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[Judas Maccabeus]

Corpse. Where is his corpse. We can't certify that he died until we find his corpse.

Well, the game says he's dead; besides, Lysandus disappears afterwards, and if anyone knows about being dead it's him.  Besides, that's the alternate-universe version, the official one has him captured and executed. 

In any case, here's what you get when you hand the letter to other people:



Gortwog.  As mentioned, this also fails to complete the quest.



Nulfaga, as well as Medora (and Mynisera, as I checked for).



And Gothryd; handing it to Aubk-i leads to the same result.  The guards just stand around like idiots and do nothing, though.



I ran across another enemy while handing the letter to Nulfaga; this is an ice atronach.  Nothing particularly special about him, though.

[Judas Maccabeus]

I'll bet this book doesn't end up on Reading Rainbow

Spoiler: Back in Orsinium (click to show/hide)

A few rumors floating around outside Castle Wayrest.



And a few... ugh.  That was just uncalled for.



A bit of dungeon delving back in Daggerfall nets us another dungeon map.  Yeten's Web is another of my favourite dungeons; it's a true and proper maze, full of twisty interlocking passages, apparently by design.  It lives up to its name, at least.



It also contains a nice glimpse into the Void.  Sadly, this isn't a spot we can slip into it from, or I'd give you a tour.



Our loot is getting steadily more valuable, such as this epic flail.



There's... also this, on a mummy... yeep...



I'm not sure why I took a screenshot of this knight, but here he is.



Anyway, while selling things back in Midbury, and after I'd put my sword with a smith for repairs, we get a note?



Barenziah acts like we've never met before, but I'll ignore that for now.



Off to Wayrest!



Ah, yes.  This is the same book I mentioned way back in Privateer's Hold, since Oon-la started with a chapter of it in her possession.

I'll try not to asssk her about the Khajiit.

Anyway, off to Orsinium... oh, right, I forgot something.



Eeep.



Only three days' detour.

I was wondering when you were going to retrieve that.



There we go.



Remember this room?  We have to get into the pyramid now.  That requires a bit of work.



First, take the fountain up to here.



A fitting enough weapon for this place.  Orcish is only one step below Daedric, incidentally.



We have to turn this wheel upstairs.



Then slowfall down into the pyramid...



...And... into a mob of shaman.  There's actually four here, one's invisible.  Make that five, since there's another in a nearby room.  Fortunately, the healing sapphire is enough to keep Oon-la alive until she's brought them all down.



Shame this place is in the Orsinium region.



There's so much on the various shaman that we can't carry it all.



There's what Berry (sorry, I have a tendancy towards nicknaming) wanted us to get.  This chapter's about how Berry got pregnant from Tiber Septim, incidentally, and how he forced her to get an abortion.  Yeah.  It's not a feel-good book.



Pull this switch in the room...



Climb up the platform that the switch creates and turn this lever...



And we're back up here.  Getting out from here is trivial, since we've killed all the orcs on the way.



Now, to go to-



...Hi.  I see she's very nonchalant about wandering into a place full of orcs.



She also has a very important message to deliver.  We'll have to pick up on this right away, apparently...



Anyway, off to finish the one quest.

Spoiler: Castle Daggerfall (click to show/hide)

And start another.



There she is, same as way back a year and a half ago.



Oh.

Ohhhhhh.


Okay.  Quite a reward, too...



Well, no reason to delay.



After entering, we head to this side room.  It's not the right place, but it's a good area to lure guards into and pick them off so we don't have to deal with them later.



Also a nice place to chat with some of the inhabitants.



There's the guard.  They come one by one, easy pickings.



The real door is next to Gothryd.  It's a difficult one to crack, even this open spell fails, but eventually we bash it down.

She's after the treasury!  Guards!



Behind the door is this back throne room.



And then this massive place.  We need to get to that long platform off in the distance, and this potion is the best way right now.



After knocking an orc off the ledge, time to go through the door on the north end.



Another large chamber, but we're not there yet.



Off the north end, in a short hallway, is this door, which leads to...



Here we are!  The Totem is in that barred block in the middle.  We'll have to figure out a way in.



Gothryd's battlemages guard it jealously, though; fortunately, with a cloak absorbing their spells, they're only powering us.



A fitting book for someone here to have, I suppose.



Ah, I love these magic items.



Unfortunately, this happens.  We can survive long enough to get out of the castle, at least, fortunately.



Alright, down in the water here is our first ticket in.



The southeast passage leads us underwater, but with our helmet that's no problem.



This is a problem, though.  The poison turns into a full-blown disease... we'll definitely need to get that dealt with quickly.



After another ice atronach, here's the wheel we need.



This brings the treasury down off the ceiling.  But how do we get out?



These chains.  The middle one brings us out; I don't remember which one is which (I get left and right mixed up easily), but one gives you water breathing and the other tosses you into the air above the treasury block.



After fighting a couple more battlemages to regain magicka, we can levitate onto the block, flip this switch to open the bars...



And there's our goal!  The great and power... ful...

totem...

...

It's talking?



Hmmm.  That'll be the big choice coming up...



First, though, we'll have to get this out of the palace.

She has the Totem!  Don't let her leave!



Ssssilly warm-blood.



Since we have our levitate active, incidentally, I can show you this.  Levitating horse!



And finally, getting that annoying disease cured.

[Judas Maccabeus]

Now it's time for the:

TOTEM POLL!






...Yes, I've been waiting the entire game to use that pun.

This is the big question, the one that determines how the game ends.  Who do we give the Totem of Tiber Septim to?

King Gothryd of Daggerfall.  Well, we did steal it from him, maybe it would be nice to give it back.  He'll give us 10,000 gold, incidentally.

Queen Akorithi of Sentinel.  She's been fairly nice through the whole thing, and will give us 100,000 gold!

King Eadwyre of Wayrest.  He did help us with that whole Lord Woodborne problem, after all.  On the other hand, the only thing he'll give us is a fight with some of his lackeys, no matter what he promises.

Lady Brisienna, and from there Emperor Uriel Septim VII.  We are working for them, after all, and Uriel is the official heir of Tiber Septim.  The Warlock's Ring she offers is also an extremely nice artifact.

The King of Worms.  For an undead necromancer who hates the living, he's a nice guy, really.  His reward is fame and reknown across the Iliac Bay, which... well, we don't really need.  We're already rather well-liked with everyone we need to be.

The Underking.  We haven't seen much of him, unfortunately, but he did help us find Lysandus' grave.  From him we get the Necromancer's Amulet (why that's not the King of Worms' reward I don't know), which is also very nice.

Gortwog gro-Nagorm.  I'm not sure how he's a descendant of Tiber Septim, but apparently he is.  His reward is Chrysamere, a nice sword which is rather useless to us.  It also bugs out so we don't actually get it.

Keep it.  We don't actually get anything for doing this, and I wouldn't recommend it unless you really want that ending.  This also sets a definite time limit on finishing the game, though I doubt we'll hit it.

[chaoticag]

I say give it to the Emperor, given that he gave you an ebony dagger.

[Myroc]

Hand it to either the Emperor, Akorithi or the King of Worms. Because necromancers are cool.

[zchris13]

FOR THE EMPEROR

[Aqizzar]

Haven't checked in for a few days...



Can't unsee!

Anyway, what would happen if you'd given Woodborne's letter to the Sentinel royals?  Or would they not even take it?

As for the Totem, while I'd love to give it to ol' Wormy (since he's such a chill guy, and the only one who can really be trusted with the thing), sending it back to the Emperor in exchange for the Warlock's Ring makes the most sense for Oon-la.  Make sure you get everyone's letters first though, they're pretty funny.

[Judas Maccabeus]

Anyway, what would happen if you'd given Woodborne's letter to the Sentinel royals?  Or would they not even take it?

I'm almost entirely certain they wouldn't; they aren't involved in the Woodborne plot anyway, they've other things to worry about than Wayrest.


Ah, a quick check of the UESP shows Akorithi is an option, though a bad one (it also, incidentally, shows Wormy as one, doing the same thing as Gortwog, which I wasn't aware of).  Supposedly she burns the letter and provides nothing else.

Spoiler: Handing out the Totem (click to show/hide)

A little bit of wandering around to get the letters...



...I bet I know who this is from.  In typical King of Worms style, he just has it shoved randomly into our mouth for no better reason than I suppose he thought it was funny.



Good ol' Wormy.



Also, getting the staff identified.  This should come in handy if that shirt gets used up.



The rest of the letters (except Brisienna's, and we're not getting one from Gortwog since we don't have high enough reputation with him) then proceed to show up all at the same time.  I like to imagine the poor messengers crowding and tripping over each other, especially with the Wayrest one.



They all tell interesting stories.  Eadwyre is lying through his teeth...

I have a ssship already, anyway.

...Akorithi is rather vanilla, though profitable, and the Underking gives us some very interesting information in his.



Anyway, back to-



-oh, right.  Brisienna said she was going somewhere else.



Ah, well, that's what long travel times are for.



Muuuuuch better.  But of course she makes us go all the way back to Wayrest...



...not that that's a problem anymore.



She proceeds to lock herself in, and picking it doesn't work.



Also not a problem, of course.



By unanimous vote, the Emperor gets the Totem.




Those who serve the Emperor are very well rewarded, as you can see.  This will serve us very well indeed in our final task.



And Nulfaga calls us back to Shedungent for the final quest!



For the lassst time, sshut up!

So what is that final quest?



Recovering the Mantellan Heart, bringing the Numidium back to life.  Next time:  the grand finale!

[CobaltKobold]

Pfff. Go in, recall out and take the cool nondirect strange way in. You do have the ship needed.

[Judas Maccabeus]

Two parts, since there's a lot of dungeon to go over.

The Crux, and Heart, of the Matter

Spoiler: The back way (click to show/hide)

Going in the back way requires you to, first, go to your ship.  Preferably the small ship, since it's closer.



Incidentally, I haven't shown you our ship yet.  It's nothing special, mind, as you can see.



Jump off the northwest end...



And start swimming, for a long time.  The horse swims faster than Oon-la, so that's what we use here.  This little rock in the middle...



Teleports you into the final dungeon!  This isn't the official way we're going, though, since I've already clicked on Nulfaga in the last update to send us there.

Spoiler: Mantellan Crux:  Floating Islands (click to show/hide)

Here we are.  You can't really see them, but there are stars in the background.  We're in Aetherius, the plane of magic (the stars in Tamriel are actually portals to that plane), and nothing around here is going to make all that much sense to our mortal eyes.  There are also Daedra all over the place (despite the fact that they should be in Oblivion, not Aetherius).



The statue right next to us is kind to give us a free levitation.  We don't need it, but it's nice to have.



Waaaaaay up there is an island with a lever on it.  Pull it.



Our next target is this little island down here.  The fellow in the middle is a Frost Daedra, who isn't all that much of a problem.  As for the doors all around him, we have to click on the southern one.



After that, into a little chamber on the east side of the island, flipping another lever...



...floating over to the western star wall...



...and south to a door in it.  The effect doesn't come through very well in the pictures, but this is all rather disorienting and it looks as strange as you'd expect another plane to.  Quite good for graphics that weren't the best even in 1996, really.



At least we can still rest in here to recover our strength.



A vampire is conveniently behind these bars, where we can kill her.  Since we need to go this way, may as well do so.



Here's the lever to get rid of the bars, just next to them.



Ignore this next lever...



...then flip the next three.



We then have to get down.  So as not to waste another levitate (we're not likely to run out, but still), we can slowfall down.  Our slowfall is actually a bit too effective (launching us over to the far wall), but firing it off at the right point sets us down lightly on the main island.



Now we take this little chain of islands down...



...just to meet this fellow.  This is a Daedra Lord, and there's actually two of them here.  They're bad news.  They can cast some nasty spells, as well as hit us hard in melee.  Fortunately, we can still take them in straight combat.  How?



Launch fireball after fireball at them.  The amulet not only damages them, but also knocks them back and stuns them, preventing them from launching their own spells or closing in.  Eventually, they're brought down.  This little effect is going to save us more than once through this dungeon.

Now just to step on that carpet in the middle of the room.

Spoiler: Mantellan Crux:  The Pyramid (click to show/hide)

That drops us into this little passage.  Just past it, and a little up:



This lovely-looking Aztec-style pyramid.  We need to get inside, but can't just yet.



We can, however, rid it of the Ancient Lich.  As the name suggests, this is a tougher, stronger, deadlier cousin of the regular lich.  We're quite prepared to take him down, though...



...and we do.



Back where we came in at, there's a lift to the right of the door from this angle.



Taking the lift, and levitating over, sends us to this island with a group of vampires on it.  Keeping out of reach means they're little trouble, though.



Now for the tricky part.  Ooooh, is this ever tricky.  What you have to do is click once and once only on the black tombstone, the greyish tombstone...



...and the white tombstone, which we'd best keep in mind.  The other two don't show anything, which makes it a bit difficult to figure out if the clicking worked correctly, since it's possible for one click to register twice and undo what you did the first time...



Floating down to a chamber on the side.  We did something wrong, which means we have to click on the greyish tombstone again.  Once the bars are gone, flip both switches (there's one in the chamber beyond the bars as well).



Now we just need to ki- Oh, okay, the lich kills himself again.



He's guarding another lift, which takes us...



Waaaaaaaaaaay up.



We have to go even further, to that hole in the wall of stars.



Inside... is this fun-looking fellow.

You mussst be Benefactor.



Returning to the pyramid finds the top open and a lift revealed.



Do try not to do what I did, and activate the lift a bit before your levitation runs out.  It does result in a funny Wiley E. Coyote moment where you hang in the air for a moment and then fall, though.  A bit of slowfall at least prevents damage.



A vampire (and a harpy) await at the bottom, no trouble to kill, especially with the Warlock's Ring making our swings that much faster.



Another lift over in the corner, then a short drop at the bottom of that.  Incidentally, this is where I had to go back and redo the graves, since I realised I messed something up (it's been ten years, after all...).



Trying to rest... wow.  Gortwog's reach is quite long, apparently.  He also doesn't seem to know that we no longer have the Totem.

Then, trying to rest...



(video)

Your sleep is troubled by nightmares of a beautiful woman, whom you murder in a dark place.

She also begins crying blood.  Yep.  Incidentally, this is the thing that tells you when you catch vampirism.  Nice timing...



Anyway.  Here's where we jump down...

[Judas Maccabeus]

Spoiler: Mantellan Crux:  Inverted Shrine (click to show/hide)

...and end up in another chamber.



This one is fairly straightforward, so long as you're careful not to jump off to your death somewhere (levitation helps).



Switch on the east side...



Mind the frost daedra...



Switch on the west side...



Then click on the blue thing on the south side.  That's all.

Spoiler: Mantellan Crux:  Fire and Skulls (click to show/hide)

This next teleportation drops us into a room with eight doors.  Only one of them leads out, the rest lead to various fun things.



Let's try the southern one on the east wall, why don't we?



...Or not.  All that one does is teleport you into an inescapable cage where all sorts of fun enemies can take some shots at you.



The correct door is the western one on the south wall.  This ultimately leads to:



A chamber full of fire and skulls.  And Fire Daedra, who are very nasty when they have a wide space like this.  Getting a face full of four fireballs at once is painful, if alliterative.  Fortunately, after a few times at this, we finally heal through all them and deal out death to the daedra.



To the task at hand.  We need to turn the correct skulls to advance.  Specifically, the ones facing the skull in the middle.



Going straight from there leads to this one, which is facing the middle.  Correct.



Going back and taking a turn leads to these two, not facing.  Skip.



This next one faces.  Click.  The rest all face different directions, and one even faces directly away.



Inside is none other than the Daedric Prince of Madness himself, Sheogorath!  He's right, we will see him again soon.



Inside is another fire daedra, who we can rush past to go down the lift on the right.



Downstairs is this little riddle.  The answer?

One of the skulls spoke when we clicked on it.
Two are looking at him.
One is looking away, so that's the answer.

Spoiler: Mantellan Crux:  Sword and Crossbow (click to show/hide)

Putting us in a room with... more skulls.  Lovely.



Clicking the middle one on the east wall puts us right next to an iron atronach, who goes down easily enough.



A little further are these armour stands.  After we go past them, we get teleported to a platform with a huge sword and a bunch of Daedra Lords; thanks to healing and spell absorption / reflection, we survive and even kill a few.



Jumping over to a little floating island teleports us back.



Yep, it's Sheogorath time again.  He has a riddle, which in true Sheogorath fashion is random and unsolveable unless you explore a bit or already know it.

(Inappropriate moment of the update:  Interaction is now in grab mode, and the cursor is over a sensitive part of Sheogorath.  That... really wasn't intentional. )

 

It's a little hard to tell, since the map doesn't want to show it, but if you explore enough, you'll find that part of the chamber looks like a sword, and the rest like a crossbow.



Giving Sheogorath that answer lets us jump down into a pit...



...and teleports us back to that island, now with a way down into it.



Clicking on the left ribbon...



opens up the box, revealing another box, revealing a gem.  Clicking on the gem causes the whole floating island to start descending.



At the bottom is this huge crossbow.  Now comes the fun part.  We have to go into the bolt loaded on it...



... running through a gauntlet of Daedra Lords the whole time, then click on the axe in the foreground.



It's a little messy and sometimes gets you trapped in something, but it should do this:  teleport you back up, where the sword tips over.



We can now run up it into this hallway.



A little further is a bunch of interlocking rooms with daedra and ghosts.



Then a few pits (easy enough to avoid, obviously)...



...and into this chamber.



At its centre:  The Mantella!  We've finally found it.

Spoiler: Numidium Revived (click to show/hide)

We're teleported back to Nulfaga, of course.



It takes a bit of walking around or clicking on things, but she soon gets our attention.





The video.

Great Numidium, his raw power tempered only by the Blades, crushes all the rebellious children of the Empire, destroying their armies.



...

Wow.  Way to ruin the mood with that last sentence there, Nulfaga.



Ah, well.  Out into the new world.

The End.

[zchris13]

So wait what?

What was THAT!

And Sheogorath is the most coolest and most boss thing ever. EVER.

[CobaltKobold]

wabbajack wabbajack wabbajack wabbajack

'course, I'm more partial to the work by mssr. Vondham Barres. A nice work.

[Aqizzar]

Stupid Sheogorath and his crazy riddles and forks and waistcoats and crap.  There aren't even any crossbows in the game, how the Hell are you supposed to recognize that?

And those stupid tombstones were one of the first things I ever genuinely needed an online guide to figure out.  Stupid alternate dimension and it's stupid save-scumming puzzles.  Daggerfall was a rogue-like, I swear.

I'm surprised you didn't mention that the "starfield" all around is actually a big black box surrounding the map.  If you manage to levitate far enough out, you'll run into it and register it on your map.

[CobaltKobold]

Daggerfall was a rogue-like, I swear.

I don't think Maccabeus e'er got around to mentioning, but all the random dungeons are made up of hooked-together pregen blocks. so, semi-roguelike. Also with the RG quests, etc.

Now if the provinces and story and locations weren't pregen, though it does seem likely they were genned rather than manually assembled...covens excepted.