As the living representative of Sithis and the Night Mother , the Listener 's word is law. The manner of selection of a new Listener is a somewhat arcane process, as only the Night Mother herself selects a new Listener. Without a Listener, the Brotherhood can find itself running without clear direction as it becomes more difficult to acquire contracts. Surely, the Night Mother weeps this day. Maybe Cicero coming here wasn't the best thing that could have happened. But even I didn't anticipate this.
Well, you know the old saying. When life gives you lemons That little jester is currently being digested in Arnbjorn's stomach, mark my words. As suggested by his final journal entry, Cicero did his homework in the Dawnstar Sanctuary. Even if Arnbjorn managed to wound him badly, Cicero has secured himself behind a wide array of enemies and traps for protection.
As you progress through the dark corridors, Cicero's eerie voice will echo through the halls from an unknown location:. Is that you?
Oh, I knew you'd come. Send the best to defeat the best. Astrid knew her stupid wolf couldn't slay sly Cicero. You kill the Keeper or I kill the Listener?
Now that's madness. Pointy pointy! My home is well defended. I always have been a stickler for details. Get it? Oh, I slay me! Cicero respects the Listener's abilities, of course, but could you at least slow down a bit?
I'm not what I used to be. You'll enjoy this. Not an original part of the Sanctuary, per se. Let's call it a 'forced addition. Oh, come and see! But what's a fool to do, when his mother is slandered and mocked? Surely the Listener understands! Maybe we could just forget all this? Let bygones be bygones? Stupid lizard got in my way!
But please tell me that hulking sheepdog has bled to death. The grand finale. A joker to the end, there will be no grand finale and you will find a heavily wounded Cicero in the last room, unable to even stand up: "You caught me! I surrender! Ha ha ha ha. All three will net you a plea from Cicero to let him live and lie to Astrid:. He will then await his fate, and will repeat: "Do what you will.
Cicero has no fight left. In the end, Sithis will judge us both. If you can't kill him in a single blow, he will jump up and attack, screaming: "Ha ha! Behold the final trick of the Fool of Hearts! You think me near death? Think again! Do it again! Ha ha ha ha ha! Cheap shot!
Much later, after the quest Hail Sithis! When you leave, provided you spared him during The Cure for Madness , Cicero will turn up outside, shouting "Listener! You were a fool to spare me. What, did you think I would be grateful? Cicero should be Listener! Not you! Now you will die! Oh, Listener, you should see the look on your face! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Oh, Cicero has returned! Not to kill the kind Listener, but to serve, until one of us dies horribly, in service to our Mother!
Best friends forever! In the meantime, I'll make myself at home in the Sanctuary. I'm sure Mother needs Whenever you approach him, he will say "Cicero is at your service, oh great and powerful Listener!
Nazir will comment, "Why am I not surprised to learn Cicero is alive? I still can't stomach the little clown, but if you've welcomed him here, I won't question it" , while Babette will be understandably confused: "So Cicero is alive?
And we're all friends again? I swear, I can hardly keep up He he he he That's madness You're the "boss. You're a faker! That's my wife! I love that one Is that your voice I hear? No, no Just my head playing tricks Foolish Cicero Forever and always Surely the Dread Lord will at least allow poor Cicero to caper Cicero is hungry Jump to: navigation , search.
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Yes, except during The Cure for Madness. My final contract has been completed. Oh, how he laughed and laughed. Until he didn't. So long since I saved a soul. But I am now Keeper. No longer a taker. I think back fondly on my hours with the jester.
His laughter, his screams, his pitiful cries. And then, as the end drew near, his laughter once more.
Merry in death as well as life. I was honored to know him. Deafening silence! In my head in my head in my head. It is the silence of death, the silence of the Void. Seeping into me, through the Mother. The silence is hatred. The silence is rage. The silence is love.
I remain unworthy. I can hear it. Deeper, and deeper. Louder and louder, punctuating the silence like thunder on a calm evening. It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother. Thank you for my laughter. Thank you for my friend.
It's not too late! Speak to me, my mother! Speak to me, that I may set things right! I can save the Sanctuary, I can save the Brotherhood! You can have the laughter! Take it back! An exchange, then? The laughter for your voice? Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The soul that has served as my constant companion for so long has breached the veil of the Void finally and forever.
It is now in me. It is me. The world has seen the last of Cicero the man. Behold Cicero, Fool of Hearts - laughter incarnate! But silent, so silent. I give my love to the Unholy Matron. I give my laughter freely. But I do not hear her. The silence has returned. Now that I am laughter, and no longer hear laughter, I once again hear the silence.
The silence of the Void. It reaches across time and space. Its silence is deafening, once more. Cicero likes Riften. Cheats and ruffians and cutthroats abound. Finally, some fun. Cicero never understood thieves, really And they call me crazy Cicero's heard about the Butcher. Interesting knifework. Stab, stab, stab, stab, stab! When a person prays for the death of another, the Night Mother hears and passes on the details of the prayer to her Listener.
At this point, the Listener informs a Speaker, who then goes to meet the hiring party in order to draw up a contract. According to Dark Brotherhood beliefs, she is the wife of Sithis and bore five children. It is unclear who the Night Mother is exactly. And in the well known series of books she is seen as head of the Morag Tong, because the Dark Brotherhood only split well into the Second Era.
The Night Mother is likely to have lived during the Second Era , [2] although the woman represented by the statue in Bravil lived in the First Era, [3] which suggests the two are not the same person. Following the Potentate's assassination by the Morag Tong in 2E , the organization was eradicated within the borders of Cyrodiil and the Empire, excluding Morrowind, where the organization was still legal.
Sometime after, Sithis would speak with a respectable member of the Morag Tong, a Dark Elf woman whos name was lost to history, and who lived in a small village that would later become the city of Bravil.
Sithis would confide with her about how displeased he was with the Morag Tongs lack of success, as he was most displeased with the lack of souls heading to the Void , and that it would be her destiny to set things right. One night, Sithis would visit the woman in her bed chamber, and would beget with her five children. Two years later, the unthinkable happened: following the ultimate plan set forth by Sithis, she would murder her children, sending their souls to the Void, to be with their father.
When the people of the village learned of this, they would descend upon her with vengeance, killing her and set fire to her house. Thirty years later, a man would hear the voice of the Night Mother, and charged him with the task of forming a new guild of assassins.
This guild wouldn't be dedicated to Mephala but instead to the Dread Lord Sithis, and that it would marry business with death, allowing the Void to swell with souls once more. This would be the origins of the Dark Brotherhood, later, the new guild would recover the bodies from their original burial site, and bury them underneath where the Night Mothers house once stood. Milnes was assassinated shortly after he had it published. This account asserts that, some time in the Second Era, a few members of the Thieves Guild found it efficacious to strangle the occupant of the house when performing a burglary.
The Listener is the "leader" of the Black Hand , the inner circle comprised by the best assassins in the Dark Brotherhood. A Listener visits the Night Mother , who telepathically translates to them murder contracts offered by invokers of the Black Sacrament. The Listener then informs a Speaker about the contracts and an operative is sent to meet with the invoker. According to Astrid and Cicero , the relationship between the Night Mother and Listener is incredibly intimate. A Listener is found when the Night Mother communicates with them telepathically and tells them the Binding Words, to which they must tell to the Keeper in order to affirm their status a new Listener.
Listeners are the sole authority of the guild, functioning only beneath the Night Mother herself.
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