Oblivion:Miranu's Research

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Discover the truth about Minotaurs.


  • Quest Giver: Tsarrina
  • Location(s): Gweden Farm
  • Prerequisite Quests: The Hist, Roots of Madness
  • Next Quest: None
  • Reward: None directly
  • ID: GS19
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Quick Walkthrough

  1. Find out about Love Potion #9
  2. Visit Miranu at her secret lab
  3. Learn about Minotaurs
  4. Fetch the final ingredients from the Shivering Isles
  5. Restore Boo

Detailed Walkthrough

Love Potion (#9)

Tsarrina has been sent a sample of a new potion, that will let her offer "satisfaction guaranteed". She'd like more, so you need to go to Falanu's shop in Skingrad to find out some further details.

Falanu also has a sample of the potion, and she's working on adapting it to her own needs. She'll give you the key to cousin Miranu's secret laboratory, which is near the site of her old shop.

Secret Lab

The Secret laboratory is underground in an old fort ruin near the old All Things Alchemical. Go down and talk to Miranu, and she'll tell you what she knows about Minotaurs. She has one in a cave attached to the lab, and she's teaching him to talk, among other things. He's a bit different from the other Minotaurs you've met around Cyrodiil, and Miranu appreciates that.

Ingredients

She needs new ingredients for her research. She's already separated a number of promising potions from a batch of Hist Sap that she got from the Blackwood Company. Love Potion #9 was just one of them.

None of them provide quite the effect that she needs to restore her Minotaur, Bucephalus, to the full level of intelligence she believes he can achieve. Tell her about Felldew and Greenmote and their mind-altering effects, and she'll send you to get some. Since you must have done the pre-requisite quests in the Isles, you may already have the Felldew or (Refined) Greenmote she needs, Otherwise, you can re-enter Dunroot Burrow for the Felldew, and Wide-Eye will give you some Greenmote if you ask.

Restoration

Bring the Felldew and Greenmote back to Miranu and let her take a week to work with them. Then return and check on Boo's progress. He'll be quite the intellectual by this time, and tell you a few tales about Miranu, and his new problem. She's mad at him, because of something he said.

When you speak to Miranu about it, you discover it's all a misunderstanding. She thought he wanted to become a Gigolo, but he really meant that was the only trade she'd taught him. She agrees that he needs another, but doesn't know how to train him in anything else. She doesn't like the idea of him going to the Arcane University with all the pretty young girls, and would prefer him to learn from books, especially Armorer skill books, as he has shown an interest in that subject.

If you bring her three Armorer skill books, he will become a smith and she will start to sell alchemical material (apparatus, ingredients and potions - including #9, although that counts as a misc. item). All five books will get you the additional reward of being able to buy her special apparatus (125% strength) at a bargain price. Boo will also sell those at the same price, and will sometimes have a special weapon or armor piece too.

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Journal Entries

Miranu's Research (GS19)
Stage Finishes Quest Journal Entry
5 Tsarrina has been sent a sample of something she calls "Love Potion #9". It was discovered by Silanu's cousin Miranu, and has some effects on men from which the Brothel could benefit. Tsarrina wants me to ask Falanu how to get in touch with Miranu about getting more of the potion.
10 Falanu tells me that her cousin Miranu discovered "Love Potion #9" while researching other things at her secret laboratory near the old shop. She's given me a key, so I can go talk to her.
20 I've found the entrance to Miranu's secret lab. I should go in and talk to her about the potion.
30 Miranu' research is concerned with Minotaurs. She's read how Belharza was the second Emperor of Cyrodiil, and wants to know why they have descended so far towards the beasts. She has one in a cave attached to her lab, and has already made some progress in restoring his speech. However, her relationship with the creature is a little suspect! She has asked me to get samples of Felldew and Greenmote to see if they will provide the missing factor in her mixtures.
40 I have some Felldew, I Hope it will be enough for Miranu's research needs.
50 I have some Greenmote for Miranu.
55 (if player is in Shivering Isles) Now I have both the Felldew and the Greenmote, I'd better head back to Tamriel.
56 (if player is in Tamriel) Now I have both the Felldew and the Greenmote, I'd better head back to Miranu.
60 I have given the Felldew and Greenmote to Miranu. I should return in a week to see if she has made any progress with the Restoration Potion, and see if there's another batch of #9, too!
70 It's a week since I gave the ingredients to Miranu. I wonder if she's made any progress with them.
80 Miranu has asked me to find any books about Armor for Bucephalus to read. That's a subject in which he's shown an interest, so he might be able to develop some skills as a smith.
90 I've found three Armorer skill books for Bucephalus, and given them to Miranu. I'll keep looking for more, but I expect he'll be able to use the knowledge to start smithing now.
100 0Yes I think I've found all the skill books for Armorer now. Bucephalus should be able to make just about anything, especially using Miranu's alchemy skills to help.
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