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When someone needs to arrange a hit they pray to the Night Mother. The Night Mother then sends her children to do the job. In a sick and twisted cult the Dark brotherhood is a combination of a dangerous cult and a merderous mafia. Either way they're assassins of the highest degree.

You don't find the Dark Brotherhood, the Dark Brotherhood finds you.  If you commit a murder without witnesses, the Dark Brotherhood will come calling.  Note that the victim must be innocent and killed in cold blood – not someone who has first attacked you.  When you have killed someone appropriate you will receive the message “Your killing has been observed by forces unknown”.

After committing your foul deed, you must sleep in a secure location, preferably outdoors. Any bandit camp will do, as will any tents outside forts, Ayleid Ruins, or any bed used by beggars. Lucien Lachance will interrupt your sleep and task you with another murder, as well as give you a Blade of Woe (a pretty unremarkable blade, outside of its unique design).

Lucien Lachance directs you to the Inn of Ill Omen, in search of a man named Rufio. You can't fast travel to the Inn unless you've been there before (though he adds a map marker for you) so be prepared for a bit of running.

Note that while Lucien gives you a Blade of Woe and suggests that you use it, it's not vital that you actually kill Rufio with the blade - as long as he dies, your quest will be completed successfully. Go back to sleep in a secure location (such as rufio's bed mwahahaha) and you will join the Dark Brotherhood. It has some nice perks including recieving gold, Shrouded Armor, and Shrouded Hood as a reward.

Even as a cult full of cold blooded killers the Dark Brotherhood has a set of tenets. Oddly enough though it's impossible to break the first three to my knowledge.

The first and second time you're expelled killing the ghost is enough to get back in. The third time, however, there is no forgiveness even if you do kill the ghost.

Most of the Dark Brotherhood quests will consist of assasinations, often with conditions attached. If you fulfil these conditions then you will get a bonus usually a lot more money or a rare item, it's almost always worth doing it right.

Vincente Valtieri is the gang vampire. He's the most obvious vampire in the game and is quite kind to you. Since he's your first guy to award quests he always gives you helpful advice.

Ok this time you've got to kill a pirate onboard his ship. Theres no bonus so just go at night when he's sleeping. Go to the Waterfront district of the Imperial city and there should be 2 ships, The floating Bloat and the pirate ship. Walk onboard the pirate ship and go into sneak mode and go into the small extremely obvious door to your left. The captain should be sleeping in his bed a few feet away. Stay in stealth mode and stab him in the back a few times once he's dead loot him quickly and get off the boat. Pirates will come to see whats going on and if they see you you'll have an uneccesary fight on your hands.

This quest is the first time you have a bonus. A man needs to be killed but it has to look like an accident. That rules out the usual stab 20 times in the face as well as bashing his face in with a mace. So what to do? When you're getting the quest Valtieri suggests you loosen the Minotaur head above the victims chair so we'll try that if we want the bonus.

Now you'd think the orc would be after you, but since he thinks it's an accident he just stands gasping at his master. '''DO NOT KILL THE ORC''', if you do then you will not get the bonus for making the quest look like an accident. Steal anything you still want and sneak out the way you came. Head back to the Dark Brotherhood to turn in. Valtieri will give you your money as well as Sufferthorn (a fairly nice dagger) if you made it look like and didn't kill the orc like I told you to.

You know you've been thinking about this since the first minutes of the game. Killing that damn insulting Dark Elf in the cell across from you. When that secret passage opened up you thought to yourself "someday when I'm powerful I will come back through here and kill him." Well now you get to do it and you get paid to boot.

Head up the stairs and walk out of the prison, head back to Vincent for your reward. Still can't believe you got paid to do that can you?

Now this quest is a bit on the odd side. A man has hired assassins to fake his death. Yeah thats a good idea. But we get a bonus so off we go.

Come back in town and sleep/wait for about a day. Head to the church basement and give him the antidote. He'll mention that this is his family's tomb. Then he'll mention that his family will see this as desecration and LOOK A ZOMBIE. So you'll have to fight 3 or 4 zombies down here (what do ya know you got to kill something after all!) and escort him to the inn (he apperently thinks that a public place would be a good place to hide) and head back to Vincent for your reward.

Ocheeva is the female argonian in the Dark Brotherhood and seems to be a bit humbled by your skill.

This is one of the most fun you'll have on a quest. Five people all targets are locked in a house (willingly) and told to search for a treasure chest with gold and the key to the house. The catch? There is no treasure and the key is with the assassin sent to kill them all. You.

NOTE: This is far from the only way to do this quest. Be creative and do whatever you want. Some people say you can use speechcraft to make the whole house go to hell without you getting your hands dirty.

This isn't so much a quest as a changing of the guard. Ocheeva tells you that Lucien Lachance wants to talk to you and hands you a note. Read the note and it tells you to meet him in person away from the sanctuary and not to show the note to anyone else.

Now head out of town and go to the base where Lucien wants you to meet. Don't head inside though. Walk around the base and look for a large hollowed out tree. Inside is a trapdoor leading straight to Lucien without going through the Skeletons and Ghosts on the way to him.

As soon as you complete the hit on Ungolim Lucien Lachance in person comes and begins to threaten you. He says every hit you've made was a member of the Black hand (Silencer, Speaker, and now Listener) he quickly realizes that you have no idea whats going on and tells you that the surviving Black hand suspects he is the culprit. Turns out someone has been switching out his dead drop notes with their own. From now on you won't be taking orders from anyone you'll be finding the traitor and bringing him to justice.

Head to Anvil and the next drop point. You'll find a barrell near a statue pretty close to the main gate. Hang out for a while and you'll see a wood elf come and switch the notes. Speak with him and interrogate him as you see fit (threats are befitting of a Dark Brotherhood member.) He'll tell you that a man in a robe and hood has been paying him to switch the notes, judging by his terror he's telling the truth. He tells you the man lives in the lighthouse cellar (what kind of lighthouse has a cellar anyways?) and the lighthouse keeper could give you the key.

With all this information head to the Draconis Farm where Lucien Lachance said he'd meet you. Enter the house and you'll find you're too late. The four other members of the Black hand are there and they have brutally killed and mutilated Lachance. Arquen will tell you that they need to speak to the Night Mother and that you are innocent, she then appoints you the rank of speaker (there have to be five fingers to the Black Hand) and tells you to come back between 12 and 3 AM. One of these four speakers is the traitor, but don't worry he'll reveal himself when we meet the night mother.

If you come back between 12 and 3 AM and speak with Arquen then you'll begin the final Dark Brotherhood quest. It turns out the Lucky Old Woman Ungolim (the old listener you killed) was actually the Night Mother's Tomb. The four speakers will pray to the night mother as you watch and the statue will reveal a passage to her tomb. Here the Night Mother reveals herself as a ghost and tells Arquen the traitor is still among them. Immediately Bellamont stabs and kills two of the other speakers (you can't stop this it's a cut scene) and rounds on you. Together you and Arquen have to kill him. The Night Mother is pleased and promotes you to the position of Listener. She then bids you to rob her tomb. Take everything you can, because you're never coming back. Speak with her again and she will enchant your Blade of Woe (you still have it right?) So that it deals all kinds of damage. She then Teleports you and Arquel to the Cheydinal Sanctuary.

Now that you're a Listener and 90% of the dark brotherhood is dead you won't recieve any more quests there are still some perks to being the boss though. You can get a weekly paycheck just for listening to the Night Mother and you get a slection of lackeys to choose from. Other then that there really isn't much to do.

Once a week you can return to the statue of the Night Mother and listen to her tell you the names of targets that people have prayed for. Do not worry as none of them are in Cyrodiil so you can't personally eliminate them.

Head back to the Cheydinal sanctuary and tell Arquen the names to heard. She'll send some new recruits to assassinate them and give you a cut of the money (200 gold the first time.) Remember you can do this only once a week so after a bit of adventuring see what day it is and listen to the new hits.

As Arquen works new members will populate the sanctuary. All of them naturally worship the ground you walk on and you can choose one of them to take with you as a lackey. There is a Khajiit with an axe, an elven arcer, and a female (Breton?) spell caster. As assasins they are better then normal minions and can obey more commands (ex: follow me, but stay stealthed.) Unfortunately you can only take one murderer with you at a time.