Speaking With Silence

Speaking With Silence: hunt Karliah with Mercer Frey in Snow Veil Sanctum – and discover the truth about the Thieves Guild's leader.

Objectives

  1. Meet Mercer Frey outside Snow Veil Sanctum
  2. Enter Snow Veil Sanctum
  3. Find Karliah
  4. Speak to Karliah

Speaking With Silence is the turning point of the Thieves Guild questline. Mercer Frey meets you outside Snow Veil Sanctum, an old Nordic tomb near Windhelm, to hunt down Karliah.

Walkthrough

Fight through the draugr with Mercer – there’s a Word Wall for Disarm inside. At the end, Karliah’s arrow knocks you out, and while you lie there you overhear the conversation that changes everything. Mercer tries to finish you off; Karliah’s poison saves you. Wake up at her camp and talk to her.

Reward

Gallus’ Encoded Journal – and a whole new perspective on your guild.

Characters

KCharacterKarliahDunmer Nightingale framed by Mercer Frey for Gallus' murder, and your ally in the Thieves Guild questline.MCharacterMercer FreyBreton Guildmaster of the Thieves Guild and the main antagonist of its questline.

Factions

TFactionThieves GuildSkyrim's down-on-its-luck guild of thieves, hidden in the Ratway beneath Riften – home of the Nightingales.

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