Oblivion:Imperial Legion Soldier

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There are two types of Imperial Legion Soldiers - riders and guards. Riders will patrol back and forth between two locations. They are always found along the main roads in Cyrodiil. They ride bay horses, but never at more than a walk. Guards are posted at specific locations, usually inns outside the major cities. (The cities have their own guards.) They are all Imperial men. They never eat or sleep, though the guards can occasionally be seen drinking in their respective taverns. They will jump into action at any sign of trouble. (Riders have been known to dismount and chase creatures for miles, leaving their horse by the side of the road for days while they track it down.) They can be killed, but will respawn after 3 days.

An Imperial Legion Rider

Rider Routes

BaseID	RefID	Route
000700C0	000700DF	Anvil - Gottshaw Inn
000700C1	000700E2	Gottshaw Inn - Belletor's Folly *
000700C2	000700E4	Belletor's Folly - Ra'sava Camp
000700CD	00070109	Skingrad - Derelict Mine
000700CC	000700106	Derelict Mine - Fort Virtue
000700CB	000700104	Fort Virtue - Fort Nikel
0018BA86	0018BAA1	Weye - Chorrol
000700C5	000700F1	NE of Chorrol - SE of Shadow's Rest Cavern
000700C4	000700ED	SE of Shadow's Rest Cavern - Underpall Cave
000700C3	000700E8	Underpall Cave - North of Bleaker's Way
000700CA	00070100	Aleswell - Roxey Inn
000700C8	000700FB	Roxey Inn - Wellspring Cave
000700C9	000700FD	Wellspring Cave - Crossroads N of Shinbone Cave
000700C6	000700F3	Fort Urasek - Crossroads N of Shinbone Cave
000700C7	000700F7	Crossroads N of Shinbone Cave - Sardavar Leed
0018BA88	0018BA9B	Cheydinhal - Fort Urasek
0018BA89	0018BA97	Leyawiin - Water's Edge

* This guard never appears in the game

An Imperial Legion Guard

Guard Postings

ID	Post
0018B118	Hawkhaven
0018D7D8	The Drunken Dragon Inn
00058A8C	Gottshaw Inn
0018BA85	Imperial Bridge Inn
0018BA87	Roxey Inn
00058AF5	Wawnet Inn
0018D4CF	On the road east of Brina Cross Inn, once the nearby Oblivion Gate (#39) appears

Followers

Two Imperial Legion Soldiers (and one archer) will follow you from the Chapel of Akatosh during The Battle for Castle Kvatch. Several of them will also follow you during Light the Dragonfires.

BaseID	Name
00073296	MS49LegionSoldier
000732d3	MS49LegionSoldier2
000732d1	MS49LegionArcher

Bugs

• Imperial Legion Riders will sometimes get off their horses and "float".
• If an Imperial Legion Rider is chasing you for a crime while on horseback and he dies while he is still on the horse, the camera will zoom in into a spot on the ground and the guard dialogue will begin. If you resist arrest, you will be attacked by an invisible "ghost" guard. You can fight back against the invisible figure or you can walk over to where the guard died and attack his body to kill him (the body is still twitching as if he is alive). Detect life cannot be used to locate the invisible "ghost" guard, the glow will merely appear on the fallen guard's body.
• Sometimes the player can encounter Imperial Legion Riders stuck in a gallop stance. Both the horse and rider will merely fixate a few feet above ground. To resume the guards activity the player should either reload from the last save point or attack the rider who will then unfreeze and attempt to arrest you. ^?