Oblivion: A Shrine for the Parents

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Build a better monument


  • Quest Giver: Diablita or Angeline
  • Location(s): IC Green Emperor Way
  • Prerequisite Quest: None
  • Reward: None
  • ID: DD04
Shrine
The Shrine on the Island


Quick Walkthrough

  1. Notice a Monument
  2. Find a Mason
  3. Logistics
  4. Wait while it's built
  5. Crab Hunt!
  6. Go and admire

Detailed Walkthrough

Monument

In the North of the cemetery that is Green Emperor Way is a circle of columns around an obelisk. A similar circle surrounds a statue in the South, but it's the northern one that gets the girls' attention. They'd like a monument just like it for their parents. And they know you have at least 10,000 Septims because they helped you get it.

Mason

You start by going to the Office of Imperial Commerce in the Market District to ask there. Vinicia Melissaria suggests you begin by talking to Damian Magnus in the Warehouses on the Waterfront about the stone. The Imperial Trading company supplies all the stone the city uses.

Magnus can order the stone from the Valenwood quarries, and have it shipped straight to the Island. You'll need a mason for the job, and he thinks Ida Vlinorman might know a bit about masonery!

Ida will send your around to her next-door neighbour Marinus Catiotus , whose brother is a mason.

However, the brother, Terranis, is currently doing some work for the chapel in Bruma, so you need to go there and talk to him. He's staying at the Jerall View Inn.

Anvil

Terranis can do the work, but he'll need laborers to help, and suggests talking to Newheim the Portly, harbormaster in Anvil. Apparently, ship's crews will take laboring jobs while their ships are refitted, and the cargoes taken on and off.

Varulae can provide passage for the work team, especially if they can help sail the ship. All she asks is that you find her a copy of "Charts of the Southern Seas". There isn't a bookshop in Anvil, so you head for the First Edition as your best bet. Phintias doesn't have it, but Southern Books in Leyawiin might. Go there and find the only copy in Cyrodiil.

Shrine

While you were gone, the Serpents Wake left for the Island. The work will take about a month to complete. So you go off and do other things, but about half-way through the month, you get a message from Varulae that there's a problem. It seems that the Island has been invaded by Giant Mudcrabs, and the mason crew has no weapons to fight them off.

The Serpent's Wake takes you there again, and you kill five huge mudcrabs on the shore. You are aided by a wraith, who then guides you to a niche in the rocks, where's there's a small barrel. In the barrel you find a book that hints at the sisters' origin. It may be a work of fiction, or it may be based on the truth.

After the month is up, the monument will be finished. Go back to Anvil and get another ride to the island. After you see the monument and have talked to Terranis and the sisters about it, you can go back to Anvil. The mason's crew will ride back with you.

Talk to Astia Inventius about the subject of her next painting to close the quest.

Notes

Journal Entries

A Shrine for the Parents (DD04)
Stage Finishes Quest Journal Entry
10 (The girls see the monument)
20 The girls would like a monument to their parents. I wonder if I can arrange something? I should ask at the Office of Imperial Commerce and find out who builds them.
30 Vinicia Melissaria suggested I talk to Damian Magnus at the Imperial Trading Company in the Waterfront about the stone for a monument.
40 I've ordered the stone for the monument. It can be shipped direct to the Island from the quarry in Valenwood. Magnus recommended I talk to Ida Vlinorman about a mason. After all, she does see a lot of masonry when she goes climbing!
50 Ida Vlinorman suggests I ask Marinus Catiotus in the house next door. His elder brother is a mason.
60 Marinus' brother is indeed a mason, and he's working on some repairs to the chapel in Bruma. I should be able to find him at the Jerall View Inn.
70 Terranis can do the work, if we get him some laborers to help with the heavy lifting. He suggested I ask Newheim the Portly, harbourmaster in Anvil. Apparently he often has a ship's crew looking for work like this.
80 Newheim has a crew of laborers for the project, if I can get them transport to the Island. I'll ask Varulae again.
90 Varulae has again offered the Serpent's Wake as transport. She's also asked me to try and find a copy of "Charts of the Southern Seas" for her. I should try Phintias at the First Edition.
100 Phintias doesn't have the book. Since there isn't a bookshop in Anvil, the only place likely to have it is Southern Books in Leyawiin.
110 I have Varulae's "Charts of the Southern Seas". Now to take it to her and see if the ship has sailed for the island yet.
120 The workmen have been taken to the island. The estimate is that the construction will take a month.
130 Varulae has sent me a message that the workmen on the Island have a problem. I should go see her in Anvil and find out what it is.
140 Varulae has told me that they have a crab problem on the island. Not just normal ones, giants! I need to go there and help out. The Serpents Wake will take us.
150 The Serpents Wake has arrived at the Island. We need to go ashore.
170 We've arrived on the Island. Now for a crab hunt!
180 The mud-crabs are dead. Now construction can resume. But there's a wraith on the beach that seems to want us to follow it.
190 I found a book in the barrel where the wraith led me.
200 The monument must have been built by now, we should go and see it.
210 We're back at the Island. Now to take a look at the completed shrine. It already looks good from the beach.
220 The monument is even better than the plans suggested. Terranis has added a bench seat and a planter for the flowers, and paved the area inside the circle. The girls love it. Time to go back to Anvil
230 We're back on The Serpent's Wake. We should go below for the trip back.
240 We've arrived back in Anvil. The sisters are really happy with the results of Terranis' work.
250 0Yes I spoke to Astia Inventius, who has finished her painting of the Anvil Lighthouse. She may ask Varulae for a trip to the Island, so she can paint a picture of the Shrine there.
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