Online:Weylin

Weylin
Location	Red Petal Bastion
Race	Breton	Gender	Male
Health	15,000
Reaction	Friendly

Weylin

Weylin is a Breton preacher of Azura who can be found outside Red Petal Bastion alongside Lyranth.

Related QuestsEdit

• A Rose of Many Thorns: A knightly order has been hoarding dangerous relics, and Lyranth wishes to claim one.

Quest-Related EventsEdit

As you approach the gate:

Silver Rose Knight: "Denied! Trespass no farther or you will be met with force, heathen."

Lyranth: "I told you bargaining wouldn't work."

Weylin: "It was a courtesy. They must face Azura's wrath now."

When directly spoken to:

"I would not pass that threshold unless you seek bloodshed. The Knights of the Silver Rose declared their stronghold off limits to outsiders and I can attest to their willingness to use violence to have their way."

Did they attack you?

"They recently pillaged my temple without warning or provocation, taking the relics in our keeping and striking down anyone who tried to stop them. This behavior is nothing like the Knights of the Silver Rose that I know."

That's what brought you here?

"I hoped a word with the knight commander would prove that the attack was the work of some overzealous recruits, but he's refused to see me or return the relics taken from my temple.
I can offer more than blessings for their return."

I'll help you retrieve your relics.

After you agree to help, you can then ask questions:

"You will make a wonderful addition to our cause. Lyranth is quite powerful, but I doubt we'd be able to recover the artifacts entirely on our own.
Visit the wrath of Azura upon any of the order who stand in the way of our holy work."

Who are you?

"I am Weylin, preacher of the Mother of the Rose. I live to profess Azura's love. She seeks to cradle and nurture all of our mortal souls. Those who rest upon her bosom know comfort like no other. Those who disturb that peace feel her thorns."

How do you know Lyranth?

"She came seeking a relic in my care, one of the many stolen from my temple by the Knights of the Silver Rose. In exchange for her assistance returning the others to my possession, I will relinquish the relic she seeks to her."

You're willing to trade one of your holy relics?

"Fortunately, what Lyranth desires is not sacred to Azura, but if that were the price of restoring my temple, it would be worth it.
I'm afraid I have nothing similar to offer you, but I trust gold will make for adequate payment."

Tell me more about the Knights of the Silver Rose.

"The order was sworn to protect Tamriel from the corruption of wicked Daedra. This stronghold is where they lock away dangerous items confiscated from harmful cults. I never expected them to turn their swords upon my temple."

What kind of relationship did you have with their order before this?

"There were no official ties between my temple and their order, but I believed we were on good terms. Some of their knights even saw the Mother of the Rose as a patron deity and made offerings on behalf of their order. I don't know what changed."

Do you know where the knights have taken your relics?

"I only know that the Knights of the Silver Rose have claimed many such items from Daedric cults in their time and that they keep them secured in Red Petal Bastion. We'll need to explore to discover where they are keeping the spoils of my temple."

As you go into the housing area of the bastion, Weylin will say:

Weylin: "The condition of these servant houses. They're falling apart. Completely abandoned. Something is very wrong here."

Weylin will then enter a house and then looks around:

Weylin: "A journal? Perhaps this will tell us what led to this sorry state of affairs. I'd like to see what we can learn here, but you should press on before the knights mount a counterattack."

Weylin: "I'd like to see what we can learn here, but you should press on before the knights mount a counterattack."

Lyranth: "I can watch over Weylin. We'll catch up once you've cleared a path."

Speaking with him in the house:

"This house belonged to the keep's seneschal it seems. There would have been no one with more knowledge of its affairs, except perhaps the knight-commander.
Buy us some time to look over these records."

After defeating Rogerain the Sly, Weylin and Lyranth will appear:

Lyranth: "Could you not have silenced that idiot any sooner?"

Weylin: "What is that odor? It smells like livestock and baked goods. Did we miss the fair? Well, that's not the only disconcerting thing in the air. The seneschal's notes expressed concern with the knight's fixation of Daedric artifacts. The order even began deploying them in their crusade."

Lyranth: "So we've seen. Whether we must pry the artifacts out of a vault or their cold, dead hands it of little consequence until we find them."

You can then talk to him and ask about what he learnt from the journal:

"I'm afraid things will only grow more difficult from here. If what the seneschal wrote is true, the Knights of the Silver Rose have begun to covert the dangerous items they once swore to lock away."

Did they mention anything about the items from your temple?

"The laypeople who served the Silver Rose were growing more frightened of them by the day. They either fled or met with some more unfortunate fate some time ago. The last entries were long before the attack on my temple."

Did they mention anything else worth nothing?

"The seneschal did mention observing the knights training with several Daedric artifacts on one occasion before being barred from entering the fortress. They described the stonework quaking at the footfalls of one such knight clad in heavy boots."

When you enter the vaults, your progress will be halted by wards, Weylin and Lyranth will discuss it:

Weylin: "Can you feel that? Great emanations from beyond that door."

Lyranth: "And strongly warded. Maintaining it requires great power. There must be a source nearby."

Lyranth: "The priest and I will search right, you check the room to the left."

You can then speak with Weylin before leaving to bring down the wards:

"I have a bad feeling about what awaits us beyond that ward. I sense great and terrible power that it is struggling to contain. The Daedric influence we've seen thus far pales in comparison."

Any idea what that could mean?

"I can only imagine. Something to do, perhaps, with the changes among the people here. Those we've encountered who have been engorged or withered by it. That's not something I've seen before."

After deafeating several of the Silver Rose Knights in the second boss fight:

<Lyranth teleports in.>

Lyranth: "What's keeping you? We already dispelled part of the ward."

Weylin: "Dispelling the ward did nothing to reduce those dreadful emanations. In fact, it only made them worse. Proceed with caution."

<Lyranth does her thing.>

Lyranth: "There, the ward should be no more. Let's return to Weylin."

Returning to Weylin at the unwarded door:

"The ward is deactivated, but I find that little comfort. The Daedric emanations feel even stronger without that barrier holding it back. We should prepare for the worst."

Any idea what we should expect?

"I'm sorry, no. I've never felt anything like this while communing with the Mother of the Rose. These energies are vast, but undirected. I couldn't begin to identify their source.
The only thing I'm certain of is that this can't be good."

Through the doors, you will reach the storage rooms which are filled with daedra and Relic Fiends:

Weylin: "By Azura! Look at all of these relics. They're the source of the troubling energies I felt."

Weylin: "They're twisting more than the knights. I need to banish the miasma before it gets any worse."

Weylin will pray and a burst of golden light emanates from him and through the room. Speaking him here:

"It's worse than I ever could have imagined. This vast collection of items from Oblivion are seeping their energy into everything around them. All these chaotic forces are warping the world in unpredictable ways.
We can't leave things as they are."

In the next room with more relic themes:

Lyranth: "Those things were once mortals. Oblivion tainted them to the core."

Weylin: "The corruption will continue to well up here until it floods out from these ruins. I must cast it out."

<Weylin pray.>

Weylin: "Azura, I offer you this power. May it provide succor to your chosen."

<There is golden light and the room is cleansed.>

Weylin: "That did it, but I still feel more corruption beyond this room. Let's press on."

^{unsure for context of following conversation}

"By Azura's grace we'll cleanse Red Petal Bastion of this spiritual rot. If you lead us to the other wells of this corruption I'm certain she will draw the poison out of this world."

How were you able to cleanse the area?

"Not so differently than one might conjure a Daedra. I merely called forth with my invocations and was answered. Instead of pulling something out of Oblivion, I pushed something through. Though I could not have done it without Azura's blessing."

So the artifacts are no longer a danger?

"They're no less dangerous than they ever were, I don't have the power to destroy such things. The miasma of Daedric energy will accumulate again if these objects remain together, but this should stop the damage until they can be dealt with."

The next room, there is another conversation:

Lyranth: "I am slightly impressed by the size of this collection. I never knew you mortals had it in you."

Weylin: "Then you take us far too lightly."

<Weylin prays.>

Weylin: "Drain fell powers, to the Rim of all Holes."

Weylin: "This horde will need to be divided and scattered, or this will all happen again."

Lyranth: "I'd happily take them off your hands."

Weylin: "I wouldn't entrust anyone, mortal or Daedra, with this much power."

Speaking with Weylin at this point:

"I thought it might have been simple avarice that led to the corruption of the Knights of the Silver Rose, the truth is so much worse."

What do you mean?

"Mortals who possess Daedric artifacts are often steered toward a Prince's desires through their use, but even locked away the insidious influence of all these items grew to be too much to contain. These dark desires crept into the knights' minds."

So you don't blame them for causing this?

"Most of Oblivion feasts on our mortal follies and darker natures. Its influence is often insidious. Convictions might spare us from worldly temptations, but they are not enough to keep power like this at bay.
We can't fight gods by will alone."

Once you arrive at the deepest part of the vaults, Prior Thierric Sarazen will be waiting for you. Once you have defeated the prior:

Prior Thierric Sarazen: "No! Where are you taking me? Divines, please—no …!"

<His spirit is dragged away.>

Weylin: "May Azura shed a tear for this tragic end to a once-noble order."

Lyranth: "Hah. Oh, no, it's nothing."

Weylin: "Mother of the Rose, we return these wilted petals to you. There. Red Petal Bastion is finally cleansed."

Conversation dialogue after defeating Prior Thierric Sarazen, speak with Weylin to complete the quest:

"That was the last of the emanations … and the last of the Knights of the Silver Rose. I even see the items stolen from my temple within this vault. All the wrongs here have finally been set right."

What about the other Daedric plunder?

"They can't remain here. I'll see them taken far away from this place, and each other, but that's a problem for another day.
You've returned my temple's treasures and done a great service for Azura. Take this and her blessings."

After you complete the quest, Lyranth will collect her payment—a particular item from the vaults:

Lyranth: "Ahem."

Weylin: "I haven't forgotten our bargain, Lyranth."

Lyranth: "Yes, it's here among the rest."

Weylin: "Does that satisfy the terms?"

Lyranth: "This will do, priest. This will do."

You can speak with Weylin afterwards:

"At least we learned how the Knights of the Silver Rose became so tarnished. I will share their tragedy as an object lesson, so this folly will not be repeated."

What was it you gave to Lyranth?

"I'm not really sure. A Daedric relic a stranger dropped in my collection box. I can't for the life of me recall them. A trade for something borrowed, they said. I'm not sure what they meant, but I've held onto it ever since."

Are you sure you should give it away?

"No, but I have no use for it. I'd forgotten I even had it until Lyranth asked about it. She at least seems to have some idea what it's for. I can't say if that's a good thing, but it's the price I paid to restore Azura's temple."

What will you do now that this is over?

"Returning Azura's hallowed objects to my temple comes first, but I will need to work quickly to make certain none of these other relics fall into the wrong hands now that the Silver Rose is no more."

What makes you say that?

"The order appears to have closed themselves off for a long time now. Given the hostility they demonstrated, I imagine no one will come to pay them a visit anytime soon. That may give me some time to relocate everything before the bastion is looted."