ESO BLACKEST SACRAMENT ACHIEVEMENT GUIDE

The Blackest Sacrament Achievement for the Elder Scrolls Online requires you to kill 21 targets in daily quests you receive from Speaker Terenus in the Dark Brotherhood’s Sanctuary, which you can find in the Gold Coast zone. These targets may seem random, but they actually have a very specific pattern — and you can even get lucky and have 2 targets in one quest!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. How To Start The Blackest Sacrament Quest
2. Rules Of Engagement
3. Schedule of Primary Targets
4. Schedule of Secondary Targets
5. Target Locations/Maps

HOW TO START THE BLACKEST SACRAMENT QUEST

You must complete the first four quests of the Dark Brotherhood quest line (Voices in the Dark, Signed In Blood, Welcome Home, and A Lesson In Silence). This unlocks the Blackest Sacrament daily quests, which you can receive from Speaker Terenus in a side room of the Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary.

The quests themselves take place in one of three instanced dungeon maps: Trader’s Cove, the Sewer Tenement, and the Smuggler’s Den. Each map has some secret areas and shortcuts that can make your quest experience easier to complete successfully. Each quest also has extra challenges (or “rules of engagement”, if you will) that you must follow to get a maximum reward from Speaker Terenus.

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

Blade of Woe vs. Poison: One of the extra challenges involves using either the Blade of Woe (which you receive when starting the Dark Brotherhood quest line) or Poison to kill your target. Using the Blade of Woe requires you to be crouched and hidden from your target. Once you are close enough you will see a prompt (“press X to use Blade of Woe”) and when you press the key a short animation shows you stealthily killing your target. Using Poison to kill your target only requires you to have any kind of poison equipped on your current weapon when you kill the target — even if you kill the target with the Blade of Woe.

Secondary Target: You will always have a secondary target or objective to complete for each quest. This could be another named character in the same dungeon, or a specific artifact that must be destroyed, or a pet that must be killed. See the Secondary Target table below.

Leave Before the Overseer Arrives: Always kill your primary target last, because once you kill your primary target you will start a 2-minute timer. You must get to the exit area to stop the timer and achieve this objective. Note that you don’t actually have to leave within the time limit, just make sure you get to the exit/entrance. If you don’t make it in time, a large enemy appears near the entrance and begins stalking the dungeon looking for you.

Don’t Get Spotted: Speaker Terenus asks you to complete the quest without being seen, but what that really means is that if you are spotted 5 times (ie. “Detected” while sneaking, or killing someone) then you will lose this objective. You can safely be spotted 4 times without losing this objective. There is, however, an extra achievement for completing a Blackest Sacrament quest without being detected at all! Note that you can actually kill the Warden enemies — the ones who walk around with a lantern that interrupts your ability to stealth — without officially being detected so long as you kill them in 1 or 2 hits. It’s tricky to do, but since the Wardens can slow you down a lot, it can be helpful in getting you out of the dungeon much faster if you strategically kill a Warden or two.

SCHEDULE OF PRIMARY TARGETS

The Primary Target changes at 8PM and 2AM (confirmed by ESO wunderkind Benevolent Bowd. Thanks!), so there is a “Morning” schedule (2AM – 7:59PM) and an “Evening” schedule (8PM – 1:59AM) to the target list. The rotation is fixed, so it is the same for everyone, and just keeps looping around. Targets followed by (P) require you to use poison to kill them, otherwise you will need to use the Blade of Woe. If you look closely, you can see that the schedule is the same, just shifted by 6 days. The quests always cycle through the three dungeons and the 21 targets in the following order:

DUNGEON	MORNING SCHEDULE	EVENING SCHEDULE
Trader’s Cove	Tebeba (P)	Nalosi Orethi
Smuggler’s Den	Brunka	Borcholim (P)
Sewer Tenement	Andilo Andrano (P)	Herminius Andus
Trader’s Cove	Steidor	Monsashana (P)
Smuggler’s Den	Abizzaka (P)	Savilian Colus (P)
Sewer Tenement	Talrahal (P)	Alard Cerone
Trader’s Cove	Geon Alinie	Tebeba (P)
Smuggler’s Den	Daynil Uveleth (P)	Brunka
Sewer Tenement	Aojee-Ei	Andilo Andrano (P)
Trader’s Cove	Mabgrolabesh (P)	Steidor
Smuggler’s Den	Eslendore	Abizzaka (P)
Sewer Tenement	Lamzakha (P)	Talrahal (P)
Trader’s Cove	Rinweril (P)	Geon Alinie
Smuggler’s Den	Bur-Waska	Daynil Uveleth (P)
Sewer Tenement	Dolwinora (P)	Aojee-Ei
Trader’s Cove	Nalosi Orethi	Mabgrolabesh (P)
Smuggler’s Den	Borcholim (P)	Eslendore
Sewer Tenement	Herminius Andus	Lamzakha (P)
Trader’s Cove	Monsashana (P)	Rinweril (P)
Smuggler’s Den	Savilian Colus (P)	Bur-Waska
Sewer Tenement	Alard Cerone	Dolwinora (P)

SCHEDULE OF SECONDARY TARGETS

The Secondary Target cycles through 9 targets/objectives, but each target has an alternate for a total of 18 possible Secondary Targets. Killing a named Secondary Target does count toward the achievement! You will see the following pattern in Secondary Targets:

DUNGEON	SECONDARY TARGET #1	SECONDARY TARGET #2
Trader’s Cove	Destroy the Engraved Flute	Destroy the Special Mead Formula
Smuggler’s Den	Destroy the Kwama Queen Egg	Destroy the Important Documents
Sewer Tenement	Destroy the Custom-made Hookah	Destroy the Dwarven Relic
Trader’s Cove	Geon Alinie	Tebeba
Smuggler’s Den	Geon Alinie	Lucky*
Sewer Tenement	Herminius Andus	Andilo Andrano
Trader’s Cove	Monsashana	Nalosi Orethi
Smuggler’s Den	Bur-Waska	Savilian Colus
Sewer Tenement	Aojee-Ei	Lamzakha

TARGET LOCATIONS

ABIZZAKA (Poison) – Smuggler’s Den

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ALARD CERONE (Blade of Woe) – Sewer Tenement

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ANDILO ANDRANO (Poison) – Sewer Tenement

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AOJEE-EI (Blade of Woe) – Sewer Tenement

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BORCHOLIM (Poison) – Smuggler’s Den

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BRUNKA (Blade of Woe) – Smuggler’s Den

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BUR-WASKA (Blade of Woe) – Smuggler’s Den

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CUSTOM-MADE HOOKAH (Destroy) – Sewer Tenement

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DAYNIL UVELETH (Poison) – Smuggler’s Den

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DOLWINORA (Poison) – Sewer Tenement

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DWARVEN RELIC (Destroy) – Sewer Tenement

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ENGRAVED FLUTE (Destroy) – Trader’s Cove

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ESLENDORE (Blade of Woe) – Smuggler’s Den

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GEON ALINIE (Blade of Woe) – Smuggler’s Den

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GEON ALINIE (Blade of Woe) – Trader’s Cove

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HERMINIUS ANDUS (Blade of Woe) – Sewer Tenement

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IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS (Destroy) – Smuggler’s Den

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KWAMA QUEEN EGG (Destroy) – Smuggler’s Den

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LAMZAKHA (Poison) – Sewer Tenement

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LUCKY (Kill) – Smuggler’s Den – NOTE: To kill Lucky without incurring any Bounty, you must first stealthily kill all the people in the central chamber. Then you can attack Lucky without being detected.

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MABGROLABESH (Poison) – Trader’s Cove

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MONSASHANA (Poison) – Trader’s Cove

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NALOSI ORETHI (Blade of Woe) – Trader’s Cove

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RINWERIL (Poison) – Trader’s Cove

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SAVILIAN COLUS (Poison) – Smuggler’s Den

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SPECIAL MEAD FORMULA (Destroy) – Trader’s Cove

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STEIDOR (Blade of Woe) – Trader’s Cove

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TALRAHAL (Poison) – Sewer Tenement

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TEBEBA (Poison) – Trader’s Cove

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