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Festus was impressed with her disposal of the Gourmet and rewarded her with a largely useless ring which she will nevertheless keep and wear in his honour. As things are, he and Gabriella are the only two members of whom she feels confident that they could be won over to the Night Mother's cause (possibly Babette as well, but with less certainty). Out of curiosity she summoned Lucien to hear his opinion on the present state of the Brotherhood and was promptly told that this Sanctuary could benefit from a good old Purification. She still hopes it won't have to come to that.
Marilyn had one last talk with Astrid before setting out to enact the last stage of the biggest contract the Brotherhood has had in centuries, both women staring at each other across the map table. Part of Mari still very much wants to trust Astrid, and Astrid paying lip-service at least to Sithis and the Night Mother re-kindled her hopes that once this contract is fulfilled everybody will see how the Unholy Matron, through Her Listener, led the Dark Brotherhood back to glory and, who knows, maybe she'll be able to bring even Cicero back into the Family if she can show him that Mother's will has been done after all...

- was sent to Glenmoril Cave to retrieve the head of a Hagraven for Kodlak. Kitty had fun killing the birds
- returned to Jorrvaskr only to see it had been attacked by the Silver Hand. Kodlak didn't make it
- went with Vilkas to wipe out the Silver Hand and find the stolen shards of Wuuthrad
- came back to Whiterun to attend Kodlak's funeral
- was given Wuuthrad and told to meet the Circle at Ysgramor's Tomb to try to cure Kodlak of his lycantropy, even in death
- arrived at the tomb after much selling and crafting, chopped through dead Companions and entered the main chamber to see Kodlak warming his hands on an odd torch
- tossed a witch head in the fire and killed Kodlak's wolf spirit. Afterwards, Kodlak named Kaz Harbinger

- talked to Tullius about joining the Legion
- was told to speak to Legate Rikke
- was then told to clear a fort occupied by bandits in Haafingar
- sent said bandits packing
- returned to Tullius and took the oath of loyalty and service to the Empire
- met Rikke at Korvanjund and found the Jagged Crown inside
- took it to Tullius who was surprised it was actually there
- played courier and took a letter from Tullius to Jarl Balgruuf
- was given an axe by Balgruuf and was told to give it to Ulfric
- carried out Balgruuf's request, but Ulfric returned the axe
- returned to Whiterun and proceeded to defend it against a Stormcloak attack, which was quickly put down
- spoke to the General who then told Kaz to head to the Pale Imperial camp and do whatever Rikke tells him to do
- did whatever Rikke told him to do, which included killing enemy couriers to retrieve documents to forge, taking over enemy forts, and blackmailing stewards of Stormcloak aligned jarls
- finally attacked Windhelm
- fought his way to Ulfric's palace with Tullius and Rikke, and when Ulfric and Galmar refused to surrender, they were Marked for Death and brought to a swift end

After finishing the Dawnguard questline the other day, I decided to do a bunch of miscellaneous quests. The trouble with those is that you forget the reason for doing a lot of them, but hey ho.

Went somewhere for one of Shalidor's writings and ended up helping to free two ghost lovers whose bodies were being used by a necromancer. Took the book back to Urag-ho at the college and got some scrolls as a reward.
I'm still waiting to get the rings for the black gauntlet that's down in the Midden Dark. A journal I found says theyre in the Arcaneum, but where exactly I do not know. I thought that becoming Arch-Mage would have given me access to them, and failing that, that Urag may have shed some light on it after getting the writings for him. Alas, still no word on the elusive rings! (I shall not cheat by looking it up on the wiki though, I want to find them on my own).

I want to start the Hearthfire add on, but I still have two more people from the Hjaalmarch hold to assist. I couldnt remember which quests were given by people in that area, but I was pretty sure that retrieving Grimsever (sword) was one of them.

I discovered it dwelled in Mzinchaleft, a dwarven ruin, my least favourite places to go (theyre too big and the automatons are scary! lol).
Seeing as I was at the college visiting Urag, I decided it would be easier to take Onmund as a follower instead of traipsing to Solitude for Marcurio.

Through the golden, steamy corridors of Mzinchaleft, Onmund and I fought Falmer, spheres and centurions before we finally found Grimsever.
Unfortunately, upon retrieval, the map indicated that the person it was for lived in Riften and was therefore not one of my needed Hjaalmarch folk. Damn!

The next quest I was 90% sure was for a beggar man in Solitude. Getting Noster's helmet from Shadowgreen Cavern.

Upon arrival, I was pleased to see that the cavern was one of those vast underground glades, and Onmund was equally impressed, apparent by his exclamation of 'By the Nines!'
The helmet sat in a chest, atop of a tall cliff that was accessed by spiralling up the path around it. Bears, wolves and spriggans blocked the way but otherwise it was a very short quest.
We took the helmet back to Noster, who did live in Solitude, but unfortunately it did not count as one of the 'help the people' quests. *Sigh* Oh well, at least Noster was happy.

I think I shall look up who I need to assist, as I have no interest in randomly doing quests in the hope of picking correctly.