The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion/Walkthrough/Thieves Guild
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Finding the Thieves Guild
There are 2 ways of activating this quest. First you can get caught stealing something and go to jail, after you serve your time find a bed and sleep for any amount of time, when you wake up a messenger will give you a note and activate this quest. Or you can find one of the wanted posters for the Gray Fox all over the Imperial City, examine the poster to add 'Gray Fox' to your topics you can ask people about. Now just find a beggar and make them like you by playing the disposition mini-game or bribing them until their disposition is around 80 and then ask them about 'Gray Fox' and then tell them you want to find him to work with him and this quest will be activated.
Once this quest is activated just follow your quest marker to the 'Imperial City Waterfront' and wait until midnight. You will be able to find a man named Armand Christophe who is holding a torch, talk to him and ask about 'Gray Fox'.
Next ask about 'Join the Thieves Guild' to complete this quest and activate the next one.
May the Best Thief Win
After finding Armand Christophe at midnight in the Imperial City Waterfront (see previous quest) and asking him about 'Join the Thieves Guild' this quest will be activated and the rat race will be on.
There should be a beggar sleeping on a bed roll right near where you spoke to Armand, talk to the beggar and ask him about 'Amantius Allectus' and as long as the beggar likes you enough he will tell you where to go.
Open your world map and fast travel to 'Imperial City Temple District' and then just follow your quest marker to Amantius's house. You'll have to pick the lock to get in, once you're inside there is a desk in the northwest corner of the room marked by your quest marker, loot the desk to find the diary.
Just follow your quest marker back to Armand and talk to him, ask about 'Thieves Guild Test' to complete this quest.
Independent Thievery (50)
Find Armand, he can almost always be found in the garden area in the Imperial City Waterfront at midnight, ask him about 'Thieves Guild special jobs' to activate this quest.
Quite simply, you need to sell stolen good and not get caught doing it. How you go about it is up to you. Once you have a bunch of stolen goods, which are marked by a red hand in your inventory. Try to steal the high value, low weight items as you may not get a very good price on them when you sell them.
Once you have enough items to score you 50 gold or more you will need to fast travel to Bruma and follow your quest marker to find your fence, Ongar the World-Weary. Talk to him and you will be able to shop. You will only get credit for selling stolen items, once you've earned 50 gold from stolen items fast travel back to the Imperial City and follow your quest marker to the meeting area.
Wait until midnight and then talk to Armand, ask him about 'Thieves Guild special jobs' and accept the task to activate the next quest.
Untaxing the Poor
Once this quest is activated (see previous quest) follow your quest marker to the Imperial City Temple Distric and in the south east corner is a door to 'South Watch Tower' go in this door. Remember to sneak and not get caught, save often and always keep a safe file untouched.
There will be guards in this room, but you're allowed to be in here so they won't do anything, but if you're caught in the upper levels of this tower, you will get into trouble. Because the guards rotate you can find the rooms empty and/or with sleeping guards. Do this part around 1:00 pm and follow your quest marker, you will find Lex and some guards on the first floor, use an invisibility spell or potion and go up the ladder, there will be no guards on the next floor so just go up the ladder, in this room there will be sleeping guards, be sure to sneak and make no noise, the ladder to Lex's room is here, but its locked so you'll have to pick it.
Once in the Captains Quarters there is a locked desk on the west wall, loot it and take the gold and the tax records. Now just exit this place in sneak mode and you should be fine. Once out follow your quest marker to the meeting spot and wait until midnight to talk to Armand, just give him the taxes to complete this quest.
Independent Thievery (100)
Find Armand, he can almost always be found in the garden area in the Imperial City Waterfront at midnight, ask him about 'Thieves Guild special jobs' to update this quest.
Once again steal items, then follow your quest marker to Bruma to find Ongar, sell him your stolen goods until you've fenced 100 gold worth of items just fast travel back to the Imperial City and follow your quest marker to the meeting area.
Wait until midnight and then talk to Armand, ask him about 'Thieves Guild special jobs' and accept the task to activate the next quest.
The Elven Maiden
Once this quest is activated (see previous quest) open your world map and fast travel to Cheydinhal and then just follow your quest marker to find a beggar. Talk to the beggar and ask about 'Bust of Llathasa Indarys'.
Now just follow your quest marker to the Chapel and into the Undercroft. There is a guard right inside the Undercroft, so as soon as you get in use an invisibility spell because you can't fight, well, you can't kill the guard. Just follow your quest marker to find the item sitting infront of a tomb, take the bust and get out.
Fast travel back to 'Imperial City Waterfront' and you'll find a bunch of guards running around asking about Armand, eventually you'll get a quest update to seek out other Thieves Guild members.
I don't know if this is neccessary, but just to be sure go into Jair's house and ask about 'Where is Armand Christophe' to find out Methredhel is looking for you. Now just wait a couple of hours and Methredhel will find you. Go through the conversation to find out the plan and then just follow your quest marker.
Once you are at Myvryna's house you'll find it incredibly hard to get in without being noticed, rather than watch the sneak icon, just make sure you break in when there are no guards looking and most likely Myvryna will be inside sleeping, so sneak carefully to her cupboard and activate it to place the bust.
Outside of the house follow your quest marker to find Lex and talk to him, you will have to have a disposition of about 75 to convince him that its in her cupboard, so bribe him or use the disposition mini-game.
Now follow Lex into Myvryna's house and watch the scene unfold. After that just follow your quest marker to the meeting spot and wait until midnight to talk to Armand to complete this quest and be promoted to Bandit.
Independent Thievery (200)
This update comes after you actually ask S'krivva about 'Thieves Guild special jobs', so travel to Bravil and follow your quest marker to find S'krivva who is inside her house and you can't bother her unless the door is unlocked, so wait until 8:00 am and then go inside to talk to her and ask her about 'Thieves Guild special jobs'.
Now steal some items and rather than going to Bruma to fence them, you can go to Leyawiin and get a better deal from Dar Jee, just follow your quest marker to find him. Once you've sold enough stolen goods to get your total gold from stolen items to 200 just fast travel to Bravil and follow your quest marker to find S'krivva and complete this part.
Ahdarji's Heirloom (Bandit)
To activate this quest see the previous quest.
Now fast travel to Bravil and follow your quest marker to find S'krivva who is inside her house and you can't bother her unless the door is unlocked, so wait until 8:00 am and then go inside to talk to her and ask her about 'Thieves Guild special jobs' and accept the task.
Now fast travel to Leyawiin and follow your quest marker to find a beggar, talk to the beggar and ask about 'Ahdarji'. Now just follow your quest marker to find Ahdarji and talk to her and ask her about 'Ahdarji's stolen ring'.
Follow your quest marker back to a beggar and talk to them, ask about 'Amusei'. Just keep following your quest marker to get into the castle. When you come to the locked door to the castle dungeon, just pick the lock, or bribe the guard to let you in. Either way find Amusei and talk to him and ask about 'Ahdarji's ring'.
Give him a lockpick and he'll tell you want you need to know. Now follow your quest marker to find a beggar and talk to them, ask about 'Recovered Caro family ring'. Follow your quest marker to find Hlidara Mothril, talk to her and ask her about 'Recovered Caro family ring' and 'Dark secrets in castle Leyawiin'.
Now follow your quest marker into the castle until you come to the door to 'Castle Leyawiin Basement'. Go through this door and you will end up in a room with a lot of clutter and no way out. Along the south wall is a broken barrel and inside the barrel is a lever, activate the lever to open the secret passage and just follow your quest marker again.
When you come to the next dead end there is a lever on the wall, activate it to open the secret door. Keep following your quest marker until you come to a wooden door that is locked with a very easy lock, behind this door is the Countess's room. The Countess goes to bed somewhere between 12:00 and 1:00 am, so wait till that time, if its a really long time, just back track to the castle throne room and wait there. Also, the Countess is out of town from the 15th to the 17th.
Once the Countess is asleep go through the very easy locked door and use an invisibility spell or potion. Follow your quest marker being as sneaky as possible until you come to Alessia's Jewelry Box, its a hard lock, but you have to get the ring from it, so do what ever you have to to get in it, but remember not to make noise. Once you have the ring get back out without being detected, keep using invisibility spells or potions until you're in the secret passage.
Just follow your quest marker out of the castle and back to Ahdarji, talk to her and tell her about 'Ahdarji's stolen ring'. Now fast travel to Bravil and follow your quest marker to S'krivva, remember to only go in her house if the door is open.
Talk to S'krivva and tell her about 'Ahdarji's stolen ring' to complete this quest and get promoted to Proweler.
Independent Thievery (300)
Fast travel to Bravil and follow your quest marker to find S'krivva who is inside her house and you can't bother her unless the door is unlocked, so wait until 8:00 am and then go inside to talk to her and ask her about 'Thieves Guild special jobs'.
Steal enough items to get you to 300 gold from stolen items and then fast travel to Leyawiin and follow your quest marker to Dar Jee, fence your goods and then return to S'Krivva in Bravil to complete this part and activate the next quest.
Misdirection
To activate this quest see the previous quest.
Now fast travel to Bravil and follow your quest marker to find S'krivva who is inside her house and you can't bother her unless the door is unlocked, so wait until 8:00 am and then go inside to talk to her and ask her about 'Thieves Guild special jobs' and accept the task.
Fast travel to the Imperial City and follow your quest marker to find a beggar, talk to them and ask about 'Methredhel'. Now just follow your quest marker to find Methredhel, talk to her and ask about 'Waterfront invasion'.
Now you're going to have to steal the Archmage's staff, which is incredibly easy if you're the Archmage, or even just in the Mage's Guild, but if you're not in the Mage's Guild you'll have to use all the tricks to get past the various mages to get the staff.
Just follow your quest marker, use invisibility potions or spells to get past the mages and just move quickly and silently. Once in the Archmage's chamber you will see the staff sitting on a dresser, its big and bright white and marked by your quest marker, you can't miss it. Take the staff and then place the note in the night stand to the south west side of the bed.
Now follow your quest marker back to Methredhel, talk to her and tell her about 'Hrormir's Icestaff'. Now fast travel to 'Imperial City Waterfront' and go south west through the opening in the wall, on the other side of the wall go north west through the buildings and you should see Lex, approach him and a cut scene will ensue.
After that just follow your quest marker back to Methredhel, talk to her and tell her about 'Hieronymus Lex'. Now follow your quest marker until you come to Ontus's house, break in and follow your quest marker until you come to the chest, activate the chest to place the Icestaff in it automatically.
Now fast travil to Bravil and follow your quest marker to S'krivva, talk to her and tell her about 'Hieronymus Lex' to complete this quest and be promoted to Cat Burglar.
If something doesn't seem quite right about this quest, if you've completed the mage guild quests all ready, don't even think about it, it makes no sense and its just a game.
Independent Thievery (400)
To activate this quest see the previous quest.
Steal enough items to get you to 400 gold from stolen items and then you can now use Lucianna Galena as your fence, she is in Bravil, just follow your quest marker to find her. Once you've sold a total of 400 gold worth of stolen items just follow your quest marker to S'krivva, talk to her and ask her about 'Thieves Guild special jobs' to complete this part and activate the next quest.
Lost Histories (Cat Burglar)
Once you've activated this quest (see previous quest), talk to S'krivva, just remember only enter her house if the door is open, so wait until 8:00 am and then talk to her and ask her about 'Thieves Guild special jobs' and accept the task.
Fast travel to Skingrad and follow your quest marker to find a beggar, once you do, talk to them and ask about 'Theranis'. Now just follow your quest marker to get into the castle and into the dungeon. When you get to the actual area that Theranis is imprisoned in, you will be faced with a locked door and a guard is sitting right there, so you can't just break in. Talk to the guard and say 'Work in Castle Skingrad'.
Now wait until 8:00 am and then just follow your quest marker to find Shum gro-Yarug, talk to him and ask about 'Work in Castle Skingrad' and then just accept the job. Now follow your quest marker back to the dungeon and talk to that guard again.
Once inside the prisoner area you will not find Theranis, instead talk to the prisoner called Larthjar the Laggard. Ask him about 'Theranis', you will need to have a good disposition with him to get anything from him, once its above 75 ask him again and he'll tell you.
Now just go south east looking for blood on the floor, you will see it go to a dead end, if you look to the south west, there is a bunch of blood beside the strange candle, activate it to open the secret passage. Just keep following the blood, the path is linear so you won't get lost, but you will come to another dead end, on the south corner beside the dead end is a switch, activate it to open the door.
Keep following the blood and you will come to a room with a lot of wine and wine barrels, on a pillar is another strange candle with blood around it, activate it to open the passage. Keep following the blood and you'll find the Pale Lady, kill her and then look around the room, the body of Theranis is on the floor, loot his corpse. Now look south, behind a cell door is an Argonian called Amusei, talk to him.
Ask Amusei about 'Lost Histories of Tamriel', then you can grab the key from the corpse of the pale lady, or just pick the lock, either way let Amusei out. Just follow your quest marker out of the castle, but bewarned that you're going to be treated as an escaping prisoner, so be sure to sneak and not be seen by anyone, if you're detected guards will be running around to find you.
You can easily get of the castle without being detected, once you're through the main gate just follow your quest marker to an empty chunk of road where Amusei will approach you. Ask him about 'Lost Histories of Tamriel'.
Now just follow your quest marker back to Skingrad, the quest marker will take you right to the book, its laying on the ground behind a bush against the north wall beside a rock.
Fast travel to Bravil and follow your quest marker to find S'krivva, remember to only go in her house if the door is open. Talk to her, tell her about Theranis and the book to complete this quest.
Independent Thievery (500)
Fast travel to Bravil and follow your quest marker to find S'krivva who is inside her house and you can't bother her unless the door is unlocked, so wait until 8:00 am and then go inside to talk to her and ask her about 'Thieves Guild special jobs'.
Steal enough items to get you to 500 gold from stolen items and then you can now use Lucianna Galena as your fence, she is in Bravil, just follow your quest marker to find her. Once you've sold a total of 500 gold worth of stolen items just follow your quest marker to S'krivva, talk to her and ask her about 'Thieves Guild special jobs' to complete this part and activate the next quest.
Taking Care of Lex
To activate this quest see the previous quest.
Fast travel to Anvil and follow your quest marker to find a beggar, talk to them and ask about 'Dairihill's Office'. Then just fast travel to Castle Anvil and follow your quest marker to find the blacksmith.
Once you find the blacksmith, talk to him and he'll tell you to follow him, so go ahead and follow him. Now, ignore your quest marker because it will be giving you bad directions at the moment. Enter the secret passage way and just follow it upwards, you can't get lost and it will take you to a locked door to 'Private Quarters' wait until its late at night, 1:00 am for example, and then go ahead and pick the lock.
Make sure you're in sneak mode and just follow your quest marker, you will come to a dead end, the south west corner has a movable pillar, activate it to open the secret passage. On the other side to the north is a guard with his back to you, if you're sneaky enough he won't detect you because you have to go south.
Follow your quest marker and pick the lock on the wooden door, inside this room is Dairihill's desk, it is locked, so pick the lock and then grab the list of candidates scroll. Now quietly follow your quest marker back out of the castle.
Once outside of the castle, just follow your quest marker into Anvil to find a beggar, talk to them and ask about 'Master forger'. Now follow your quest marker to find the master forger, talk to him and ask him about 'Forge this letter'.
Wait 24 hours and then talk to the stranger again, ask him about 'Forged letter' and give him his fee. Now, you'll need to fast travel to 'Imperial City Prison', once there just follow your quest marker to get to the Imperial Legion Office. Don't go through the door marked by your quest marker, go in through the door just north west of the one marked by the quest marker, its a very hard lock, but its the easier way to get what you need without being caught.
Inside be very sneaky, even use an invisibility spell or potion just to be sure you won't be caught. The desk marked by your quest marker is locked, but thats okay because what you need is on top of it, the Imperial Legion Seal is on the north west corner of the desk, use it and get out of there.
Once you're safely outside open your world map and fast travel to Castle Anvil, then just follow your quest marker to find Countess Millona Umbranox, she is in attendance during the day. When you can, talk to her and tell her about 'New Guard Captain'.
Now you have to find Lex, he will be somewhere in the Imperial City, just follow your quest marker to find him. Talk to him and tell him about 'New Guard Captain'.
Fast travel to Bravil and follow your quest marker to find S'krivva, talk to her and tell her about 'Hieronymus Lex reassigned' to complete this quest and be promoted to Shadowfoot.
Independent Thievery (600)
Fast travel to Bravil and follow your quest marker to find S'krivva who is inside her house and you can't bother her unless the door is unlocked, so wait until 8:00 am and then go inside to talk to her and ask her about 'Thieves Guild special jobs'.
Steal enough items to get you to 600 gold from stolen items and then you can now use Orrin as your fence, he is in Castle Anvil, just follow your quest marker to find him. Once you've sold a total of 600 gold worth of stolen items just go to the Imperial City Waterfront and use the wait command until Methredhel finds you to activate the next quest.
Turning a Blind Eye (Shadowfoot)
To activate this quest see the previous quest.
Fast travel to Bruma and then follow your quest marker to Helvius Cecia's house. Go inside, make your way downstairs, the Gray Fox is sitting in a chair, go ahead and talk to him.
Blast through the conversation and you'll get a map marker for the 'Temple of the Ancestor Moths' which is way to the north of Cheydinhal. Fast travel to your nearest map marker and then follow your quest marker to get to the temple.
When you get to the temple you'll get a quest update, once you do follow your quest marker into the little hut. Talk to brother Holger, you'll need a disposition of about 75 with him, when you have that, ask him about 'Savill'as Stone'. If he doesn't end up telling you anything, try the other monks. After finding out the first bit of information, ask about 'Where are the Catacombs', for this you'll need a disposition of about 85 to get him to co-operate.
Now just follow him and he will get you into the catacombs. In here you can kill the enemies you run into, so you don't have to do much sneaking. Just follow your quest marker and you'll go through a bunch of different sections, but finally you'll come to a room with a platform in the middle of it and a pedistal on it, Savilla's Stone is there, take it.
Just follow your quest marker out of this place, once you're out open your world map and fast travel to Bruma. Then follow your quest marker back to the Gray Fox, talk to him and tell him about 'Savilla's Stone'. This will complete the quest, but it may take some time before it actually gets moved into the quests completed section. You'll know its complete when you get a quest update for Independant Thievery.
Independent Thievery (700)
After completing the previous quest this quest will eventually be updated.
Steal enough items to get you to 700 gold from stolen items and then you can now use Orrin as your fence, he is in Castle Anvil, just follow your quest marker to find him. Once you've sold a total of 700 gold worth of stolen items just go to the Imperial City Waterfront and use the wait command until Amusei finds you to activate the next quest.
Arrow of Extrication
To activate this quest see the previous quest.
Fast travel to Chorrol, from there follow your quest marker until you come to Malintus Ancrus' house, go inside and the Gray Fox will be standing there, talk to him and accept his task.
Now fast travel to Bravil, from there just follow your quest marker until you find a beggar, talk to them and ask them about 'Fathis Aren'. Next just follow your quest marker into Castle Bravil.
Once inside the throne room, go up to the second floor to the door to 'Lord's Manor North Wing', pick the lock and sneak through the next area, there is a guard around so possibly use an invisibility potion or spell, follow your quest marker to the north east room. This is Fathis's room, along the west wall are a couple of locked chests, search both to get a quest update.
Now in the middle of the north wall there is an indent, the north east side of this section is a movable pillar, activate the pillar to open the secret passage.
Now you can just follow your quest marker from here, but chances are its going to be a confussing little area. If you get stuck there is a locked door that requires a key, as far as I know you can not open this door. You need to go to the room with the body of water, you can swim down in this place, you don't need to go all the way to the bottom, though there is a cool suprise down there, you just need to go part way down to find the passage along the north wall.
Keep following your quest marker until you get to the locked door to 'Bravil Wizard's Lair' pick the lock and go through. Keep following your quest marker until you come to 'Fathis Aren's Tower' which will take inside the tower.
Inside the tower you won't have a quest marker, there will be some powerful enemies, kill them and keep climbing up the tower. Once your most of the way up you'll find Fathis in a room on the south east wall. If you are a member of the mages guild you'll be able to just walk up to Fathis chest and take the Key-Shaped Arrowhead. If you are not a member of the mages guild, use what ever tricks you have to get past Fathis.
Now just fast travel back to Chorrol, follow your quest marker back to the Gray Fox, talk to him and tell him about 'Arrow of Extrication' to be promoted to Master Thief and complete this quest.
Independent Thievery (800)
After completing the previous quest this quest will eventually be updated.
Steal enough items to get you to 800 gold from stolen items and then you can now use Fathis as your fence, depending what you've done so far he can either be in the Imperial City, or Chorrol, just use your quest marker to find him. Once you've sold 800 gold worth of stolen items go to the Imperial City Waterfront and wait until Amusei finds you to activate the next quest.
Boots of Springheel Jak (Master Thief)
To activate this quest see the previous quest.
Fast travel to Cheydinhal, once there just follow your quest marker to Ganredhel's house, inside the Gray Fox is just sitting there, talk to him and accept his task. Now fast travel to the Imperial City and follow your quest marker to find a beggar, talk to them and ask them about 'Finding Jakben, Earl of Imbel'.
Now follow your quest marker to 'Imperial City, Talos Plaze District' and keep following it until you come to Jakben's house. Now you will need to wait until the day time and then just search the house to find Jakben, chances are he is on the second floor somewhere. Talk to him and ask him about 'Springheel Jak's tomb'.
Now follow your quest marker through the house into the basement and into the catacombs. Follow your quest marker and you will find Springheel Jak's coffin, loot it and you won't find the boots, just a diary. Read the diary and you should be able to figure out that you need to go see Jakben again.
Most of the time Jakben actually comes and finds you in the catacombs, so watch out for him. If you can't find him anywhere in the house during the day, go back to the catacombs and check all the corpses for him, chances are, he is already a corpse. If he's still alive, kill him, he is a vampire. Loot his body to find the boots.
Now follow your quest marker back to the Gray Fox in Cheydinhal, talk to him and tell him about 'Boots of Sprinheel Jak' to complete this quest.
Independent Thievery (1000)
After completing the previous quest this quest will eventually be updated.
Steal enough items to get you to 1000 gold from stolen items and then you can now use Fathis as your fence, depending what you've done so far he can either be in the Imperial City, or Chorrol, just use your quest marker to find him. Once you've sold 1000 gold worth of stolen items go to the Imperial City Waterfront and wait until Amusei finds you to activate the next quest.
The Ultimate Heist
To activate this quest see the previous quest.
Follow your quest marker to 'Imperial City Elven Gardens District' and then to Othrelos' house, go inside and the Gray Fox will be sitting there. Talk to him and accept his task.
Follow your quest marker to 'Imperial City Palace' and just keep following it into the palace and then the palace basement. In the basement follow your quest marker until you find a giant hour glass, activate it.
Follow your quest marker out of the palace and go to the Arboretum, here is the entrance to the sewers, follow your quest marker in. If you get stuck right away by a door that is opened remotely, the switch is in the same room on the same floor against the south west wall.
Keep following your quest marker and you will come to a door to 'Beneath the Bloodworks' go through the door. Follow your quest marker, you'll get to another door that is opened remotely, its in the second floor room to the east of the locked door, you actually have to follow the path south and make your way to the switch on the north wall of the room. Continue following your quest marker and you'll come to a room where you have to go west, but again there is a door that is opened remotely, the switch is in the room just north of here, activate it and follow your quest marker.
Just follow your quest marker and you'll end up at the strange door to 'The Old Way' go through the door. Just keep following your quest marker. When you come to a large ruins style room where you can't proceed, there is a set of incomplete stairs up, equip the boots of Springheel Jak and you should be able to make the jump up. Once up there are 2 switches, on on the north side and the other on the south side of the lower level, both are on the corner of the east wall.
After activating both switches, jump down to the lower level and follow your quest marker. If you keep following your quest marker you will get a quest update informing you that you'll need to use the Arrow of Extrication soon.
Make your way east until you're infront of the large greenish statue labled 'Keyhole Pillar', from here go south, then south west, staying on the upper level, eventually you'll find a locked door on the south wall, pick the lock and go through the door. Turn east and you'll find a block switch on the wall, activate it.
Now follow the path east, down some stairs and when you get to the room at the bottom there is a path to the south east corner, go through this path, go for a bit and you'll find a door on the south wall to 'Hall of Epochs' go through this door.
In this new area take one of the doors to the north, cross the large room to the north east corner where there is a path, follow it into the next room. This room has a path in the south west corner, take it. In this room on the west wall is a block switch, activate it.
Now follow your quest marker back to the room with the Keyhole Pillar. In this room there were some large pillars that a quest update said you could probably move, the block we went and pressed moved them. Now, you need to go onto the bridge and stand on a floor switch, face east and you'll see the Keyhole Pillar turn to face you and an opening appear.
SAVE
You have to hit the object in the center of that pillar. Take a couple practice shots with regular arrows, once you think you have it, equip the Arrow of Extrication and make your shot. If you missed, load and try again. I am my crosshairs right on the hands holding the bass of the sword, right above the statue's head. If you can not even see the statue, you really need to adjust your video settings for view distance so you can see the statue. If your system can't handle it, it will have to for now, you can switch it back down low after.
You'll know when you hit it because you will get a quest update. Now just follow your quest marker to the door to Imperial Guard Quarters. Get into sneak mode and probably save.
Use invisibility potions, spells and all your stealth, there are guards everywhere. Just follow your quest marker and you'll come to the door to 'Elder Scrolls Library' go through the door.
When you get to the area with the green marker, follow the path south, around the outside of the middle room, when you get to the blind monk, there is a lever along the west wall, activate it and run back to the door to the middle room.
Go into this room and look for a single chair infront of the fire called 'Reading Chair' activate it and just sit back and wait. A monk will come to you and the Elder Scroll will appear infront of you on the edge of the fire place. Take the scroll.
Go up the spiral stairs being as sneaky as you've ever been, take the door on the west wall and follow your quest marker from there. When you get to the green marker, you will find a grate on the floor in a fire place, equip the boots of Springheel Jak, because you are going to be falling a great distance.
After opening the gate and falling down just follow your quest marker to get you out of here. You'll probably end up going through a shop to get out, its all good, just sneak and you won't get in trouble. Once you're finally back in the city, just follow your quest marker to the Gray Fox.
Talk to the Gray Fox and then you'll need to go to Castle Anvil, follow your quest marker from there to the Countess, she is in attendance during the day. When you're able to talk to her, tell her about 'The Stranger's Ring'.
You're now the guild master of the Thieves Guild. Lets fast travel to 'Imperial City Waterfront' and follow the quest marker to Dereloth's Basement. Once inside this quest will be complete and there is nothing left to do with the thieves guild.
