The Cure for Madness

The Cure for Madness in Skyrim: hunt the mad jester Cicero to the Dawnstar Sanctuary – kill him or spare him as a follower. You also get Shadowmere.

Objectives

  1. Talk to Astrid
  2. Search Cicero's room
  3. Read Cicero's diary
  4. Talk to Astrid
  5. Behold Shadowmere
  6. Locate Arnbjorn
  7. Talk to Arnbjorn
  8. Enter the Dawnstar Sanctuary
  9. Kill Cicero or leave the Sanctuary
  10. Report back to Astrid

The Cure for Madness is the Dark Brotherhood quest where Cicero finally snaps. Returning to the Falkreath Sanctuary, you learn the jester has attacked his fellow assassins and fled.

Walkthrough

Talk to Astrid, search Cicero’s room and read his journal. Astrid then gives you a gift: Shadowmere, the Brotherhood’s black horse, waiting in the pool outside the Sanctuary. Ride to find Arnbjorn, who was wounded chasing Cicero, and follow the trail to the Dawnstar Sanctuary. Fight through its traps to Cicero.

The choice

Kill Cicero – or leave him alive and walk away. Spare him and he later becomes an essential follower.

Rewards

Shadowmere, and Cicero as a follower if spared.

Choices & consequences

Kill Cicero or spare him. If spared, he becomes a follower after Hail Sithis!.

Characters

ACharacterAstridNord leader of the Dark Brotherhood's Falkreath Sanctuary and wife of Arnbjorn.CCharacterCiceroThe Dark Brotherhood's mad jester and Keeper of the Night Mother – an essential assassin follower if spared.

Factions

DFactionDark BrotherhoodSkyrim's guild of assassins devoted to Sithis and the Night Mother, led by Astrid from a sanctuary in…

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