Do you love the Nightingale Armor, but despise the length and style of the Thieves Guild Questline?
Then you are not alone.
It's one of the best looking kits in the game, but slogging through the majority of the Thieves Guild line has kept me away many times. I recently stumbled onto a solution. Apologies if this has been previously posted or is considered common knowledge.
While putting the finishing touches on my Darth Sentinel build, Doc PGB suggested the Nightingale Armor as a better aesthetic than the black vampire armor I had gone with. I agreed, but Darth running the Thieves Guild? No. However in this play through I already had performed Ponty's backdoor / bucketing trick to snag the word of Disarm in Snow Veil Sanctum. When you bucket out, Karliah "saves" you and the quest "Hard Answers" pops into your catalog.
So I went back and followed the quest markers starting with Enthir, and sure enough I had jumped the quest line forward. One thing to note, if you haven't gained access into the Thieves Cistern room, you have to bucket through the secret door to follow Karliah and continue. And you'll be perceived as trespassing and attacked. Still, I managed to get their dialogue to progress enough to move forward, escaped using Become Ethereal and ultimately acquire the Nightingale Armor.
My guess is that if you just start the Thieves Guild line until you gain access to the Cistern, then back door Snow Veil Sanctum, you can proceed as normal...skipping a huge chunk of the quest line.
TL/DR version:
What: Nightingale Armor Shortcut
How: Join Thieves Guild until you are first given access to the Cistern room. Backdoor Snow Veil Sanctum. Speak with Karliah and continue her quests.
Reward: Nightingale Sword, Armor and Chillrend, while saving a heap load of questing.
Anyone have any experience with this?
Do you love the Nightingale Armor, but despise the length and style of the Thieves Guild Questline?
Then you are not alone.
It's one of the best looking kits in the game, but slogging through the majority of the Thieves Guild line has kept me away many times. I recently stumbled onto a solution. Apologies if this has been previously posted or is considered common knowledge.
While putting the finishing touches on my Darth Sentinel build, Doc PGB suggested the Nightingale Armor as a better aesthetic than the black vampire armor I had gone with. I agreed, but Darth running the Thieves Guild? No. However in this play through I already had performed Ponty's backdoor / bucketing trick to snag the word of Disarm in Snow Veil Sanctum. When you bucket out, Karliah "saves" you and the quest "Hard Answers" pops into your catalog.
So I went back and followed the quest markers starting with Enthir, and sure enough I had jumped the quest line forward. One thing to note, if you haven't gained access into the Thieves Cistern room, you have to bucket through the secret door to follow Karliah and continue. And you'll be perceived as trespassing and attacked. Still, I managed to get their dialogue to progress enough to move forward, escaped using Become Ethereal and ultimately acquire the Nightingale Armor.
My guess is that if you just start the Thieves Guild line until you gain access to the Cistern, then back door Snow Veil Sanctum, you can proceed as normal...skipping a huge chunk of the quest line.
TL/DR version:
What: Nightingale Armor Shortcut
How: Join Thieves Guild until you are first given access to the Cistern room. Backdoor Snow Veil Sanctum. Speak with Karliah and continue her quests.
Reward: Nightingale Sword, Armor and Chillrend, while saving a heap load of questing.
Anyone have any experience with this?