Objectives
- Follow Erandur to the Nightcaller Temple
- Locate The Dreamstride
- Locate Vaermina's Torpor
- Drink Vaermina's Torpor
- Release the Miasma
- Disable the magical barrier
- Defeat Veren and Thorek
- Wait for Erandur to dispel the barrier
- Kill Erandur or let him destroy the Skull
Waking Nightmare is Vaermina’s Daedric quest. Everyone in Dawnstar is having the same terrible nightmares, and the priest of Mara Erandur says he knows how to stop them.
How to start
Talk to Erandur at the Windpeak Inn in Dawnstar.
Walkthrough
Erandur takes you to the Nightcaller Temple just east of town. Long ago, Vaermina’s priests and a band of Orcs fought there until a gas called the Miasma put everyone to sleep – and opening the doors wakes them up. Fight through the temple, find the book The Dreamstride and the potion Vaermina’s Torpor, and drink it to relive the past and open the barrier. Along the way you learn Erandur’s secret: he was once one of Vaermina’s priests himself. Defeat Veren and Thorek, then protect Erandur while he destroys the Skull.
The choice
Vaermina whispers that Erandur will betray you. Kill him and take the Skull of Corruption – or let him finish, and he becomes a follower.
Choices & consequences
Kill Erandur: Skull of Corruption. Spare him: Erandur becomes a follower.
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