Finding the Mythic Dawn

Now that you have all four volumes, go back to Tar-Meena at the Arcane University.

She will tell you that it's a practice for secret messages to be hidden amoung such books, and asks you to study the books.

So, open the first volume of the Mythic Dawn Commentaries and look at the first letter of each paragraph.

G-R-E-E-N E-M-P-E-R-O-R.

Now, do the same thing with the second volume.

W-A-Y W-H-E-R-E.

And the third...

T-O-W-E-R T-O-U-C-H-E-S.

And fourth...

M-I-D-D-A-Y S-U-N.

Green Emperor Way, where tower touches midday sun.

Talk to Tar-Meena (be sure that a day has passed). She'll say that she's figured out the first words are the key. Wait another day.

She says that you must go to the gardens around the Imperial Palace. So fast-travel there, turn right, and go until you see this.



Now wait until you get close to noon.








The symbol will glow. Press the space bar to get the location of the Mythic Dawn shrine put onto your map.

The Sewer Meeting And Beyond

Baurus will take a left out of Luther Broad's, and then a right towards an alley that is in between Roderic Pierrane's house and Ra'jhan's house.

Look to your immediate left when you get out of the alley and into an open area with a well.



Take this entrance into the sewers.

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Follow Baurus down the stairs, through the corridor, and into a room where you'll find some easily-dispatched crabs. He will turn the crank to open the door (but if on the off-chance he doesn't, you can) and then head down another corridor. Follow him, and continue to do so through another corridor, room, corridor, room--finally leading to a door that goes to the Sewer Waterworks.

Go in.

Continue to follow, on into the sewer room. Then you'll get down into the (ew, nasty!) sewer water and go through the door at the end of the room, to the right of where you came in.

Continue to follow Baurus, and if you get lost, bring up the lesser map, which will show you via a green arrow where he is.

When you get into a room with no door at the end, go up the stairs and make a U-turn and go into the corridor. Keep going until you get into a room with a staircase. (There's a chest in the room with 8 gold, so grab that) You'll go up this one, too.

Go up the stairs and into a room where there's a chest with 12 gold. Get it and then turn right and follow Baurus across the bridge.

Once through the door, follow him down the stairs and through the nearby corridor. There will be a room at the end with a crank (which Baurus will turn) and two crabs.

Go through the door, and keep following Baurus until you come to a metal-bar door. Go through it, too, and into another room.

Then, you go into another corridor that begins at the top left of that room. It leads to a room with another door marked Sewer Waterworks. Enter it.

Make a left to get into another sewer room. Before going further, get the chest that is directly in front of where you come out in this room. It has "Serenity" and 18 gold.

Go down the stairs, into the muck of the sewers, and keep walking. Kill the enemies in the next room and keep going on through the room--do not leave the muck!--and on into the next room.

Before ascending the stairs, check the sack on the left side of the room for a weak healing potion. Then, ascend the stairs and go into the corridor. Then you'll come into another room with a huge flight of stairs, which you will also go up.

Go through the 'door' and into the room where a chest with a poison and lockpicks is. Turn to your right from the chest and then head through the opening; onto a bridge and into another room.

Turn right and continue to follow Baurus to a door that's marked "Elven Garden Sewers." Enter it.

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Turn right. Go down the stairs and into more sewer muck (disgusting! Hope your character isn't germaphobic...). Go all the way to the end of the room while still in the muck, and follow Baurus up the stairs on the left side.

Then follow into another room.

Through the next door is the meeting room. Baurus will stop in front of this door and tell you that he is going to go into the meeting. He tells you to go up the stairs to a point where you can oversee the meeting from above. Agree to this and go up the stairs, and through the door.

Go into sneak mode at this point and go up to the very edge of where the door meets the beginning of the bridge.



Here is the good spot.




Listen in for a while. After a period of discussion, the Sponsor will change and attack Baurus. Two others will come out. Kill them quickly, and he (Baurus) will live. Pickpocket all of them. You will find the fourth book, as well as some gold and a Base Ring of Fire Shield (Fire Shield 7% on Self). You will also get sewer keys, which you will NEED.

Baurus says he will let you handle the books and finding the Mythic Dawn. He plans to go to Cloud Ruler Temple and guard Martin.

Go through the door that the Sponsor came into the meeting-room through. If you are not sure of what room this is, look up. If there's a red flag with a design (the Mythic Dawn flag, presumably) then it's the right room. Go up the staircase and into a room.

There is a bed here (a couple, in fact) if you wish to rest, in case you happen to have gained a level.

There's a chest near the door which I don't know the contents of, as I didn't have enough lockpicks at the time. (Feel free to email me or comment with what's in it)

On the nearby bookcase there are more copies of some editions of the Commentaries--pick them up, as you will be able to sell them to First Edition.

There's another chest at the end of the room next to a bed with 30 gold, 2 Lockpicks, and a Petty Soul Stone. Near the same bed, on its other side and next to a box is a chest with 2 Weak Healing Potions.

Now go through the door with the Mythic Dawn flag over it and follow the corridor to the door that is labeled Talos Plaza Sewers. Go through it.

There will be some enemies, and a door to your right. After killing the enemies, try the door to see that it's opened remotely, aka there's a switch somewhere you need to turn in order to open the door.

The switch is next to the door, in between two chests, each of which has potions and one of which has gold.

Now go through the door, up the stairs in the room, and through the winding corridor at the top of the stairs.

Go down the stairs you see here. There's a chest with gold and some Iron Greaves here, but you have to pick the lock.

Go back to the bottom of the staircase that came just after the winding corridor.

Turn directly right, and head directly through the first room and stop in the second. Get into the muck and turn right again once in the second room. Keep going right until you see another door-opening, and go into that room.

Turn directly right, and...VOILA! The crank!

Now head up the stairs in this same room (there is a chest in the short corridor before the bridge, but I didn't have lockpicks. Feel free to post what's inside if you know) and go across the bridge.

Go up the ladder. You are now in the Talos Plaza District, and out of the mucky junkhole that was the sewers! Celebrate! (And maybe bathe too)

The Commentaries

Fast-travel to the Arcane University, which is on the southeast corner of the Imperial City. Go into the building that is DIRECTLY in front of you.



This is Tar-Meena. She is usually found on the bench in the room. If she's not there, just wait (press the T key) and specify how long you wish to wait.




She will tell you, over the course of several conversational options; about Mankar Camoran, the leader of the cult, and who had written the Commentaries. She gives you a copy of the second edition.

She tells you that the third and fourth editions are extremely hard to find and directs you to "First Edition," which is a bookstore in the Market district of the city.

Fast-travel to the Market district, and go past the 4-way intersection. First Edition will the store on the left just past the intersection.

Talk to the shopkeeper to learn that he has already promised the third volume to someone else. He mentions, however, that you are free to wait for the buyer. Do so.

After some convincing about what the Mythic Dawn had to do with the Emperor's assassination, Gwinas will hand over the book. He will also say that he was told where to go to join, and he will give you the note that told him where to go.

Go back to Baurus at Luther Broad's, and tell him what you have found out. He will say that he knows the sewers well (which is where the meeting with the Sponsor was to take place).

Follow him.

Luther Broad's Boarding House

Once you arrive via fast-travel in the Elven Gardens district, go forward and make a left; Luther Broad's Boarding House is the first door.

Sit down next to Baurus and he will tell you to get up and follow someone who will follow him downstairs.

Don't try and tell him anything, just tell him that you're ready when he is.

Follow the man downstairs. He will attack Baurus, so you know what you have to do.

When the man is dead, Baurus tells you to search his body, so go ahead and do that.

You will find a book called the Mythic Dawn Commentaries 1. Turn back to Baurus and he will tell you that he's found out who killed the emperor. He has discovered it was a daedric cult known as the Mythic Dawn.

They worship Mehrunes Dagon and he's been tracking them in the city.

After some discussion he tells you to talk to Tar-Meena at the Arcane University, because she is supposed to know all about daedric cults.

Cloud Ruler Temple

When you arrive, open the gate.



Cloud Ruler Temple. It's a very, very foggy place indeed.




When you walk up the stairs, several Blades will be standing around waiting. Martin will make a brief speech, and then the Blades will disperse.

Speak both to Martin and Jauffre. Exhaust all conversational options.

Enter the door that goes to the West Wing. Walk just a bit once you pass it and turn to your left. You will find a room with bedrolls on one side; then on the other side there will be armor and weapons.

After you are rested up, fast-travel to the Elven Gardens district of the Imperial City.

Weynon Priory, Part 2

Fast-travel back to Weynon Priory (do not worry, Martin will go with you). Once there, someone will run up to you and say that the Priory is being attacked, that Prior Maborel is dead, and other such panicked statements.

Go into the building marked "Weynon Priory" (Weynon House is where you encountered Jauffre the first time, the Priory is the smaller building to the right).

You'll find Jauffre, and some enemies. When you dispatch them, he will say that he thinks that those responsible for this travesty might have stolen the Amulet Of Kings.

Go back to Weynon House and instead of going to the office-area in which you met Jauffre (which is up the stairs and to the right) go up the stairs and to the left.

Jauffre will be there, and after exhausting all of the conversational options, he will tell you to take Martin to Cloud Ruler Temple, which is a bit north of the city of Bruma.

Open your 'world' map, and move it directly Northeast.



Fast-travel to Cloud Ruler Temple.

Martin

Talk to Matius again. He will go into Kvatch with you and you will have to clear out the area of enemies before entering the chapel.

Turn right once you enter the chapel and look for a brown-haired man in a robe.


This is Martin, the heir we've been looking for.

Speak with him and cycle through the conversation options. He will agree to come with you to see Jauffre.