Oblivion:J'skar

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J'skar (RefID: 0001CEF1)
Home City	Bruma
Location	Bruma Mages Guild
Race	Khajiit	Gender	Male
Level	10	Class	Mage
RefID	0001CEF1	BaseID	0002D01E
Services
Available	6am-5pm, 7pm-10pm every day
Training	Destruction, Basic
Other Information
Health	68	Magicka	192
Respons.	50	Aggress.	5
Essential	Until A Plot Revealed is completed
Faction(s)	Bruma Citizens; Mages Guild (JourneymanJourneyman )

J'skar, revealed

J'skar, a Khajiit mage, is a Journeyman of the Mages Guild who offers basic Destruction training at the Bruma Guild Hall. Along with Volanaro, he greatly enjoys playing pranks on Jeanne Frasoric, the local guild head. His latest favorite is to make himself invisible and hide somewhere in the guildhall. The Bruma Recommendation quest involves tracking him down while he's doing this. Though a prank at first, this ability saves his life later on, when the guild hall is attacked during the A Plot Revealed quest. Because he was invisible, he is the only survivor of the attack.

He doesn't exist in the game before Stage 10 of the Recommendation quest, and while invisible, he will never eat or sleep, and will spend the whole day walking around randomly in the guild basement, trying his best to hide from Jeanne. After you have stolen the book Volanaro requested, at 10pm he will travel to a basement room and will remain there until 4am, waiting for Volanaro to dispel him. Talking to him while he is invisible will cause him to say: "Go away! You'll ruin everything!"

His ordinary schedule which starts the moment he is made visible, is very simple: eating from 5pm to 7pm and sleeping from 10pm to 6am of the next day. The rest of the day he will wander around the living quarters of the guild building, where he will offer his services. Perhaps the reason for playing pranks is the boringness of Bruma: "There's not much to do here in the Bruma Guild. If you can get to the Arcane University, though, they let you make your own spells there."

During the second related quest he will remain hidden in the destroyed Guildhall, concealing himself with his invisibility spell and eluding Camilla Lollia's attempts to locate him. Once you have killed her, he will make himself visible and speak to you, recalling seeing The King of Worms: "Are they... are they gone? I was too afraid. I just couldn't move. I could hear the screaming, but I just couldn't move! He killed them all. Just... slaughtered them. I... I saw his face. I saw the King of Worms! I couldn't believe my eyes. I think the only reason I'm alive is because I was invisible... but even so, I think he saw me. He killed them, one by one. Volanaro was last, I think. He was trying to run away, but he didn't make it, did he? The King of Worms stood over him, right before he died, and he... well, it looked like he sucked out Volanaros's soul! Then he looked right at me and grinned! He might come back if he knows I'm still here. I'm not staying here! I'll go to the Imperial City! Hannibal Traven can protect me.""

He will then run all the way out of town towards the safety of the Arcane University. After taking the Silver Road and the Red Ring Road he will cross the Talos Bridge after eight hours of traveling. At the University, he will seek shelter in the Arch-Mages Lobby, where he will be found wandering around or sitting on a bench until the quest is complete. He will still offer his services, this time for the whole day, but only if you have completed the quest by talking to Arch-Mage Traven. As soon as The Bloodworm Helm quest is started, J'skar is disabled and therefore can no longer be found anywhere in the game.

He wears a mix of lower and middle-class clothing: the cheap but rare tan robe and a pair of pigskin shoes. He also carries a Mages Guild Key and a leveled amount of gold. He doesn't carry any weapons, relying instead on a range of spells: his custom Invisibility spell, a Dispel on self and a leveled set of spells from all of the magical schools.

He also owns the Illusion skill book The Wolf Queen, v 3, which is found on top of a writing desk in the southwestern basement room, where he usually sleeps.

[edit] Related Quests

• Bruma Recommendation: Find a missing mage to obtain a recommendation from Bruma.
• A Plot Revealed: Travel to Bruma and find out why the guild hall there has stopped correspondence.