Skyrim:Merchants

thumb|left|A merchantThis page summarizes all of the merchants available in Skyrim.
The amount listed under "Gold" is the base amount of gold that the merchant has available to purchase items from the player.  Merchants will generally have 3-40 gold more than listed, because their personal pocket change is added to the merchant-specific gold.  Gold is reset each time the merchant's inventory is reset or every 48 hours.  Merchant gold can be increased in several ways:
 

The merchandise column provides information on what type of merchandise each merchant will buy and sell. In those cases where merchants are not in a typical category, full details are provided on the specific item types they will buy and sell.  However, for most merchants, one of the following categories is provided:
 


If the Merchant perk is unlocked, all merchants will purchase all types of items.  The perk also makes some additional items available for purchase.  All vendors will sell you items from their personal inventory, possibly including food, lockpicks, and gems.  They will also sell you any bugged items that are in their merchant chests.  Most notably, apothecary merchants will sell a dozen ingredients that normally they are unable to sell.

Note that outside of Hunters, Peddlers, and Skooma Dealers, merchants rely on merchant chests for their merchandise, and the chest contains whatever Leveled_Lists it was assigned; this is the primary reason Investor and Master Trader only sometimes work, because both rely on the relevant chest containing Perk-based gold.  Hence, while the merchant types listed here can be generally relied upon to determine what a merchant will buy from you, they should be regarded as guidelines, not rules, for what the merchant will sell you - for example, this is why the Skyforge chest contains unique items for sale no other merchant sells, even though it is listed as a "Blacksmith" below.  Whenever two merchants are listed together in the following tables, it means that the two merchants share the same merchant chest.  Therefore, the merchants will always provide the exact same list of items, and share the same merchant gold.  If one of the people is listed in parentheses, that person only takes over the store if the first person dies.

If you are married then your spouse will open a store, whose merchant chest is located inside the home where your spouse lives. If your spouse is on the list below, then he or she will continue to sell the same type of items. Otherwise, your spouse will become a general goods trader.

Eastmarch
Windhelm



Outside Towns


Falkreath Hold
Falkreath


Haafingar

Solitude

 

Other Locations


Hjaalmarch
Morthal


The Pale
Dawnstar


Other Locations


The Reach
Markarth

 

Other Locations


The Rift
Riften


Other Locations

Notes
Atub and Garakh at Largashbur were apparently intended to be merchants (apothecary and blacksmith respectively), but do not function as one due to a bug.

 
Raven Rock


Tel Mithryn


Others


Whiterun Hold
Riverwood


Whiterun


 
Adrianne Avenicci is unique in having access to two merchant chests; when she is outside during the day, she sells items from a separate chest. When she is inside and the store is open, she uses the same chest as Ulfberth War-Bear. The two chests are counted as separate stores for the purpose of investing. However, you can only invest once.

Other Locations


Winterhold
Winterhold


College of Winterhold


Not Specific to One Hold
Khajiit Traders

Other

 

 

Notes
Merchants who are also Trainers add the gold that you pay them for training to the gold they carry in their personal inventory. As such, it then becomes available to be used for bartering as all personal items not equipped can be purchased from a merchant.
Resetting the Speech perk tree using the Black Book Waking Dreams  does not affect investments that you may have previously made with merchants.
If you move your spouse to one of the homesteads added by the Hearthfire add-on, they will often wander around outside the house where their merchant chest will not be available. To engage in trade with your spouse, wait until they go inside, or if they are a follower you can ask them to follow you and lead them inside.

Bugs