Oblivion talk:Rowley Eardwulf

Questions About Rowley

First of all, according to the info here, he buys quite a lot of stuff, including weapons, armour, magical items, books etc. He's not quite a general trader, but he's close. However, in theory he's also an evil merchant, which most of the others are not. Therefore, does your infamy affect him in the negative way that it affects the other merchants? I.E. does he become the perfect merchant for an evil character to sell their non-stolen loot to?

Similarly, some of the other downloadable content merchants, such as the woman who appears in the Mystic Emporium develop a problem insofar as they don't clear the lists of things they buy from you, leading to a chunky and slow-loading menu whenever you try to sell stuff to them. I was also wondering if anyone had experienced this problem with Rowley?

Thanks. — Unsigned comment by 87.127.79.8 (talk) on 20 June 2007

Items you sell Rowley will disappear from his inventory after three days, so there shouldn't be any problems with a bloated inventory slowing down the menus. As for how infamy affects his disposition, though, I'm not sure. --Nephele^Talk 17:05, 20 June 2007 (EDT)

if hes evil ways his repons so high? — Unsigned comment by 86.170.82.101 (talk) on 1 June 2009

He isn't proven to be evil, that is just supposition and the in-game faction he is part of is not an evil one, so his responsability is totally justified. --SerCenKing ^Talk 13:32, 1 June 2009 (EDT)

Strange Bug

I have expirienced very strange bug with Rowley on PC. When I talk to him, he doesn't have an option to buy/sell items and training option. I can just talk or exit conversation. Because of that I can not buy Ichor of Sithis. How can I fix this? Is there any cheatcode where i can just "summon" this potion to myself?

Thanks for the answer! — Unsigned comment by 193.77.42.100 (talk) on 29 November 2007

He doesn't sell things all the time. If you look at the article, you'll see he's only available between 12am-12pm and 2pm-8pm each day. You need to talk to him during those times. --Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 13:25, 29 November 2007 (EST)

More specifically, he must not be in the dining area for you to trade with him. I tried talking to him while he ate, then checked here, waited for him to finish eating and stand up. He immediately said, "Psst. Hey, you, I got what you need," but when I talked to him then he only offered sneak training. Until he walked over to the stairs and sat down (about 2:15) I couldn't trade with him. 71.113.146.96 17:09, 13 May 2008 (EDT)

Crimson Scar?

If he's a Crimson Scar shouldn't he be a vampire? Helper Unknown 07:01, 14 September 2008 (EDT)

I was wondering the same thing. Maybe he cured himself? 89.124.235.130 16:13, 1 April 2009 (EDT)

Probably he did cure himself with the Font of Renewal in Deepscorn because at the end of Greywyn's Journal Greywyn cures himself of vampirisim because Sithis views the drinking of blood to be 'Wrong' (but cold blooded murder and ripping out organs is perfectly acceptable) and Rowley probably did the same after Greywyn cured himself.--VergilSparda 17:24, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Sitting on Stairs

(moved from the article)

• Rowley Eardwulf seems to be the only character who ever sits on stairs. Even when he is not sitting on the stairs, the player cannot sit on them, and no other NPC in the game sits on stairs.Hence, unless the player has installed the Vile Lair plugin, this behavior will not be observed at all in the game.

This isn't worth mentioning on the article because it's simply another example of a trick the devs used with Fathis Ules. Although it looks like he's sitting on the stairs, there's actually a small stool embedded in them that's inaccessible to the player but not NPCs. Rowley is sitting on that. Ules pulls a similar trick. It looks like he sits on his chest, but he's really sitting on a stool embedded in it. rpeh •T•C•E• 13:55, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!! I have never been able to figure that out. I'd been trying to for months! So, I think that in effect, there is no NPC in the vanilla game that sits on anything that isn't a chair. Facebag 14:07, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

And just for good measure they've set ownership of the stool to Rowley, so the player really, truly can't sit on it anyway. --86.31.213.148 20:21, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Shady Sam and stolen goods

The notes on Rowley's page mentioned that Shady Sam buys stolen goods, this is false so I edited the article.StaggerLee 11:18, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Gone

I went to the wawnet inn to sell some things to him, only to find that he was gone. I tried waiting by the stairs at two hour intervals for a whole day, but he never showed up. I had already bought everything for deepscorn hollow, so it is possible that he was set non-essential and killed, but I didn't think he ever went outside, so he shouldn't have been killed. — Unsigned comment by 24.33.141.151 (talk) at 19:10 on 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Missing also...

I have Rowley missing as well. I was in part of the inn and somehow was detected stealing. Anyways, I fleed from the guard as usual and between there and eventually fast travelling to Skingard after paying off bounties, I got messages that both him and Nerussa went unconscious at different times - as if they defended me against the guard. Nerussa is behind counter but Rowley is nowhere to be found. Frustrating! Hopefully he'll show eventually. JWS 162.157.152.199 11:47, 24 March 2014 (GMT)