[ItsaManThing]

First of all I would like to say hello to everyone as I just registered. A bit about me, I have extensive knowledge in the two games Elder scrolls Morrowind "X-Box version" and Diablo 2 Lod "About 5 years worth on and off" and I have just bought Oblivion and started playing it.

I must say, It holds the tried and true control system and is easy to understand the matrix of the game and how things should be build and fought. Now I am looking to extend that knowledge. Here are the questions I have as I have only played about 4 hours worth of the game at the moment and Im finding it a little slow in the levelling department. I am level 2...."hears alot of Lol's in the background", but I will get there. I went looking for artifacts like in morrowind and am unable to find any so I searched online only to find the database of items at this site. Im very excited to get a hold of a few of these but am wondering, where are they?

There doesn't seem to be actual places that specific items reside, so I'm wondering since the "chests do not respawn", Do "all" the items appear in the same game or is it random luck like in diablo?

Secondly, I have the official game guide and it's helped alot but it doesn't seem like I can enchant anything until I complete a few Mage guild quests and get access to the enchantment altar. Is this the only way to get items enchanted?

Thirdly, what's the best monster to get a soul from so that the weapon I enchant will gain the maximum benefit? Is it the Lich or the xivilai or the goblin warlord...."only monsters I can find that don't spawn till I'm over level 20 and need a grand soul gem to catch them".

And finally, does enchanting act like the morrowind enchanting "when each items has a certain number of enchantment points" or do you just wing it as I ran up a table and found out that "monsters point of view" that poison and frost damage has more monsters immune to it then fire and shock. so would it be prudent to enchant mainly with fire and/or shock?