Summary

Accept the contract from Vicente Valtieri to eliminate Baenlin. A Bonus is offered if taking out using a mounted head. You need to slip into the house, loosen the mounted head, and then exit.

Walkthrough

• Begins as the mini-quest to accept a Contract from Vicente Valtieri called “Blood of the Damned.”

Accept the Contract

Go into the Cheydinhal Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary. You need to find and talk with Vicente Valtieri. He will explain that this contract has a bonus if you use the mounted minotaur head for the elimination over any other method. You will also lose your bonus if the manservant Gromm is killed. After that, you are dispatched to Bruma for the assignment itself.

Gather Information

Always take a little time to talk with the other members of the Dark Brotherhood about your contract. They will give very useful hints or insight into how to tackle it.

Speaking with Gogron or Teinaava, they will remark that the Manservant is likely a Nord. On top of that, he poses a much larger threat than your target. Antoinetta willl suggest entering through a less direct method than the front door: the basement.

Infiltrate and Eliminate

Once you get to Bruma, your destination is just to the left (North) of your Bruma House. This the second House to the North from the East Gate.

Once inside the house, you will want to get to the main level and head to the Southern side of the house. You’ll find a set of stairs leading up to the second level.

On the second level, turn to the right of the stairs and into the doorway to the South.

• Going into the Northern room, you can find a Nirnroot sitting on a dresser in the Northwest corner of the room.

Inside this room, go to the right-hand side of the Eastern wall. You can interact with it to reveal a hidden passage. Go down the passage and its end. On the Northern wall of the crawl space, you’ll find the Mounted Head Fastenings.

You can interact with the fastenings at any point. This will reveal a prompt, explaining that removing the fastenings will cause the Minotaur head to crash down to the floor below. Use the schedule below (waiting if needed) to set the day to the proper time. Once it’s time, then release the head.

Baelin’s Daily Schedule:

• 12am-6am – Sleeps
• 6am-9am – Breakfast
• 9am-11am – Post-Breakfast Nap
• 11am-2pm – Wanders second floor
• 2pm-7pm – Lunch in the dining area
• 7pm-12pm – Relaxes in favorite chair under mounted minotaur

After the head crashes down on Baenlin, you now need to slip out of the house. Thankfully, Gromm, is very distracted by the death of his master. Take the stairs back down to the ground floor. Go to the over to the West and out the front door or head East at the base of the stairs to slip into the basement.

Report to Vicente Valtieri

With the target eliminated, it’s time to return to Cheydinhal. Get there, enter the Abandoned House, and get into the Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary. After that, just find Vicente Valtieri as he wanders the Sanctuary. He will give you a promotion as well as the Sufferthorn Dagger.

Rewards

• Promotion to Slayer

Sufferthorn Dagger

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