Prerequisites: Complete Thieves Guild Quest: Hard Answers

Intersecting Quests: Thieves Guild Quest: Additional Jobs, Thieves Guild Quest: Larceny Targets, Thieves Guild Quest: Trinity Restored

Locations: Lake Honrich, Riften, The Bee and Barb, Black-Briar Manor, Mercer’s House, The Ratway, Cistern, The Ragged Flagon, The Ratway Sewers, Riftweald Manor

Characters: Brynjolf, Delvin Mallory, Karliah, Maven Black-Briar, Vex

Enemies: Bandit, Mjoll the Lioness, Thug, Vald

Objectives: Meet Karliah at the Ragged Flagon, Follow Karliah, Speak to Brynjolf, Infiltrate Mercer’s House, (Optional) Shoot the mechanism to lower the ramp, (Optional) Speak to Vex about Vald, Miscellaneous Objective: (Optional) Talk to Maven about Vald’s debt, Miscellaneous Objective: Locate the Quill of Gemination under Lake Honrich, Miscellaneous Objective: Bring the Quill of Gemination to Maven, Discover evidence of Mercer’s location, Speak to Brynjolf

A Perfect Heist

Objective: Meet Karliah at the Ragged Flagon

Objective: Follow Karliah

Target: Inside the Ratway, in Riften

This quest begins with the first objective already in play. Return to the familiar grounds of the Thieves Guild, and you’ll find your usual entrance point by the Hall of the Dead Mausoleum is locked.

You must navigate the sights (and smells) of the Ratway, down to the Ragged Flagon, where you’ll meet Karliah. She has Gallus’s translated journal ready to show the Guild members who require convincing.

Agree to back her up and move into the Cistern. As expected, Brynjolf (flanked by Vex and Delvin Mallory) draws his blade and sharply asks why you’re here with “a murderer.”

Armed with proof of Mercer’s betrayal, Karliah hands over Gallus’s Journal.

Objective: Speak to Brynjolf

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Brynjolf cannot believe Mercer has been stealing from the Guild, so he orders Delvin to open the vault. The gold, the jewels...they’re all gone! It takes two keys to unlock the vault...