I can't figure out why you'd want to buy this spell, because when you use it, the merchant will become hostile. Am I missing something with this? I can think of only one way to use it, but I'm not playing through 'that' guild with my character I'm playing right now.

maybe make a custom spell to absorb mercantile and calm at the same time. Would that work?

sounds useless. I would just fortify mercantile.

I would never use absorb mercantile because it is an assault. Charm your merchant and fortify your own mercantile if you want to tweak your shopping. :foodndrink:

Command + Absorb Mercantile = Best Bargains.

i always thought the old *absorb* spell ( except prehaps health and maybe fatigue) are pretty useless, because, like you said all there ognna do is land you a place in jail and a very angrey shopkeeper...even if you used calm you would still get a bounty :L

now, if you abosrbed the skill and kept it,thatwould be usefull , but its only temporey ( i think ?) ,


i really cannot remember wether absorb spells are in restoration, but if they are it sortof ruins the point of that "good" branch of magic

They are restoration in vanilla oblivion. Morrowind had them as Mysticism, certain mods change them back to that.