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Skordo the Knife is an orc bodyguard who grew up in High Rock among the Bretons. Always wary but short on patience, Skordo will not hesitate to jump into a fight to settle a dispute with you or offer you respect for your combat prowess.

Availability: Crown Store Sale

Cost: 2,000 Crowns

Obtained: Crown Store

Lines Spoken by This Houseguest:

• "Bretons and Orcs think they live so differently from one another. Your average stronghold chieftain isn't so different from any duke or baron. Pampered milksops surrounded by leagues of women who could do their jobs ten times better."
  
  
• "Cold water doesn't bother me. I grew up swimming in the Sea of Ghosts, so anything without ice floes feels like a nice, warm bath."
  
  
• "Ever do much with these Undaunted you see in the city sometimes? That Mighty Mordra tried to recruit me once. Nice lady, but I don't have anything to prove to anyone."
  
  
• "Ever see the traveling performers from the House of Reveries? You'd never catch me in a troupe like that, but it got me thinking what my name would be if I ever enlisted as a Hopeful. Something like Punch. Cleaver. Knife? Yeah, Knife! Oh, wait."
  
  
• "The Fighters Guild has my respect. Not often I get to say that about an organization. You see something Daedric or undead, you kill it before it causes trouble. That's the kind of institution I can get behind."
  
  
• "The first time a woman in a tavern chatted me up instead of Darien, it kind of drove him crazy. My face might look like a durzog's backside compared to him, but some ladies just like more meat on the bones, you know? He had to learn to respect that."
  
  
• "Growing up among Bretons, I don't give too much stock to the ways of stronghold orcs. But I think they're right about one thing -- most disputes are best settled with a good old-fashioned brawl."
  
  
• "I appreciate people of action. Anyone who can get things done is all right in my book!"
  
  
• "I had a cousin growing up who dreamed about fighting in the Blessed Crucible and claiming something he called the Brimston Crown. I say I had a cousin because I haven't heard from him in ages. I can only assume he followed his dreams."
  
  
• "I had a pet mudcrab growing up. Saved him from some gulls trying to crack his shell open. Eventually, he got too big and started going after our neighbor's chickens, so Aunt Murog turned him into crabcakes. Never wanted another pet after that."
  
  
• "I like getting out there to see new places. Just a matter of figuring out how to get paid at the same time."
  
  
• "I like hanging around little Alfiq like Marekki. Outside Elsewyr, people give her the strangest looks when she opens her mouth and starts talking. And she just gets so defensive! Guess she's kind of like an orc in that way."
  
  
• "I read some book once detailing how to perform the Black Sacrament. You know, to summon the Dark Brotherhood? It's got to be a joke, right? I mean, if you can source fresh body parts for the ritual, what in Oblivion do you need an assassin for?"
  
  
• "I think everyone should learn how to fight. Not for some worthy cause or anything as noble as that. But for yourself. For the people you care about. Things that actually matter."
  
  
• "I thought about putting roots down in Betnikh once, but I don't know. Too contested. Too political. Though I guess there's not many places in the world where that isn't the case."
  
  
• "I was raised by my Aunt Murog. She's an ex-hearthwife, straight out of Orsinium. Just decided to call it quits one day and left to find her brother in Shornhelm. Always respected her for that."
  
  
• "I'm keeping an eye on the entrances and exits. It's a nice place. You never know who might try to break in and steal something."
  
  
• "I'm not inclined to magic and I can count the number of mages I trust on one hand. You'd think I'd feel different, growing up in High Rock and all. But that's exactly the reason I feel this way."
  
  
• "I'm not the type to keep in touch, but it's good to see you again. You still finding trouble out there? What am I saying. Of course you are."
  
  
• "I've got to stop saying I'm no good at small talk. People take it as an open invitation to start babbling away. Like I'll hate it less if I get some practice in or something."
  
  
• "If you ever heard Darien talk about beating me at cards, you should know those weren't exactly fair games. Not that he cheated. He was just too stupid to remember the rules and I was usually too drunk to care."
  
  
• "If you're the type to moth off to nobles, I'd actually recommend finding work as a bodyguard. As long as you don't go overboard, the job gives you free reign to tell them when they're being idiots. Sometimes, they even listen."
  
  
• "Look, I like Takes of Tribute as much as anyone. But all those masters and rankings and whatnot? I don't know. Why can't we just have fun and play the damn game?"
  
  
• "My Aunt Murog once offered her famous pie recipe as a wedding present to any Northpoint woman who would consent to marry me. Can you imagine? Putting up with me for life? Anyway, I got so many offers I had to leave town for a while."
  
  
• "Never been good at sneaking around, but you know that. I guess if you've got any tips ... Oh, who am I kidding? Never been sneaky before in my life. Why start now?"
  
  
• "People think working as a boydguard is a lot more exciting than it really is. Lot of standng around while people talk. Like this, really. I should be getting paid for this."
  
  
• "Seems like nearly every time you and I cross paths, I'm tied up or pinned down in some way or another. Figures that when I'm finally in shape to show off, we're somewhere that I probably shouldn't go breaking the furniture."
  
  
• "Some people get really into this antiquity hunting. You hear about this? Digging up old junk people threw away? Plenty of coin in it, but I don't see the appeal."
  
  
• "When I was small my aunt used to send me to summer with her family in Orsinium. I think she came to regret it after I brought back vosh to play with the local Breton kids. They just can't take a heavy wooden ball to the face the way an Orc can."
  
  
• "You ever been through Abah's Landing? I've never been to a more shifty place. If we stayed in the harbor any longer, I was sure someone was going to come and steal the planks off our ship."
  
  
• "You ever seen a Briarheart warrior up close? I've got an iron stomach for just about any kind of violence, but the way that little seed just sits in their open chest ... Ugh! Makes my skin crawl."
  
  
• "You have to learn to trust your gut. The last time I ever ignored a feeling down there was when I tried to make some coin chugging warm rotmeth on a dare. My gut let me know real quick what a bad idea that was."
  
  
• "You read up on this All Flags fleet and all? History's funny. Something bad comes along, it brings folks together. Then once it's past, they all go right back to fighting each other. Trust me. I've seen it happen firsthand."