Objectives
- Speak to Sinding
- Kill the great beast (White Stag)
- Begin the hunt
- Join the hunt
- Kill and skin Sinding (optional)
- Kill the hunters
- Talk to Sinding (if spared)
- Speak to Hircine
Ill Met by Moonlight is Hircine’s Daedric quest – a werewolf story with a hunt, a cursed ring and a tough moral choice.
How to start
In Falkreath, a little girl has been savagely killed. Her killer, Sinding, sits in the jail under the barracks.
Walkthrough
Sinding explains that he’s a werewolf who stole a ring from Hircine to control his transformations – and Hircine cursed it. He gives you the cursed ring, which can turn you into a werewolf at random, then escapes. To get rid of the curse, hunt down the White Stag; its regeneration makes it tougher than it looks. Hircine then sends you after Sinding to Bloated Man’s Grotto, where other hunters are already closing in.
Choices
- Help Sinding and kill the hunters → the curse is lifted from the Ring of Hircine.
- Kill and skin Sinding → Savior’s Hide.
Choices & consequences
Help Sinding: Ring of Hircine. Kill and skin him: Savior's Hide.
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