Oblivion:Bothiel

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Bothiel (RefID: 00034EBA)
Home City	Imperial City, Arcane University
House	Mage Quarters
Race	Bosmer	Gender	Female
Level	30	Class	Mage
RefID	00034EBA	BaseID	00034EB7
Other Information
Health	134	Magicka	250
Respons.	50	Aggress.	5
Essential	Always
Faction(s)	IC Citizens; Arcane University; Mages Guild (WizardWizard )

Bothiel in the Arch-Mage's Lobby

Bothiel, a Bosmer mage, is a Wizard of the Mages Guild. She is also an astronomer and the curator of the Orrery. However, you must have purchased the Orrery official plug-in for her to offer you the related quest. During the Mages Guild quest she will provide you with a note that might offer you a clue to unveil the mystery of the Necromancers.

Bothiel surely must be one of the NPCs that spend the longest time in bed: a record sixteen hours. She goes to sleep at 6pm in the Mages Quarters and is supposed to wake up at midnight. Unfortunately, due to a bug, she sleeps through the whole night, until 10am of the next morning. From then onwards she will be found in the Arch-Mage's Lobby; either wandering around or sitting on the bench, until it's time to sleep again.

Her attire is peculiar in that, apart from the standard mage's robe, she also carries two pairs of shoes: middle-class pigskin shoes and upper-class gold trimmed shoes. Her only other possession is a leveled amount of gold. She doesn't wield any weapons, relying instead on a set of leveled spells from all of the magical schools but Illusion and Mysticism.

She holds ownership over the key-requiring door that leads from the Lobby to the Orrery. This is why it is one of the few locations in the University campus where entering will count as trespassing.

[edit] Related Quests

• Repairing the Orrery: Harness the power of the stars. Rebuild the defiled Orrery and unlock the secrets of this Mages Guild Inner Sanctum.
• Necromancer's Moon: Find information pertaining to Black Soul Gems.

[edit] Bugs

• Bothiel's sleeping package, BothielSleep18x6, would imply that she wakes up at midnight. However, she has no AI packages between that time and 10am, and she will therefore continue doing her current action; which in this case is sleeping.
• It is possible for Bothiel to disappear indefinitely into inaccessible areas. This seems to occur particularly if you are doing both of her related quests (Repairing the Orrery and Necromancer's Moon) at the same time. One known solution is to uninstall the Repairing the Orrery plugin; within 24 hours Bothiel should reappear in the Arch-Mage's Lobby. Complete Necromancer's Moon, then reinstall the plugin.
  • This bug is fixed by the Unofficial Official Mods Patch.