Oblivion: Hermaeous Mora

On this page of the guide you will find a walkthrough of Deadric Quest Hermaeous Mora.

If your character is on at least level 20, you've performed all the daedric quests above, and you've beaten the Blood of the Daedra quest in the main plot, you'll be approached by Hermaeous Mora's servant next time you rest. This works identically as encounters with Lucien from the Dark Brotherhood or Gray Fox' messengers in Thieves Guild quests.

Hermaeous Mora wants you to pay a visit to his Shrine. Go there and talk to him. You have to gather 10 souls for him, one for each race inhabiting Cyrodiil. As I said in Dark Brotherhood's Introduction section, killing random people doesn't pay in Oblivion, as you might accidentally block your way to complete some quests.

The solution is very simple, though. You just have to visit other daedric shrines, killing the princes' followers. They've already player their role in the game and aren't meant to do anything else for you. Heck, you can even kill Hermaeous' followers as well. They are all unarmed, weak and don't defend each other, meaning you don't have to fight the whole group when you attack one of them.

You need to get yourself souls of: Altmer, Argonian, Bosmer, Breton, Dunmer, Imperial, Khajiit, Nord, Orc, and Redguard. The procedure of soul-gathering would be very simple indeed, if not for a certain glitch. Everything should work this way: you cast a spell called Mora's Soul Trap on somebody, then kill him within two minutes of the spell's durability. Unfortunately, some bug keeps the spell from working most of the time, which can cause some unnecessary problems.

In my case, the following trick did the thing. I was to cast a spell twice on another person (meaning not the one I wanted soul from), then cast it twice again, but this time on the right character - the second time there appeared a warning that the character is already under the spell. That meant that the trick worked, and I could now kill the person to get his or her soul. Let's hope this issue is fixed soon by some patch.

When you gather all 10 souls, get back to Hermaeous. He has something special for you: a book entitles Oghma Infinium. When you read it, you will be given a choice about which path you want to follow:

1. Steel - increases you Blade, Heavy Armor and Blunt abilities;
2. Shadow - increases your Sneak, Security and Light Armor abilities;
3. Spirit - increases your Destruction, Conjuration and Restoration abilities.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

March 20, 2006

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