Name: Arcane Services
Version: 1.1
Date: 1/3/2011
Category: Miscellaneous
Author: Cydonian_Knight

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Requirements:
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Oblivion 1.2.416
Shivering Isles
Oblivion Script Extender
Homepage: http://obse.silverlock.org

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Description:
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This mod adds a vender just outside the exclusive section of the Arcane University who offers spell making and enchnting services, but with a twist. He allows the player to make spells or enchant items with any spell effect, even if the player does not already have a castable spell with the effect. This allows any type of character to enchant their weapons and make spells without worrying about getting their magic skills up. It also adds spell making and enchanting outside of the Arcane University, but still under the authority of the Mage's Guild, which is something that I think the Mages Guild would offer. So now you don't have to join the Mages Guild or have high magic skills in order to make enchantments or spells.

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Details:
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You can access the vender's services via dialogue options. You only gain access to every spell effect when accessing the enchanting and spellmaking menus through the vender I added. The mod works by adding dummy spells, one for each spell effect, to the player right before accessing the spell making or enchanting menu. This unlocks every spell effect so they can be used in the menus. The spells are then removed after you finish.

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Installation
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1. Extract this archive to any folder and then copy the contents to Oblivion's Data
folder.
2. Start Oblivion Launcher, click Data Files, and enable the .esp file(s).

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Un-Installation:
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1. Start Oblivion Launcher, click Data Files, uncheck the .esp file(s).
2. Delete the files/folders associated with the mod.

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Incompatibility:
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As this mod only adds a single NPC to the Arcane University, it should be compatible with all other mods.

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History:
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4/4/2010 - 1.0 - Initial Release

1/3/2011 - 1.1 Updated to include SI spell effects. Now requires SI.


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Contact:
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You can find me on the Official Forums, TES Alliance, and the Engineering Guild as Cydonian_Knight. One TESNexus I am just Cydonian Knight, without the underscore.

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Credits:
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Thanks to Bethesda for creating Oblivion.

Thanks to Trollf for his Artifacts resource, which I used for the vender's robe.

Thanks to InsanitySorrow for his ReadMe Generator this file is based on.

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Tools Used:
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Insanity's ReadMe Generator
Elderscrolls Construction Set
TES4Gecko
TES4Files


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Licensing/Legal:
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You must contact me and obtain my permission before re-packaging any part of this mod.

Out of curiosity are the dummy spells only what is available enchant-wise in vanilla, or does it include effects that may be unlocked for enchanting by other mods?

This will need an Open Cities Outer Districts patch like what Midas has.

I am in love with this idea.
Does this vender have any sort of schedule or does he just stand in the same place 24/7?

As others have said, this is a way-cool idea :goodjob: It's one of those things that strikes me as obvious now that the mod exists, but I never would have thought about it otherwise. At some point I'll get around to creating a non-magic character, lol. For the fighter who wants a little extra bang w/out actually learning magic Grats on the release m8. This is going straight to my list of 'best little-known gems'.

Did not see this thread the first time round. Nice mod, added to my Load order straight away

Updated this to 1.1. Just a small update that adds all the SI spell effects to the vendor, which somehow got left out before.

Now why did you do that...adding the SI spells, now i can not use this mod

Nah it was your choice to make it one, just a shame, my current char could have use of it oh well.

I've used this with all of my melee-oriented characters and it's still brilliant I really need to make another 'little-known gems' thread...

I've re-uploaded the old version on Nexus, it's a good idea to have both versions up there for those without SI. If you do download it, would you mind letting me know if 1.0 works fine for you without SI? I want to make sure no bad dependencies slipped into that one.

Just wanted to thank you for this little gem. My warriors now won't have to deal with all that complicated magicka thing!

This is really one of the things that makes us think: "why this was not in the vanilla game"?

Oh, and I'm also using your Alchemist for Hire mod and it is superb too! Thanks!

You make a good point that the mage's guild really should offer supervised access to their enchanting and spell making alters to outsiders. It would be a good source of income, especially from the warrior-who-doesn't-use-magic-but-likes-enchanted-swords demographic. But I think they should charge a lot more to use this service ( 5 or 10 times normal cost). Both because you essentially have an expert wizard doing the work for you (hence access to every spell effect), but also because unrestricted access to those alters is one of the biggest incentives they have to offer to convince people to join the guild. Offering cheap, convenient and easy enchanting/spell-making to everyone would surely decrease enrollment. Also, it would make this mod less of a cheat.