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Background Information

Background Information is a quest.

Details

Property	Description
Giver	Merchants
Membership	Male only
Requirements	Any level
Summary	Find a scroll guarded by a Daedroth and a fire atronach in a dungeon and bring it back.

Objectives

Use the location names in your quest journal. Follow map markers when they are available.

Step	Objective	Optional
1	Find the Bothdorjii Scroll in the quest dungeon. A daedra guards it.	No
2	Destroy the fire atronach the scroll called forth	Yes
3	Bring the scroll to your quest giver in the quest building within the time limit shown in your journal	No

Choices

Decision	Choice
Your quest giver will trade the truth about your shipwreck for a scroll that wakes the Princes' servants.	Hand over the scroll and hear the truth about the storm
Your quest giver will trade the truth about your shipwreck for a scroll that wakes the Princes' servants.	Burn it, for words that wake the Princes are better unread

Outcomes

Added gear requires a successful quest payment and a qualifying outcome. Quest mail alone does not count as payment.

Outcome	Gold multiplier	Gear choice
Your quest giver has the Bothdorjii Scroll, and you know who sent the storm.	100%	Yes
The Bothdorjii Scroll is ash, and the truth about the storm went unspoken.	No added payment	No
The scroll never reached your quest giver.	No added payment	No

Outcome	Change type	Target	Change
The Bothdorjii Scroll is ash, and the truth about the storm went unspoken.	Faction reputation	Generic Temple	+3
The Bothdorjii Scroll is ash, and the truth about the storm went unspoken.	Faction reputation	The Merchants	-2

With Questlines enabled, these outcomes control the added rewards. Gold multipliers apply only to gold the quest actually pays. A gear choice offers a weapon, armour and jewellery; keep one. See Quest rewards and loot for rarity, payment and online reward rules.

Possible quest foes

Foe	Group size
Daedroth	1
Fire Atronach	1

These are the script’s possible foe groups, including conditional encounters. They are not all guaranteed to appear together; repeated attacks and ordinary dungeon enemies can add more. Follow a foe’s reference for its combat rules before choosing weapons.

See Quest reference for offer requirements across quests.

Online, a failed outcome does not apply its faction-reputation penalties. Legal-standing changes and choices made during the quest are separate.

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