

The sleep assassins may have IDs db_assassin1b, db_assassin1 (at level 4), db_assassin2 (at level 10), db_assassin3 (at level 20), and db_assassin4 (at level 30). Likelihood of attack increases with player level (specifically at levels 4, 10, 20, and 30). They attack singly until you are level 20 or higher, whereupon two will appear at a time. The melee weapons they bear vary, but are all Short Blade types: IDsĪs sleep-attackers, their level varies with your own. Those who attack you in your sleep also bear a pricey Carved Ebony Dart, but you will not be able to take it from one unless you kill him before he can throw it. Because they appear in their old Manor District lair in numbers, frequently armed with paralyzing and poisonous weapons, be well-prepared. All wear full suits of Dark Brotherhood Armor, the lightest in the game and the second-best Light-class armor in protection value, after Glass (though the suit lacks a shield).

Looting these recurrent enemies is a great source of valuable and useful gear. Security Long Blade Alchemy Block Athletics Sneak Marksman Light Armor Short Blade Acrobatics They also increase in power (but not in number) as your level increases. The generic assassins respawn there, even after Vules is killed. See the Hunt the Dark Brotherhood quest for details. You must track down and despatch their boss, Dandras Vules, to get a revealing document from him. Secondly, they populate a hidden lair in the Manor District of Old Mournhold, accessed via the Bazaar Sewers under Mournhold's Great Bazaar. These sleep attackers increase in power (and eventually-if you delay engaging with most of the Tribunal expansion-in number) as your level goes up. See the Dark Brotherhood Attacks quest for details. These attacks persist for some time-slowly increasing in frequency and ferocity-until you take the initiative to seek out the Dark Brotherhood by going to Mournhold. Their role in Tribunal is twofold, in two different sub-quests of the Main Quest of the expansion.įirstly, they will randomly attack the player character sometimes while using the Rest function, if you are sleeping anywhere but the bedroll in the Census and Excise Office in Seyda Neen. They come in ten varieties (aside from their boss, Dandras Vules), mostly with different levels and ranks, as detailed below. All of them added by the expansion are Dark Elf males, though in lore the membership is more mixed. The Dark Brotherhood Assassins are a set of masked, hostile, generic NPCs of Assassin class in the Tribunal expansion, all of whom are members of the Dark Brotherhood faction. A fairly high-level Dark Brotherhood Assassin ( db_assassin4)
