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Skyrim Thief Skills - how to max Sneak, Speech, Pickpocket and Lockpicking

The best, fastest ways to level 100 in Skyrim's stealth-based Thief skills.

Always seen as the dark arts of Elder Scrolls games, Thief skills are, in fact, surprisingly applicable to most playthroughs in Skryim , and maxing your Lockpicking, Pickpocket, Sneak and Speech skills - or at least quickly levelling them to a certain perk you have your eye on, like Extra Pockets, can be massivley helpful.

Here, we'll be talking you through the best ways to max your Thief skills in Skyrim as quickly and efficiently as possible - but we also strongly recommend you take a look at our Skyrim power-levelling hub page and our Crafting skills guide in particular, for some extremely helpful tips for speeding up the process.

If you are playing the 2021 Anniversary Edition, we have explainers on features such as fishing .

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The fastest way to max level Lockpicking and Pickpocketing

The fastest way to max level sneak and speech.

How to reach level 100 Lockpicking

Lockpicking and Pickpocket are two skills which often go hand-in-hand - probably because, to gain access to locked doors, there's normally a choice available to the player: lockpick the lock, or pickpocket the key.

• Lockpicking experience is granted for two things: succesfully opening locks, whereby experience is levelled according to the difficulty of the lock, or by breaking lockpicks, which gives a smaller, flat amount of experience regardless of the lock difficulty.
• To level Lockpicking then, you can either head to a location which has a large number of difficult locks to open, such as the Dwemer Museum in Markarth, or you can simply find a lock where the starting position won't open it, buy a huge amount of lockpicks, and get breaking.
• Breaking huge numbers of lockpicks is, we believe, the slightly faster option overall. You can buy lickpicks from Thieves Guild members and fences, or alternatively you can in fact use the Skeleton Key, awarded from a latter quest in the Thieves Guild storyline - which we explain how to start in our Faction quests guide - which is unbreakable, but still awards experience for 'failed' attempts to pick a lock.

How to reach level 100 Pickpocket

Pickpocket is one of the harder skills to power-level, but it's also one of the fastest to level up in terms of the experience you gain from each attempt... if you get it right.

• The amount of experience gained from pickpocketing and item is based on that item's value, rather than anything like weight or percentage chance of success.
• Bearing that in mind, the most efficient items to steal are gems and jewelry, as they're high in value but low in weight - which means a higher chance to steal, as weight determines difficulty.
• One mini-exploit for levelling Pickpocket is to repeatedly steal the Strange Amulet from Calixto Corrium, during the quest Blood on the Ice, as you can immediaely re-sell the amulet to Calixto for 500 gold - which is also one of several great ways to earn gold in Skyrim.
• Another slightly cheesy way to level Pickpocket is to use the age-old exploit of purchasing Pickpocket training from a trainer, and then stealing your money back. This levels the skill in two ways at once, but will slow down significantly at higher levels.

How to reach level 100 Sneak

Sneak is another tricky one to level up without an exploit, but fortunately there are a few things to bear in mind which can make it a little easier for you.

• Sneak experience is awarded for being undetected in sneak mode, and for landing sneak attacks. Sneak attacks grant the most XP, based on the damage dealt, whilst sneaking near hostile enemies or NPCs with items they own nearby will level you faster than sneaking near a friendly or neutral NPC.
• The fastest way to level, then, is to fully land a sneak power attack combo on a durable NPC like Shadowmere.
• You can also level your Sneak to 100 during the game's tutorial section - although this will leave you drastically under-levelled for combat against your enemies - by walking into a wall near the bear in the tutorial cave. The good ol' fashioned rubber band trick, or a weight on your W key, can let you do this while AFK if you really want to.
• Goldenglow Estate's external area, which is full of guards - providing you don't kill them during the Thieves Guild quest - is a great area to sneak around amidst multiple holstile enemies. Forts occupied by bandits or the Thalmor are another option.

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How to reach level 100 Speech

Finally, yet another difficult to grind skill, Speech. Formerly Speechcraft, Speech is based on your verbal interactions with NPCs. Fortunately again, we've managed to gather a few tricks for levelling it up with relative ease.

• Speech is levelled by buying and selling items, and successfully using the Persuade, Indimidate, and Bribe dialogue options.
• Buying and selling items levels Speech according to the item's value, and will only every grant you experience for one item per transaction - meaning you should always sell items one at a time if you want to raise your Speech level.
• One method is to buy training from trainer-merchants, who also buy and sell goods, and who will then have far higher gold reserves for buying your more expensive items.
• If you have a large amount of gold saved up, you can sell and re-buy your most expensive items, which, bearing the markups in mind, will leave the merchant with a massively increased stash of gold for puchasing. Then, you can sell huge amounts of items - remembering to do so one at a time - to level up your Speech. This complements your Enchanting skill levelling particualrly well, as with that method you'll have huge numbers of enchanted items to sell, too.
• Finally, there is a Speech exploit involving a dialogue loop with a shop-keeping in Riften. Head to the Black-Briar Meadery just north of the town and talk to Ungrien. Select the "Tell me about Maven Black-Briar" dialogue option, and after heading through all the chit-chat the "Come on, get the truth off your chest. (Persuade)" option, which will soon take you back to the start of the conversation and round in an infinite loop. This is, probably, the fastest way to level the skill, although technically an exploit rather than an intentional mechanic.

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Skyrim:Speech

The Speech skill (referred to as Speechcraft in the Console ) allows you to more effectively persuade people and to barter with shopkeepers. Perks in this skill allow you to get better deals when trading, buy and sell any kind of item to any merchant, and make it more likely for a persuasion or intimidation attempt to succeed. The Speech skill tree has a total of 9 perks, requiring a total of 13 perk points to fill.

In-game Description: The skill of persuasion can be used to get better prices from merchants, and persuade others to do as you ask.

• 1 Skill Perks
• 2.1 Bribe Formula
• 2.2 Intimidate Formula
• 2.3.1 Impossible to Fail
• 2.3.2 Very Easy (10)
• 2.3.3 Easy (25/18)
• 2.3.4 Average (50/35)
• 2.3.5 Hard (75/53)
• 2.3.6 Very Hard (100/70)
• 2.5 Investor
• 3.1 Character Creation
• 3.2 Trainers
• 3.3 Skill Books
• 3.4 Free Skill Boosts
• 3.5 Gaining Skill XP
• 4 Achievements

Skill Perks [ edit ]

Skill Usage [ edit ]

Your Speech skill determines the chance of successfully being able to get information out of an NPC using intimidation or persuasion. These Speech Challenges will be provided as options during certain dialogues. You can temporarily boost your character's effective Speech skill by activating a Shrine of Dibella ; acquiring the Gift of Charity buff; drinking a Potion, Draught, Philter, or Elixir of Glibness ; and equipping items that boost Speech, such as an Amulet of Dibella , the Amulet of Articulation , or the Masque of Clavicus Vile . These buffs stack, but they have different durations, so plan accordingly.

Special dialogue options include:

• Persuade: influence someone by reasoning with them. Chances of success depend solely upon your Speech skill.
• Intimidate: influence someone by threatening them. Success depends on the player's "scariness" being higher than the NPC's "scariness", determined by a formula.
• Bribe: influence someone by giving them money. A formula calculates the required gold amount, a successful bribe therefore depends on having the necessary amount of gold.

Your Speech skill also affects merchant prices; prices can be further improved using some of the Speech skill perks, barter potions or enchanted equipment.

The base rate for buying/selling is based solely on your Speech skill and any perks or Fortify Barter effects are applied to prices afterwards.

Bribe Formula [ edit ]

Intimidate formula [ edit ].

Replace ___ with the NPC's confidence level (there is a game setting for each possible confidence level).

The player's scariness can also be modified by perks with the "Mod Player Intimidation" perk entry point.

Persuasion Options [ edit ]

What follows is a list of all persuasion attempts that can be made in Skyrim. Spoilers in this list are intentionally kept very minor. All speech challenges fall into one of five categories: Very Easy , Easy , Average , Hard , and Very Hard . Their skill requirements to pass are 10, 25, 50, 75, and 100, respectively. Possessing the Persuasion perk reduces the requirements on all but Very Easy challenges by 30%, dropping them to 10, 18, 35, 53, and 70, respectively. Wearing the Amulet of Articulation allows you to succeed at any persuasion check in the game regardless of skill.

Impossible to Fail [ edit ]

• Convincing the Whiterun Guard to let you into Whiterun in Before the Storm .
• Persuading Loreius to help Cicero during Delayed Burial .
• Getting Lod to pay you 25 gold before searching for the dog during A Daedra's Best Friend .
• Getting the captives during With Friends Like These... to reveal information about themselves.
• Intimidating Anton Virane to reveal information during Recipe for Disaster .

Very Easy (10) [ edit ]

• Persuading a shakedown bandit to leave you alone for 50 gold.
• During The Forsworn Conspiracy , getting Margret to reveal information.
• Getting a free sample from the attendant at Redwater Den . DG

Easy (25/18) [ edit ]

• The Black Star , convincing Nelacar that a priestess of Azura sent you.
• Caught Red Handed , getting the Mark of Dibella from Hofgrir Horse-Crusher .
• Compelling Tribute , getting gold from Anuriel .
• Compelling Tribute , getting gold from Raerek .
• A Cornered Rat , convincing Esbern to open his door.
• Diplomatic Immunity , Getting the Thalmor guard to leave his post.
• The Forsworn Conspiracy , getting information on Weylin from Mulush gro-Shugurz .
• The Forsworn Conspiracy , getting Weylin's Key from Garvey .
• Good Intentions , getting the Augur of Dunlain 's location from Mirabelle Ervine .
• No One Escapes Cidhna Mine , getting skooma from Duach .
• Promises to Keep , getting Sibbi 's key .
• Promises to Keep , persuade Louis Letrush to let you keep Frost .
• The Raid , getting Wujeeta to reveal where she gets skooma.
• Season Unending , convincing Ulfric to join the peace talks.
• The Taste of Death , getting the Markarth Hall of the Dead Key from Brother Verulus .
• The Taste of Death , getting Brother Verulus to follow you.
• Tending the Flames , the first persuasion option when rewriting King Olaf's Verse.
• Dragonborn , convincing Gjalund Salt-Sage to ferry you to Solstheim for free.
• After A Night To Remember , convincing Deep-In-His-Cups to accept a lower payment.
• Cooling down Dirge when talking about his name.
• Convincing Irnskar Ironhand to forgive Octieve San 's gambling debt.
• Convincing Mikael to leave Carlotta alone.
• Convincing Mulush gro-Shugurz to treat his workers better.
• Convincing Ranmir to pay his debt to Haran .
• Convincing Riften 's guard jailor that you're allowed to be wandering the jail.
• Convincing Roggi Knot-Beard to accept Iddra 's charity.
• Convincing Torbjorn Shatter-Shield to pay his Argonian workers fair wages.
• Convincing Captain Aldis to provide information about Angeline Morrard 's daughter.
• Convincing Vittoria Vici to waive the fee for Evette .
• Getting Erik 's father Mralki to purchase armor for his son.
• Getting Ghorbash the Iron Hand to join you as a follower.
• Getting information from Maul .
• Getting information on the meadery from Ungrien .
• Getting the Riften guards at the main gate to let you in.
• Having Lynly Star-Sung in Ivarstead play you a song for free.
• Selling Elder Scrolls to Urag gro-Shub for 3000 gold. DG
• Recruiting Frea to join you as a follower. DB

Average (50/35) [ edit ]

• Buy Dwarven artifact , getting Calcelmo to pay you more.
• Caught Red Handed , convincing Indaryn to give you the Mark of Dibella.
• Caught Red Handed , convincing Bolli to give you the Mark of Dibella.
• Diplomatic Immunity , convincing Elisif the Fair to create a distraction.
• Diplomatic Immunity , convincing Igmund to create a distraction.
• Diplomatic Immunity , convincing Ondolemar to create a distraction.
• Diplomatic Immunity , convincing Siddgeir to create a distraction.
• Diplomatic Immunity , convincing Vittoria Vici to create a distraction.
• The Fallen , convincing the Jarl of Whiterun to let you use Dragonsreach to capture a dragon.
• A False Front , getting the innkeeper to tell you where the Imperial Courier is.
• A False Front , getting the innkeeper to tell you where the Stormcloak Courier is.
• The Forsworn Conspiracy , getting the key to Margret's room from Kleppr or Frabbi .
• The Forsworn Conspiracy , getting Borkul the Beast to let you in to see Madanach .
• The Forsworn Conspiracy , getting Rhiada to let you in to see Thonar Silver-Blood .
• Hitting the Books , convincing The Caller to let you take the books and leave.
• The House of Horrors , convincing Logrolf that Boethiah sent you.
• The Lover's Requital , getting Lynly to admit her true identity.
• A Night To Remember , getting Senna to reveal your next destination without cleaning the temple.
• A Night To Remember , getting Ysolda to reveal your next destination without getting her ring back.
• Sanuarach Mine , convincing Atar to leave Karthwasten .
• Sanuarach Mine , convincing Ainethach to sell the mine.
• Season Unending , convincing General Tullius to join the peace talks.
• Tending the Flames , the second persuasion option when rewriting King Olaf's Verse.
• Stabilized , convincing Sapphire to forgive Shadr's debt.
• Interception , convincing Azadi to back off. CC
• Hunting the Monster , convincing a friend to help you find a vampire.
• Lost to the Ages , convincing Katria you are strong enough to handle Arkngthamz .
• A New Order , convincing Sorine Jurard to join Dawnguard without getting her a gyro.
• Prophet , getting a carriage driver or innkeeper to give you information on the priest for free.
• A New Source of Stalhrim , convincing Ancarion to peacefully give you the map.
• Convincing Borgakh the Steel Heart to join you as a follower.
• Convincing Drahff and Hewnon to leave you alone in the entrance of the Ratway . ‡
• Convincing a random thief to leave you alone.
• During a random encounter with a would-be mage, convincing him to give you his staff.
• During a random encounter with a mercenary, convincing them to give you the location they were heading to.
• Convincing Geldis Sadri to allow Bralsa Drel back into The Retching Netch . DB
• Convincing Nikulas to stay in Skaal Village . DB

Hard (75/53) [ edit ]

• During A Cornered Rat , getting Dirge to tell you the location of Esbern.
• During A Cornered Rat , getting Vekel the Man to tell you the location of Esbern.
• During A Cornered Rat , getting Brynjolf to tell you the location of Esbern.
• During A Night To Remember , convincing Ennis to reveal your next destination without finding his goat.
• During Dampened Spirits , getting Sabjorn to pay you half before the job.
• During Hard Answers , tricking Calcelmo into giving you the key to the museum.
• During Loud and Clear , getting the key from Aringoth .
• During Missing In Action , getting information on Thorald Gray-Mane 's location from Idolaf Battle-Born .
• During Onmund's Request , convincing Enthir to give you the amulet for free.
• During Pieces of the Past , getting the hilt from Jorgen .
• During The Pursuit , convincing Vald to leave his guard post.
• During Season Unending , convincing your favored side to accept a minor hold.
• During Scoundrel's Folly , getting information from Gulum-Ei .
• During Summerset Shadows , getting Niranye to tell the truth.
• A New Debt , convincing Drovas Relvi to give you 250 gold to help pay off the debt to Mogrul .
• A New Source of Stalhrim , convincing Ancarion to let you sell Stalhrim equipment to him.
• Convincing a guard to ignore minor crimes.
• Convincing Markarth guards to leave you alone, but even then you will still be taken to Cidhna Mine; it is one of the few speech checks in the game that always fails regardless of skill.
• During a random encounter with an adventurer who calls you a milk drinker, backing away from the fight.

Very Hard (100/70) [ edit ]

• Convincing Faralda to let you join the College of Winterhold without taking a test.
• During The Gray Cowl of Nocturnal , convincing Gisli to give you the land title and deed . CC

Prices [ edit ]

Prices are computed by the following:

The Base Price Factor is calculated by your skill level; each skill rank reduces the price factor by .013 by default, and skill levels over 100 have no effect:

• fBarterMax default is 3.3, fBarterMin default is 2.0 (defines a base vendor-selling-range of 200% to 330% of an item's base value, and a vendor-buying-range of 30% to 50%).
• the function min(x,y) return the smallest of two or more arguments (here, [skill-level] or [100]).

The modified Price Factor depends on perks and Fortify Barter bonus:

The final price combines the two Price Factors and rounds to the nearest whole number:

HagglingS = 1.10 at Rank 1, 1.15 at Rank 2, 1.20 at Rank 3, 1.25 at Rank 4, 1.30 at Rank 5. AllureS = 1.10

HagglingB = 0.91 at Rank 1, 0.87 at Rank 2, 0.83 at Rank 3, 0.80 at Rank 4, 0.77 at Rank 5. AllureB = 0.91

• At 0 skill and no perks, the final price factor is 3.3 for buying and 0.303 for selling.
• At 15 skill and no perks, the final price factor is 3.10 for buying and 0.322 for selling.
• At 100 skill and no perks, the final price factor is 2 for buying and 0.5 for selling.
• At 100 skill and all haggling perks, the final price factor is 1.54 for buying and 0.65 for selling.
• At 100 skill and all perks, including Allure, the final price factor is 1.4014 for buying and 0.715 for selling.
• Trade price cap: (max sell price = value * 1.00), (min buy price = value * 1.05).

Skill levels over 100 have no effect.

Investor [ edit ]

Investing 500 gold into a business with the Investor perk immediately increases their current gold by 500. Investing is as simple as speaking to a merchant NPC and selecting the 'I want to invest in your business' option. This can only be done at the same time of day as they would normally allow sales.

All merchants who are available for investments are identified in the notes column on the Merchants article.

Skill Increases [ edit ]

Character creation [ edit ].

The following races have an initial skill bonus to Speech:

• +5 bonus: Breton , Nord

Trainers [ edit ]

• Dro'marash with the Khajiit Caravans (Common)
• Revyn Sadri in Windhelm (Common)
• Ronthil DG in Volkihar Keep (Expert)
• Ogmund in Markarth (Expert)
• Giraud Gemane of the Bards College in Solitude (Master)

Skill Books [ edit ]

• 2920, Second Seed, v5
• A Dance in Fire, v6
• A Dance in Fire, v7
• Biography of the Wolf Queen
• The Buying Game

Free Skill Boosts [ edit ]

• +1 Speech reward (as well as +1 to all other Stealth skills) from Inge Six Fingers ( Bards College ) for completing the quest Finn's Lute .
• +1 Speech reward from Malur Seloth ( Winterhold ) for completing the quest Some Light Theft
• +1 Speech reward from Ysolda ( Whiterun ) for completing the quest Rare Gifts
• +2 Speech reward from Azzadal for jumping off of Bard's Leap Summit . Jump from opposite the Word Wall in Lost Valley Redoubt off the bridge that extends over the waterfall for Azzadal to appear.
• +5 Speech reward (as well as +5 to all other stealth skills) by selecting "The Path of Shadow" from the Oghma Infinium after completing the quest Discerning the Transmundane .

Gaining Skill XP [ edit ]

• Trading with merchants will increase the Speech skill. The amount of skill progress gained is based on the actual value of the item, rather than the amount for which it is bought/sold. Skill progress is not limited by the merchant's available gold.

However, if you trade multiple units of an item at the same time, you will only gain experience equivalent to trading a single unit; for optimal leveling, sell each item one at a time and sell expensive items (e.g. if you have 89 plates and you want to maximize skill gain, you must sell them one at a time instead of all together; it's important to note that you do NOT need to press Esc to exit the merchant's trading window then talk to him again for every plate you have to sell—you should sell them all in a single "transaction", but one at a time).

• Fortify Speech and Barter allow for more items to be purchased for a given amount of gold, which increases skill gains.
• Successful Persuade, Intimidate, and Bribe attempts in conversations will also increase the skill.
• Barter with skill trainers that sell items (trainer-merchants). At higher levels (51 and up) buying 5 training sessions from a trainer-merchant will cost a minimum of 8,200 gold. This will temporarily buff the amount of gold that the trainer-merchant has on hand by the amount of gold used for training sessions. Then you can sell items to the trainer-merchant. At the highest levels you can trade 28,000 worth of items in a single visit if you have saved a level up prior to training (this allows 5 training sessions, a level up, then another immediate 5 sessions). This can require a lot of gold on hand and you should avoid allowing the trainer-merchant to accumulate more than 32,767 gold due to a bug with merchant banks.
• One method for those who have a very large amount of money is to don your best haggling apparel (e.g. Guild Master's Hood and a Necklace of Haggling), go to the local fence and sell/rebuy your most expensive weapons (e.g. a pair of Legendary Blades of Woe) repeatedly until your skill increases to the desired level. [ verification needed — see talk page ] As you will lose money (the amount varies based on perks and equipment) with every sell/buy cycle, the merchant will end up with a vast quantity of gold if you continue the exercise for long enough. At this point you can sell all your more expensive items (i.e. those items which will normally cost the merchant most of their gold) as well as any others to the merchant until they are back down to 0 gold, or you have run out of items to sell.
• One way to train this skill without spending money is to commit a crime with a very low bounty, such as trying to pick a lock one time or stealing an item with a value of less than 10 gold. When your bounty is 5 gold or less, guards may ignore such crimes unless you speak to them. In dialogue, you may get a Persuasion option for the guard to overlook your crime. If you fail the persuasion check with such a low bounty, the guard may ignore the crime anyway. By speaking with and persuading every guard you encounter (except the one who witnessed the crime), your Speech will go from 50 to 100 in 10-15 visits to the town. A bounty of 10 gold may be too high to use this technique. Take note, however: this requires at least 53 Speech (with the Persuade perk) to work; alternately, if you have the gold to spare, you can bribe the guards repeatedly for the same benefit. [ verification needed ]
• The Fortify Restoration or Fortify Alchemy/Enchanting exploit can be used to acquire items of extremely high value, which when sold will grant immense boosts to the Speech skill.
• Speech is one of two skills which has a different Console ID than the name, the other being Archery . The actual Console ID for Speech is Speechcraft . For example, the Console code for improving Speech is AdvancePCskill Speechcraft <#> .
• There are some quests that can repeatedly persuade NPC by exiting the dialogue after the persuasion and before quest stage advances. For example, No News is Good News , The Black Star , Buy Dwarven artifact , and Hard Answers .

Achievements [ edit ]

Achievements related to the Speech skill are:

Dialogue [ edit ]

When you reach a high level in this skill, guards will sometimes comment:

• "Don't think you can barter with me like I'm one of those damned shopkeepers."
• "Heard about you and your honeyed words."

Bugs [ edit ]

• To reset, wait the 48 hours for an inventory refresh. You can also save, attack the merchant, and load; this refreshes their inventory, and is much faster.
• Selecting the Fence perk may allow you to sell stolen goods to any merchant, not just those you have invested in as the perk description states.
• When resetting your Speech skill, you still retain your ability to invest in merchants, without having to have that perk or having a speech skill high enough to be able to get this perk. This is also true for Master Trader —all related merchants will still have 1000 more gold even after you lose the perk.
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Skyrim Speech Guide

Speech skill tips, trainers, and perks.

Skyrim's Speech skill fills two roles in the gameplay. First, it helps your Dragonborn to make more money through higher prices selling to shopkeepers, cheaper buying prices when Haggling, selling stolen goods, and can even let you permanently increase the gold available to a merchant for bartering. Second, it helps with Quest progression by giving you a chance at passing dialog option checks and advancing a quest by persuading, intimidating, or bribing. This also allows you to bribe your way out of trouble with guards, if your bounty is low enough.

Raising the Speech Skill When you sell an item to a merchant, you get skill experience based on the cost of that item. It only counts for the first item, so sell expensive stacks of items one at a time. If you have extra money, it may be cheaper to sell and buy back items from a merchant repeatedly to gain experience than to make use of one of the Speech trainers. Of course, passing speech checks with questgivers and bribing guards also gives Speech experience, and quite a lot of it.

As you level Speech, your purchasing prices will gradually improve. Many dialog options can be used successfully at a low level of speech. You unlock the ability to pass harder speech checks at 25, 50, 75, and 100. Most speech checks can be passed at level 50 Speech.

Ogmund in Markarth is an Expert speech trainer; the Master is Giraud_Gemane from Solitude's Bard's College. As noted above, you may be better off buying and selling items back to the merchant, as your Speech skill rises - in particular if you take Perks from the Speech tree.

Skyrim Speech Skill Perks

There are nine Perks for the Speech skill, requiring 13 points to fully master the tree. There are essentially two branches here. The left will improve your Haggling interactions with Merchants, the right with Questgivers and guards. I do not much bother with the right path myself, though Bribery could be handy for a Thief or otherwise Evil build. The thing is, there are limited uses of Persuasion and Intimidation, aside from easing the requirements of speech checks, allowing you to experience new reactions out of Quest NPCs.

Haggling (5 ranks, 10/15/20/25/30% better buy/sell prices) (level 0/20/40/60/80 Speech Skill required) Since it helps both buy and selling prices, this can seriously tip the scales in your favor when dealing with Merchants. Higher profit margins making potions, smithing, etc. can be found here. Don't underestimate the gameplay value of more money - you may not see direct damage or survivability increases, but it lets you afford the best items available for your level, earning you those goals indirectly.

Allure (level 30 Speech Skill required) Gives you 10% better prices when dealing with the opposite sex. When you have the next Perk, you can take advantage of this fully thanks to being able to sell any item to any shopkeeper.

Merchant (level 50 Speech Skill required) Can buy/sell any kind of item to any Merchant. This vastly opens up your selling options and can help you make more money in less time.

Investor (level 70 Speech Skill required) Investor allows you to give a Merchant 500 gold, which will permanently increase the funding available to them. That means you can make more in less time, as you won't have to visit as many shopkeepers to empty your inventory. This will also help you sell the game's more expensive items at a profit, as many shopkeepers won't have enough gold available to cover them.

Fence (level 90 Speech Skill required) Allows you to barter stolen goods with any Merchant you've invested in, turning them into a Fence. Incredibly helpful for Dovahkiin with sticky fingers or professional thieves.

Master Trader (level 100 Speech Skill required) Every merchant gains 1000 Gold for Bartering. If you bother to go all the way to Fence, you should absolutely grab this when you hit 100 Speech.

Bribery (level 30 Speech Skill required) Allows you to bribe guards to ignore crimes, so long as your bounty isn't too high.

Persuasion (level 50 Speech Skill required) Persuasion attempts are 30% easier, allowing you to pass more dialog checks with a lower level - this is only for Persuade-type interactions.

Intimidation (level 70 Speech Skill required) Intimidation is twice as likely to succeed.

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How to get 100 Speech quickly in Skyrim

This is a guide on how to get 100 Speech quickly in Skyrim without exploits, bugs, or glitches. There are ways to get to the maximum Speech level in mere minutes, but those exploitative ways make the game less enjoyable. Therefore, we will only use gameplay features to raise our Speech level to the maximum.

My Master Blacksmith Guide will be useful

I have already written a descriptive guide on how to become a Master Blacksmith fast in Skyrim . In it, I’ve listed the ways you can mine for ore and smith valuable jewelry. Selling any items at shops slowly levels up Speech, and by smithing and selling the jewelry, you earn Smithing experience, Money, and Speech experience. Very efficient.

As you explore the richly-detailed world of Skyrim , be sure to keep an eye out for alchemical ingredients. Collect these and… eat them to understand their effects. Collect a good amount of alchemical ingredients and return to a city. Now you must craft potions with the ingredients. This will raise your Alchemy and that’s also useful. Craft many potions, draughts, and elixirs and sell the ones you don’t want. Selling items gives you Speech experience and you can then use the money you earned from selling the Smithing supplies and Potions for our next section.

Skill Trainers

Choosing a good teacher is key to becoming a good student. So, we will seek the best teacher for our Speechcraft learning needs. For this, we will need to visit the Bards College of Solitude. You can partake in a beautiful questline in this college, but that’s a topic for another time.

Giraud Gemane is a renowned author and an intelligent Breton man. You will not find a master more suitable for a gifted student such as yourself anywhere else in the province. Talk with your new teacher and pay him to train you. You can gain five levels of Speech per character level. When you obtain 50 Speech or more, the rates of the teacher will increase substantially. This is where the money from your trades comes in handy. As a good student, you also need to practice by yourself; but we already established the ways to do so in the above sections.

Free Skill Training Opportunities

There are a few side objectives you can accomplish to gain more experience in Speechcraft.

Talk to Inge Six Fingers at the Bards College and retrieve an item for her to teach you.

Malur Seloth is a shady character residing in the inn of Winterhold. Speak to him and begin the side objective to steal a staff.

Ysolda at Whiterunwill train you to be better at Speech when you fetch her a Mammoth’s tusk.

Azzadal is a ghost who tragically perished after attempting a life-or-death stunt at the Bard’s Leap Summit. Speak with this rather friendly spectre to engage in a fun activity and earn a point in Speechcraft in the process.

Reading Skill Books

There are a lot of skill books scattered throughout the world of Skyrim . You will definitely come across them in your travels. Read them to gain skill levels in many skills, not just Speech.

What do you think? Are there better ways to increase Speech? Let us know!

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The skill of persuasion can be used to get better prices from merchants and persuade others to do as you ask.

Speech is a skill in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and is one of the six skills that falls under The Thief playstyle. This skill is a combination of both Speechcraft and Mercantile skills of previous Elder Scrolls games and replaces them. Speech may also help with quests by unlocking special dialogue interactions, including Intimidate, Persuade, Bribe, Mock, Brawl , and more.

Governing Guardian Stones : The Thief Stone

• 1.1 Types of Speech
• 4.3 Trainers
• 5.1 Bribing guards
• 5.2 Persuading guards
• 5.3 Learning bonuses
• 5.4 Repeatedly buying and selling
• 5.5 Persuade the toll road bandit
• 5.6 Persuade and intimidate Calcelmo
• 6.1 Ahkari's merchant inventory
• 6.2 Intimidate Anton Virane
• 6.3 Intimidating Sabjorn
• 6.4 Intimidate Nelacar
• 6.5 Persuade Ungrien
• 6.6 Persuade Ulfric Stormcloak
• 8 Achievements

Usefulness and function

Speech directly affects the prices paid when buying from and selling to merchants , even without the assorted perks . At 0 Speech, merchants sell items for 3 times their base price, and buy for a third of their base price. At 100 Speech, merchants will sell items for twice their base price and buy them for half as much. Alternatively, Speech can be used to persuade people into doing things or divulging crucial information. Bribes made are also governed by Speech. There are 65 male and 45 female merchants in Skyrim, so Dragonborns interested in Allure have an advantage if they choose to be female.

Types of Speech

• Barter (buy/sell)

The following are the perks that become available to select as the skill is leveled up:

† The way Investor seems to work is that the 500 gold ends up in the shopkeeper's personal inventory rather than the store inventory. Also, it seems like any gold in the shopkeeper's personal inventory is added to the store gold when calculating how much they can buy. This means two things:

Prices are computed by the following:

• At 0 skill and no perks the price factor is 3.3
• At 100 skill and no perks the price factor is 2
• At 100 skill and all perks the price factor is 1.42857.

Skills over 100 have no effect.

The speech skill increase depends on the base value of the item traded or the difficulty of the bribe or persuasion. When selling items, it is not actually required to receive any gold, only that the transaction takes place. The skill increase only occurs once per transaction. In order to optimize leveling, expensive items in groups of 6 or more should be sold individually, rather than all at once.

The following books provide a permanent one-time increase to the Dragonborn's Speech skill. See each book's page for a list of possible locations.

• Biography of the Wolf Queen
• 2920, Second Seed, v5
• A Dance in Fire, v6
• A Dance in Fire, v7
• The Buying Game
• Oghma Infinium – choosing the Path of Shadow increases all Thief skills, including Speech, by five.

The following quests increase or help to increase the Speech skill:

• Tending the Flames for the Bards College awards the Dragonborn with the ability , Gift of the Gab , which increases the experience gained in Speech by 15%.
• Steal the Staff of Arcane Authority for Malur Seloth in Winterhold .
• Collect a Mammoth Tusk for Ysolda from Whiterun .
• Jump from Bard's Leap Summit at Lost Valley Redoubt south of Rorikstead, survive, and speak to the Bard's Ghost at the bottom.
• Retrieve the Finn's Lute for Inge Six Fingers at the Bards College in Solitude. This also increases the Light Armor , Sneak , Lockpicking , Pickpocket , and Alchemy skills.
• Revyn Sadri (Common): Sadri's Used Wares , in the Gray Quarter of Windhelm
• Dro'marash (Adept): Khajiit Caravans
• Ogmund (Expert): Markarth , can be found inside the Silver-Blood Inn
• Giraud Gemane (up to 90 – Master): Bards College , Solitude
• Ronthil (Expert) Castle Volkihar

Leveling tips

Bribing guards, persuading guards.

Similar to the above method, after progressing far enough into the Thieves Guild questline, the Dragonborn can commit a minor crime, such as failed pickpocketing or stealing. Once the crime has been committed, the Dragonborn can go up to a guard and initiate the "Wait, I know you." dialogue. Any option (aside from resisting or submitting to arrest) should be available to persuade them to overlook it. Though the guards says they will not let it slide the next time, they will never attack or arrest the Dragonborn (unless the submit or resist dialogue option was chosen).

Note: This will not remove the bounty, it will just stop the conversation peacefully, while slightly improving Speech. This can then be done to all of the guards in a Hold , but it should not be repeated on the same guard, as this can cause the option to go away. Instead, all the guards should be cycled through with the dialogue. This is especially useful at medium-high levels, since nothing has to be paid or sold, and the risk is practically zero.

Learning bonuses

Wearing the Aetherial Crown , obtain the blessings from the Lover Stone and the Thief Stone , and combine with Gift of the Gab and any rested bonuses (remove crown/lover stone before resting) will make leveling up Speech even faster (65% with the rested lover's comfort bonus, 60% with well rested). Note that only the Lover and Thief Stones, and Gift of the Gab may be used if the Dragonborn is infected with lycanthropy , as werewolves do not benefit from resting bonuses.

Repeatedly buying and selling

To increase the efficiency of this method get all the learning bonuses above, sell items in groups of 6 or more individually, get a necklace with the Fortify Barter enchantment or an Amulet of Zenithar , activate the Shrine of Zenithar , get The Gift of Charity and take a Haggling potion .

Get a large amount of high value items, in total the value should be tens of thousands of Septims or more. Stolen items are fine. If you have a large pile of otherwise useless items as the result of levelling Alchemy , Enchanting , Pickpocketing or Smithing that is perfect. Keep in mind that you will sacrifice these items to level Speech. Find a merchant who accepts your items. If your items are stolen this should be a fence and if you get better prices from the opposite sex make sure your merchant is. Now sell them items until the merchant runs out of gold. Now buy one or two items back. You will probably pay several times more than they gave you for it, but the seller has gold again. Sell the merchant some more items until they run out of gold again. Repeat this until you run out of items. This allows you to work around the otherwise limited gold merchants have because you are effectively giving it to them.

Persuade the toll road bandit

Persuade and intimidate calcelmo.

Those who deliver a Dwemer item to Calcelmo may both persuade/intimidate for a better deal and exit the conversation before selecting either, "Sold. Here you go. (Gain ___ gold)," or, "Not good enough. I'll hold onto this. You'll need to find another one." Intimidation requires 40 Speech to be successful; persuading requires 50. Each option can be performed once per item brought to him.

Leveling tips (glitches)

Ahkari's merchant inventory.

In Dawnstar , Ahkari's merchant inventory can be accessed through a glitch (see page for details). After placing all gold in the chest, all the items in inventory can be sold to the merchant. Doing this will give back the gold put into the chest. Afterward, the items can be retrieved from the chest and the process repeated forever. The net is no change to gold or items, but an increase in Speech skill.

Intimidate Anton Virane

During the Dark Brotherhood quest " Recipe for Disaster ," Anton Virane can be intimidated repeatedly to level Speech. This can be accomplished by:

• When talking with him, after saying, "For the Dark Brotherhood, that can be easily arranged. (Intimidate)," he will respond, "The Dark Brotherhood?."
• If the conversation is immediately exited, the Dragonborn can begin to talk to him again and quickly skip through most of the conversation.
• Exiting the conversation at the same time as before increases Speech.

This can be repeated forever.

Intimidating Sabjorn

During the " Dampened Spirits " quest, the Dragonborn can loop a conversation with Sabjorn to quickly level Speech. To do this:

• A conversation with Sabjorn can be started (this must be during the quest).
• When Sabjorn says that the Dragonborn will not be paid until the job is done, the intimidate option can be chosen.
• The conversation should be immediately exited when he begins his sentence (PC = Esc or Tab).
• This can be repeated as needed.

Intimidate Nelacar

During the Daedric quest "The Black Star," the Dragonborn can continually intimidate Nelacar in the Inn in Winterhold. When he asks "Who sent you?" choose the Intimidate option and immediately exit the conversation. This can be repeated indefinitely.

Persuade Ungrien

At anytime the Dragonborn can enter the Black-Briar Meadery where you will encounter the shop attendant Ungrien . Confront him and then repeatably persuade him to tell the truth about how he feels about his employer Maven Black-Briar. This glitch can be repeated indefinitely.

• You must have at least a Speech level of 25 to make him cough up the truth, if not then you can use the bribery option until persuasion is effective. If persuasion is not effective then Speech is not increased.
• This bug has been apparently fixed by means of version 1.9, however, if in offline mode on Xbox 360 or you have neglected to accept this patch or any before it. Then the glitch will be operational.

Persuade Ulfric Stormcloak

During the quest " Season Unending ", Ulfric Stormcloak can be persuaded to attend the peace council. If immediately left in dialogue following the persuasion attempt, the option can be used again.

Some items increase the Speech skill or bartering. These include:

• Amulet of Dibella
• Amulet of Articulation
• Masque of Clavicus Vile
• Glibness potions (+20 to +50 Speech for 60 sec)
• Haggling potions (10% to 25 better prices for 30 seconds)
• Thieves Guild Hood (prices are 10% better)
• Guild Master's Hood (prices are 20% better)
• Daedric Armor (wearing a full set raises the chance of successful intimidation checks by 10%)
• Volsung (Mask) (prices are 20% better)
• Jester's Clothes / Cicero's Outfit
• Amulets of Haggling (12% to 25% better prices)
• Amulet of Zenithar (10% better prices)

In addition, two blessings can be granted:

• The Shrine of Dibella grants +10 Speech for 8 hours
• The Shrine of Zenithar grants 10% better prices for 8 hours

Achievements

• Skills (Skyrim)
• Elder Scrolls
• 1 Marriage (Skyrim)
• 2 Console Commands (Skyrim)
• 3 Trainers (Skyrim)

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• Gold is crucial in Skyrim for buying equipment, homes, followers, and more. Have a hoard for unlimited fun.
• Earn gold by questing, growing Blisterwort, joining Thieves Guild, and selling firewood or dragon bones.
• Improve Speech, craft potions, transmute iron, restore the Crown of Barenziah, enchant, marry, or hunt treasure for wealth.

Gold is essential to survival in Skyrim . Players need gold to buy vital equipment such as spells, potions, and crafting materials, and it is also used to purchase player homes, hire certain followers, and get past speech checks with a bribe. So, having a vast hoard of gold is important if players want to have a ton of fun in this game and not worry about any monetary constraints.

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Getting rich can be difficult, especially in the early stages of a Skyrim playthrough, but it can be done quite easily enough by exploiting glitches . However, those who don't enjoy using glitches (or who use mods to remove them) will need to find other ways to make money in Skyrim . Fortunately, there are plenty of things players can do to start raking in a decent income.

Updated May 21, 2024 by Ritwik Mitra: Players who want to get rich as soon as possible in Skyrim may consider the path to be as easy as they come, especially if they've already played through the game before. It's easy to play the game as intended and not stress out about money, since players who go through the title at their own pace will ideally be swimming in gold in no time.

However, some players are going through the game for the umpteenth time or simply don't have the patience to wait for their funds to expand. In such events, it's better to use tried-and-tested methods of earning money to ensure that the Dragonborn isn't broke for too long and can afford the best equipment, items, and anything else along the same lines.

1 Grow And Sell Blisterwort Fungus

One of the more valuable herbs in the game.

Most people would consider the act of growing herbs to be a complete waste of time, especially if they have better things to do. While this is an understandable train of thought, some ingredients sell for a great sum and net players a lot of gold with minimal effort. Blisterwort Fungus is one such plant that's relatively slow to grow and nets a lot of gold as long as players have a good thing going with a merchant.

Of course, to grow plants, players must amass enough money to own a home in the first place. Once players achieve this milestone, they can build a greenhouse that they can use to grow whatever herbs they want. With enough Blisterwort Fungus growing in numerous greenhouses, players can enjoy a great and pain-free way to earn cash in no time.

2 Complete As Many Quests As Possible

A nice, immersive way to earn money.

While this may seem like an obvious point to bring up, there's no denying that Skyrim is jam-packed with quests that give players a reward upon completion. It's impossible to go from point A to point B without accepting a ton of quests on the way, with most of the conditions for completion being as easy as they come. Given how much fun it is to engage in questing, it's easy to see why players won't even be averse to this mode of earning money.

To make things better, some quests send players to locations that can be looted for gold and valuables that can be sold for a tidy sum. This is essentially killing two birds with one stone and is a great way to ensure that players can enjoy Skyrim 's strengths while also getting loaded in the process.

3 Join The Thieves Guild

The fences and valuable quests let players earn a lot of money.

The Thieves Guild is one of the many guilds that players can join to initiate a series of quests that starts with players being a lowly member of said guild before ascending the ranks and becoming one of the most respected members in the faction. The Thieves Guild is present all across the world of Skyrim , giving players access to quests with a high payout and unlocking the services of fences.

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Given how much players can steal in the game, it's important to find a fence that can take these goods from a Dragonborn who is on the verge of being encumbered. To make things even better, most fences come with impressive piles of gold, meaning that players can enjoy an excellent haul with just one trip across a city where they steal everything in sight that isn't bolted to a surface.

4 Steal Everything In Sight

Can be sold for a tidy sum to a fence.

Players can't be faulted for turning into kleptomaniacs whenever they start a new game in Skyrim . After all, they barely have anything to their name early on, and everything in the game looks so appealing that players simply have to loot everything in sight.

While the Dragonborn is discouraged from taking items that belong to someone else, there's no reason not to do this as long as players are smart about their immoral activities. Of course, it's important to secure the services of a fence beforehand , since players will just get overcumbered if they steal otherwise.

5 Pickpocket Everyone

Some npcs carry rare valuables and a lot of gold.

Many people don't invest too many points into pickpocketing in Skyrim , since it's pretty boring to sneak around and loot everyone in sight without being caught. Unless players have a ton of skill points in this department, pickpocketing is a surefire way to attract the law who will jail the player at a moment's notice.

However, with enough points in this skill, players can amass a fortune in no time at all ! Going to places populated by well-off NPCs is a great way to get a lot of goodies and gold that will help the Dragonborn quite a bit in their adventure.

6 Chop And Sell Firewood

A simple way to get a bit of gold.

Most players don't really bother to chop wood in the game, given how menial this task is. However, if players don't mind engaging in a facet of Skyrim 's gameplay that is generally ignored, then they'll find firewood to be a decent money-earner in the game.

Firewood can be sold for 2 gold to most merchants, but mill workers and innkeepers will buy them at 5 gold apiece. It may be a boring way to earn gold but it's something that players can endure early on before more lucrative options become accessible to the player.

7 Hunt Down Dragons And Sell Their Bones

Dragon bones are extremely profitable.

Dragons are easily one of Skyrim 's biggest draws. Fighting against one of these flying monstrosities makes for a great time as players hack and slash their way to victory in the first few encounters with these beasts.

While dragons become easier to manage in the later stages of Skyrim , most people would argue that this doesn't take away from their allure in the slightest. Players who make it a point to kill most of the dragons they find in the game will be rewarded with spoils in the form of Dragon Bones, which sell for a pretty penny as long as players have space in their inventory to grab a few of them.

8 Repeat Radiant Quests

Slightly arduous but a decent way to earn money.

When Skyrim was announced, Todd Howard made it a point to highlight the Radiant Quest system and how it would allow players to go on limitless adventures. In reality, this system didn't have a lot of depth, with the vast majority of these being boring fetch quests that don't really add anything to a player's experience.

Still, players who don't mind completing these quests will earn a pretty penny for their efforts. It's not the most efficient way to earn money in the game, but it's still better than just ignoring this part of Skyrim altogether.

9 Raise Speech Level

Bartering to increase sale price and get discounts on goods is pretty useful.

One of the most important steps players must take if they want to get rich is to improve their Speech skills. Speech determines the buy/sell price in shops, so a high Speech skill means buying items for cheap and selling them for heaps.

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Speech is commonly improved by buying and selling items, but it can also be increased by reading certain skill books, completing certain quests, or purchasing Speech training (although this costs precious gold), and it can be fortified with enchantments and potions. Nords and Bretons also start with an extra five levels in Speech.

10 Pray To Zenithar

Prices are improved in the player's favor by 10%.

The Nine Divines in Skyrim provide players with useful blessings whenever they pray at their shrines, lasting for eight hours. By praying at a Shrine of Zenithar, players will then enjoy 10% better prices.

There is an easily accessible Shrine of Zenithar in Solitude's Temple of the Divines, so using that city as a home base would be a good strategy. A shrine can also be built once the player has purchased a Hearthfire home.

11 Craft Potions

High-level alchemy lets players craft valuable potions.

One of the fastest ways to make money is by crafting potions and poisons—and then selling them. Skyrim has a wealth of alchemy ingredients available to the player, and while many of these can be purchased cheaply, they can also be found in abundance all over the wilderness.

A short walk outside the city will yield a full inventory worth of ingredients, which can then be turned into potions. The selling price of these potions is determined by their rarity and potency, and players can even craft Fortify Speechcraft potions to further enhance the money made from the others.

12 Turn Iron Into Gold

Transmutation is a great way to gain valuable materials as long as players have the magicka to spare.

Once players have exhausted all the alchemy ingredients in the vicinity, the next method is to transmute iron ore into gold. To do this, players must first acquire the Alteration spell tome for Transmute, which can be found in Halted Stream Camp or Ansilvund Burial Chambers (the former is easier to get to).

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After learning the spell, simply mine or purchase iron ore, and transmute it. Iron ore has a value of 2 Septims, but by transmuting it into gold players increase the value to 50. Selling gold ore in bulk while the Speech skill is buffed by potions, enchantments, and Zenithar's blessing will yield optimal profits. There's no need to smelt the ore for this.

13 Restore The Crown Of Barenziah

Nets players a buff that lets them accumulate gems in no time at all.

Throughout the player's journey in Skyrim, they may collect Unusual Gems. Taking one of these gems to the Thieves Guild reveals that they are in fact stones from the Crown of Barenziah and that twenty-four of them need to be gathered to restore the crown.

It takes a while, but completing the No Stone Unturned quest rewards players with a buff that makes gems incredibly common. Players will end up with more gems than they know what to do with, providing a seemingly endless source of wealth.

14 Craft Jewelry

The sale value of these jewels is immense.

If players wish to further increase the value of the gems, gold, and silver they find (or make), they can use the Smithing skill to turn it into jewelry. Silver, and especially gold, necklaces are the easiest way to turn a profit from those metals, but combining them with certain gems can further increase their value.

However, not every jewelry piece turns a profit. Sometimes using a gem with jewelry can decrease its value. Jewelry pieces that do turn a profit include gold diamond necklaces, gold ruby necklaces and circlets, and silver emerald circlets. If none of these gems are on hand, however, the best strategy is to transmute iron into gold and craft gold necklaces.

15 Capture Souls

Soul gems are extremely valuable.

Perhaps not the most ethical way to generate an income, but filling empty soul gems and selling them can turn into quite a lucrative business indeed. Filling a soul gem multiplies its value, so players with a high Speech level can purchase empty ones for cheap and then turn a profit once they're filled.

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Petty soul gems are the best to use with this strategy. They are the cheapest, are common, and there is an abundance of creatures with petty souls. Furthermore, their value is quadrupled when filled. As they become more available at higher levels black soul gems are also effective for this strategy—but keep in mind that using them means trafficking in human souls.

16 Enchant Weapons & Armor

Special weapons sell for a tidy sum.

Players may prefer to use their soul gems to increase the value of weapons and armor by enchanting them, which can often prove more lucrative than simply selling the souls on their own. If a ready source of cheap weapons is available, enchanting them can be quite profitable.

The stronger the enchantment (and the weapon/armor piece), the higher the value. Enchantments can also be applied to crafted jewelry pieces to make them even more valuable.

17 Get Married

Spouses share gold and the lover's comfort bonus can indirectly increase their reservoir of wealth.

Getting married might not seem like a good way to get rich, but it has its benefits. Spouses in Skyrim share 100 gold with the Dragonborn each day from their own job, and although it isn't a lot, players don't need to do anything to generate it.

Furthermore, sleeping in the same building as one's spouse grants the Lover's Comfort bonus, which makes all skills improve 15% faster — an excellent boon for improving Speech. Finding a spouse is easy , so marriage is worth it if the goal is to get rich.

18 Treasure Hunt

While waiting for their spouse to generate income, or if one gets bored with grinding at the other money-making methods, the player can start a lucrative career as a treasure hunter.

Skyrim 's numerous dungeons are full of riches just waiting to be claimed by a brave adventurer. Selling these treasures can yield thousands of Septims per dungeon, so treasure hunting is an exciting and profitable enterprise. After creating multiple streams of income and generating a large amount of gold, players are then free to enjoy their wealth and spend it to their heart's content.

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