will have the following observations on the internal problems of the guild: "The Leyawiin chapter is just drifting along. Dagail isn’t much of a mentor or leader. She isn’t even coherent most of the time." When asked about the Guild itself, she will direct you all the way to Druja in Skingrad: "Druja has a wide variety of spells for sale, if there’s something you need. Most of them are simple, but they’re a good starting point."

Once you have read Modern Heretics or spoken with Ulene Hlervu about "Cheydinhal", a new "Daedra shrines" conversation topic will appear. When you speak to Alves about this, she will mark Nocturnal's Shrine on your map with the words: "You mean the shrine to Nocturnal? That’s north of Leyawiin, east of the Lower Niben."

[edit] Related Quests

• Whom Gods Annoy: Rosentia Gallenus has been plagued by a foul smelling odor and some unusual house guests.

[edit] Notes

Alves is one of the few alchemists who will not point you towards Sinderion when you show her a sample of Nirnroot.

[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.