Oblivion:Shagrol gro-Uzug

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Shagrol gro-Uzug in Battlehorn Castle

Shagrol gro-Uzug is an Orc who travels to Battlehorn Castle after the Training Room upgrade is purchased, and runs the castle's Training Room. You can spar with him using your choice of a two-handed weapon, one-handed weapon or a dagger. He will attack you with your choice of weapon, but he is careful never to wound you, so this is a good way to train your Block skill. However, as he does no damage, your Light Armor or Heavy Armor skills will not increase. No bounty is received for fighting him in this way.

Shagrol sleeps between 1am and 7am in the large room he shares with Plautis Rusonius. He eats two meals a day: lunch is from midday to 2pm, and dinner from 6pm to 8pm. He eats somewhere close to the training room, which typically means either in his room or in the wine cellar. For the rest of the day he practices his fighting skills, switching between archery, hand-to-hand, or any of his three melee weapons. While eating his midday meal, Shagrol will offer his services as a trainer of block, but will always tell you that your level is too high (see below).

[edit] Notes

• You can pickpocket Shagrol gro-Uzug's sparring weapons (he will create new ones) and use them to spar against him. Due to the fact they cause no damage you can easily level up your blade and blunt skills.
• The weapons he uses for sparring can never break from combat, since they deal no actual damage. This is a very useful technique to train your own blunt and blade skill, if you pickpocket one of his.
• To maximize the experience you get out of sparring with Shagrol, set the difficulty slider to the right. This prevents him from falling unconscious too quickly. As he does no damage whatever the difficulty, you won't be in any danger of dying either.

[edit] Bugs

• If Shagrol's sparring weapon breaks during sparring,from using a spell or weapon against him that has a Disintegrate Weapon effect, he may equip and unequip his normal weapon (a one-handed axe) over and over. This may persist even if sparring is stopped and restarted preventing him from sparring again with that weapon. Pickpocketing the broken weapon from him may fix the problem.
  • This bug is fixed by the Unofficial Official Mods Patch.
• He is, technically, a trainer in Block and a training services icon will appear in his dialogue menu if you talk to him between noon and 2pm. However, he will never actually train you because he is set to provide training only up to skill level 0 (i.e., you will always be told that your skill level is too high).
  • This bug is fixed by the Unofficial Official Mods Patch.