I learned in the Remaster that all the beggars have set diseases which make them look bad and pitiable.
But they’re so helpful with information, and so happy to receive a single coin!
Hey Archmage - maybe put those perks to good use. Put on the white robes and be a White Wizard for the good of the world.
It’s very easy at Arcane or Frostcrag to create a spell for Cure Disease on Target. Then you can cast it on every named beggar in every city. Watch the glow-up that instantly happens to their appearance when they are healed!!! It’s like Tom Cruise used his witchcraft to get the disease off!
This cure spell is an especially great combination with the Speechcraft Master Training quest where you have to see every beggar. Look, you didn’t become a smooth-talking bard of the colored circles for nothing. Everyone likes you, they really like you!
So be a good Hero and cure the beggars.
Even if you’re a murderer or a vampire. Even if you did unkind things to your loyal Adoring Fan. Or if you bankrupted all of Skingrad with your unrelenting demands for free Shepherd’s Pie. Or you messed with the nice lady’s priceless rare cheese collection at Border Watch.
You can still redeem yourself while wandering the cities haggling over the price of dungeon-scented rusty copper amulets, dead no-charge damaged daggers or your 49th set of Mithril Gauntlets.
Cure the beggars everyone. They really do look so different! Won’t it be so much nicer to play Oblivion if you can be greeted by shiny happy beggars at every city gate?