Mages Guild

The Mages Guild is perhaps the handiest guild in the whole game.  Some of their services (Identifying magic items and selling pre-made spells) are available to non-members.  Every player who can join the Mages Guild should do so, if for no other reason than gaining access to the spell-maker.

Required Skills:

• Alteration, Destruction, Illusion, Mysticism, Restoration, Thaumaturgy

Training Offered:

• Guild skills plus Daedric, Dragonish, Harpy, Impish, Orcish, Spriggan

Benefits of Membership:

• Access to spellmaker at rank 0
• Access to library at rank 2
• Buy magic items at rank 3
• Buy Soul Gems at rank 4
• Access to item maker at rank 5
• Access to Daedra summoning at rank 6 (caution -- summonings only performed on specific days)
• Access to teleporter at rank 8 and Guildhalls become 24/7 operations

Mages Guild quests tend to fall into a few general varieties: stand guard for 3 hours (you get to fight thieves and assassins), fetch research papers, kill imps, kill runaway lab experiments, fetch spell components, kill rogue wizards. The last ones involve dungeon crawling, but the rest are pretty straight-forward.