To Activate this Quest, you must complete the quest Bruma Gate from the main story. After speaking with Jauffre, who asks you to gather support from all the other cities of Cyrodill, and so the quest begins.
Anvil[edit]
Go to Castle Anvil, speak with Countess Millona Umbranox. Ask for Aid for Bruma, she is willing to help, but not with an Oblivion Gate just outside the city walls. If you have closed the gate already she will lend support. Head on back to Castle Anvil after closing the Oblivion Gate and speak with Countess Millona Umbranox, picking Aid for Bruma to complete this part of the quest.
The Oblivion Gate[edit]
Just northwest of Anvil is the Oblivion Gate. Once in the Wastes of Oblivion follow the path southwest. Continue along it southeast, and when it you reach the fork in the road, take the southwest path. Never mind the two towers, keep your eyes on the west wall from this point on. There is a doorway kind of camouflaged into the wall called Nether Tunnels, head on in.
Take either tunnel to be on your way, it doesn't matter which, and head southwest. The door, Oblivion Cave, shouldn't be to hard to find. Inside, follow the north path and head down the northeast tunnel after that, head down this route and enter the Oblivion Cave. This leads back out to the Wastes of Oblivion.
Back outside take the northeast route. At the end of the path is a doorway to The Red Gnash Channels. Inside again, take the northwest trail and follow it until you see opening along the northeast wall. Go in and follow the path to its end, where a doorway leads back to Wastes of Oblivion.
Take either Rending Halls doorway and follow the path to a room. There is an opening along the north wall, enter and follow it until you reach The Flesh Spire doorway. Head up the ramp until coming to a door along the south wall leading to Dead Halls. Go up the path and until you find a small room. North will be a path which will bring you up, take the path, at the top is another room accompanied by a couple doors along the south wall which will bring you to The Flesh Spire.
Finally, follow this spire all the way up until you reach the final room, Sigillum Sanguis. Go up the path inside and enter the room along the inside walls. Go up the spiked staircase on either side of this area and then up the red ramp. You are at the top of the tower now, head to the center and remove the Sigil Stone.
Bravil[edit]
Go to Castle Bravil, speak with Count Regulus Terentius. Ask for Aid for Bruma, he too is willing to help, but not with an Oblivion Gate just outside the city walls. If you have closed the gate already he will lend support. Once the Oblivion Gate is shut, head on back to Castle Bravil and speak with Count Regulus Terentius, choosing the Aid for Bruma option to complete this part of the quest. He sends his Guard Captain.
The Oblivion Gate[edit]
Straight north from the Oblivion Gate you will notice a gate blocking the path to all those towers straight ahead. We must open this to proceed to the towers. Take the west and follow until you find the bridge heading north. Along this path the path will you will see a mound with bloodied claws coming out the top with a fire on it as well. There is a door at the base of it leading to the Caverns of the Abused, head in.
Inside follow the tunnel to the first room, where you will find a doorway leading back outside on the north wall and a tunnel deeper into this area in the southeast corner, take the tunnel down. You will come to another room, this time with a hole in the ground which is emitting a orange glow into this room, drop down. Down here head east down the tunnel to a door that opens to Blood Well. Head up using the Corpse Masher and once it stops ignore the door leading back outside and head to the top of this tower. Activate the Gate Control and head back down and now exit to Waste of Oblivion.
- Note: Hitting this Gate Control is irrelevant now since where you exit to leads to the tower you were needed to get to in the first place. But since that is what we thought to we would be doing, why not finish the job?
Cross the bridge, and begin southeast. Look, the gate. Head north from the gate and you will see the entrance into The Lust Keep called, The Tower Portal. Inside, are two Rending Halls doorway, go through the west one. Head up the path to the room at the top. There is another pathway north in this room leading up and a Citadel Hall Door down the hall on the east wall, if you took the east doorway to this area, go through the Citadel Hall Door, otherwise ignore it as it only links the two paths. Take the north path, at the top of the path is a The Lust Keep.
Take this path all the way to the top ignoring the doors to the Corridors of Dark Salvation. Once you reach the top you'll notice two platforms emitting a orange called Runed Portal to The Lust Keep, use it. This will bring you to the platforms above you. Be prepared for a little fight. Take either door to the Sigillum Sanguis. Go up the path inside and enter the room along the inside walls. Go up the spiked staircase on either side of this area and then up the red ramp. You are at the top of the tower now, head to the center and remove the Sigil Stone.
Cheydinhal[edit]
Go to Castle Cheydinhal and talk to Count Andel Indarys. Ask him about Aid for Bruma and he too is willing to help, but not while the threat of an Oblivion Gate is just outside the city. If you have closed the gate already he will lend support. Once the Oblivion Gate is shut, head on back to Castle Cheydinhal and speak with Count Andel Indarys, asking again for Aid for Bruma to complete this part of the quest.
Outside the Oblivion Gate[edit]
Just outside the Oblivion Gate will be a bunch of guards from Cheydinhal patrolling the area. Amminus Gregori will come over and talks to you. Ask him about Oblivion Gate and then ask him about Farwil, to get the option Knights of the Thorn. Ask him about all those again and you be set to head in the Oblivion Gate.
Inside the Oblivion Gate[edit]
The first thing you will see when you enter is a Knight of the Thorn lying dead on a concrete slab, how lovely... take the only path available southeast downward and follow the path southwest, along the edges you'll notice you can drop down skipping to the some of the turns. Your main goal is to make it east-southeast of the Oblivion Gate entrance, where you will see Farwil and another knight standing, just off a bridge.
After talking with Farwil, the Gates to the east along the bridge will be opening up. Cross the bridge and head into the tower, The Chaos Stronghold. In the tower are two doors leading to the Rending Halls, it doesn't matter which you go through. Follow the path up, which will bring you to a room with a door along the west wall that will bring you back out to The Chaos Stronghold.
Follow the path up and enter the Corridors of Dark Salvation through the door at the top. In here is a Citadel Hall Door to the north, open it and follow the path up. There will be a two doors side-by-side along the south wall, you don't have to go in them, unless you want some loot. Keep going up the path to the Citadel Hall Door and go on inside. There is a door on the west wall leading back to The Chaos Stronghold that you will need to enter.
Follow either path once through the door until you reach the top, where two doors will be, both mark Sigillum Sanguis. It doesn't matter which you enter. Inside head up the path and enter the room along the inside walls. Go up the path in here and go up the spiked staircase on either side of this area and then up the red ramp. You are at the top of the tower now, head to the center and remove the Sigil Stone.
Chorrol[edit]
Go to Castle Chorrol and into the great hall. Talk to Countess Valga and ask about Aid for Bruma. She too is willing to help, but not with an Oblivion Gate just outside the city walls. If you have closed the gate already she will lend support. Head up the tower and find the Tornado Gate Control and hit it, this will open the Tsunami Gate. Head back to Countess Valga in Castle Chorrol once you've closed the Oblivion Gate and talk to her about Aid for Bruma to complete this part of the quest.
The Oblivion Gate[edit]
From the gate head down the south path and you'll notice that your path is blocked by a Tsunami Gate. Back track towards the Oblivion Gate and hang a left and look along the east wall for the entrance to the Tsunami tower. Use the Corpse Masher to head up the tower. Hit the Tsunami Gate Switch at the top of the tower which opens the Tsunami gate outside.
From here exit out the bottom of the tower. Go back west when outside, towards the Oblivion Gate and head back south to the Tsunami gate. JUST to the west after the gate is a door to the Hurricane tower, head on in. Use the Corpse Masher to head up the tower, there will be a door about halfway up the tower.
Cross the bridge outside bringing you to the Portal of Natural Disaster. You can finally start the climb to the Sigil Stone. Inside is a door south of yours which will bring you to the Rending Halls. Go straight when you are in the Rending Halls through the Citadel Hall Door and head up the path, being careful of the dropping blades from the ceiling. At the end of the path are two doors both leading back to Portal of Natural Disaster.
Up the ramp in here is a door leading to Corridors of Dark Salvation. Inside take either path all the way up, it will bring you to a room. Along the east wall is another Portals of Natural Disaster doorway. Head up and enter either doorway to the Sigillum Sanguis. Go up the path inside and enter the room along the inside walls. Go up the spiked staircase on either side of this area and then up the red ramp. You are at the top of the tower now, head to the center and remove the Sigil Stone.
Imperial City[edit]
At the Imperial City Palace, enter the Elder Council Chamber and find High Chancellor Ocato. Ask him for Aid for Bruma. He will deny you troops, completing this part of the quest.
Kvatch[edit]
Head to Kvatch and work your way through the ruined city to the Kvatch Castle Great Hall. Here you will find Salvian. Ask him about Aid for Bruma to complete this part of the quest.
Leyawiin[edit]
Go to Castle Leyawiin County Hall and talk to Count Marius Caro about Aid for Bruma. He too is willing to help, but not with an Oblivion Gate just outside the city walls. If you have closed the gate already he will lend support. Once you've closed the Oblivion Gate, go back to Castle Leyawiin Great Hall and talk to Count Marius Caro. Ask him about Aid for Bruma to complete this part of the quest.
Oblivion Gate[edit]
From the Oblivion Gate head west a litlle ways and you'll eventually see a door called Nether Tunnels, which bring you into Worm Gut Channels. Go down the path to the next room and take the path along the south wall. From there make your way to the next room and head down the west path once there which will bring you to another room with a path on the west wall. After going down this tunnel, when you come to the part where it splits up, continue west down the tunnel and which will bring you to a room. In this room head through the door along the west wall called Molten Halls.
Follow the path to the room and along the south wall is a path which you will bring you to another room. There is a hole in the floor you need to take down and in this room is another hole which you need to drop in too. Head southwest from there down the short, it will split in two, north and south, follow it south to an Oblivion Cave door.Take the southwest path in this room to the next room. There will be a path along the northwest wall you need to take, it will lead to another door. Take the path east from here to another split, northeast and northwest, keep northeast. along the south of this path is a tower, Spindle Shrine, head in.
Head up the path to the top where you will find a door along the northeast wall. Cross the bridge and head in the Blood Well. Take it all the way to the top to find a machine with switch on either side of it, activate the southwest switch. Take yourself back down the path and exit to the Wastes of Oblivion along the southwest wall. Cross the bridge and go through gate you opened just now. North of the stairs on the bridge is the door to The Tower Portal.
There are two doors leading to Rending Halls, you can take either door. head up the path to a room and head through to the path along the north wall. This leads to The Flesh Spire, which you need to go through. Take the path up, to the Dead Halls door along the south wall, it doesn't matter which door you take from here. Inside take the path along the north wall to where you will eventually come to a room with two doors, both leading to The Flesh Spire. It doesn't matter which one you take.
Follow the path to Corridors of Dark Salvation door. In here take the north path upwards to a room with a Citadel Hall Door to the south which you need to open. Follow up to the next room, a door to The Flesh Spire should be on the west wall. Head all the way up to the door ways saying Sigillum Sanguis on them, there should be two, but it doesn't matter which you enter. Go up the path inside and enter the room along the inside walls. Go up the path inside and enter the room along the inside walls. Go up the spiked staircase on either side of this area and then up the red ramp. You are at the top of the tower now, head to the center and remove the Sigil Stone.
Skingrad[edit]
In Skingrad you will first need to locate Mercator Hosidus and ask him for Aid for Bruma, he'll summon the count for you. If Mercator has died or been killed for one reason or another, another way to speak with the count would be to talk to his Steward, Hal-Liurz about A Vampire Cure. other than that, you will need to break in to the Count's Manor to speak with him. Just wait around if one of his assistants has gone to get him for you.
Once you touch base with Count Janus, ask for Aid for Bruma. He is willing to help, but not with the threat of an Oblivion Gate just outside the city walls. If you have closed the gate already he will lend support. When the Oblivion Gate has been shut, head on back to Castle Skingrad and speak with Count Janus, choosing the Aid for Bruma option to complete this part of the quest.
Oblivion Gate[edit]
From the Oblivion Gate, go southwest up the hill and you should see a door on called The Tower Portal to The Anguish Keep. The door to the Halls of Eternal Twilight will be on the opposite from where you entered. Head up the path and at the entrance make a hard left at the room, and open the Citadel Hall Door. Head up this path to the room and exit to The Anguish Keep.
In this room there are two doors, Waste of Oblivion, and Halls of Shame. Skip the Waste of Oblivion door and enter Halls of Shame. In Halls of Shame, hug the right wall until you reach another Citadel Hall Door, open it. Head up the ramp and open the door at the end of it but be careful, there will be two defense turrets in this room. Hang another hard left, open this Citadel Hall Door and head in. Follow the path up and enter The Anguish Keep through the doorway along the south wall.
There is only one way to go from here, up. At the top is two door, either leads to the same area, The Anguish Shrine. Head up the path, there will be two openings to a room along the south wall and a door, Wastes of Oblivion, on the north wall. Go in either of the two openings and up the spiked staircase on either side of this area. Notice along the south wall of this floor is a mechanism? Activate the Geared Batten beside them. Immediately after you activate the gears, go back down the spiked staircase, exit the room and now go through the Wastes of Oblivion doorway. The bridge will be connecting for you, but will retract. Cross the bridge and enter The Sorrow Shrine.
Head straight into the big red room and up the spiked staircase. Trigger the switch next to the gears up here. Go back down and out of the room and head down one of the hallways to The Sorrow Keep. Follow the path down until you reach the Halls of Shame doorway. Along the west wall is a Citadel Hall Door, open, go in and follow the path down the end of the hallway and open the Citadel door next to the hall you just through and follow the path. At the end of the path, in the room is a door to The Sorrow Keep.
This room is identical to the one from the other tower where you skipped the Wastes of Oblivion doorway, but this time, head through it. Cross the bridge and to The Brooding Fortress, the tower with the Sigil Stone. Head up the path going southeast and enter the Corridors of Dark Salvation door at the top. Follow the path up to a room and find another path heading up, follow it up. At the end of the pathway is a door leading back to The Brooding Fortress.
Enter The Brooding Fortress follow up the ramp to the door to Corridors of Dark Salvation and enter it. Follow on up the ramp to another room and keep going across this room and up the next ramp. There before you go up the next ramp will be a Claw Lever that will drop the next trap so you can avoid it. Proceed up the ramp to another door to The Brooding Fortress on a higher level. Inside follow the path upwards until you reach the top where the entrance to the Sigillum Sanguis is. Go up the path inside and enter the room along the inside walls. Go up the path inside and enter the room along the inside walls. Go up the spiked staircase on either side of this area and then up the red ramp. You are at the top of the tower now, head to the center and remove the Sigil Stone. Your quest will be complete upon receiving aid from the final city.