Morrowind:Making Money

This guide should not be used to suggest any cheats or exploits for making money. All methods must be 100% legitimate.

Making money is an important aspect of gameplay. Whether you are a novice adventurer in need of training and supplies, a seasoned adventurer looking for a new house, planning on enchanting items, or creating your own spells, a stable source of income is essential.

The amount of money you can make is unlimited and you can make it fairly quickly, so do not be miserly! Spend your money freely to get the items you want or need. The objective of this guide is to make significant amounts of gold using methods that are not immediately obvious. Players just starting out should refer here.

Basic Principles

• The following generally improves vendor prices:
  • Raising a merchant's Disposition
  • Using the Fortify Personality spell effect
  • Using the Fortify Mercantile spell effect
• There are two creature merchants who will buy and sell items at their actual value:
  • Creeper in Caldera, Ghorak Manor
  • Mudcrab Merchant in Azura's Coast region

Selling Valuable Items

Daedric Weapon

Quick Explanation: Receive a Daedric weapon as reward.

Detailed Explanation:

1. Travel to Vassir-Didanat Cave south of Balmora.
2. Find Dram Bero in Vivec's St. Olms Plaza, Haunted Manor.
3. Reveal to him the location of the mine. Use/sell your reward.

Looting assassins

Quick Explanation: Starting with player's level 25 or so, the Dark Brotherhood assassins will carry loot worth more than 50 000 gold which you can sell.

Detailed Explanation:

1. Raise your level to at least 25 (it is quite fast if you use trainers).
2. In your sleep, you will be attacked by assassins which will carry a daedric weapon and some other items worth more than 50 000 gold.
3. Sell the items for quick money.

Ebony Cuirass

Quick Explanation: Steal an Ebony Cuirass from the Dren Plantation.

Detailed Explanation:

1. Travel to Dren Plantation, Dren's Villa.
2. Hide behind a pole in the room.
3. Sneak slowly towards the cuirass and take it. You might need 15 or more levels of Sneak.

Goldyn Belaram

Audenian Valius

Lucretinaus Olcinius

Glass Daggers

Quick Explanation: Repair broken glass daggers.

Detailed Explanation:

1. Buy or steal one badly damaged glass dagger in each of the following locations:
   • Suran, sold by Goldyn Belaram
   • Vivec's Telvanni Waistworks, sold by Audenian Valius
   • Vivec's St. Delyn Plaza, sold by Lucretinaus Olcinius
2. Repair them yourself or have them repaired; sell them for a profit.

Master's Alchemy Set

Quick Explanation: Steal Master alchemical apparatus.

1. Travel to Caldera, Guild of Mages.
2. Enter the tower near Ernand Thierry and close the door behind you.
3. Steal the alchemical apparatus on the top of the tower.

Duma gro-Lag

Ghorak Manor

Orcish Armor

Quick Explanation: Steal a partial set of Orcish armor.

Detailed Explanation:

1. Travel to Caldera, Ghorak Manor.
2. Go to the top floor and take the Orcish armor from one of the crates around Duma gro-Lag.
3. You may also steal any item in the manor with impunity; all occupants of the Manor have zero Alarm.

Soul Gems

Quick Explanation: Steal filled soul gems.

Detailed Explanation:

1. Join the Mages Guild at Balmora and complete Ajira's first quest.
2. Start the second quest.
3. While Galbedir is downstairs, take all the soul gems from her desk. Note that the soul gems you have will then be considered stolen by Galbedir.

Selling to the Museum

Quick Explanation: Find and sell valuable Artifacts to the museum.

Detailed Explanation:

1. Own the Tribunal expansion.
2. Find Artifacts in various dungeons.
3. Sell them to Torasa Aram in the Mournhold Museum of Artifacts.
   • Each artifact sells for up to 30,000 gold.

Selling Large Quantities of Items

Falas Ancestral Tomb

Looting Daedra

Quick Explanation: Kill respawning daedra for their items.

Detailed Explanation:

1. Go to Falas Ancestral Tomb at Gnisis.
2. Kill the three daedra inhabitants.
3. Loot and dispose of the corpses.
4. Leave and reenter the tomb; the daedra will have respawned once more.
5. Repeat as needed.

A House Hlaalu Guard

A House Redoran Guard

A House Telvanni Guard

Looting Guards/Ordinators

Quick Explanation: Kill respawning NPCs for their items.

Detailed Explanation:

1. Go to one of the many Villages, Towns, Cities or Forts in Vvardenfell.
2. Commit a Crime to earn a small price on your head.
   • Lockpicking or sleeping in an owned bed will safely earn you a bounty of five gold.
   • Theft of low-value items or pickpocketing attempts carry the risk of increasing the NPCs Fight attribute. This might be a problem with some NPCs, unless it is a guard.
3. Talk to a Guard or Ordinator. Resist arrest. Kill. Loot. Repeat as needed.

An Ordinator

Imperial Guards

4. To clear your name, just pay off your bounty.
   • You may have to temporarily drop down items you have stolen before. Paying the fine removes all stolen and contraband items in your inventory.
   • If you are a member of the Thieves Guild, you need only pay half your bounty.
5. If you have a decent amount of Speechcraft, you can just taunt and raising their disposition via bribing, in case it gets low. If it provokes the guard, you may kill him without earning a bounty, as it is counts as a self-defense. It also works against other non-hostile NPCs as well.

Looting Merchants

Quick Explanation: Sell an item that will kill its wearer.

Detailed Explanation:

1. Make or find clothing or armor with a deadly, constant-effect enchantment.
2. Sell it to a merchant; if it is more valuable that what the merchant is currently wearing, the merchant will wear it.
3. Wait for the merchant to die, then loot the body. Note that if somebody witnesses the merchant's death; it will be reported as your crime.

Pearls

Kollops

Pearl Diving

Quick Explanation: Dive for pearls.

Detailed Explanation:

1. Travel to any of the various grottos in Vvardenfell.
2. Collect pearls from the kollops. Beware of the usual Dreugh or Slaughterfish.

Potion Making

Quick Explanation: Make potions and sell them.

Detailed Explanation:

1. Buy ingredients from a merchant who restocks them.
2. Using Alchemy, combine the ingredients into a potion. The following spell effects increases your chances of success:
   • Fortify Intelligence
   • Fortify Luck
   • Fortify Alchemy

Soul Hunting

Quick Explanation: Trap and sell souls.

Detailed Explanation:

1. Acquire the Soultrap spell effect.
2. Capture the souls of creatures you kill in soul gems.
   • Soultrapping summoned creatures may prove to be a sustainable source of income.