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InThe Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, you can pray at the shrines of the Daedric Princes by offering them something they desire, and in return, they’ll give you a quest. Completing a quest offered by a Daedric Prince often results in the player receiving a Daedric Artifact, a powerful tool that rarely has its equal.
The Sheogorath quest is given by the Daedric Prince of Madness himself, and it is one of the most creative ones in the game. However, before you can begin the quest, there are a few items that you’ll have to offer at his shrine to make him talk to you.
How To Start The Sheogorath Quest
To start the Sheogorath quest, you’ll have to locate his shrine first. You can find Sheogorath’s Shrine to thesoutheast of Bravil and north-northwest of Leyawiin. You’ll have to go off-road to locate it. After arriving at the shrine, you’ll have to talk with Ferul Ravel.
If you tell Ravel that you wish to speak with Sheogorath,he’ll tell you about the requirements for the offering. Keep in mind that you have to be at least level two to begin this quest. You’ll need to find and offer the following items to the Shrine of Sheogorath:
How To Obtain
Lesser Soul Gem
You’ll encounter many of these on your journey through the imperial province. You can pick them up fromchests and certain enemy corpses. You can also purchase or steal these gems fromstores that sell magical items, such as Edgar’s Discount Spells store in the Imperial City.
Lettuce
You can often find this iteminside homes and in barrels. You can also purchase this item fromcertain inns, such as the Merchant’s Inn in the Imperial City.
Yarn
Yarn is often found inside homes, but if you’re able to’t find it anywhere or don’t want to steal it, you canhead to the Imperial City’s Market District. There’s a ton of storage crates there, and you can look inside each one of them to find the yarn.
Sheogorath Quest Walkthrough
After you’ve acquired all the items, head to Sheogorath’s Shrine and talk to him. He’ll ask you to head to a nearby settlement called Border Watch andask their shaman about the K’Sharra Prophecy.
Border Watch is not too far from the shrine, and you can follow the quest marker to lead you to it. After arriving in Border Watch,look for a Khajiit in black robes named Ri’Bassa. He’ll be their shaman. You can ask him about the K’Sharra Prophecy, and Ri’Bassa will ask if you’re a scholar.
Here, if you reply that you enjoy ridiculous prophecy, Ri’Bassa will get angry at you, and his disposition towards you will drop. You’ll have topersuade himif you wish to progress on the quest and know more about the prophecy. You can alsoselect the traveling scholar option, and Ri’Bassa will happily tell you about the prophecy right away.
Ri’Bassa will then tell you abouttwo of the three signs of the K’Sharra Prophecy. He’ll tell you that the first sign is that the settlement will be raided by rats, and the other sign is that all their livestock will die for no apparent reason.
Ri’Bassa will then refuse to tell you about the third and final sign of the prophecy, but he makes it clear that, according to the prophecy, if the signs were to come true,it would mean the end of the world.
How To Make The First Sign Come True
The shaman would then suggest talking about the settlement. If you do so, you’ll find out about the local Inn, whose owner is anavid collector of cheese. Head to the Border Watch Inn and talk to the owner about cheese. She’ll tell you that she has stored one type of cheese in a display case whose scent couldattract rats from a mile away when cooked.
Now, you can either pickpocket the owner to steal the keys to the display cases or simply pick the locks. There are two display cases, butyou only need to unlock the one with only one slice of cheese in it.
After unlocking the case, you cansteal the Olroy Cheese and head outside the inn. You’ll find a cooking pot in the middle of the settlement, just outside the inn.Approach the cooking pot and activate itto drop the Olroy Cheese into it.
Doing so will attract tons of non-hostile rats into the settlement. You’ll see the shaman run to his house andspreadRat Poisonall over the town.
How To Make The Second Sign Come True
The second sign of the K’Sharra Prophecy is that the livestock will die. When you first talked about the prophecy with Ri’Bassa, he revealed that the settlement only had six sheep, and they kept them in the pasture. Now, you’ll have topick up therat poisonthat the shaman had been placing on the ground amidst all the rat chaos.
The quest log will keep telling you to talk with Ri’Bassa after you make the first sign of the prophecy come true, but talking to Ri’Bassa isn’t going to progress the quest.
After you’ve picked up therat poison, you canhead to the area where the settlement is keeping their sheep and mix therat poisonin the feeding trough. Now you have to wait until each sheep eats from the feeding trough. You can wait for a few hours here, and the sheep will all die at once after a short while.
The Final Sign Of The Prophecy
As soon as the sheep die, you’ll hear Sheogorath’s voice, asking you tohead to the center of the settlement and duck. The ducking part isn’t necessary. As you follow the quest marker to the center of the settlement, your character will freeze in place, but you’ll still be able to look around.
The sky will turn red, and then it will start raining scorching corpses of wolves from the sky, and everyone in the settlement will be screaming, thinking that they’re doomed now andthe K’Sharra Prophecy has finally come true.
Claiming TheWabbajack
After the final sign has come true, you’re able to return to the Shrine of Sheogorath. Talking to the shrine will complete the quest, andyou’ll be rewarded with theWabbajack. TheWabbajackis a staff that can turn your opponent into another creature for ten seconds, and is very fun to use.
This staff can be exceptionally useful while fighting against challenging enemies, as it mightturn them into weaker creatures.
The output of using this staff is random, but that only adds to the charm of this beautiful weapon.
