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The Lieutenant (questline step)

The Lieutenant is a step of The Covens’ Hoard.

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Questline	The Covens’ Hoard
Previous step	Gold-Lit
Wait after previous step	At least one game hour
Prerequisite line	The Burning Doors is finished
Play mode	Online
Account	Registered account required
Offered by	Ysolde Marnhel, Master Conjurer of the Mages Guild of Wayrest Map

Objectives

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

Step	Objective	Optional
1	Find the coven's hold in the quest lair	No
2	Slay the coven lieutenant, the nightblade	No
3	Take the Weir Key, wrapped in coven-cloth, from the lieutenant's body	No
4	Bring the Weir Key to Ysolde Marnhel at the quest hall in the named town	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
The nightblade is dead, and the covens' Weir Key lies in Ysolde Marnhel's keeping until its fate is decided.	100%	Yes
The Weir Key went deeper into the covens' keeping, and Ysolde Marnhel stopped waiting.	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.

Previous step: Gold-Lit.

Next step: What the Key Opens.

Possible quest foes

Foe	Group size
Nightblade	1
Fire Daedra	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.

Scripted gold

Payment	Base amount (gold)
Gold payment	300–600

These are the script’s unscaled payment ranges, before the outcome multiplier and any party split. A payment still requires its quest objective or branch; the listed payments are not automatically awarded together.

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