Prerequisites: None

Intersecting Quests: Side Quest: No One Escapes Cidhna Mine

Locations: Markarth, Nepos’s House, Shrine of Talos, Silver-Blood Inn, Margret’s Room, The Treasury House, The Warrens, Weylin’s Room

Characters: Betrid Silver-Blood, Eltrys, Garvey, Kleppr, Margret, Markarth City Guard, Mulush gro-Shugurz, Rhiada, Thonar Silver-Blood

Enemies: Donnel, Dryston, Nana Ildene, Nepos the Nose, Uaile, Weylin

Objectives: Read Eltrys’ Note, Go to the Shrine of Talos, Find evidence about Margret, Find evidence about Weylin, (Optional) Obtain the key to Margret’s room, Read Margret’s Journal, Find evidence about Thonar, (Optional) Obtain the key to Weylin’s room, Read Weylin’s Note, Find out who “N” is, Find evidence about Nepos, Return to Eltrys

Murder in the Marketplace

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On your first visit to Markarth, just after you enter the entrance gate, you immediately hear a man shouting, “The Reach belongs to the Forsworn!” before he murders a market patron in cold blood. The Markarth City Guard quickly overpower and slay the maniac (watch your own sword swings if the lunatic turns on you, as you don’t want to accidentally strike a Markarth inhabitant). You can quickly speak to the other traders, before a man named Eltrys approaches you. He surreptitiously hands you a note. Read it; he is requesting a meeting in the Shrine of Talos.

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Items gained:
Eltrys’ Note
 

Objective: Read Eltrys’ Note

Objective: Go to the Shrine of Talos
Target: Shrine of Talos, in Markarth

Before the body of Margret—the woman who was cut down—is carried away for rites and burial, quickly check her corpse; you’ll find a key that can come in handy...