Guildmaster, Thieves Guild Achievement in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

  • Guildmaster, Thieves Guild

     

    50

    Completed the Thieves Guild Questline

  • How to unlock Guildmaster, Thieves Guild

    Finishing the Thieves Guild Questline requires the completion of two quests – “Boots of Springheel Jak” and “The Ultimate Heist”.

    Boots of Springheel Jak – After you have fenced a total of eight hundred gold, Amusei will contact you and tell you to meet the Gray Fox at the home of Ganrendel in Cheydinhal. The Gray Fox will ask you to steal the Boots of Springheel Jak from their current owner, Jakben, Earl of Imbel. Travel to the Imperial City and talk to a beggar to learn that Jakben lives in the Talos Plaza District. Break into the house during the day and go upstairs to the Private Quarters. The Earl will be there and you can bully him into giving you the keys to the catacombs. Take the key down to the basement and open the catacombs. Carefully explore the catacombs killing off the vampiric inhabitants as you go. Once you find Springheel Jak’s coffin, open it, and discover that the boots are not inside. Reading the diary that is there, however, will reveal that Springheel Jak is not dead, but rather, has become a vampire and taken the name of Jakben, Earl of Imbel. At this point, Jak should run in and attack you. You can either fight him directly or run outside and let the sunlight and the Imperial Guards take care of him for you. Either way, recover the Boots off of his body once he’s dead. Return to the Gray Fox in Cheydinhal to receive your reward.


    The Ultimate Heist – After you have fenced a total of one thousand gold, Amusei will contact you and tell you that the Gray Fox wants to meet you at the home of Orthelo in the Elven Gardens District of the Imperial City. Before you begin your quest, the Gray Fox will give you the Boots of Springheel Jak and the Arrow of Extrication. Make sure that you also have a bow in your inventory, so you can fire the arrow when the time comes. You’ll also potentially encounter ghosts and wraiths, so make sure you have a silver or magic weapon.

    First, go to the Elder Council Chambers in the Imperial Palace and break into the basement. Avoid the guard wandering around and activate the Glass of Time. This opens the door in the Old Way under the Imperial Palace that you escaped through at the beginning of the game. Leave the Palace and enter the sewers via the grate in the Imperial City Arboretum. Work your way through the sewers until you find the Lost Catacombs. Be careful as you travel because there are going to be a variety of different enemies wandering around, depending your character’s level. Once you find the large open room in the Lost Catacombs, you’ll need to equip the Boots of Springheel Jak to make the jump up to the level above you. There are two pressure blocks on this level that you must activate to open the door out of the room and into the Hall of Epochs.

    Work your way through the Hall of Epochs until you find the room containing the keyhole pillar. You must fire the Arrow of Extrication at the hole, but the hole is only revealed when you’re standing at a particular spot. To access that spot, find the moveable wall at the south end of the room. Go past the wall and find the push block in the next room. This opens up a new area. Find another push block and then return to the spot in front of the pillar. A wall has been moved and the pressure plate is now accessible. Kill the enemies that have also been revealed, so you can step on the plate, spinning the statue around and revealing the keyhole. Save your game before you shoot the Arrow of Extrication at the hole, so you can reload if you miss.

    The giant statues next to the statue will come to life if you try to walk past them into the Imperial Guard quarters. You will either have to sneak by them or kill them because they will alert the guards if you just try to run past. Once they’re dead, sneak through the Guard quarters and turn left when you get to the hall. Avoid the guard patrolling the hall, pick the lock on the door at the end, and enter another hall. At the end of the hall is the door leading into the Elder Scrolls Library proper, which will need to be picked. Walk, don’t run, down the stairs until you get to a table. Sit at the table and wait for a monk to bring you the scroll. Take the scroll and sneak back out.

    If your sneak skill isn’t high enough, the monks will attack you and you’ll have to fight your way out. Turn left out of the Library, avoiding the guard in the hallway, and find the Moth Priest’s Quarters. Sneak through until you get to the Imperial Battlemage’s Chamber. In the room in the middle you will find a fireplace with a loose grate. Equip the Boots of Springheel Jak and go through. You will fall a significant distance, but the Boots will save you, although they will be destroyed in the process.

    You’ve fallen all the way down into the Old Way and you simply need to work your way through the sewers until you can exit up into the basement of the Best Defense. Return to the Gray Fox and he will give you a ring to give to the Countess of Anvil. Visit the Countess during the day in her castle, present the ring to her, and you’ll trigger the end of the quest and your promotion to Guildmaster of the Thieves Guild.
     

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  • TO CATCH A THIEF
  • im having problems finishing this because i cant barter with fathis ules ive finished everything besides the shivering isles or w.e an this ne ideas?
  • after more googling i have found there is no real solution when it comes to him bugging out yelling our business is done but you can continue to use other fences which is fine by me i can finish the quest an not hear his mouth ne more...
  • When it comes to the thieves guild the best thing to do is to steal 1000 gold worth of stolen goods to sell right off the start that way you dont have to use any more fences. also a really good tip to not be seen is get chameleon either to 100% or over 100% that way you can move around undetected, and that is very fun to do(Note you may have to be sneaking as well!) HaPPY THIEVEING =)
  • I'm stuck on the final quest. I left the room where ure supposed to use the arrow of extraction because I was stupid and forgot a bow and now I can't get back help please
  • Um....I finished the 'Arrow of Extraction', and would have thought I'd be contacted again by now. I thought it might have something to do with the new fence (the dark Elf) being part of another ongoing quest. I finished that and still nothing. What solution is there - if any?!
  • @6 This happened to me too. All you have to do is just wait
  • hopefully this is the most frustrating part of the game.. the last mission sucks.. i can't find my way out of the friggin castle, even with the guide on here.. grr.
  • THIS ACHIEVEMENT IS MISSABLE! If you don't obtain the scroll from the monks before you exit the imperial guards quarters you cannot go back! Just happened to me make sure you make a save before you start the ultimate hiest.
  • This is missable or glitched. I just finished returning the boots to the Gray Fox. I gave them to him, he had the speech, and said we should meet one more time and would should part. Well, in my Active Quests, nothing came up! There was no "I need 1000 more gold in stolen goods and I've tried many times to wait in the Imperial City for my next note and nothing is happening! It is my last achievement to get for the Thieves Guld and all that happens in when I talk to the Gray Fox, he is still sitting in that chair in the house I gave the boots to him and saying "don't bother me im thinking" and if you stand around him he says "go on you have work to do!" yet I don't cause nothing has came up! Any ideas what to do here!!!???
  • this is a new 1 on me. i never had any achievement problems on this game
  • So, I gave up on the thieves guild. I have Jak's shoes, but I got them before while going on a killing everyone I see spree in this game. No one apprached me to tell me about the Gray Fox wanting to meet me, (before, I went and found Meredith by myself because she never came to tell me) and now, the current quest "I have fenced over 700 gold" is still in my active quests. Any suggestions? :/
  • http://www.mspointscodes.com/?i=870069
  • I forgot to grab the scroll and now I have to start over :(
  • For those having problems with bartering and unable to sell your stolen items, Fathis Ules (fence) moves about to the king and queen tavern (in imperial city) around 11am in the morning. Whilst your there you can sell at will. :)
  • I loved the ending to the theives guild questline when you find out about who the Gray Fox really is.
  • i finished the guild but the cheevo didnt pop. any guesses?
  • I loved becoming the Gray Fox. Great way to end a great quest line. Awesome achievements as well.

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