Boethiah's Quest

Boethiah's Quest is a quest.

Details

Property	Description
Giver	Daedra Princes
Membership	Any
Requirements	None (a Prince's summoning, on its day of the year)
Summary	Boethiah: butcher a spellsword in a fortress, then hunt him to the hiding place a friend gives up.

Objectives

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

Step	Objective	Optional
1	Butcher the spellsword the target in the fortress of the quest dungeon	No
2	Find the contact of the named town, who warned the target to run	No
3	Kill the target in the hiding place the contact gave up, the quest destination	No
4	Meet Boethiah's agent the quest giver's friend at the quest building in the named town for the Ebony Mail	No

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
Charitable the target is butchered, and Boethiah's Ebony Mail is yours.	Scripted reward	No added gear
The target lives on, and Boethiah thinks you puny after all.	No added payment	No

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
Spellsword	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.

Artifact loot

Artifact	Acquisition
Ebony Mail	Quest-specific artifact route; see objectives and choices

These are quest-script items, separate from ordinary enemy or chest drops. When the quest selects an artifact route, the listed artifacts are alternatives rather than a reward bundle.

See Quest reference for offer requirements across quests.

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