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| Blightcrown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Location | The Mythos | ||
| Race | Breton | Gender | Male |
| Health | 382410 | Difficulty |  |
| Reaction | Hostile | ||
| Other Information | |||
| Faction(s) | Hidden Kindred | ||
Blightcrown is a Breton priest of Peryite and leader of the mortal faction of the Hidden Kindred.
Related QuestsEdit
Keeper of the Fate: Investigate strange happenings in Necrom.- A Hidden Fate: Research the relic, the rite, and the dream.
- Conclave of Fate: Prevent a House Telvanni disaster.
- A Calamity of Fate: Investigate what is going wrong with Apocrypha.
- An Unhealthy Fate: Find and banish Vaermina from Apocrypha.
Quest-Related DialogueEdit
Keeper of the FateEdit
You will find out that Blightcrown disguised himself as Prelate Faram after he snuck into Necrom. He will be responsible for the closing of the Necropolis in search of an artifact called the Fulcrum Obscura. You will eventually arrive in Prior Durdryn's tomb, a giant space open to the sky, with multiple altars to the dead lining the walls. The Fulcrum Obscura is on a raised platform near the back, in front of a shrine. Here you will see the fake Prelate Faram and a Dremora named Torvesard speaking:
- Prelate Faram: "Ah, the Fulcrum Obscura—wait. Someone approaches, Torvesard. Quick, take the relic!"
- Torvesard: "The relic broke! Still, this portion contains the power we need. I leave our guests to you, Blightcrown."
- Blightcrown: "The time to hide is over. Behold Blightcrown, most favored priest of Peryite! I leave you with a blessing from the Prince of Pestilence!"
Torvesard will enter a portal and vanish, and Blightcrown will drop his disguise. He will also summon a Plague-Gusher, a diseased Ogre, before departing himself. You will have to defeat this creature to proceed.
A Hidden FateEdit
After you have entered the Infinite Panopticon to find the Fulcrum Obscura and destroyed the censers infecting the area, you will eventually catch up to Torvesard and Blightcrown and overhear them speaking about their goal:
- Torvesard: "See how the Fulcrum vibrates? What we seek is here."
- Blightcrown: "Another eye? It looks like all the others to me."
- Torvesard: "Have faith, diseased one. This eye contains the memory of the dream we seek."
- Blightcrown: "Then let's get this over with. I can't hide us between the layers of reality much longer."
- <Torvesard turns and looks down at you and your group.>
- Torvesard: "Ah, fate's mortals. I have no wish to harm you. Turn back and let us finish what we started."
- <Torvesard turns away and walks into the Eye of Mora.>
- Leramil the Wise: "They dare enter one of Hermaeus Mora's forbidden memories? We must follow them!"
- Leramil the Wise: "<Leramil opens a portal.>
Let me open a portal …. There!"
- Meln the Mouthless: "Proceed carefully. Between the energy here and Blightcrown's manipulation of reality, Leramil's portal could behave erratically."
Conclave of FateEdit
Proceed deeper into the ruin of Vaermina, where you will find a space that matches Hermaeus Mora's memory. Blightcrown, Torvesard, Master Shelreni, and Master Marena will be next to the restored statue of Vaermina. Your adversaries will be standing on the base of the statue, while Marena is in a magic circle, with a beam emitted from the statue passing through the Black Book and hitting Marena:
- Blightcrown: "Ingenious, Torvesard! Using the restored memory to open a path to Apocrypha. All we need now is for Shelreni to finish the rite and perform the sacrifice."
- Meln the Mouthless: "Shelreni's using the restored statue as a focus for her rite."
- Master Shelreni: "Mora's minions! You will not interfere!"
After you close the book and retrieve it, Blightcrown will use this chance to kill Shelreni to allow Vaermina to take over her body:
- Master Shelreni: "Taking the Black Book won't stop us. And one of you will serve just as well as a sacrifice."
- Blightcrown: "No need to involve outsiders, Shelreni."
- <Blightcrown backstabs Master Shelreni and she dies.>
- Blightcrown: "Prince Vaermina accepts your sacrifice and deems you a worthy vessel!"
- <Vaermina possesses the corpse and she floats in the air as a poral to Apocrypha opens.>
- Torvesard: "I regret the bloodshed, but soon Mora's injustice will be undone."
- Vaermina: "With this vessel, I can enter Apocrypha and strike at Mora's heart! With me, my faithful!"
- <Vaermina enters Apocrypha with Blightcrown, while Torvesard leaves through his own portal.>
A Calamity of FateEdit
Chasing Blightcrown through the Infinite Panopticon and fighting the Hidden Kindred, you will arrive in a giant open space with giant book pillars running from the abyss below into the one above, similar to the one you saw the last time you were here. And you will catch up to Blightcrown here, once again:
- Scruut: "This place feels ancient … like no one's been here in an eternity."
- Blightcrown: "The combination of rite and concoction works splendidly! We are hidden and Mora suffers.
- Blightcrown: "Torvesard, take the Dream Prince into the Eye of Mora and find your memory."
- Blightcrown: "I have a final gift to deliver to the very core of Apocrypha!"
- Scruut: "Blightcrown! Did he say something about an Eye of Mora?"
- Meln the Mouthless: "Ignore Blightcrown. We need to reach Vaermina and destroy Shelreni's body."
An Unhealthy FateEdit
Going through the portal will begin the final battles of this quest series, do any necessary preparations you need to beforehand. On the other side of the portal you will appear within sight of Blightcrown and Vaermina possessing Master Shelreni's body. Torvesard will immediately break off on his own. Gadayn and Scruut will head off to destroy the Blightcrown's manufactories through the western portal, while you, Meln, and Leramil go through the eastern portal to handle the manufactories on that side:
- Vaermina: "Fate's champions pursue us, Blightcrown. Deal with them while I locate the glyphics."
- Blightcrown: "Oh, my manufactories of corruption will keep them busy, Prince Vaermina."
- Torvesard: "Disable Blightcrown's manufactories and the corruption will dissipate. Just shatter the dream crystal that binds them to the Mythos."
- Torvesard: "Save Apocrypha while I pursue Vaermina."
- <Torvesard opens a portal and leaves.>
- Scruut: "Come, Gadayn. We'll take the west portal and leave the east to Leramil and fate's chosen."
- Leramil the Wise: "Good thinking, Scruut. This way, proxy."
Pass through another portal to the last manufactory, and you will come across the final manufactory, and Blightcrown. This evasive foe will finally decide it is time to fight you himself:
- Meln the Mouthless: "Blightcrown! Time to end that plague dog, I think."
- Blightcrown: "Come, fool of fate, face Peryite's high priest!"
- Curate Gadayn: "Blightcrown has the Fulcrum Obscura!"
He will use all of the powers of pestilence he has at his disposal. This will include summoning Blightrats, vomiting on you and vomiting up Peryite's Glory. Curate Gadayn will help you through the fight, which is rather appropriate as his personal quest was to retrieve the Fulcrum Obscura that he stole:
- Blightcrown: "Not feeling well, chosen?"
Blightcrown will eventually transform into a plagued Ogre.
- Blightcrown: "I need power! What harms Apocrypha makes me stronger!"
- Blightcrown: "Disease lord…give me strength!"
- Blightcrown: "You … die!"
When he is about to be defeated:
- Blightcrown: "No! Must … win …."
Once you vanquish Blightcrown, Gadayn will reclaim the Fulcrum Obscura.
