Ria Silmane

Ria Silmane is a fictional character in The Elder Scrolls universe. She appears in the first game, The Elder Scrolls: Arena. Just prior to the start of that game, Silmane is apprentice to the Emperor's battlemage, Jagar Tharn. During his usurpation of the throne, Tharn is unable to corrupt his apprentice and so murders her. She is able to hold herself together long enough to direct the player's character how to escape from slow death in the dungeons through a teleportation device called a shift gate. Past that point she lacks the power to manifest physically and appears to the player in dreams. The central quest requires the player to obtain various artifacts. Each time such an item is found, Silmane appears the next time the player rests to provide the general location of the next such item.