Prerequisites: Complete Thieves Guild Quest: The Pursuit

Intersecting Quests: Thieves Guild Quest: Additional Jobs, Thieves Guild Quest: Larceny Targets, Thieves Guild Quest: Blindsighted

Locations: Nightingale Hall , Twilight Sepulcher , Riften, The Ragged Flagon, Cistern, The Ratway

Characters: Brynjolf, Karliah

Objectives: Listen to Karliah, Meet Karliah at the Standing Stone, Follow Karliah, Activate the Armor Stone, Equip the Nightingale Armor, Follow Karliah, Stand on vacant floor glyph, Speak to Karliah, Speak to Brynjolf

An Audience with Lady Nocturnal

Objective: Listen to Karliah

Target: Inside the Ratway, in Riften

This quest begins with the first objective already under way. Although Karliah is a Nightingale, it falls to the current acting leader of the Thieves Guild to order the murder of Mercer.

Brynjolf has no qualms about this, but Karliah points out that great care must be taken; after all, Mercer is a Nightingale, and an agent of Nocturnal. She suggests meeting Mercer on equal footing.

Just outside Riften is a clearing and an old standing stone. She cryptically asks that you meet there.

Objective: Meet Karliah at the Standing Stone

Target: Nightingale Hall, just southwest of Riften

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Take the southwest exit from Riften and walk the path until you see the large petroglyph stone among the silver birch trees. Both Brynjolf and Karliah are waiting for you...