Mercer Frey



Mercer Frey is the current leader of the Thieves Guild in Riften. He took over the position of Guild leader after his predecessor, Gallus, was supposedly murdered by Karliah, Mercer's former partner.

Mercer's signature weapon is the Dwarven Sword of Devouring.

During the Dragonborn's initiation to the Guild, Mercer is the one that gives out tasks for him/her to complete.

Interactions

 * Loud and Clear


 * Dampened Spirits
 * Speaking With Silence
 * Blindsighted

Multiple Followers
See the main article Multiple Followers.

Mercer Frey is one of the quest characters that can be exploited to follow the player throughout Skyrim along with a follower of their choice. In the quest Speaking With Silence, after the player enters Snow Veil Sanctum, they can leave and he will continue to follow them. This is a simple way to obtain a powerful follower as, whilst the mission is still available, he cannot die. While one cannot converse or trade objects with him, he will remain an unkillable ally; at least until the player finds Karliah.

Bugs

 * (No longer works on PC) When you obtain both Eyes of the Falmer from Mercer, you can bring them back to the Thieves Guild and sell them to the fence, with the base price of 2500 septims for each eye. After you sell both eyes to the fence, go talk to Delvin; you will have a Speech option regarding the Eyes of Falmer. Select that dialogue and you will receive around 900 coins even though you already sold them. (The Fence has her price set upward 6000 coins for the Eyes once she has them)
 * Sometimes when downed during Speaking With Silence he will not stand back up unless injured, then he will not open the door at the end of the quest.
 * If you happen to bring Mercer to the College of Winterhold while the Unbound Dremora from the Conjuration Ritual Spell Quest is still around, he will openly attack the Dremora but will unable to do any damage to him for some reason. Also worth noting that since Mercer will be openly hostile towards what is technically a resident of the College of Winterhold, all the other Mage residents will become hostile towards only Mercer, which results in a never-ending fight.

Trivia
Mercer Frey is (fittingly) voiced by Stephen Russell, who also voices another master thief, Garrett, from the Thief series.