Tribunal:Hunt the Dark Brotherhood

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1 Quick Walkthrough
2 Detailed Walkthrough
3 Notes
4 Bugs
5 Quest Stages

Follow the trail of clues leading to the Dark Brotherhood in the sewers beneath Mournhold.^edit

Quest Giver: Automatic upon your arrival at Royal Palace of Mournhold
Location(s): Mournhold, Great Bazaar Sewers, Old Mournhold: Manor District, Temple Reception
Prerequisite Quest: Dark Brotherhood Attacks
Next Quest: The Goblin Army or Speak to the People
Reward: None
ID: TR_DBHunt
Suggested Items: Healing potions, Cure Paralyze/Poison
Suggested Level: 25
Difficulty: Medium, Some Tough Fights

Two assassins in their lair

[edit] Quick Walkthrough

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

[edit] Detailed Walkthrough

[edit] Mournhold Palace

After speaking with Asciene Rane about Transport to the Mainland, 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 and ask them about the Dark Brotherhood. You may need to persuade them in order to get the information. The Guard will then direct you to the Sewers underneath the Great Bazaar in the eastern section of town.

Map of the Bazar Sewers

Dandras has a contract on your life...

[edit] Finding the Great Bazaar

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.

[edit] Finding the Dark Brotherhood

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 should receive a journal entry mentioning that you have found the Dark Brotherhood's hideout. It won't be long until you start to find some Dark Brotherhood members who apparently 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 make use of all the potential targets that you want to.

[edit] Dandras Vules

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.

[edit] The Dark Brotherhood Contract

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.

[edit] Fedris Hler

Make your way to the Temple Courtyard (north door of the Great Bazaar), and from there to the Reception area in the large central structure. Hler will not mention anything of the supposed Brotherhood leader Vules whom you killed, but will rather use the opportunity to set you a new task for the Lady Almalexia.

[edit] Notes

Tienius Delitian will dismiss any attempt of dialog 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:

Journeyman
Apprentice
Operator
Punisher
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 respawn again and again for all eternity, providing you with an unlimited supply of expensive armor to sell. The higher ranks also wield Daedric Tantos and Adamantium Weapons.
The skillbook Sithis (Alteration) can be found on a ledge outside the door to Moril Manor, North Building.

[edit] Bugs

If you find Dandras Vule's death dialogue looping, the likely cause is Bloodmoon overriding certain things in Tribunal. This is fixed in the Bloodmoon patch, downloadable at: http://www.elderscrolls.com/downloads/updates_patches.htm (You need the Bloodmoon patch, not the Tribunal one, as Bloodmoon is the later expansion and is the one causing the issue). The GotY edition already has this patch included.

[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.

TR_DBHunt
Index	Journal Entry
1	I have found the Dark Brotherhood's hideout in the ruins of Old Mournhold.
100	I have killed Dandras Vules, the leader of the Dark Brotherhood in Mournhold. As he died, he spoke to me. "Tell my liege I have failed...." Of whom Vules was speaking, I have yet to determine. Perhaps there is some evidence in his chambers that might lead me to the one who wishes me dead.
110	I've found a Dark Brotherhood contract that marks me for execution. The contract was written on the order of "H." This should give me some clue as to who wants me dead. I should report my findings to a guard immediately.