Skyrim:Boethiah's Calling

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Contents 1 Quick Walkthrough 2 Detailed Walkthrough 2.1 Starting the Quest 2.2 The Shrine of Boethiah 2.3 The Sacrifice 2.4 The New Champion 3 Notes 4 Bugs 5 Quest Stages

Become Boethiah's new champion. Quest Giver: Book: Boethiah's Proving Location(s): Sacellum of Boethiah, Knifepoint Ridge Reward: Ebony Mail ID: DA02 Required Level: 30

Adelaisa Vendicci is sacrificed to Boethiah

[edit] Quick Walkthrough

1. Read Boethiah's Proving.
2. Travel to Sacellum of Boethiah and speak to the Priestess of Boethiah.
3. Sacrifice a follower on the Altar of Sacrifice.
4. Kill all the cult members.
5. Go to Knifepoint Ridge and kill Boethiah's current champion.

[edit] Detailed Walkthrough

[edit] Starting the Quest

Soon after you reach level 30, you will be attacked by a Boethiah cultist. Kill them and take the book "Boethiah's Proving" from their corpse. Reading the book will start the quest. Alternatively, once you reach level 30 you can travel to the Sacellum of Boethiah to start the quest (you can either talk to the Priestess of Boethia or kill every one of the cultists).

Note: See Boethiah's Proving for other possible locations of the book. The various copies of the book appear once you reach level 30.

[edit] The Shrine of Boethiah

First you will have to make your way to the Sacellum of Boethiah. Follow the road east from the Windhelm Stables up to Traitor's Post. Nearby is a road that leads into the mountains, up to the Sacellum. When you arrive at the Sacellum you will find two cultists fighting in a small arena. There are some more cultists and a Priestess of Boethiah watching them. Speak to the priestess. She will tell you that you need to prove that "your tongue can wield a lie".

[edit] The Sacrifice

The priestess will tell you that you need to gain someone's trust and then sacrifice them before Boethiah. She will give you the Blade of Sacrifice to make the sacrifice with. Lead any non-essential follower to the shrine and activate command mode (holding 'use' or via the "I need you to do something" conversation option). Highlight the pillar and you should see "Use the Pillar of sacrifice". Tell them to do this and they will move towards it and be pulled in and stuck to it. If the follower is essential, the pillar will not be triggered.

Kill the follower using any means (despite what the Priestess says, you do not have to use the Blade of Sacrifice) and Boethiah will use his or her body as a conduit to tell you and all of the cultists that she has a task for whoever is left standing after a battle to the death. This results in all the cultists attacking one another (and you). Be prepared for a tough fight, as they can be formidable opponents.

If you have already killed all the followers of Boethia, she will then possess the corpse of the last follower you slew and the quest proceeds as normal.

[edit] The New Champion

After making the sacrifice and killing all the cultists, Boethiah will again use a body as a conduit (it may not be the same one) and tell you she needs a new champion. To become the new champion you must kill the old champion and his bandits at Knifepoint Ridge, northwest of Falkreath.

Despite Boethiah's order to kill them stealthily, being detected does not result in quest failure or any other penalty. Nonetheless, most of the bandits inside the mine are busy with their backs to you and can be assassinated, and a few are standing in pools of flammable liquid that can be ignited with fire spells. Once you defeat Boethiah's Champion, you must equip his Ebony Mail. Boethiah will then speak to you one last time, telling you that you are her new champion and giving you the old champion's Ebony Mail as your reward.

[edit] Notes

• Making the sacrifice counts as a murder.
• Boethiah would have given you a second Daedric Quest in which you would have killed Solitude's Jarl Elisif the Fair. The quest was not included in the game but the data was left in the game files.
• It is possible to get the Blade of Sacrifice without having to start the quest by looting the dead body from the fight pit. You can also get more than one this way.
• The Daedric inscription coiled around the base of the Pillar of Sacrifice are written backwards. It reads: "I am alive because that one is dead. I exist because I have the will to do so."

[edit] Bugs

• If you refuse the quest and kill the cultists or something happens to cause Boethiah's current body to enter combat mode (such as a dragon attack), she will be stuck in the same conversational loop repeating the line "You've gotten my attention mortal, that is most unwise", when approached.
  • To get around this, kill all the cultists and priests.

• If you sacrifice a Companion at the Pillar, the game may not register them as killed, breaking the radiant quests from the Companions. Though the follower dies and the quest for Boethiah proceeds as normal, the other Companion leaders don't acknowledge the death, and they still respond with "Aren't you already running a job for (name)?" when asked about work.

• If you kill the priestess before talking to Boethiah, one or two of the current fighters may become unkillable.
  • If this happens, open the console and use code killall. The fighters will be killed and the quest for Boethiah proceeds as normal.

• If you have remapped your controller buttons, you may have to reset them to defaults to get your follower to activate the Pillar of Sacrifice.

• If you enter the menu or journal during the blurred visual effect, the effect might remain until the quest is completed (or possibly permanently if the quest is not completed). This visual effect happens when Boethiah possesses a corpse, either your sacrificed follower or one of her slain followers.
  • Loading a previous save may resolve this.
  • Also, if you get stuck with the effect, approaching a word wall and learning the word will remove the blur effect.

• On entering Knifepoint Ridge, possibly due to having been there before beginning the quest, you may be presented with a wall of Iron Ore blocking your path to the remaining bandits and the Boethiah Cultist, making the quest impossible to complete.
  • A known workaround is to look at the bottom right corner of the wall of Iron Ore, where the option to mine a Corundum Vein will be presented. Mining this vein will pull you through the wall, allowing you to continue with the quest as intended. However this will only work once, so make sure you have completed everything before heading back up this path - as soon as you have walked through the location of the wall it will reappear, making the rest of the mine unreachable. You can use the mining workaround several times, so long as you cancel the mining action as soon as you pass through.

• The Conduit of Boethiath may not talk to you and if you try to activate it, it will say "Euuugh! Wearing flesh is so.... distasteful".
  • Killing all of the cultists may allow you to continue.

• The Miscellaneous Quest objective "Investigate the Boethiah cultist" may not ever be marked as completed, even after completing the main Boethiah's Calling mission.
  • Reading the book after looting it from the body may prevent this.
  • A fix for this is setstage weda02 0. This will remove the quest, which is especially helpful if you already completed Boethiah's Calling and are stuck with the miscellaneous quest.

• If other methods fail, take your follower to the Pillar of Sacrifice. Cross to the far side nearest the fire and you should see a white arrow location marker near outermost ring. Position your follower as close to arrow as you can, usually by crossing over and out of circle and having your follower join you. Once in position, activate the pillar which should now work normally.

• The Champion of Boethiah will re-equip his armor if he is killed and revived with Dead Thrall, which can be exploited for infinite gold and powerful armor for your followers.

[edit] Quest Stages

DA02 Hook (WEDA02)
Stage	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
10		(Objective is assigned): Investigate the Boethiah cultist
Boethiah's Calling (DA02)
1		I found a book that mentioned a cult of Boethiah in the mountains near Windhelm. (Objective is assigned): Find the shrine of Boethiah
5		I have discovered a shrine to Boethiah in the mountains near Windhelm. (Objective is assigned): Find the cult of Boethiah
10		I am to lead someone to the Shrine of Boethiah, instruct them to touch the Pillar of Sacrifice, and once trapped by it's magic, slay them. If I do this Boethiah will appear. (Objective is assigned): Lead someone to become trapped by the shrine and slay them
15		Boethiah has appeared using <Alias=DeadFriend>'s corpse as a vessel. She will give a special task to whichever of her cultists are left alive after we fight to the death. (Objective is assigned): Slay the other cultists
20		Boethiah revealed herself to me. I am to slay her previous champion, and having done so, don the Ebony Mail. So doing, she will make me her champion. (Objective is assigned): Slay everyone at <Alias=Dungeon> stealthily
30		(Objective is assigned): Retrieve and equip the Ebony Mail
40		I have proven myself to Boethiah, and she has made me her new champion.
50		(Objective is assigned): Slay the Jarl of Solitude
100		(Objective is assigned): Speak to Boethiah's Conduit

• The following empty quest stages were omitted from the first table: 0, 10, 255
• The following empty quest stages were omitted from the second table: 0, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 17, 21, 41, 60, 70, 80, 81, 200
• Stage 50 can be found in the game's file information, but does not appear during gameplay.

Notes

• Any text displayed in angle brackets (e.g., <Alias=LocationHold>) is dynamically set by the Radiant Quest system, and will be filled in with the appropriate word(s) when seen in game.
• Not all Journal Entries may appear in your journal; which entries appear and which entries do not depends on the manner in which the quest is done.
• Stages are not always in order of progress. This is usually the case with quests that have multiple possible outcomes or quests where certain tasks may be done in random order. Some stages may therefore repeat objectives seen in other stages.
• If an entry is marked as "Finishes Quest" it means the quest disappears from the Active Quest list, but you may still receive new entries for that quest.
• On the PC, it is possible to use the console to advance through the quest by entering setstage DA02 stage, where stage is the number of the stage you wish to complete. It is not possible to un-complete (i.e. go back) quest stages, but it is possible to clear all stages of the quest using resetquest DA02.