Skyrim:Cairine

Cairine (RefID: 000D6702)
Home City	Markarth
Location	The Warrens
Race	Breton	Gender	Female
Level	4	Class	Citizen
RefID	000D6702	BaseID	000D66FE
Other Information
Health	75	Magicka	60
Stamina	60
Primary Skills	Conjuration
Morality	No Crime	Aggression	Unaggressive
Voice Type	FemaleCoward
Faction(s)	CrimeFactionReach; MarkarthWarrensTenantsFaction; TownMarkarthFaction

Cairine

Cairine is a Breton citizen living in The Warrens, the hub for all the poor and sick of Markarth. She used to work at the Smelter in Markarth, but is now too sick to do so. Instead, she spends her whole day sitting on the ground of the Warrens holding her stomach in pain.

She wears a set of ragged robes and a matching pair of ragged boots. She only carries an iron dagger.

Related Quests

• New Allegiances^DG: Turn the target into a vampire. (radiant)

Dialogue

When approached she can say:

"You don't want to be here. No one wants to."

"Don't know anyone here doesn't have Rattles or Ataxia."

Quest-Related Events

New Allegiances

If you are part of the Volkihar vampires^DG, you will eventually get tasked by Vingalmo to turn a citizen into a vampire. Cairine is one of these possible victims. He will describe her as:

"A pathetic creature in her present condition, but the gift will embolden her. And her lowly state suits her to being our eyes and ears in Markarth."

Once you have turned her, she will be very grateful and greet you with:

"Great gift of blood you've given me. Blood that boils in my veins. Gives me strength. You can use my coffin whenever you like."

"Blood of the sick. Blood of the weak. Blood of the unsuspecting noble lord. Savor each flavor. Unsuspecting, delicious prey."

"I keep an eye on their comings and goings. No one suspects poor Cairine. Poor, poor Cairine. Ha!"

"The darkness hums and we sing its praises. Sweet melodies. Sweet like the water that flows through their veins."

Rumors

Smelter worker Omluag will mention her when asked who works alongside him:

"A few people in the Warrens used to work here. Degaine broke some bones a while back. Eltrys quit. Cairine is too sick."

Notes

• Despite what Cairine says, no one in the Warrens has Rattles or Ataxia. These diseases are only present on wild animals in Skyrim, unlike Oblivion, where beggars also carried such diseases.
• Cairine herself does also not have any kind of disease you can catch. Her behavior is caused by her AI package MarkarthCairineWarrenIdlePackage which is linked to a marker, resulting in her sitting on the ground with the "wounded" animation. She does this around the clock because her package has no duraction, despite the fact she has other packages set up in her schedule, which all get overridden.

Bugs

• When "killed" for the first time, Cairine will lie still on the floor, yet she is still able to blink, detect you and engage in conversation.
  • The Unofficial Skyrim Patch, version 1.0, fixes this bug.
• You might not be able to turn Cairine into a vampire, due to her never standing and her sitting animation preventing you from feeding on her. ^?
  • If you select her in the console and type moveto player, she will be standing and you can proceed normally.