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| Melisi Daren (RefID: xx00B0B3) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Added by | Fighter's Stronghold | ||
| Home City | Battlehorn Castle | ||
| Location | East Wing | ||
| Race | Dark Elf | Gender | Female |
| Level | 8 | Class | Hunter |
| RefID | xx00B0B3 | BaseID | xx00B0A0 |
| Other Information | |||
| Health | 70 | Magicka | 110 |
| Responsibility | 80 | Aggression | 5 |
| Essential | Always | ||
| Faction(s) | Faction for Battlehorn NPCs | ||
Melisi Daren is a Dark Elf hunter who works as the taxidermist in Battlehorn Castle after you purchase the Battlehorn Trophy Hall upgrade. She will create stuffed replicas of the creatures you kill upon being presented with the right ingredients.
Melisi is the one character in the castle who gets a full eight hours of rest, sleeping in the bed in her office between 10pm and 6am. She eats once a day, taking her meal in the east wing dining hall between 8pm and 11pm. For the rest of the day she either reads a book, practices her potion-making, or paces her room. At 10am each day, when she is given the necessary items (9am for the bear), Melisi finishes making the replica on which she has been working and heads off to place it in the great hall before returning to her normal routine.
Melisi wears a forester's shirt and light brown linens. She also carries the Marksman skill book, Father Of The Niben, an apprentice alembic, tongs, corn and mead.
DialogueEdit
When greeting you she will say:
- "What is it, muthsera/sera?"
- Never mind.
- "Very well."
- Create a trophy
- "What can I do for you?"
You will now be able to choose from a selection of trophies: bear, clannfear, daedroth, minotaur, mountain lion, ogre, troll and wolf. You will also be handed the Taxidermy Needs List detailing the required items. For each trophy her response will depend on whether you have the necessary item:
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- "You don't have the item I need. I'm sorry."
- "Ah, wonderful! I'll just take this from you, and get to work. I'll need some time with this; come and find me tomorrow."
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RumorsEdit
Melisi is first indirectly mentioned by Nilphas Omellian in his Battlehorn Castle Upgrades List:
- "I will also hire an expert taxidermist to create beautiful and lifelike trophies out of the most dangerous creatures of the land."
When you buy the Trophy Hall upgrade, the accompanying note will provide some more information on Melisi. In particular, it appears she was recommended by Baenlin, a Wood Elf who features in a Dark Brotherhood quest involving a mounted head:
- "I've also hired a taxidermist to join your castle staff. Melisi Daren comes highly recommended by her former employer, a wealthy gentleman from Bruma named Baenlin."
NotesEdit
- The items used to create the stuffed recreations remain in Melisi's inventory after she has completed them.
- Like almost all of the NPCs added by Oblivion's downloads, Melisi's dialogue is all repurposed from elsewhere. Also, like a majority of these NPCs, her dialogue still has notes attached, showing where exactly they were taken from. Her trophy denial line is interesting in this regard, as it contains a whole note from one developer to another, stating: "edit together
BedRental_BedYes_000BB9C9_1and any version of "item" that you can plug in. If this doesn't work, I can figure out something else."
BugsEdit
- Melisi finishes making each replica at 10am with the exception of the bear, which she completes at 9am. That means it is possible for her to create the bear and one other replica in a day instead of having to wait 24 hours for each.
The Unofficial Oblivion DLC Patches, version 16, fixes this bug.
