Morrowind:Meet Sul-Matuul

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1 Quick Walkthrough
2 Detailed Walkthrough
3 Notes
4 Quest Stages

Travel to the Northern coast to find out more about the Nerevarine Prophecy and how it relates to you.^edit

Quest Giver: Caius Cosades at Balmora
Location(s): Urshilaku Camp, Urshilaku Burial Caverns
Prerequisite Quest: Zainsubani Informant
Next Quest: Sixth House Base
Reward: Clanfriend of the Ashlanders, Bonebiter Bow of Sul-Senipul, optional treasure including Magebane
ID: A2_1_MeetSulMatuul
Suggested Spells: Levitation
Difficulty: Medium

The Wraith of Sul-Senipul

[edit] Quick Walkthrough

Return to Caius in Balmora to receive your orders.
Travel up to the Urshilaku Camp, east of Khuul.
Meet with Zabamund and then Sul-Matuul.
Retrieve the Bonebiter Bow for Sul-Matuul from the Urshilaku Burial Caverns.
Return to Sul-Matuul and receive permission to speak with Nibani Maesa.
Meet with Nibani Maesa for her opinions on the Nerevarine Prophecies.

[edit] Detailed Walkthrough

[edit] Orders from Caius

The proverbial plot has thickened significantly by this point as you discover that the Emperor intends to use you to fulfill the Nerevarine Prophecies, ensuring that things go his way. After completing the last errand for Caius, he gives you a decoded copy of the original package you delivered to him along with 200 gold and instructions to see Somutis Vunnis and Crulius Pontanian at Moonmoth Legion Fort (they are in the chapel and the services hall, respectively) before heading up to see the heads of the Nerevarine Cult at Urshilaku Camp, Sul-Matuul, and Nibani Maesa. You can skip the Moonmoth Legion Fort (just east of Balmora) part if you don't need any useful scrolls and potions, very handy at low levels (talk to Crulius and Somutis about essential supplies to receive the items).

[edit] Visit the Urshilaku Camp

Urshilaku Camp is a good deal farther away, on the northern coast of the Island (it should be marked on your in-game map at this point). Depending on your preferences, you could just walk north through the foyadas. It is not too far depending on how many dungeons and towns you stop at along the way (of course, this is half the fun, or perhaps more). A quicker way is to take a Silt Strider from Balmora to Ald'ruhn, and then on to either Khuul or Maar Gan. Urshilaku Camp is a little way east from Khuul and north from Maar Gan (Khuul might be a bit closer and it is quite easy to follow the coast till you reach the camp).

The camp is small, so be careful not to overlook it. People here don't seem to be expecting you, and are not particularly friendly. Remember what Hassour told you about giving gifts (items, persuasion, bribes), and you will make inroads into Urshilaku society in record time. Tussurradad accepts kwama eggs, and Hainab accepts Trama Root - alternatively, a simple charm spell or an expensive bribe of 100 gold will work on anybody (depending on your Speechcraft skill, 10 gold might work as well). You may enter the Wise Woman's yurt immediately upon arriving in the camp, and get her to talk by raising her disposition, but this is doing things out of sequence and some dialogue options may not be available. After receiving their gift, your new friends direct you to speak with Zabamund in his yurt (hut). Once you receive his permission you may then speak with Sul-Matuul.

[edit] Meet with Zabamund

To speak with Zabamund you must raise your disposition with him to around 70 or higher first. When answering his question, a humble, honest answer will do the most in assuring him of your sincerity and seriousness. With this, Zabamund sends you to the Ashkhan's yurt to speak with Sul-Matuul. Alternatively, you can find out from Zabamund that his clan considers it honorable to give a gift of money, so you can offer a 200 gold tribute without bothering to raise his disposition.

Urshilaku Burial Caverns map.

[edit] Meet with Sul-Matuul

Fortunately, once you reach Sul-Matuul you have no need to raise his disposition as he will talk with you straight away. Matuul says that you must pass an initiation rite in order to be adopted into the Urshilaku Tribe as a Clanfriend (as you are an outlander). You are asked to travel to the Urshilaku Burial Caverns and retrieve the Bonebiter Bow of Sul-Senipul (Sul-Senipul was Matuul's father). Once you get the bow, this will prove your worth to join the tribe. Directions to the caverns are given, but are rather confusing honestly, and all you need to do is just head south-south-east from the camp for a short distance (the caverns are at -21650, 136400, 890 using the TDT command in the console, just east of the Abinabi cave which is directly south of the camp). Note that the actual name of the caverns is Urshilaku, Astral Burial (the chamber where you enter the caverns).

[edit] Urshilaku Burial Chamber

The caverns are larger than most of the tombs scattered throughout the island, and filled with skeletons and cave rats. Go through the Astral Burial chamber (the entrance area) into to the Karma Burial, and then enter the Laterus Burial. You may visit the various chambers at each stage, but your goal lies within the Juno Burial, found at the top of the spiral. At the far end of this chamber you encounter the Wraith of Sul-Senipul who carries (but, of course, doesn't use) the Bonebiter Bow of Sul-Senipul you must retrieve.

[edit] Return to Sul-Matuul

Returning to Sul-Matuul at the Urshilaku Camp, he congratulates you on completing the initiation rite and names you Clanfriend of the Ashlanders, thereby permitting you to talk to Nibani Maesa. As a bonus, you get to keep the bow and rest in any bed in the camp, although he prohibits you from stealing from any other member of your new faction.

[edit] Meet with Nibani

Nibani is in the Wise Woman's Yurt and has lots of answers to your questions about the prophecy. Do yourself a favor and listen to what she says as it will greatly help you understand the overall storyline. Finally, ask her if you pass the test. It seems that although you are not the Nerevarine, you are one who may become the Nerevarine. In order to know more, Nibani asks you to find the lost prophecies and bring them to her, so that she may guide you better. She also gives you a copy of The Stranger and The Seven Visions relating to the Nerevarine Prophecy. You can return to Caius for your next assignment.

[edit] Notes

There is a large amount of loot in the caverns - mostly silver weapons of various types, some enchanted; the skeletons carry Silver Longswords, Silver Claymores, and Iron Shields. Aside from the skeletons and dead adventurers (who are wearing assorted pieces of chitin, Imperial, or Dwemer armor), much of it requires levitation or jump fortification to reach.
In the northern wing of the Fragile Burial a mummy rests on a pillar with a copy of Feyfolken I, with its hand on a Bone Charm amulet. Less valuable loot and a key to the Worm Lord's tomb rests with the mummy in the southern wing.
The entrance to the Worm Lord's tomb lies underwater, along the eastern wall between the two wings of Fragile Burial. The door is simple, locked (10) and trapped. The monster itself is a summoner skeleton, he wields a Silver Viperskewer. On the central pillar you will find three mummies, each of which has a treasure at their feet: a Ebony Closed Helm, a Glass Tower Shield, and the book Mystery of Talara, Part IV.
Near the end of the Kefka burial lies a dead adventurer's body, next to a column with a flask of Flin on top of it. On the opposite side, at the edge of a pool are two scarce Daedric Darts.
Near the ceiling of the Laterus Burial, one mummy has Glass Greaves at its feet, and directly across from it, near the top of the Laterus spire, is Magebane. There is a Wizard's Staff at the highest western point of the Laterus Burial. Next to it is an urn full of random scrolls, an Illusion skill book, Silence, and a chest with random jewels in it.
Other reports mention magical arrows.

[edit] Quest Stages

These Codes can be used along with the Journal Console Command and Quest ID given above the chart(s) to update the quest to a certain point.

A2_1_MeetSulMatuul
Index	Journal Entry
1	Caius promoted me to Apprentice rank in the Blades, and gave me the Emperor's secret orders and told me to read them. The Emperor thinks the Nerevarine prophecies are genuine, and that I may be the Nerevarine. I'm being sent to the Urshilaku Camp to speak with the heads of the Nerevarine cult, Sul-Matuul and Nibani Maesa. I'll tell them my story, and tell them to test me against the Nerevarine prophecies, then report back to Caius.
5	Nuleno Tedas gave me directions to Urshilaku camp. The camp is due north from Maar Gan, but high ridges lie in the way. Follow Foyada Bani-Dad, a deep ravine just north of Maar Gan, northwest to the sea. A shipwreck at the seamouth of the ravine is a landmark. Swim east around the headland. Pass east through the ruins of Assurnabitashpi Shrine. Urshilaku Camp lies east of the ruins, inland in a low hollow.
11	I have slain an Urshilaku Ashlander. This will make my mission to speak with Sul-Matuul and Nibani Maesa more difficult.
13	I have slain an Urshilaku Ashlander. This will make my mission to speak with Sul-Matuul and Nibani Maesa more difficult.
20	I have been told to go speak with Zabamund, a gulakhan, Sul-Matuul's champion, in his Zabamund's yurt. If Zabamund gives me permission, then I may enter the ashkhan's yurt and speak with Sul-Matuul.
35	I have persuaded Zabamund that I must speak to Sul-Matuul. Now I must go to the ashkhan's yurt and tell Sul-Matuul that Zabamund has sent me.
40	Sul-Matuul has sent me to the Urshilaku Burial Caverns to fetch Sul-Senipul's Bonebiter Bow. Sul-Senipul was Sul-Matuul's father, and his spirit guards this bonemold long bow deep in the burial caverns. If I return to Sul-Matuul with this bow, he will adopt me into the Urshilaku tribe as a Clanfriend. And then Sul-Matuul will send me to the wise woman, Nibani Maesa, to be tested against the Nerevarine prophecies.
42	I must go to Urshilaku Burial Caverns to retrieve Bonebiter, the bonemold long bow of Sul-Matuul's ancestor, Sul-Senipul. Sul-Matuul says that the Urshilaku Burial Caverns lie to the south-southeast of Urshilaku camp, halfway between the camp and the slopes of Red Mountain. He warns me that Ashlander ancestral spirits guard these burial chambers.
45	I completed the initiation rite by bringing Sul-Senipul's Bonebiter Bow to Sul-Matuul. He has named me a Clanfriend of the Ashlanders He has also given me permission to go to the wise woman's yurt and speak with Nibani Maesa, who will examine me and test me against the Nerevarine prophecies.
51	Nibani Maesa agrees that my aspect -- my birthsign -- and my uncertain parentage fit with the Nerevarine prophecies. But that is not sufficient proof that I am the Nerevarine.
52	Nibani Maesa believes that the Nerevarine should bear the mark of the moon-and-star -- the mark of Indoril Nerevar's family standard.
53	Nibani Maesa believes there is some connection between the recent attacks by mad cultists called 'sleepers' and the Nerevarine prophecies.
54	Nibani Maesa recited the version of the Nerevarine prophecies she knows as 'the Stranger'.
55	Nibani Maesa recited a version of the Nerevarine prophecies she calls 'Seven Visions of Seven Trials of the Incarnate'.
56	The wise women know that some Nerevarine prophecies have been lost. But the Dissident Priests of the Temple study the Ashlander Nerevarine prophecies, and record them in books. Perhaps the lost prophecies can be found there. Nibani Maesa has asked me to go to the Dissident Priests, get them to show me the books, and to tell her what I find there. This sounds like something to mention to Caius. Maybe he'll know how to contact the Dissident Priests.
60	Nibani Maesa says I am not the Nerevarine, but I may become the Nerevarine. It seems she is willing to help me unravel the Nerevarine prophecies and my part in them. She tells me to seek the lost prophecies among the Dissident priests of the Temple. If I bring these lost prophecies to her, she will be my guide. And she gave me copies of the Nerevarine prophecies called 'The Stranger' and 'The Seven Visions'. Now it's time to report back to Caius.