Mallus Maccius is an Imperial who works at Honningbrew Meadery, a brewery in the Whiterun area. He owes money to the meadery’s owner, Sabjorn, and is working off the debt – or, as Mallus tells it, being worked to the bone. He is also quietly connected to the Thieves Guild.
Where to find them
At first he is drinking at the Bannered Mare in Whiterun. After his quest he stays at Honningbrew Meadery.
Quests
Dampened Spirits – Maven Black-Briar sends you to meet him. His plan is neat: Sabjorn is about to hold a tasting for Whiterun’s Captain of the Guard, and the meadery has a pest problem. You offer to help Sabjorn, take the pest poison he gives you, and pour it into the brewing vat. Mallus has already pulled the boards off the tunnel entrance in the warehouse basement so the pests could get in. Afterwards he lets you look through Sabjorn’s office for the papers Maven wants, and you head back to Riften.
Services
Once Dampened Spirits is done, Mallus becomes a Thieves Guild fence at Honningbrew Meadery, and unlike regular merchants he is open for business at any hour.
Personality & relationships
Mallus is grumpy, blunt and not interested in customers – he tells you to go find Sabjorn or get lost. He calls his boss a slave-driver who enjoys other people’s misery. Behind the grumbling sits a sharp schemer: if the plan works, his debt disappears and Maven makes him manager of what will become the Black-Briar Meadery in Whiterun.
Good to know
He is essential. Stealing from him may get hired thugs sent after you.
Also in Whiterun
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