Online:Uldazaan the Heresy-Keeper

Uldazaan the Heresy-Keeper
Location	Apocrypha, near the Apogee Nadir Wayshrine
Race	Dremora	Gender	Male
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Uldazaan the Heresy-Keeper

Uldazaan the Heresy-Keeper is a Dremora scholar who can be found within Apocrypha near the Apogee Nadir Wayshrine. You will need his assistance to track down a rogue Cipher of the Eye.

Related Quests

• Akacirn the Deathless: Please add a description for this quest

Quest-Related Events

Cipher Plautis will ask you to find and stop Cipher Akacirn after several ciphers were killed after recovering the Numinous Grimoire volumes needed for his ritual. His hideout in Quires Wind will contain Uldazaan's Letter and so Uldazaan becomes your best lead in finding Akacirn.

Uldazaan the Heresy-Keeper will be near the Apogee Nadir wayshrine and you can speak with him:

"Another mortal seeking my wisdom? What have I done to earn this tiresome privilege?
Come now, get to the point. You have already distracted me from my work. I might as well know why."

I need to find Cipher Akacirn.

"Ahh, the self-proclaimed "Akacirn the Deathless." Many mortals hold inflated opinions of themselves, but he appears to be a special case. I have met few of your kind more disagreeable. What is your business with him?"

He plans to cheat death by turning himself into some kind of knowledge-eating spirit.

"Yes, the Numinous Rite. He asked about it.
Very well. I did not ask to become embroiled in a mortal's quest for power. If you want to stop Akacirn, there may still be time. And I need nothing more than to know I contributed to his failure."

How can I stop Akacirn?

"I sent Akacirn to a ritual site within the Apogee of the Tormenting Eye. Here, I will mark the location for you.
The ritual requires time to take hold—time during which he must lie dead in truth. Destroy his body, and his rite will fail."

I'll find Cipher Akacirn and make sure he stays dead.

After you get the information from him, you have the option of asking Uldazaan some more questions:

"I've given you what you came for. The sooner you depart, the sooner you can deal with Akacirn as you see fit. And allow me to get back to my own concerns.
I have no more patience for mortal troubles."

Why did you help Cipher Akacirn?

"In my studies of mortal heresies, I occasionally find it useful to help mortals advance their ambitions. It gives me perspective. Why do mortals thirst so much for that which is forbidden to them? It is … intriguing."

By helping Cipher Akacirn, you endangered others.

"He posed no danger to me. But I am finished with Akacirn now—I have learned what I needed to from his dark ambitions. If he has wronged you or others, do as you will with him."

Tell me more about the Numinous Rite.

"If it gets you to leave, then I shall oblige. Mortal souls are not fettered to this existence as Daedra are. The Numinous Grimoire explores a path to decoupling the soul from the body. To becoming a thing sustained by spirit, not matter."

Isn't that just a ghost?

"A ghost is dead, but the Numinous Rite unmoors a living soul. Like any mortal thing, it must sustain itself by consuming something. The souls of others, in this case. One can see why the book's author made it difficult for mortals to read."

Then how did Akacirn read the book without going mad?

"Ahh, that was clever. Akacirn had others read it for him, and then consumed the contents of their minds. Learning how to do that took him decades of study, or so he told me.
I suppose he is already the thing he hopes to become. How ironic."

What's a heresy-keeper?

"I catalog mortal delusions. Misapprehensions, follies, and fallacies, especially as they pertain to the nature of realms and beings beyond their own small world. A fruitful and ever-growing field of study."

What's the point in that?

"Knowing is its own reward, mortal. Besides, I serve Hermaeus Mora, the Prince of Forbidden Knowledge. What is a heresy, if not a forbidden thought?"