Tribunal:Gedna Relvel

Gedna Relvel (lich_relvel) (lore page)
Location	Old Mournhold: Gedna Relvel's Tomb
Species	Lich	Soul	Grand (300)
Level	40	Type	Undead
Attacks
20-50pts melee Gedna's Damage —  Poison 100-200 pts in 8ft on Target  Fire Damage 100-200 pts in 8ft on Target  Frost Damage 100-200 pts in 8ft on Target
Abilities
Resist Common Disease 100 pts on Self  Resist Frost 100 pts on Self  Resist Poison 100 pts on Self  Resist Shock 50 pts on Self Gedna's Barrier ability —  Resist Magicka 600 pts on Self Gedna's Refill ability —  Restore Magicka 1-20 pts on Self  Restore Health 1-3 pts on Self  Restore Fatigue 1-2 pts on Self
Other Information
Health	700	Magicka	1000
Alarm	0	Fight	100
Drops
Bonemeal(60%) Robe of the Lich

Gedna Relvel

Gedna Relvel is a lich that can be found in Gedna Relvel's Tomb in Old Mournhold. In life, she was a powerful sorceress, condemned for studying and practicing forbidden magics. She was laid to rest somewhere under Mournhold many years ago, but nobody realized that she had developed the power to cheat death itself.

When you get close, Gedna Relvel will say: "Weakling! You dare to cross my threshold? You, then, will be the first to fall, before the undead army sweeps across this land like a plague, cleansing it of your flesh. Die, mortal!" She will then end dialogue and attack.

Related Quests

• Crimson Plague: Solve this recent epidemic caused by a number of infected rats in the Temple.

Notes

• Gedna actually has a voice file assigned to her in the construction set. This voice file doesn't play because creatures can't talk like NPCs (their dialogue must be scripted). Her voice file can be found among the Female Dunmer voice overs within the Elder Scrolls Construction Set. She was supposed to say "I smell your blood, mortal." However, it is impossible for this dialogue to be triggered in the game.
• Gedna also appears in ESO.
  • For more information on recurring characters, please see the main article.

Bugs

• Gedna has a script attached that was intended to scale her health, fatigue, and magicka based on the player's level, but it does not work.
  • By default, Gedna has 700 health, 1,000 fatigue, and 1,000 magicka, and the script is intended to increase these values by 100, 400, and 300 times the player's level respectively. However, the script has two bugs. First, the level check is performed incorrectly, terminating the script before any bonuses are applied. Second, all three bonuses are applied to Gedna's health, meaning it would be increased by 800 times the player's level.

Some unofficial patch versions and OpenMW fix the first bug (which causes an error in the vanilla game and thus can be caught by debugging tools) without touching the second one (which does not cause an error). This allows the script to apply the bonuses and create an incredibly strong Gedna. For example, even as low as level 10 the player would face an enemy with 8,700 health.

Note that even if both bugs were fixed and the bonuses were applied as originally intended, they would have created arguably the toughest enemy in the game. At level 50, Gedna would have had 5,700 health. By comparison, Vivec and Almalexia each have 3,000 health, while Gaenor has 500 with similar magical resistance powers to Gedna's. It's possible that because of the first bug, the script's bonus values were never properly playtested.

Players who are playing without any patches or mods should be unaffected; the script will simply break and Gedna will be left with her base stats. See the discussion page of this article for further details.