Prerequisites: Complete Dark Brotherhood Quest: Innocence Lost

Intersecting Quests: Dark Brotherhood Quest: Innocence Lost, Dark Brotherhood Quest: Sanctuary

Locations: Abandoned Shack, Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary

Characters: Alea Quintus, Astrid, Fultheim the Fearless, Nazir, Vasha

Enemies: None

Objectives: Kill one of the captives, Enter the Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary

A Waking Nightmare

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This quest begins once you complete Dark Brotherhood Quest: Innocence Lost.

The Dark Brotherhood has their eye on you. You cannot flee from their gaze, a fact that becomes increasingly obvious the next time you decide to sleep. Instead of waking up where you were, you appear inside a strange shack in the northern reaches of Skyrim. Your only option is to converse with a mysterious veiled figure in black.

The woman introduces herself as Astrid, representative for the Dark Brotherhood. Although you’ve demonstrated an aptitude for deathcraft and would be an asset to the Brotherhood, you’ve created a problem. The person you slew—Grelod the Kind—was one of the Brotherhood’s legitimate targets. Therefore, you owe the Dark Brotherhood a kill...