Sylgja

"I might be a woman, but I can crack rock with the best of them."

- Sylgja

Sylgja is a female Nord miner who lives at Shor's Stone in The Rift. She is a candidate for marriage if the Dragonborn possesses an Amulet of Mara.

Background
Her father is Verner Rock-Chucker and her mother is Annekke Crag-Jumper.

Before marriage
In order to open the marriage option with Sylgja, the Dragonborn must deliver a satchel of letters to her father, Verner Rock-Chucker in Darkwater Crossing.

After marriage
As with all other spouses, Sylgja opens a store, where goods can be bought and sold. She shares a portion of the profit with her Dragonborn spouse. The profit is 100 daily, which stacks if left uncollected. If you kill her Father and/ or her mother Sylgja will send hired thugs to murder you.

Changing equipment
Upon marrying Sylgja players are unable to change her Miner clothes, but reverse pickpocketing a stronger weapon may sometimes make her equip that instead of the Pickaxe. The only known way of changing her attire is through the use of Console commands on the PC. She also persists on wearing her pickaxe around the house and to bed, although this also can be over-ridden by giving her a 'better' weapon via the console (e.g. console code "additem 000139b6 1" will add a small Daedric Dagger instead, which she may often choose not to wield). Experiments appear to show that when editing an NPC's inventory items, it seems important not to remove all their original items or the inventory resets - but just leaving one item e.g. the original shoes is sufficient to avoid this happening. She will give you 100 gold a day. and if you keep waiting day after day the money will build up to around 600 or more gold.

Bugs
If the player has started the Companions questline, one of the first quests available from Aela the Huntress is Animal Extermination, which potentially may have the player go and kill an ice wolf in Sylgja's house. If the player starts Animal Extermination for Sylgja, but does not complete it, then marries Sylgja, she will be bugged. Sylgja will attend the wedding ceremony, but will not move into any house the player may own. Even using console commands to move her doesn't work. Instead she will return to Shor's Stone and keep working on the smelter, she will not stop to eat or sleep and will never leave. The solution is to complete the Companions quest from Aela the Huntress, then go talk to Sylgja and ask her to move.