Elder Scrolls 4: Shivering Isles Walkthrough

You could touch the Font first, but Haskill has all the grimy details for you. The final dungeon quest of the main quest, and it’s a doozy. Enter the roots.

Move up and watch the Gnarl ‘cure’ the door. That is the name of the game.  Pass the door and you’ll most likely fight a corrupted Gnarl. Now watch out for these things. If you hit them with magic attacks they will grow much larger and stronger. You can go either way, but let’s go west first.

Keep going at the first intersection, and then go north at the next one just  to get a quick chest, and then come back. However, if a friendly Gnarl is not nearby to clean the door, then you might need to head west from the other path you found the chest and pump out a friendly Gnarl. It should clean the door for you, and if not, then find another way around, or wait for another Gnarl. Either way, sneak into the next area and snipe the priest near the pool. Kill him and the enemy Gnarl, and then you can step into the pool to heal your  wounds. Enter the next area.

Go straight at the intersection to get a friend, and then take out the Gnarls you run into on both sides of the tunnel. You want to hunt them down just so that they don’t block up the doors. You have one shard from the priest that will free up anything corrupted, but you might want to save that until you get through the doors and are sure you don’t need it. Either way, cross through the big room and sneak through the next door. Along the way may be more Gnarls and some of the stumps might be corrupted. Don’t worry, just sneak into the  big room with the pool and snipe a priest. Kill all four and any Gnarls that might join in, but target the priests first so that you can earn the healing  pool. With the shards you can now clean the stumps, and don’t miss the cool staff one priest was carrying. Go back to the last area.

**Thadon will be at the Mania pool if you were wondering what happens on the   dark side of things.**

Go south and then east at the intersection, and east all the way to the next pool. At the first three-way intersection, you can go north and turn left to find a corrupted door. There will be a pump nearby, but the darn Gnarl didn’t  help me. So you might need to take the east path at the intersection. You may run into some enemies, but you’ll end up at a small pool with another priest corrupting it. Kill and enter the Dementia pool.

There is quite a bit in this big room. A pump, a few gas stumps, and a stump  with amber. Take the path down to a corrupted where you will most likely hit two Gnarls. Kill them and use a shard if you must, just keep truckin’. There are two stumps on both paths here, so get them both since they lead to the  same way. Another pump to the north before you go down a path. Go either way when the path forks, but make sure you circle around to the other path to get any stray enemies. Come back to the pool room and fire a stealth arrow at the priests down there. You should notice Syl standing over on the stone structure in the corner. Just the same difficult-to-manage fight as before. Make sure you collect all the free gifts, and your job is done.

**Syl is not here if you chose Dementia.**

Simply exit and go back outside. Go touch the Font to make the staff.

The End of Order

A Golden Saint bursts in and tells you to meet the other one who waits at the door; okay. Do so and tell her to attack! Go outside and prepare for the most epic of battles ever fought!

Forget the minions, go straight to the obelisk and kill the priest. Now just  keep jamming hearts into this thing until it blows; make sure to touch the  thing after you put in three so you actually kill it. If you are out of hearts when the second obelisk pops up, go back up the steps and hope your friends  killed three. Now repeat your last actions with this obelisk and that will end the Order Knights. Quickly use this pause in the action to prepare for the  showdown.

This is where those staffs you found in the pools from the last quest will  prove most useful (I hope you got them, and if they are out of energy, then  use some of your soul gems). The challenge will be to keep backpedalling and not running into walls and such. Just keep shooting at him with the staves to kill him in a most uninteresting fashion. Oh well, maybe you’ll mess up and  make it interesting (sorry). And if you don’t have the staffs, then I still say just shoot stuff at him; either arrows or magic, either way.

**FYI, if you want to invest a little time for gold. After the battle, go to  all the dead and take off their swords and shields from their hands.  Make sure you place them on the area at the top of the steps that lead  to the ground (the middle portion between the obelisks). If you place   them anywhere else you risk them vanishing once you leave. You’ll have  to make a few trips to carry all the heavy items to the shops and back.  Worth the time if you ask me.**

Watch the final little scene and comb the battlefield for crap. Now go see your servant. You’re done with the Shivering Isles, hooray! Well, actually, there are still a bunch of side quests to tackle. Shall we?

The Prince of Madness

Just the small trip to Haskill after Jyggalag speaks. Not really a quest, but  worth mentioning, I guess.

Rewards:   Healer  Dancer (the big reward *wink, wink*)  Defend settlements (earns gold)  Manipulate Weather power  Sheogorath’s Protection power  Sword of Jyggalag behind the throne  Two guards to join you if you want  Sheogorath’s Regalia on the throne  When you commit crimes, the guards are most kind with you