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How to obtain all Daedric Artifacts (Special Edition)
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A guide that will teach you how to find all the daedric artifacts and get the Oblivion Walker Achivement.
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Guide Index
Overview
Introduction 
Notes 
Azura Star/Black Star 
Dawnbreaker 
Ebony Blade 
Ebony Mail 
Mace of Molag Bal 
Mask of Clavicus Vile 
Mehrunes' Razor 
Oghma Infinium 
Ring of Namira 
Sanguine Rose 
Savior's Hide/Ring of Hircine 
Skeleton Key 
Skull of Corruption 
Spellbreaker 
Volendrung 
Wabbajack 
Attributes 
Cheats 
Notes 
Credits 
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Introduction
Are objects of the Skyrim Lords attributed to chosen mortals or just found randomly. All missions have not the slightest connection with each other, then get ready to run around Skyrim in search of these wonders.
If you get 15 Deadric Artifacts, get the achievement / trophy "Oblivion Walker". You do not need to be carrying all 15 at the same time, get them the first time is enough (I could get the Achievement even though a previously sold).
Notes
Missions that can be missed
(Complete without get Deadric Artifact)

  • In some missions, you will have to make right choices in the end. If you choose wrong, you lose the chance to get the Deadric Artifact forever. To get the achievement "Oblivion Walker", you will have to get all the Daedric Artifacts (except Skeleton Key because it does not count).
  • If you fail to get one, there is still a chance: the mission "III met by Moonlight" has a bug in which you can get the two devices instead of just one. If you've failed to get two of them (making wrong decisions end) get this achievement with character will be impossible.
  • If you are using the Unofficial Patch, you will only be able to acquire one artifact in "I'll met by Moonlight".
Following is a list of missions that have alternate endings:
  • House of Horrors - Logrof should be brought to the altar of Molag and killed there.
  • Pieces of the Past - Sillus should be killed at the command of Mehrunes, otherwise you only get 500 septims.
  • A Daedra's Best Friend - The Beards puppy should be spared, otherwise you will end up with the Rueful Axe (not a Deadric Artifact).
  • Waking Nightmare - Do not Let Erandur destroy the artifact, then kill it quickly so you Vaermina order. If he breaks, you get nothing in return.
  • The Taste of Death - You must cooperate with the cannibals, and cannibalize the Verelus.
  • The Cursed Tribe - You can not attack any orc tribe until the end of the mission.
Azura Star/Black Star


Quest - ''Black Star"
Daedric Prince - Azura
Type - Unbreakable Soul Gem
Effect - Guard a soul of any size, and is not destroyed when the soul is used in enchantment. The Azura's Star can only hold "white" souls, while Black Star, for some reason, can hold any type of soul (and not only the "dark" as it should be).

How to get:
  • Talk to Aranea Lenith in Shrine of Azura (south of Winterhold on top of the mountain)
  • Go to Winterhold and talk to the elf Nelacar, which is in the tavern (The Frozen Hearth). Intimidate him or bribe him to receive the information.
  • Then check out Ilinalta's Deep, and take the Broken Azura's Star in the skeleton sitting on the throne at the end of the dungeon.
  • Hand Broken Azura's Star to Aranea Ienith (to receive Azura's Star as a reward at the end) or Nelacar (Black Star to receive as a reward in the end, recommended).
  • Regardless of your choice, you will be transported into the Azura's Star and have to defeat the spirit of Malyn. When defeated, you will be sent out, regardless of whether the Dremora his helpers were dead or not. And the mission will be complete.
  • If you gave the Broken Azura's Star to Aranea, it will be available as Partners Company. But give Broken Azura's Star to Nelacar is much recommended since "dark" souls are always "great", while the "white" are rarely "great".
Dawnbreaker


Quest - "The Break of Dawn"
Daedric Prince - Meridia
Type - One-Handed Sword
Effect - May cause 10 damage from burns. There is a chance of causing an explosion that damages all nearby undead.

How to get:
  • First you must find the "Meridia's Beacon". It is a crystal that appears randomly in any bag after you get level 12 (you can use Clairvoyance to find it).
  • Take the crystal to the Statue of Meridia in Mount Kilkreath (west of Solitude). Put it on the statue.
  • Enter the temple, and enable all the crystals around the place to guide light.
  • In the end, defeat the wizard Malkoran in its two forms (human and spirit). Take whatever you want on the bodies before proceeding.
  • Take Dawnbreaker at the altar and you will be teleported out of the temple, where a final cutscene will happen.


    Meridia's Beacon
Ebony Blade


Quest - "The Whispering Door"
Daedric Prince - Mephala
Type - Two-Handed Sword
Effect - Use to kill a companion, and he/she will get stronger.

How to get:
  • To start this mission, hear rumors in the tavern of Whiterun ("The Bannered Mare") on Balgruuf Jarl and his son. This starts the Miscellaneous quest "Talk to Jarl Baulgruuf about his son."
  • Talk to the Jarl Baulgruuf, who is on his throne in Dragonsreach. If you've captured it in the Story Line of the Civil War, the Jarl will find downstairs at the Blue Palace, the castle in Solitude.
  • He will tell you that your child is with a dark personality, and ask you to go see WHAT can do.
  • Contact Nelkir, a son of the Jarl, who is in Dragonsreach. He will say something about the "speaker port."
  • Go through the door, which is hidden in the pantry, and try to open it. A voice will talk to you. Return to talk Nelkir and he will say that only some people have access to it.
  • Steal Jarl or wizard Farengar behind the key.
  • Open the door and take your Ebony Blade.
  • To make it reaches its maximum power, kill someone you trust or a mate (try doing that in Boethiah's Calling quest, it is necessary to kill a fellow).
Ebony Mail


Quest - "Boethiah's Calling"
Daedric Prince - Boethiah
Type - Heavy Armor
Effect - Heavy Armor with 45 defense (base but can be improved with a Ebony Ingot), with Muffle effects (decreases the sounds made by the user) and damages nearby enemies with poison effect.

How to get:
  • To start this mission, you need level 30 or more. Read the book "Boethia's Proving", found in various locations as on the bookshelf in Sigmus' Outpost, Abandoned House in Markarth, and bought with Urag gro-Shub in the College of Winterhold library.
  • Go to Sacellum of Boethiah and talk to the principal Cultist.
  • If you wish, kill all the cultists to continue the quest normally. If not please take a companion (except for any dogs of the Dark Broterhood and essential) and draws it to the marked location. And then kill him there and then talk to Boethiah.
  • Kill all the other cultists (if you have not already done so), and speak again with Boethiah.
  • Kill all in Knifepoint Bridge.
  • Take your Ebony Mail defeating the Champion and her staff. The mission will be complete after a final dialogue with Boethiah.
Mace of Molag Bal


Quest - "House of Horrors"
Daedric Prince - Molag Bal
Type - One-handed Mace
Effect - Drains 25 points of Stamina and Magicka. If the target dies within 3 seconds his soul will be captured.

How to get:
  • Go to Markarth, and when you approach one of the houses near the entrance of the city, a warrior will ask for help to investigate the house that is reputed to be haunted (if this don't work, enter/leave the temple of Markath). You need to be level 10 or more for this to happen.
  • Getting there, a Daedra will begin to terrorize with his powers, and will force you to kill the warrior.
  • Then go to the bottom of the house, until you find the Altar of Molag Bal. Try to get the artifact on it, and you end up trapped in a trap.
  • Molag will ask you some questions, and give you the mission to attract Logrof for this altar because Molag want revenge, since Logrof practiced heresy at the altar on behalf of Boethiah.
  • Logrof may be trapped in any Forsworn camp. Go there, kill all enemies and release Logrof (not kill). So will Logrof for haunted house in Markarth.
  • Go back up there, go to the altar and Logrof fall into the same trap. Molag will instruct you to torture until he Logrof his redemption. Attack him until he falls.
  • Soon, Molag will tell you to kill Logrof. Write, and Mace will be yours.
  • You also get this abandoned house at the end of the mission, then all the items you store it never will disappear.
Mask of Clavicus Vile


Quest - "A Daedra's Best Friend"
Daedric Prince - Clavicus Vile
Type - Heavy Helmet
Effect - 20% best price, +10 Speech and his magicka regenerates 5% faster.

How to get:
  • Go to Falkreath and a guard at the entrance asks if you saw a dog. Regardless of the answer, find the dog Barbas close to town.
  • Talk to him, and soon you will have to follow it up Haemar's Shame, which is south of Throat of the World. Barbas will follow a disaster, because it simply for times and refuses to keep moving, so take a Fast Travel anywhere, so Barbas will arrive at the destination more easily. Remember that you will face some vampires in this place, and will be hard to go unnoticed because the dog, Barbas, will often strike without his initiative.
  • At the end of this cave, in the second section, talk to the statue of Clavicus Vile. He will tell you to go get the Rueful Axe him in Rimerock Barrow.
  • Go and grab the ax on top of the table. Here you have a mage named Sebastian, and Atronach fire watching the entrance, so be careful.
  • With ax in hand, return to the statue of Clavicus.
  • He says that you can stick with the ax, since kill Barbas. Not accepted, or will you give up in exchange for this Deadric Artifact horrible ax.
  • When saving Barbas, it will disappear and will be added to the statue. After restarting before a final dialog, you will be awarded the Mask of Clavicus Vile.
Mehrunes' Razor


Quest - "Pieces of the Past"
Daedric Prince - Mehrunes Dagon
Type - Dagger
Effect - Has 3% chance to instantly kill an enemy.

How to get:
  • Take a level 20, and a courier will deliver an invitation to a museum of Dawnstar when you are in any city. Alternatively go to Dawnstar, and the people there will mention the museum, thus starting the mission anyway.
  • Contact Sillus, follow him inside the Museum and accept to collect the fragments of the artifact.
  • To get the Pomel of the dagger, check out Dead Crone Keep, the west end of Skyrim (near Markarth). There is a bug on the arrow mission here, which tells you to enter a door, but it is the wrong location. Ignore the arrow, climb the stairs and enter the highest tower possible. Soon, you will reach the top where a witch called Drascua guards Pomel of the dagger and also a Shout ("Dismay").
  • To get the hilt of the dagger, talk to Jorgen in Morthal. You will have to persuade him, intimidate him or bribe him to get the key to his house. Or simply break into the door lock, and take the cable in the trunk.
  • To get the blade of the dagger, check out Cracked Tusk Keep to take it at the end of the dungeon.
  • By obtaining the three fragments, go back to Dawnstar and hand them Sillus.
  • Go to the Altar Mehrunes (here you will often find ice dragons, kill them before continuing) and talk to Sillus here.
  • Wait for him to try to talk to Mehrunes, and unsuccessfully try to talk to him yourself (on the altar). He will answer you, and order you kill Sillus. Kill him (if you spare him, will relinquish Deadric Artifact by a meager amount of 500 coins).
  • Then go back to the altar, and you get the Mehrune's Razor. Mehrunes, joker, will summon two daedra to kill him. Then you can enter the temple of Mehrunes to kill the two Daedra there, and get two Daedra hearts (they are reborn every week).
Oghma Infinium


Quest - "Discerning the Transmundane"
Daedric Prince - Hermaeus Mora
Type - Book / usable item
Effect - Gives the player 5 levels in all six skills fighting style he chooses to read it (Thief, Mage or Warrior)

How to get:
  • This Quest is started by Septimus Sigmus, usually when you want to continue The Elder Knowledge (one of the main quests of the game). To complete it, continue the quest Elder Knowledge normally. To obtain the Elder Scroll, remove the Lexicon in the pedestal (along with the buttons on the puzzle to get the Elder Scroll), and take it back to Septimus. He will open the chamber where the Oghma is.



Lexicon
Ring of Namira


Quest - "The Taste of Death"
Daedric Prince - Namira
Type - Ring
Effect - Allows cannibalism (you regenerate a bit of stamina and energy for body)

How to get:
  • Find Brother Verelus, which is usually in the castle of Markarth and talk to him.
  • He says that Hall of the Dead is closed for an indefinite time. Use persuasion, intimidation or bribe him to tell the reason. He say someone, or something, is devouring bodies of others. It will give you the key.
  • Go to the Hall of the Dead in Markarth (you can access it through the castle or outside), and a voice will speak to you. Stay here until Eola appear and talk to you. She will believe that the Dragonborn is also cannibalistic, equal to her.
  • Then it will mark a date in the "Reachcliff Cave". Go there, talk to her, and kill all Draurgs inside. Namira can help you if you ask her to follow you.
  • After all dead (including the Dragon Priest at the end), Eola will appear and ask for a celebration. She will tell you to attract Brother Verelus for dinner at night.
  • Find Brother Verelus in Markarth and convince her to follow him. Convince him without pay is almost impossible, you have to use something to increase your Speech even being level 100. But do not worry about paying, because you will get your money back ...
  • Take him to the basement and find Reachcliff cannibals in the other end of the cave. Eola will invite Brother Verelus to rest before the "feast."
  • When he lies, kill him. Eola will ask you to try the new meat. Eat.
  • Soon, the voice of Namira will appear, and after a final dialog, you will be presented with the Ring of Namira. Do not forget to pick up your way back to Verelus money.
Sanguine Rose


Quest - "A Night To Remember"
Daedric Prince - Sanguine
Type - Staff
Effect - Summons a Dremora for 60 seconds.

How to get:
  • Talk to Sam Guevenne on a tour of any city in the Tavern. He will invite you for a drinking contest. You need to be level 14 or higher for this.
  • Drink until you fall drunk and wake up in the Temple of Dibella in Markarth.
  • Help clean the temple or pay to proceed.
  • Ask about Sam and his staff of Rorikstead.
  • Talk to Ysolda in Whiterun on staff.
  • Go through the gate and look Morvunskar the Daedra at the end of the dungeon.
  • In Misty Grove, where you were teleported, look for Sam near the banquet. It will make the player with the staff Sanguine Rose.
Savior's Hide/Ring of Hircine

Quest - "III Met by Moonlight"
Daedric Prince - Hircine
Type - Light Armor / Ring (Respectively)
Effect - 15% magic resistance and 50% resistance to poison / Allow extra transformations for Werewolf (assuming you have Lycontropia, otherwise, the ring does not possess effect.) (Respectively)

How to get:
  • Go to the arrest of Falkreath (downstairs barracks) and approaches the grid prisoner Sinding. It will give you the cursed ring of Hircine, turns into a werewolf and escapes (this ring will turn you into a werewolf randomly while out of town).
  • Quit Falkreath and go eastward, find the "strange creature". In fact, it is an albino deer. Kill him, and the spirit of Hircine will appear. She asks the Dragonborn kill Sinding for stealing her ring.
  • Go to Bloated Man's Grotto and enter. At the beginning, you'll see a hunter who is about to die. Be sure to stay in human form and not werewolf (if, wait a few hours and you should change back).
  • For the two Deadric Artifacts, continue on site until Sinding in werewolf form, show up and ask for their help.
  • Accept, and kill all the local hunters.
  • Exit the cave, and Hircine will appear and present you with the Ring of Hircine for killing hunters.
  • Enter the cave, kill Sinding and take your skin.
  • Exit the cave, Hircine will appear and again, presenting you the Savior's Hide for killing Sinding.
Skeleton Key


Quest - "Blindsighted"
Daedric Prince - Nocturnal
Type - Unbreakable Lockpick
Effect - Works like a Lockpick, but never breaks.

How to get:
  • This is an item from Story Line of Thieves, then you will have to discard it if you want to complete it. See the "Thieves Guild quests" tab.[elderscrolls.wikia.com]
  • If you are behind the Achievement / Trophy "Get 15 Deadric Artifacts", the Skeleton Key does not count.
Skull of Corruption


Quest - "Waking Nightmare"
Daedric Prince - Vaermina
Type - Staff
Effect - 20 points of damage. Increases to 50 if you collect dreams of people sleeping (only use it on a sleeping person, it is not considered an aggressive act). You earn 5 dreams per person.

How to get:
  • Contact Erandur in Dawnstar Accommodation constant nightmares of people in this town. He will tell a Daedra's causing it. Agree to help him and follow him. Once there, you will find three Ice Trolls, so beware.
  • Follow him into the temple, and he will open the passage with a spell. Defeat the orcs who will rise from the ground, and keep following Erandur, until reaching the local library.
  • Locate the "Dreamstride," the book that the library upstairs. Delivered to Erandur.
  • Follow-up to the lab and take Vaermina's Torpor, a red potion in one of the shelves. Delivered to Erandur.
  • You will enter into a dream where you can not even attack. Ignore the battle site, and go to the Miasma controller, and activate it.
  • You will wake up in the same place where the dream stop.Disable the Miasma controller, and continue following Erandur.
  • Before the final room, two mages, Veren and Thorek will appear. Kill them, and continue to the altar of the Skull of Corruption. Erandur will destroy the barrier.
  • The Erandur begin destroying the Skull of Corruption, Vaermina will talk to you, and order you to kill Erandur before its too late. Kill him as soon as possible, or the artifact is actually destroyed.
  • Take the Skull of Corruption of the altar.
Spellbreaker


Quest - "The Only Cure"
Daedric Prince - Peryte
Type - Heavy Shield
Effect - Protects also against magic, creating a magical barrier.

How to get:
  • Level 12 is needed to obtain this quest
  • Talk to Kesh the Clean a Khajit that is the Shrine of Pyrite (. Was located northwest of the village of Karthwasten, and south of Crater Dragontooth If you do not know any of these locations, it is far from Markarth, north-east facing).
  • It will ask for a Flawless Ruby, Silver Ingot, Vampire Dust and Deathbell Flower.
  • Deliver the items to the Khajit, and inhale the mixture. Piryte will appear. He asks you to go after it Up: Orchendor, and kill him.
  • Orchendor lies in ruins of the Dwarves of Bthardamz. Like all dwarven ruin, is a gigantic dungeon. You will find some Afflicteds and all kinds of mechanical invention by the way. Orchendor is a great hall after the Dwarf Centurion.
  • Orchendor is completely immune to magic, can use fire and ice attacks and can also teleport. Use a bow or gun body-to-body against him. Once dead, grab everything of value and also the key to the local elevator. -Take the elevator shortcut to exit the dungeon.
  • Return to the Shrine of Pyrite and he will reward you with the Spellbreaker.
Volendrung


Quest - "The Cursed Tribe"
Daedric Prince - Malacath
Type - Two-handed Hammer
Effect - Absorb 50 points of stamina per attack.

How to get:
  • Go to Largashbur, the orc village. It is to the south of Riften. Once there, you will find some orcs battling a giant. Help them or simply watch the battle until the giant is dead.
  • Soon, Atub will start a conversation with you, and ask for a Daedra Hearth and Troll Fat.
  • After that, follow the hall to the head, look at the dialogue between them, and then take them out, and watch the ritual at the altar. Malacath will speak, and will reveal the curse he threw the tribe. The Chief Yamarz will talk to you after that, and say that you should help remove this curse.
  • Follow-up Fallowstone the basement, which is the east of Riften (or simply take a Fast Travel there and hope)
  • Talk to him at the entrance of the cave, and he will tell you that only needs your support.
  • Follow him throughout the cave, you'll find some giants and you will eventually reach the Giant's Grove.
  • Yamarz tell who is tired and unable to fight the final giant. You can either convince him to face the giant (he will die on the first hit, and you still have to kill the giant) or go kill the giant yourself. If you kill the giant, Yamarz will try to kill you,because he wants the tribe to believe he was the same who killed the Giant.
  • Anyway, retrieve the Shagrol's Warhammer of the Giant and bring it back to Largashbur.
  • There Atub talk, and after a final dialog with Malacath snap the Warhammer at the altar and he will become the Volendrung (be sure to watch the transformation, or it may happen a bug).
Wabbajack


Quest - "The Mind of Madness"
Daedric Prince - Sheogorath
Type - Staff
Effect - Several randomized to hit a target effects.

How to get:
  • To start this mission, ask by rumors in the tavern of Solitude (The Wiking Skeever).
  • Soon, you will earn one objective: "Talk to men wandering the streets of Blue Palace". You should talk to Dervenin, it really will be walking aimlessly through the streets (it is marked with the arrow of the mission).
  • Then go to Blue Palace, watch the discussion and then talk to Erdi or Una (Falk Firebeard or if you are a Thane of Solitude) for the key of Pelagius Wing.
  • With the key, go through the door marked by arrow mission to an abandoned part of the castle. Walk around until you pass out and wake up inside the mind of Pelagius.
  • Talk to Sheogorath to get the Wabbajack. Now we need to escape this mind, with three simple puzzles.
  • At the gate of paranoia, where you will find an arena with various elemental monsters battling among themselves, do not focus on them. Just use the Wabbajack to shoot the two men on the other side of the arena, watching the fight.
  • At the gate of the nightmare, where you find Pelagius sleeping, use the Wabbajack on it, and then the monsters that will appear until he wakes up.
  • In Fury portal, use the Wabbajack on Confidence twice to grow it[/b], and then the enemies, so they decrease.
  • Then return to Sheogorath, and the mission will be complete.
Attributes
Attributes of the daedric artifacts.








Cheats
Are you a cheater? Welcome, these are the codes of any daedric artifact.
  • Hit Tilde [`] to bring down the developer console.
  • Use the cheat

Player.additem ITEM “###”

It gives items depending on what Item Code is input. Type the item code in “ITEM” and the amount of items you want in “###”.

  • 00063B27 - Azura's Star
  • 00063b29 - The Black Star
  • 0002ac61 - Savior's Hide
  • 0004E4EE - Dawnbreaker
  • 0004A38F - Ebony Blade
  • 00052794 - Ebony Mail
  • 000233E3 - Mace of Molag Bal
  • 000D2846 - Masque of Clavicus Vile
  • 000240D2 - Mehrunes' Razor
  • 0001A332 - Oghma Infinium
  • 0002C37B - Ring of Namira
  • 0002AC60 - Hircine's Ring
  • 0001cb36 - Sanguine Rose
  • 0003a070 - Skeleton Key
  • 00035066 - Skull of Corruption
  • 00045f96 - Spellbreaker
  • 0002ACD2 - Volendrung
  • 0002ac6f - Wabbajack
Credits
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28 Comments
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zбir 3 Feb @ 1:02pm 
(V) the grammatical errors also put me off, but i think it's talking about a way to be able to receive both the Savior's Hide and keep the Ring of Hircine
DGHxPuppetMaster2~18 30 Oct, 2023 @ 3:48am 
i have a question, for the daedric Saviors Hide & the Ring of Hircine i don't what it means by "Continue on site -until Sinding- in werewolf form."
im not sure what that is trying to tell me. do you think you can elaborate what it is i must do please?
s s 14 Nov, 2020 @ 4:41am 
Thanks!
bitran.nissim 30 Oct, 2019 @ 5:57am 
WHER IS THE KEY FOR ABA-MALATAR SOUTH OF RIFTEN
Rolando de Gilead 18 May, 2019 @ 6:18pm 
excellent guide! If it serves, the only thing I would add is that to get the ebony blade you must be level 20 or more
Killerspinach 8 Oct, 2017 @ 9:42am 
thnx Randy
Athelthorn SPYquisitor 22 Jul, 2017 @ 12:42am 
lobo for the achievement you need to earn them , if you loose it one or use the ogma it doesn't make your number of deadric artefact earn reduce ,. So you can use the ogma without worry
Lobo 8 Jul, 2017 @ 2:45pm 
You probably dont even answer anymore @Randy, but can i use the Oghma Infinium or will that keep me from getting the achievement
CorrectoMandiando 13 May, 2017 @ 11:05am 
i didnt get the normal ring of hircine. i think there was a problem.
Colorjuice14 18 Jan, 2017 @ 7:48pm 
btw youve got a typo in the notes section (the first one) "The Taste of Death - You must cooperate with the cannibals, and cannibalize ----the---- Verelus." i dont think the the should be there. also good guide