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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Game Add-Ons (DLC) Hints
Black Book: The Sallow Regent
1 of 8: The black book that starts this quest is in White Ridge Barrow.
2 of 8: Reading that book will put it in your inventory and get you transported to Hermaeus Mora's special Oblivion plane, known as Apocrypha. If this is your first visit, Mora will give you a verbal intro, and then you'll get this quest.
3 of 8: From where you start, go forward and down a long, winding passage until you emerge in a large open area. Watch out for the two seekers that are near the center of the area, and go through the well-lit doorway with the banner hanging over it.
4 of 8: When you reach a large outdoor area with a narrow, winding walkway, move up to the nearby gap to see if a bridge will rise to cover it. If so, move back into the brightly lit spot to get the bridge to relower, then use a ranged weapon to attack the lurker you can see on the walkway past the gap.
5 of 8: Wait until the lurker falls into the abyss while coming after you, then move back into the light spot to get the bridge to rise back up. Go across it and along the walkway until you reach another brightly lit spot that raises a bridge when you enter it.
6 of 8: Cross the bridge and look for another lurker in the area ahead, then get its attention with ranged attacks before running back across the bridge and through the brightly lit spot. That should lower the bridge and cause that lurker to fall, too.
7 of 8: Move on past the second bridge to find some stairs that lead to a raised platform. Look around on it for some treasure and a huge copy of the book that this quest is named after.
8 of 8: Activate the book to open it, then aim at a spot a ways above each of the glowing green circles to get prompts for the Seeker of Might, the Seeker of Sorcery, and the Seeker of Shadows.
