Quick Walkthrough[edit]

1. Travel to Mournhold and speak to any Palace Guard or High Ordinator about the Dark
Brotherhood.
2. Enter the Great Bazaar Sewers.
3. Explore the Sewers until you find the Manor District of Old Mournhold.
4. Enter the North Building of the Moril Manor and kill Dandras Vules, the apparent leader
of the Brotherhood.
5. Speak again to any Guard about the Dark Brotherhood.
6. Speak with Tienius Delitian in the Throne Room of the Royal Palace, or Fedris Hler in the
Reception Area of the Temple.

Detailed Walkthrough[edit]

Mournhold Palace[edit]

After speaking with Asciene Rane about Transport to Mournhold, you will arrive in the Royal
Palace of Mournhold, next to the Argonian Effe-Tei, who can teleport you back to
Vvardenfell. Follow Asciene's advice and speak to any Royal Guard who is wandering
around, or look for a High Ordinator in the city and ask them about the Dark Brotherhood.
With a disposition over 40 they will direct to the Sewers underneath the Great Bazaar in the
eastern section of town (You can skip this step).

Map of the Bazaar Sewers

Dandras has a contract on your life...

Finding the Great Bazaar[edit]

Exit to the Royal Palace Courtyard from the door next to Effe-Tei and from there onto the
Plaza Brindisi Dorom. Head left following the wall to find a doorway leading to the Great
Bazaar. The entrance to the Sewers you are looking for is in the southeast corner of the
Great Bazaar.

Finding the Dark Brotherhood[edit]

Explore the Bazaar Sewers, watching out for undead and goblins that live down there, until
you find one of the two entrances to Old Mournhold: Manor District. As soon as you enter
this section, you will receive a journal entry mentioning that you have found the Dark
Brotherhood's hideout (unless you skipped the step of talking to a guard before finding the
entrance). It won't be long until you start to find some Dark Brotherhood members who
would like nothing better than to kill you. Most of the Brotherhood members tend to
respawn if you leave the area and come back anyway, so feel free to kill them all and grab
their valuable Dark Brotherhood Armor.

Dandras Vules[edit]

In the northern building of the Moril Manor, you will find Dandras Vules. Vules is a tough
opponent and you might want to ensure that you are fully prepared before you take him on.
Once you kill him, you will find an interesting Contract on his corpse and receive a journal
entry. The journal entry will tell you to go and talk to another Guard to find out more about
the contract, signed by H. Any High Ordinator should direct you to speak with Fedris Hler,
the Chief Steward of Almalexia in the Temple Reception Area, while any Royal Guard will
direct you to speak with Tienius Delitian.

The Dark Brotherhood Contract[edit]

If you read the interesting contract carefully, you'll come to the conclusion that the
employer of the Dark Brotherhood is King Hlaalu Helseth himself. If you go to Tienius
Delitian, and give him the contract, he'll frankly tell you that it was King Hlaalu Helseth who
wanted to kill you and he refuses to pay anymore attention to that little matter.
 Next Quest[edit]

Tienius Delitian will now have an optional series of quests for the Royal Palace which will
eventually lead you to Fedris Hler for the main quest, alternatively, you can choose to skip
the 6 Royal Palace quests and go to Fedris Hler directly.

Notes[edit]

Tienius Delitian will dismiss any attempt of dialogue with a chuckle, until you have
completed this quest.
This quest (and any of Tienius Delitian's quests up to #8) is optional if you speak to Fedris
Hler right away when you arrive in Mournhold.
The ranks and rough order of difficulty of the Brotherhood members are:

1. Apprentice
2. Journeyman
3. Operator
4. Punisher
5. Assassin

The Dark Brotherhood base is arguably the best source of continuous income in the entire
game, as the armor is very light and the Dark Brotherhood members continually respawn,
providing you with an unlimited supply of expensive armor to sell. The higher ranks also
wield daedric tantos and Adamantium Weapons.
The Alteration skill book Sithis can be found on a ledge outside the door to Moril Manor,
North Building.

Bugs[edit]

Dandras Vule's death dialogue may loop. This is caused by Bloodmoon overriding certain
things in Tribunal.
If you kill Dandras while in werewolf form, he will still try to talk to you before dying, but
since NPCs can't talk to werewolves your game will instead freeze the second he dies and
then crash.
Sometimes when Vules dies, his face will disappear, his body can be seen through walls and
in other cells and he won't be lootable. This can break the quest.
o The only way to prevent this is to avoid fighting him and use the console to progress
through the quest.
If Vules is backed up against a wall when he dies, his body may fall in such a way that you
cannot loot it. This will prevent you from picking up the contract which is required for the
journal entry to progress the quest. ?
Vules' death and accompanying dialogue are actually scripted to occur under a certain
health threshold, not when his health reaches 0. If his health is above this threshold and you
deal a strong enough blow to kill him outright, the game will crash ?
 If you kill Vules from anywhere outside his line of sight, such as by hitting him with an area-
effect damage spell from where he can't see you, you will get a dialogue loop where he
repeatedly says, "Who's there?"