Daggerfall:Wayrest Painting

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1 Quick Walkthrough
2 Detailed Walkthrough
- 2.1 Reputation Gain

Queen Akorithi requests a certain painting.^edit

Quest Giver: Queen Akorithi at Castle Sentinel
Location(s): Castle Wayrest
Prerequisite Quest: Missing Prince
Next Quest: Stronghold of the Blades
Reward: Random Gold
Reputation Gain: see Reputation Gain
ID: S0000017
Suggested Items: Spells (Levitate, Recall, Open, Water Breathing, Water Walking)
Required Level: 5

Akorithi in Sentinel

[edit] Quick Walkthrough

After successfully completing a quest for Prince Lhotun of Sentinel, Queen Akorithi contacts you by letter asking your services.
The queen wants you to retrieve a painting from the dungeon of Castle Wayrest, but doesn't say why.
After a long search and hard battle you retrieve the painting, only to notice it is magical and appears to be animated.
In order to see the painting animate, you must USE it (click the USE button and then click the painting).
When you return the painting to the Queen it's better to say you have not viewed the painting when she asks you.

[edit] Detailed Walkthrough

One day, soon after finding the fate of Prince Lhotun's brother, you receive a letter from his mother, Queen Akorithi.

Dear (player name),

Your presence is our court is desired

before the end of the next season.

Prince Lhotun has recommended you with

high praise. I await your arrival.

Akorithi

Queen of Sentinel

Not quite sure when the next season ends (the general stores have been out of calendars for many years) you hurry to Sentinel Castle as quickly as you can.

(player name)! Welcome to Sentinel.

I trust you have had a comfortable

stay so far. Let me get right to the

point. My son, Prince Lhotun, says

you are a well respected and trusted

(player race). I have need of your sort.

I am willing to pay you (some) gold

to infiltrate Castle Wayrest for me.

Will you do it?

Checking your schedule for the next few weeks you see you're relatively free and so you accept, even though the pay isn't that great considering the task of infiltrating a heavily guarded castle.

What Bounty! There is an item, a

painting, that is hidden somewhere

within Castle Wayrest. I desire

this item for reasons you need not

worry about. Bring it to me and I

will pay your (some) gold.

So it's a painting they've gotten me to fetch this time. The hard part will be getting in Castle Wayrest, and out again...in one piece. Hoping you haven't bitten off more than you can chew you head for Wayrest and your fate.

Finding the Painting: Upon entering Castle Wayrest proceed past the throne room, through either set of great doors, until you reach the antechamber where several interesting royals hang out. Prepare to use the North Door (the guards won't like this, so I usually take 'em all out before proceeding). Turn right at the T, Right at the 4-way, through the North Door, then the West Door, then use the teleporter in this room (brick colored door), Teleport again to the switch room. (This switch opens the trap door in a room you passed earlier.

It is irrelevant for this quest, but in a side quest, you will find out that Lord K'avar of Sentinel is plotting against the Queen of Sentinel and when he is caught, he will eventually seek refuge here in the Wayrest dungeons. If you need to find him, he is through that trap door). Anyway, Teleport out of the switch room, take the South door, then go West to another T where you turn South. At the next T continue South, then North at the T, then East at the T, then West at the T, then take the West door at the bottom of the steps.

You will need to go underwater, kill what you find and search for a tunnel which you can crouch to crawl through. Exit the antechamber through the East door and go up the stairs. Straight ahead, you'll find a hole in the wall where you can either jump (if you have the skill level) or crouch and climb through (if you don't). Go right at the corner, then right again, and finally take the West facing door at the corner. Enter the room and take the South door out, turn left at the next T, open the door and VOILA! the painting room (it is well guarded but I found the guards carried massive amounts of good equipment).

The hidden painting

As you examine the painting a little more closely you notice it definitely isn't a normal painting in any respect.

The scene in the painting shifts and

twists. You can clearly see the inside

of a tent. Several men in the livery of

Wayrest are intensely debating with a

man bearing the coat of arms of Daggerfall.

One of the Wayrest men slips behind the

Daggerfall man, draws a dagger and

casually slides it between his ribs.

The image fades as the life ebbs from

his body.

The painting depicts several Wayrest men arguing with a Daggerfall soldier and one of the men kills the soldier. Queen Akorithi refuses to explain any of this to you but the Daggerfall soldier can only be King Lysandus. In Helseth's quest, he tells you that Wayrest advisers met with Lysandus before the battle of Cryngaine. A clever player will put these two stories together.

You quickly return to Sentinel Castle and Queen Akorithi. When you give the painting to the queen you decide not to mention what you saw, nor do you try to use it again. Had you tried to use it you are sure the queen would have been displeased.

Didn't Use It: Excellent. Its properties are; inappropriate for those not of royal; blood. You have shown yourself to be; not only loyal, but also obedient.

Used It: You presume much (player name).; What you saw is not for the prying; eyes of the masses. It concerns; matters of royalty and will be dealt; with by royalty.

More Directions to the Painting: From the entrance, go W through the fountain room into the throne room and up to where you find Prince Helseth sitting on the floor. Behind him in the N wall is a door - go through and turn W at the T intersection. Go up to the door going N. Go through and follow that corridor around to a door going W (you will go up twice). You will enter a room with coffins and a red brick teleport (#1) on the S wall. Go through the teleport and you will land in a room with weapons in the SE corner. A teleport (#2) will be against the E wall. Go through and you will be in a small room with a switch and a teleport (#3). Throw the switch and go through . You will end up in a room with torture implements and a door in the S wall. Go through the door and turn W at the T intersection. Continue W through a door and turn S at the T intersection. Follow that corridor S, then W to a corridor that enters from the S. Turn S, go through a door and follow that corridor around until it is going N and you find another door. Go N through the door, then W, N and W again to a door. That door opens into a room with a trap door over a pit in the floor. It should be open. If it isn't, step near or onto the trapdoor and it should open then, be sure to have Slowfall/Levitate ready in case you fall straight through! Levitate or slowfall to the bottom of the pit. You will now be facing W. Go W and jump into the pit you will find. Continue W on a down slope to a pit filled with water*. A corridor will come in from the N. Levitate over the water and go N up to the first intersection. Turn E and you will see the dreaded "window". (The best way I have found to go through the window is to duck down with the D key, then approach and try to climb through - it may take a few tries but you will climb through - hit D again to stand up). After the window, follow the corridor E, S, then W to a door. You will enter a room with some blue hangings. Go through the door in the S wall. You will go S (and up), then W, then S again. Turn E at your first opportunity and follow the hall around to the treasure room. (You will go E, S, E (down), N, W (down), through a door to the N, W, S (down), E (down), and finally N to the treasure room door). Sounds complicated, but it really isn't.

*I found on this part you are actually falling directly down into the pit, the bottom of which is filled with water. A Spellsword will be in a corridor to the West, who will try to paralyze you (which makes it hard to get out of the water). Use Water-Walking or Levitate to avoid falling into the water and sinking into the room below. Kill the Spellsword and take the corridor to the North mentioned in the Walkthrough.

Getting Out!

If you are not a Spell-User then you won't be able to simply use 'Recall' once you find the painting and leave, you'll need to find your own way out. If you return to where the pit with the water in the bottom is, you'll probably need water-walking magic (item or potion) so you can float on the water and climb up the wall back to the top of the pit. The problem with following the walkthroughs in reverse is that the last room you teleport in to has no more teleport doors - you must find your own way out!

Here's roughly how I found my way out - In the final room you teleport into on your way to find the painting - the one with the torture devices, there is a secret door. You can see its location when you open up the automap. Opening that door will lead to a tunnel, with oversized steps you have to jump/climb up. I didn't make an accurate trail of my footsteps but I do know I came into a room with a red brick door which teleports you when you walk into it. I went through that and from there walked around until I found another red brick door teleport, I went through that and from there I found the main section of the castle (you can tell when you do because the music changes from the 'dungeon' style to the regal style) within about five minutes. Sorry its not very accurate!

To get this way a little faster: You will find the first secret door on the left side of the room next to the room with the torture devices (it is not so hard to find this room, because you can see the devices on the automap). Just climb the oversized steps and find the first teleport door. You will find yourself in a new section, so follow the stairs down and stay left and you will find the right teleport door (in this section is an other red brick door and it leads back to the torture devices). You will be teleported into a big room with just one door, now open your automap and find the secret door. Follow the tunnel and you will find yourself in the main section of the castle, just don't use any more teleport doors and find your way out. Hope it helps.