The Break of Dawn

The Break of Dawn: return Meridia's Beacon, guide her light through Kilkreath Temple, destroy the necromancer Malkoran and claim Dawnbreaker.

Objectives

  1. Find Meridia's Beacon
  2. Bring the Beacon to Mount Kilkreath
  3. Replace the Beacon
  4. Guide Meridia's light through the temple
  5. Destroy Malkoran
  6. Retrieve Dawnbreaker

The Break of Dawn is Meridia’s Daedric quest, and one of the more straightforwardly heroic ones: clear a necromancer out of her temple and walk away with Dawnbreaker.

How to start

  • Visit the Statue to Meridia on Mount Kilkreath, west of Solitude, and she’ll send you to find her Beacon.
  • Or simply find Meridia’s Beacon – from level 12 it can turn up in a random chest anywhere in Skyrim.

Walkthrough

Bring the Beacon back to the statue and put it on its pedestal. Meridia lifts you into the sky to speak with you, then sends you into Kilkreath Temple. Inside, guide her light from pedestal to pedestal to open the way, fighting the necromancer’s undead as you go. At the end, defeat Malkoran – first his body, then his shade – and take Dawnbreaker from its pedestal.

Rewards: Weapons

DWeaponDawnbreakerMeridia's Daedric artifact: a one-handed sword with fire damage that can make undead explode.

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