record the deeds of great warriors&
honestly think I have the dullest job in the world&
copy the words of the greatest poets of %lp&
do whate'er needs to be done&
run errands around town for my master&
used to be a successful merchant myself&
play several different musical instruments&
am writing my own symphony for the %t&
may be playing at the imperial palace next year&
trade commodities&
am raising my son to take my place&
only wish business in this %ct was better&
am preparing nature-worshipping disciples&
just found the perfect human sacrifice&
am conducting services in the park tonight&
conduct prayer services&
am attempting to find converts&
cannot believe I just broke my vow of silence!&
lead a group of acolytes&
am very concerned about the moral climate of this %ct&
am part of the %t's Circle of Elders&
am making plans to protect the surrounding woodlands&
just led an adventuring party through the wilds of %lp&
love running naked through the wilderness&
am one of the %t's private bodyguards&
keep the meaner element out of the %nt&
work for the owner of %en&
study black arts theory at the Mages' Guild&
really am more of a magician than a true mage&
am one of the authorities on ethereal travel&
rough people up, you know&
particularly love to beat up %ra kids&
possess a membership to the Wharf Rats syndicate&
try to avoid work of any kind&
am happy to be out of the asylum&
might or might not be undercover&
quite frankly steal things&
was thinking about picking this %ra's pockets&
mean, a chef&
kill whoever deserves killing&
just finished my last assignment&
mean an assembler ... a factory assembler&
am sorta a jack of all trades&
just got back from the %t's mother's bedroom&
don't do much, and I do it well&
sing songs of lost love and great deeds&
think I might get to perform at the %t's court this week&
just might write a tune about you, %ra&
research certain rather obscure historic situations&
have been hired to write the story of %t %rf's family&
fear I smell a little of library dust&
work in the %t's gardens&
have got the dirty hands to prove it&
have recently been hired by the %tem for their gardens&
train and board all sorts of domestic and exotic animals&
spend most of my day with horses&
don't really like humans, especially %ra ones, all that much&
put hexes on people&
mean, not the wicked kind&
think you just stepped on my familiar - no, never mind&
brought fresh wild beasties to the %nt&
just killed a ten-point buck, you bet&
just like to be out in nature, you know, killing things&
gauge public opinion on political issues&
am a junior member of the %t's Circle of Elders&
welcome you to %cn2, I mean, %cn&
am a co-owner of the %nt&
run a tavern in this %ct&
own the %nt, you know, with my partners&
serve ale at the %nt&
keep the boys from gettin' thirsty at the %nt&
guess I'm every fellow's best friend at the %nt&
prepare the harvest grapes into the finest wine&
make the wine they serve at the %nt&
make the godawful wine they serve in the %tem's service&
cook and stuff&
assist %t %rf's head chef, thank you very much&
slop gruel for the dears souls at the %tem&
make the best armor you ever seen&
recommend you see my work at %en&
prefer that over amourer, and armormor. You know, armorer&
was just commissioned to paint a portrait of the %t&
like to work best in oils&
will be making a frieze for the %tem next month&
work in %t %rf's land right outside&
think I saw you tromping through my fields a while back&
don't make it into town very often&
have brought some fresh fish I caught&
guess you could tell from my smell&
was just shopping for a new, bigger net&
make necklaces, rings, and bracelets&
have made jewelery for %t %rf's mother before&
can spot a fake diamond at 20 paces&
tan animal hides to make leather armor&
do some of the leather items at equipment stores in town&
do a lot of work for the Thieves' Guild and Wharf Rats&
do woodworking&
just got finished with some repairs over at the temple&
do odd work, some of it for %t %rf's family&
am preparing for a journey through the Blue Divide&
could tell you a thing or two about the lands beyond Tamriel&
hate to admit it, but I'm a little lost&
am on shoreleave, visiting relatives&
spend most of my time drunk&
spent my first twenty-five years on the sea&
create sailing vessels of every description&
have never actually been out to sea&
actually worked on the Emperor's armada&
make all kinds of clothing&
was part of the staff who designed the %t's mother's coronation gown&
sew, stitch, make alterations, you know, stuff like that&
sell raw skins to the %ct's tanners&
spend most of my time out in the wild&
invented a new peeling process for beavers&
serve the %t of %cn's private needs&
work for some of the wealthiest family in %cn&
have worked for the %t's family for years&
am running a scientific laboratory&
have succeeded in turning gold into lead, unfortunately&
have been hired to do research at the Mages' Guild&
train several blacksmith apprentices&
am employed at %en&
do some of the repairs at %en, just around here&
do research at the Mages' Guild&
am under a grant with the %tem to do religious work&
collect human knowledge&
run a wealthy nobleman's household&
help take care of %t %rf's children&
make myself indispensable to the %t of %cn, I think&
do, I admit, basically nothing all day long&
attend balls, receptions, and parties, week after week&
collect an allowance from daddy and mummy&
make predictions and forecasts for %t %rf at the palace&
knew you would talk to me&
just got hired by the %tem to find out their future&
look out after the needs of the working class&
act as go-between between my people and the %t while tensions are high&
had to kill a lot of people to get to where I am today&
am in training with the blacksmiths at %en, learning by practice&
do all the work and get all the blame&
try not to work any harder than I have to&
have been repairing some stonework at the %tem temple all day&
think I have a chance to work on the %t's palace&
basically do general repair work on stone all around the city&
train the mighty birds of prey&
hope to work someday in the emperor's aviaries&
even keep some of the %t's birds in my house&
run some local businesses, like the %nt and %en just around here&
run several inns in the %ct with my partner&
am partners with some gentlemen for the ownership of some inns in town&
bake bread&
make muffins, cookies, cakes, and breads&
prepare pastries for %t %rf's sweet tooth&
help prepare meat for %t %rf's banquets&
chop up huge carcasses into bite-sized bits&
just delivered some great-looking mutton&
cut hair&
run a little barber shop down the street from here&
share responsibility for the %t of %cn's new coiffure&
make shoes, boots, and sandals&
work over at %en, cleaning up&
do exactly that, I make boots&
provide vegetables and fruits for the %t of %cn's table&
act as agent for several of the farmers in the region&
run a little vegetable shack down the road a bit&
just mend pots and pans&
do a little of this and a little of that&
guess I'm sorta a fix-it-up person&
make loans, determine credit, and hold people's money safely&
try to make a few gold pieces any way I can&
have little interest ... sorry, that was a terrible joke&
make certain people pay the money they owe&
have a very, very loyal clientele&
once even loaned some gold to the %t - and I'm still waiting&
make little golden knick-knacks&
create necklaces, rings, bracelets, even an occasional piece of armor&
make baubles and ornaments for the idle rich&
make silver weapons, even occasionally a mithril one&
hope to one day be an Ebonysmith&
spend most of my time fighting tarnish&
make tapestries for temples and palaces&
was just out shopping for a new loom&
hope to be hired to make a new tapestry for the palace&
am teaching my apprentices to make glass bowls and goblets&
do just that - I blow glass&
worked on the chandelier over at the %t's palace&
have been constructing some interior woodwork at the palace&
have to tell you, the world is full of dryrot&
wish people in %cn had more taste for ornamental mouldings&
run a school here&
think I might get a grant from the %t for my research&
have been battling illiteracy in %cn&
have been recently hired to do translations for various temples&
am working on a translation of Dark Elvish poetry&
speak thy language fluently&
make potions and poisons of every description&
just got a contract to make drugs for the Mages' Guild&
try all my drugs on myself before selling them to others&
heal the sick, at least, those who are rich&
do not get nearly as much healing business as I thought&
just got over a bit of a cold myself&
am afraid I am just a low-level secretary&
do mostly legal stuff for different organization&
suppose you noticed my ink-smudged hands&
move around a lot, but right now I'm working for the %t doing odd things&
got into %cn a little while ago, looking for some excitement&
guess you could say I'm a killer for hire&
lock up suspicious-looking %ra adventurers all the time&
keep the %cn prison the cleanest in %lp, perhaps in all of Tamriel&
was just thinking about starting a prison choir group&
have the ability to read the future in the stars&
make predictions for both the %t and the %tem when needed&
really am a terrible fake, to tell the truth&
bring the Imperial word to this %ct's %t, when summoned&
started off as a mere courtier from %cn2, now I work for the Emperor&
have been in conference with %t %rf all day long&
see that %t %rf's word is heard in %cn, so that we all know the laws..&
am sorry my voice is so hoarse&
have been running back and forth from palace to town square all day&
write light verse and important sonnets&
don't have very many friends&
actually have had a few poems privately published&
am due to appear at the %cn theatre next week&
tend to play the part of enchanted princesses and fairies&
have been told I'm extremely self-absorbed&
have been working on my newest historical comi-tragedy&
might get my new play at the palace&
think I might do something based on %t %rf's life, a comedy maybe&
work in the fields for basically no pay&
like to think of myself as a victim of the feudal system&
smell like a workhorse, as I guess you've noticed&
sweat like an animal day in and day out&
have calluses the size of saddle bags on my hands&
work my heart out during the harvest and starve in the winter&
find out what strangers like you know over at the %ct prison&
have a particular talent for removing the human tongue slowly&
used to work in the palace, now I'm at the %cn prison&
make certain the proper taxes are being paid&
just received word of a new imperial excise tax&
assume you've already paid thy visitor's tax&
serve as advisor, counselor, and prophet to %t %rf, whenever asked&
make auguries and sacrifices at the %tem for the %t when needed&
see things behind my eyes and they come to be&
have just been commissioned to make a series of statues&
did that statue of the naked man down the street&
have been doing bas-reliefs at the %tem - you ought to see them&
craft objects, weapons and armor mostly, from ebony&
work exclusively for %en, of course&
actually let my apprentices to most of the dirty work&
am postulating a new geometry&
have been amusing myself with some crypto-algebra, you know&
help instruct %t %rf's children as one of the private tutors&
drive malevolent spirits from the bodies of men&
work as one of the healers in the %tem, until I can start my own practice&
battle demons and spirits from the netherworld daily&
am giving a dance performance next week&
will be part of the troupe doing the traditional %lp dance&
would appreciate it if you'd get off my toe, thank you&
am on my way to lead some adventurers through the wilderness&
can locate a toad in a field of frogs&
know the %lp wilderness like my own backyard&
prepare medicinal herb and spice preparations&
just got out of the %cn prisons for growing some illegal herbs&
just sold my entire nightshade harvest to the Mages' Guild&
am enrolled at a college here in %cn, but only during the winter&
study all of the classic literature of %lp, so someday I'll travel&
drink a lot, study a little&
am writing a major epistemological tract&
was called one of the ten most influential logicians in %lp last year&
think, therefore I earn&
smite the enemies of the gods&
release those who doubt the holy word of the %tem, through death&
have a lot of free time and a lot of anger&
am organizing a group of fellow pilgrims&
thought that %cn would be a tolerant %ct, but I think I was wrong&
am going to a %tem shrine on the %lp border&
kinda have a thing for sheep&
left my flocks out in the meadowlands with my brother&
guess I'm a little bit of a bumpkin&
carry my master's armor and weapons when he's not using them&
expect I'll probably be a warrior myself some day&
seem to have lost sight of my master in this crowd&
repair shoes and boots&
work over at %en, repairing shoes and boots&
have to admit I spend most of my day daydreaming&
sell to people who can't afford my goods&
run a few almost legal commodities from %cn to %cn2&
sell stuff, you know, nothing you'd be interested in&
mash grains into flour, which in turn is made into bread&
hope my son will take over my business when he is old enough&
make almost half of the meal and flour used in this place&
mostly travel around, doing odd jobs&
go wherever my spirit moves me&
believe that freedom is more important than anything else&
do practically everything over at the %nt, with a smile&
haven't had a vacation in years, even to %cn2 which is quite close by&
hope you'll come to my place, it's called the %nt and it's in town&
suffer from a malady that brings great amusement to others&
enjoy drooling, nonsense words, and, of course, walking in circles&
am completely mad&
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