The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion/Walkthrough/Dark Brotherhood

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Joining the Dark Brotherhood

To join the Dark Brotherhood you simply need to kill someone and then sleep. Who you kill is up to you, it can be pretty much anyone who lives in any of the cities or in the various settlements. When you've made a successful murder you will get a message of 'your killing has been observed by forces unknown....'. After that just go find any bed and sleep for any amount of time.

A man named Lucien Lachance will approach you, respond to him how ever you wish, he is the one who will get you into the Dark Brotherhood. This conversation will activate the next quest A Knife in the Dark.

A Knife in the Dark

Once you have this quest you will be able to find the Inn of Ill Omen to the south of the Imperial City, north west of Bravil. Fast travel to your nearest landmark and then follow your quest marker until you reach the Inn.

Go inside the Inn and talk to Manheim Maulhand, the guy behind the counter. Ask him about 'Rufio'. Now check out the floor near the door to the outside world to find the trap door, open it. Follow your quest marker to find Rufio, and then kill him. Talk to him first if you want, it doesn't matter.

Now go find a bed, any bed, even the one that Rufio would normally sleep in will do, sleep for any amount of time. When you wake up Lachance will be there to give you new orders.

Get outside and open your world map, fast travel to Cheydinhal and then follow your quest marker to find the abandoned house, the door is locked, so pick it. Once inside just follow your quest marker until you come to a spooky door to 'Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary' activate the door and you'll have to guess the right answer to get in.

Once inside just explore and Ocheeva will find you and talk to you, which will complete this quest and activate the next one.

Welcome to the Family

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Just follow your quest marker to find Vicente Valtieri, talk to him and ask about 'Contract' to complete this quest and activate the next one.

A Watery Grave

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Make your way outside and then fast travel to 'Imperial City Waterfront' and then follow your quest marker until you come to the pirate ship 'Marie Elena'. You can sneak onboard if you are able to, or you can follow the line of crates along the dock by the ship until you get the choice to hide in one of the crates. Either way, get on board the boat without being detected and follow your quest marker to kill the captain. I recommend using invisibility potions or spells. Though you really don't have to, you can kill who ever you like, I just like being sneaky, thats all.

After the captain is dead a couple pirates will eventually come into the scene, stay and kill them, or disapear into the night, its up to you. Once you are outside, fast travel to Cheydinhal and follow your quest marker to find Vicente, talk to him and this quest will be complete and a new one will be activated.

Blood of the Damned

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Talk to Vicente and ask about 'Contract' to complete this quest and activate the next one.

Accidents Happen

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

A quick note, you will be able to earn bonuses by completing these quests in a specific way, I will always cover the method of earning the bonus in detail, while allowing you to discover the simplicity of just being a lame murderer.

Once you're outside, fast travel to Bruma and then follow your quest marker to Baenlin's house. Once there wait until 9:00 pm and then go inside. Use an invisibility spell or potion, if you get caught by either of the occupants in this house you will lose the bonus.

Now, just quietly sneak upstairs while being invisible. The stairs are in the south west corner of the house, at the top of the stairs sneak to the south east corner to find the secret passage way on the east wall. Go inside and to the north is the mounted head fastenings, activate it.

Now sneak out of the house and fast travel back to Cheydinhal, then follow your quest marker to find Vicente, talk to him to complete this quest and activate the next one as well as get promoted to Slayer.

No Rest for the Wicked (Slayer)

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Talk to Vicente and accept his task, completing this quest and activating the next one.

Scheduled for Execution

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Make your way outside and then open your world map, the Imperial Prison Sewers is where you first entered the world at the start of the game, its just east of the Imperial City. Fast travel there.

Now, you may recognize that this place has changed a little bit since you were last in here, and I don't mean a few new items, the entire layout is different.

Just follow your quest marker and use invisibility spells when ever you are near a guard. You can ussually hear the guards from quite some distance and they are ussually holding torches. There are no real challenges to get through in here, just a couple locked doors.

Keep following your quest marker and you will come to your old cell, the one you first start in. You will hear a guard tormenting another prisoner, if you remember, this is the same prisoner who mocked you at the start of the game, he is also your target. Let the guard have his say and then he will walk away.

Now, open the gate and approach his cell, I highly recommend talking to him and telling him you're going to kill him, it is quite satisfying. Once you're ready, kill him.

Now follow your quest marker out of here, avoid the guards. Once you're outside, fast travel to Cheydinhal and follow your quest marker to Vicente, talk to him to complete this quest and activate the next one.

To Serve Sithis

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Talk to Vicente and ask about 'Contract' to complete this quest and activate the next one.

The Assassinated Man

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Get outside and fast travel to Chorrol, once there follow your quest marker to Francois Motierre's house and go inside. Inside Francois will talk to you, say what ever you wish.

Now as soon as the conversation is over, open your inventory and equip the Lanquorwine Blade. Exit your inventory and just wait a moment. When the hit-Argonian-man comes inside, you can watch the act if you wish, but at any time you feel like it, hit Francois with the knife. Now, run outside, you will be chased, but as soon as you get out of the city you're in the clear.

Now wait 24 hours and then go back in the city. Follow your quest marker into the chapel and into the undercroft, find Francois and activate him to cure his false death. Then just speak to him, you'll now have to escort him out of here while fighting off zombies and making sure he stays alive. Just follow your quest marker and use heal other abilities until you are out to safety.

Once out of the undercroft, follow your quest marker to the Grey Mare, go inside and Francois will talk to you. Then just go outside and fast travel to Cheydinhal, then follow your quest marker to find Vicente and talk to him to complete this quest and activate the next one as well as get promoted to Eliminator.

My Brother's Keeper (Eliminator)

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Follow your quest marker and talk to Ocheeva, talk to her, ask her about 'Contract' to complete this quest and activate the next one.

The Lonely Wanderer

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Make your way outside, then fast travel to 'Imperial City Talos Plaze District' and then make your way into the Tiber Septim Hotel. Talk to the woman behind the counter, Augusta Calidia. Ask her about 'Faelian' and then follow your quest marker, it will take you to Atraena, if Faelian is here, do not kill him as you will lose your bonus. Talk to Atraena and ask about 'Faelian', now just follow your quest marker to Lorkmir's house, break inside.

If Faelian is in here, go ahead and kill him, if he isn't just wait around until he shows up, I found him there at 12:00 pm. Once he is dead fast travel back to Cheydinhal and follow your quest marker to Ocheeva, talk to her to complete this quest and activate the next one.

Enter the Eliminator

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Talk to Ocheeva and ask about 'Contract' to complete this quest and activate the next one.

Bad Medicine

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

You need to go to Fort Sutch, its north of Anvil, marked by your quest marker, fast travel to your nearest map marker and then follow your quest marker to get to the fort.

Once you get to the fort, stop following your quest marker. South of the fort is a secret entrance, just go south of the main entrance and you should find it on your mini map, its a locked trap door on some ruins, pick the lock and go inside.

You're going to want some good invisibility spells or potions if you don't want to be detected. Remember to sneak and then just follow your quest marker through this place until you encounter the first set of guards, an Orc and a Redguard, a Wood Elf will also be wandering around here. Just listen and if you can safely, watch the Orc and Redguard, they will be in a conversation about the guy you must kill and his medicine. When they are done talking they will make their way to where the medicine is, follow them without being detected.

Just keep following them without getting to close, watch for other guards and eventually you will come to the target room and the Orc and Redgaurd will go seperate ways. Follow your quest marker north to find the medicine cabinet. Open the cabinet, take the medicine and replace it with the posion.

Now just make your way out of this place the same way you came in, make sure you don't get caught. Once you're outside fast travel to cheydinhal, follow your quest marker to find Ocheeva, talk to her to complete this quest and activate the next quest.

The Night Mother's Child

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Talk to Ocheeva and ask her about 'Contract' to complete this quest and activate the next quest.

Whodunit?

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

This is my favourite quest in the entire game. A week or so before the first time I did this quest my girl friend and I saw a play called 'And Then There Were None' which is played out a lot like this quest, the guests die, one by one until there are none left but the killer. Anyway....

Fast travel to Skingrad and then follow your quest marker to find Summitmist Manor, a man called Fafnir will talk to you and give you the key, finish the conversation and then go inside.

Now, the order in which you kill the guests doesn't matter, the only thing it effects is the accusations and the mystery between the remaining guests. Just find the guests 1 by 1 and kill them without being seen. Some times even though nobody is around, you will still get caught, its kinda iffy, so just save every once in a while and you'll be fine.

Once you've killed all the guests just fast travel back to Cheydinhal and then follow your quest marker to Ocheeva, talk to her to complete this quest and activate the next one.

The Assassin's Gambit

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Talk to Ocheeva and ask her about 'Contract' to complete this quest and activate the next quest.

Permanent Retirement

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Fast travel to Leyawiin, then wait until 2:00 pm and then follow your quest marker to find Adamus Phillida. He will be standing near a lake, at 3:00 pm he will take his armour off and jump into the lake for a swim. Equip a bow and the rose of sithis, save and then shot Adamus. Once he's dead you're going to have a bounty on your head, you'll have to pay it off, go to prison or have the Thieves Guild take care of it.

Make sure you loot Adamus's corpse and take his severed finger. Once you have it, take care of the bounty on your head, fast travel to 'Imperial City Prison' and wait until 3:00 am. Then just follow your quest marker into the Legion Office. The desk you need to put the finger in is the big locked one on the first floor.

Now just fast travel to Cheydinhal and then follow your quest marker to find Ocheeva, talk to her to complete this quest, activate the next quest and be promoted to Assassin.

Of Secret And Shadow (Assassin)

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Talk to Ocheeva and she will give you a package from Lucien, open your inventory, find the package and examine it. After you read the message, exit and you will get a quest update. Then just follow your quest marker to Fort Farragut, just outside the east gate of Cheydinhal.

Once you get to the fort, just fight your way through the place following your quest marker and you will eventually find Lucien. Talk to him and this quest will be complete and the next one will be activated.

The Purification

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

This is a pretty simple quest, just follow your quest marker into the sanctuary and kill all the other members of the Dark Brotherhood. With all your targets dead, follow your quest marker back to Lucien, talk to him to complete this quest, get the fastest horse in the game and activate the next quest.

The Dead Drop (Silencer)

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Now, follow your quest marker to Hero Hill, which is just south east of Cheydinhal. Once there just keep following your quest marker to the large clump of mossy rocks, loot it to find your orders completing this quest and activating the next quest.

Affairs of a Wizard

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

You need to make it to a cave called 'Leafrot Cave', which is far east and slightly south of Bravil, or very far south of Cheydinhal. There are no nearby landmarks, so fast travel to your nearest one and then follow your quest marker to find the cave.

Once you finally get there, go inside and follow your quest marker through the small cave to find a book called 'The Path of Transcendence' which is sitting on a table in the north corner of the room marked by your quest marker. After you read the book you discover a weakness of Celedaen.

Now follow your quest marker and you'll quickly find Celedaen. Though you know about his weakness, Celedaen is not that difficult, do what ever to kill him.

After he is dead you will get a quest update, you will need to get your next dead drop, which is in Chorrol, so make your way out of this cave and then fast travel to Chorrol. Once there just follow your quest marker to find the dead drop.

The dead drop is in an old sac in a bunch of bushes marked by your quest marker. Open it and get your reward and the dead drop to complete this quest and activate the next one.

Next of Kin

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

You need to get to Applewatch, which is just north west of Bruma, so fast travel to your nearest map marker and then follow your quest marker to get there.

Once you're there, use your quest marker to find Perennia Draconis, talk to her and tell her you are looking for her children. She will give you a list, find it in your inventory and then you will have quest markers for all your targets, you have to kill them all, go ahead and start with the mother. Now what order you kill her children in doesn't matter, you can follow my order, or just do it how ever you wish.

Fast travel to 'Imperial City Talos Plaza District' and then just follow your quest marker to find Matthias Draconis. When you find him, kill him.

Fast travel to Leyawiin and then just follow your quest marker to find Caelia Draconis, she is a guard. When you find her, kill her.

You need to go to The Drunken Dragon Inn, which is north of Leyawiin, fast travel to your closest map marker and then follow your quest marker to find Andreas Draconis, the guy behind the counter. When you find him, kill him.

You need to go to Muck Valley Cavern, which is south west of Cheydinhal, fast travel to your closest map marker and then follow your quest marker to find Sibylla Draconis. When you find her, kill her.

Now you need to go to the next dead drop, so fast travel to 'Castle Skingrad' and then follow your quest marker to the big well in the middle of the court yard, loot it to find your reward and the next dead drop to complete this quest and activate the next one.

Broken Vows

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

You need to go to Bruma, so fast travel there and then follow your quest marker to find J'Ghasta. When you get to his house he will probably be in his secret training room, there is a trap door in the south east corner of his basement under a bunch of folded cloth. When you find him, kill him.

Your next dead drop is located at Old Bridge, which is just south of the Imperial City, fast travel to your nearest map marker and then follow your quest marker. When you get there use your quest marker to find the rotten box under the bridge, loot it to find your reward and the next dead drop to complete this quest and activate the next one.

Final Justice

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Flooded Mine is just north of Bravil, fast travel to 'Bay Roan Stables' and then follow your quest marker to find the mine. Go inside and just follow your quest marker to find Shaleez and kill her.

Now you need to go to Fort Redman, north of Leyawiin. Fast travel to your nearest map marker and then follow your quest marker to get there. You don't have to go inside the fort, just outside the entrance is a coffin, loot it to find your reward and the next dead drop, completing this quest and activating the next one.

A Matter of Honor

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Read the schedual and you'll have a quest marker to find Alval Uvani, no matter where he is. Just track him down by fast traveling ahead of him and then go by foot to head him off, when you get to him, kill him.

Now fast travel to 'Imperial City Market District' and then follow your quest marker to find the next dead drop, which is in a hollowed-out tree stump, loot it to get your reward and the dead drop, also completing this quest and activating the next one.

The Coldest Sleep

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Gnoll Mountain is east of Bruma, fast travel to your nearest map marker and then follow your quest marker to get there, once you're there find Havilstein and kill him.

Nornal is east of the Imperial City and south of Cheydinhal, fast travel to your nearest map marker and then follow your quest marker to get there. The dead drop is inside the ruins, so you'll need to follow your quest marker into it and just keep following it to get through the ruins. You don't have to go very far inside to find it, its in a pool of water in a sunken chest, loot it to find your reward and the next dead drop to complete this quest and activate the next one.

A Kiss Before Dying

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Fast travel to Bravil, wait until 8:00 pm and then follow your quest marker to find Ungolim. Once you kill him Lucien will appear and he is mad, after talking to him briefly this quest will be complete and the next one will be activated.

Following a Lead (Speaker)

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

Now fast travel to Anvil, then follow your quest marker to find the dead drop. Once you're there just stand around and shortly after that a guy will come, talk to him and he will tell you of the robed man that lives in the lighthouse.

Fast travel to 'Anvil Lighthouse' and then follow your quest marker to find Ulfgar Fog-Eye, talk to him and get the key to the cellar. Once you have the key just follow your quest marker until you come to the door to 'Anvil Lighthouse Cellar' that needs a key, open this door.

Inside ignore the disturbing scene and find the Traitor's Diary, take it. Now fast travel to Applewatch, just west of Bruma, once there go inside. A woman called Arquen will talk to you, Lucien is dead.

Now, wait until 1:00 am and then talk to Arquen, ask her about 'Night Mother' and then tell her you're ready to complete this quest and activate the next quest.

Honor Thy Mother

This quest is automatically given to you apon completion of the previous quest.

You start out just watching the scene unfold, once its done walk up to the statue and go into the secret door. You'll be forced to watch another scene and then buddy reveals himself and kills a couple people and then you get to kill him. After he is dead The Night Mother will approach you, after the conversation you can loot this room, when you've taken what you want, talk to The Night Mother again and tell her you're ready to leave.

Now talk to Arquen to complete this quest.

Whispers of Death

Once a week you must visit the statue of the Night Mother in Bravil, so lets go for the first time. Fast travil to Bravil and follow your quest marker to the statue. Once there, activate the statue and listen, when the Night Mother is done fast travel back to Cheydinhal. Follow your quest marker back to Arquen and talk to her, you will get some gold and you have to do nothing else.

Now, this quest will remain active in your quest log. If you keep going to the weekly listening and giving Arquen orders, I imagine this quest may some time be completed, but I don't think I have to repeat the same instructions over and over.