Shivering:Cutter

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Cutter (RefID: 00013B47)
Home City	New Sheoth Crucible
Store	Cutter's Weapons
Race	Bosmer	Gender	Female
Level	10	Class	Smith
RefID	00013B47	BaseID	0001207E
Services
Available	8am-8pm every day
Other	Repairs , Recharging
Merchant
Gold	1200	Mercantile	Apprentice (34)
Sells	Weapons, Arrows, Armor, Repair Hammers Madness Armor and Madness Weapons
Buys	Armor Weapons Misc. Items
Other Information
Health	112	Magicka	112
Respons.	60	Aggress.	5
Essential	Yes
Faction(s)	Dementia Faction (Dementia); Crucible Citizen; Citizen of New Sheoth; Rooftop Club

Cutter in her store

Cutter is a Bosmer smith living in Crucible, New Sheoth. She is the proprietor of Cutter's Weapons where she sells weapons and offers repair- and recharging services. Cutter is one of only two smiths in the Shivering Isles that can forge powerful magic and non-magic weapons and armor; her specialty is forging armor from madness ore and matrices.

Manically obsessed with bloodshed, including her own, and with blood on the floor of the main trading room to prove it, she opens up her shop every day at 8am. She spends the next twelve hours offering her various services to the occasional customer before locking up again at 8pm. At that time, she heads up onto the rooftop above Sickly Bernice's Taphouse where she meets up with the other members of the duelists, for two hours of fighting, drinking and bleeding. On Morndas, she will fight Ma'zaddha and Ushnar gro-Shadborgob. Turdas sees her fighting against Caldana Monrius and on Fredas, she will fight both Caldana, Ushnar and Muurine. She always heads back to her house at 10pm and eats a late dinner until midnight. She was supposed to sleep between midnight and 8am but doesn't, due to a bug.

Cutter has a fierce hatred of Dumag gro-Bonk, the Light Armor smith in Bliss and threatens to cut your throat if you visit him. Note that she will not actually attack you if you visit Dumag, but she will accuse you of disloyalty and her Disposition will drop accordingly. Both her and Dumag gro-Bonk make reference to a master who scattered the magical matrices around the Isles, but the masters are not mentioned by name. Cutter seems to have a sadistic obsession with cutting and bleeding and Dumag gro-Bonk also implies she causes self-inflicted wounds, jealously saying "What can you possibly see in her? She spends more time cutting herself than swinging a hammer" if you buy anything from her. She also claims to test out newly forged weapons on herself before putting them up for sale, to make sure they are up to her standards.^{[verification needed — see talk page]}

At different stages in the Main Quest, Cutter will share different rumors with other NPCs:

• There's a new person in the Isles. I wonder what his blood tastes like?
• It's only a matter of time before adventurers swarm the Isles now that the Gatekeeper is killed. You'll need a sharp blade to bleed them.
• I wonder if the Resonator of Judgment hurts those inside?
• Thadon's blood is so tainted. He needs to be cut open so he can let some of the toxin out.
• Syl is a paranoid fool. She could torture me as much as she'd like, though. Cut intricate patterns into my skin. I shiver just thinking about it.
• I wonder if the Great Torch being lit will stop the unrest. I was getting excited about the prospect of more bloodshed. Oh, well.
• A new ruler for Dementia! Perhaps blood was spilled. Great deals of blood. Syl's blood. Lovely blood.
• I heard Thadon's heart exploded. There would have been a great deal of blood. Sweet, sweet heart's blood.
• Strange creatures have appeared in the Fringe... perhaps you need a new blade? A Madness blade?
• I've heard that the new Gatekeeper is fearsome. The ground will soon be red with the blood of those that would challenge him.
• Our Lord has His armies restored. They carry such wonderfully sharp blades.
• Sheogorath is gone. Better carry a blade, just in case. Use it on your enemies, if things get bad. Or on yourself, if things get worse.
• I thought we were all doomed for a while there. I carved my last will and testament, but I won't say where.

[edit] Related Quests

• The Antipodean Hammer: Find Amber and Madness Ore for two rival Blacksmiths.
• The Lady of Paranoia: Investigate who wants Lady Syl, the Duchess of Dementia, assassinated.

[edit] Notes

• The comment following Cutter's rumors in the Construction Set describes her voice as "A creepy, slow, sensual drawl. emphasing[sic] words dealing with blood and pain."
• Even though she is marked as essential, an epitaph for Cutter can be found in the Construction Set: In memory of Cutter. She enjoyed every cut to the last. And she enjoyed that one the most. It cut her spirit free.

[edit] Bugs

• Cutter has the same bug as the other members of the duelists and can often be found to be carrying huge amounts of weaponry; in her case, iron daggers.
• Cutter was programmed to find a bed on the ground floor between midnight and 8am. Since her bed is located in the upstairs area, Cutter will just wander around the ground floor all night long.