Tamriel Rebuilt:The Ring of Respite

Retrieve a sacred artifact from Windbreaker Keep. Quest Giver: Tarom Location(s): Firewatch, Grand Chapel of Akatosh Prerequisite Quest: Render Unto Tiber Next Quest: The Sword of Taldeus Reward: Magickmirror Robe, 3x Scroll of Vigor Disposition: +30 (Tarom) Reputation Gain: +1 (general), +5 (Imperial Cult) ID: TR_m1_FW_IC3_Ring

What secrets does Windbreaker keep?

Quick Walkthrough

1. Talk to Tarom in Firewatch's Grand Chapel of Akatosh.
2. Go to Windbreaker Keep in the Padomaic Ocean.
3. (Optional) speak to Nalen Amhadubbi and use the ebony shipment excuse (req. 50+ disp) to enter the keep peacefully.
4. Kill Demaric Derroltane and take his Ring of Respite.
5. Return the ring to Tarom.

Detailed Walkthrough

While Tarom is satisfied with your performance within the walls of Firewatch, the Imperial Cult has interests further afield, in chapels long lost. If asked about an errand following completion of Render Unto Tiber, he will request your assistance in recovering the Ring of Respite. He has quite the history lesson to give about Imperial activities in House Telvanni lands.

"Over a century ago, word of the failed Akaviri expedition reached Firewatch. Fearing retaliation, the Imperial Navy constructed three keeps on Morrowind's eastern shores: Icebreaker, still operative in Nivalis on Althoa; Wavebreaker, decaying on a storm-tossed rock south of Necrom; and Windbreaker, lying abandoned on the island of Moburan, far to the east of Helnim. You see, the feared invasion never came, and as the keeps were abandoned, so too were many relics of importance to the cult. Which brings me to the Ring of Respite. Through my research, I believe I have found its last attested location in Windbreaker Keep, where it was held at the chapel. Though many artifacts may have been lost in the intervening years, something as small as the Ring may have been overlooked. I want you to go to Windbreaker, and find that ring. It is a gold band, with a red gemstone. And prepare yourself well. There is no telling what dangers may lurk in that abandoned place."

Windbreaker Keep is therefore your destination. It's a long way to the southeast of Firewatch, upon an island in the Padomaic Ocean (check your map). To make matters worse, the fast travel routes are fragmentary, and the keep is far from most fast travel destinations, with the nearest being Ranyon-ruhn, Alt Bosara or Gah Sadrith.

Once you do get there however, you will find the broken gatehouse manned by fisherfolk, while smugglers have set up shop in a separate part of the inner ruins. Asking the fisherfolk about Ring of Respite will see them name one of the smugglers as the likely holder - some will identify him as Derroltane, the leader.

If you like, speak to Nalen Amhadubbi, who will tell you about an ebony shipment that the smugglers are expecting. When entering the room containing them (assuming they have 50+ disposition towards you), you can use this excuse to be allowed through without beginning combat. Alternatively, you will need to fight your way through the smugglers and kill Derroltane.

If you choose to use the ebony excuse, the smugglers will allow you through without a fight. Derroltane is up the spiral staircase, with a bodyguard. You cannot actually persuade him to give up the ring peacefully, and so will have to fight him here, and take the ring from his corpse.

Return to Tarom once you have the ring for high praise, and your reward.

Quest Stages

The following Journal ID and Index codes can be used with the Journal console command to manually update the quest to a certain point.

The Ring of Respite (TR_m1_FW_IC3_Ring)
Index	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
10		Theurgist Tarom has tasked me with recovering the Ring of Respite from Windbreaker Keep. The keep sits on the island of Moburan, off the east coast of Morrowind.
50		The fisherfolk who inhabit Windbreaker Keep have told me that the leader of the smugglers wears a ring which may be the Ring of Respite.
60		Nalen Amhadubbi told me that the local smugglers occupying Windbreaker Keep are waiting on a delayed shipment of ebony.
90		I have acquired the Ring of Respite. I should bring it back to Tarom in Firewatch.
100	Finishes quest	Tarom thanked me and offered his praise for bringing the Ring of Respite to him. He rewarded me with an enchanted robe and some spell scrolls.

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