Discerning the Transmundane

Quest

19 steps / 1 reward

Discerning the Transmundane is part of the Daedric Quests questline. Rewards include Oghma Infinium.

Associated locations

Locations

Septimus Signus's Outpost
The Arcanaeum

Actors

NPCs
	Location
Septimus Signus	-
Urag gro-Shub	-

Objectives in order

Journal entry

I've been given a book of bizarre ramblings about Elder Scrolls, written by Septimus Signus. He claims to have spent time at the Winterhold Arcanaeum.

Ask Urag about the insane book

Journal entry

I've learned that Septimus Signus, a preeminent scholar of the Elder Scrolls, is currently living in the far north, studying a dwarven artifact. He might know where I can find an Elder Scroll for Paarthurnax.

Find Septimus Signus

Journal entry

I met Septimus Signus, a brilliant but mad scholar living in the northern ice fields. He's directed me to a dwarven observatory that supposedly houses an Elder Scroll. He doesn't care about the Scroll itself, but wants me to use some kind of machine there to inscribe a dwarven lexicon with the Scroll's knowledge and bring it to him.

Transcribe the Lexicon

Give the Lexicon to Septimus

Journal entry

I met Septimus Signus and brought him a dwarven lexicon containing the distilled knowledge of an Elder Scroll. With it, he believes he can open the lockbox he's been studying. He will contact me when he has the secret.

Return to Septimus

Journal entry

I met Septimus Signus and brought him a dwarven lexicon containing the distilled knowledge of an Elder Scroll. With it, he believes he can open the lockbox he's been studying by creating a mixture of blood that will resemble dwarven. I need to collect blood from several different races if I want to help him.

Harvest High Elf blood

Harvest Wood Elf blood

Harvest Dark Elf blood

Harvest Falmer blood

Harvest Orc blood

Bring blood to Septimus

Take the Oghma Infinium

RewardsOghma Infinium

Journal entry

I met a strange hermit named Septimus Signus, who needed the knowledge of an Elder Scroll and a collection of blood to open a dwarven lockbox he had studied for years. I helped him open it. It did not contain what he had expected, but instead a book of great knowledge, the Oghma Infinium.

Journal entry

I met and killed a strange hermit named Septimus Signus, who needed the knowledge of an Elder Scroll and a collection of blood to open a dwarven lockbox he had studied for years.

Rewards

Rewards
Type	Name	Location
Book	Oghma Infinium	-

Related quests

Map

Technical data

Quest ID: DA04
Form key: skyrim.esm:0x02d512
Source plugin: Skyrim.esm
Stage indexes: 1, 5, 10, 20, 30, 35, 40, 50, 55, 60, 100, 105, 200