Online:Keepers of the Shell

Quick Walkthrough
# Talk to Keeper Uxith-Ei.
# Light the two xanmeers and find Assistant Telixith.
# Talk to Uxith-Ei.
# Observe the ritual and the Dominion's behavior.
# Talk to Uxith-Ei.
# Rescue the Argonian eggs.
# Talk to Assistant Telixith.
# Talk to Vicecanon Servyna.

Detailed Walkthrough
The Hatching Pools are full of Aldmeri Dominion soldiers, but they have left the eggs unharmed. Vicecanon Servyna asks you to find Keeper Uxith-Ei and discover what the Dominion are doing in the area.

You can use the Keeper's Garb disguise in the chest behind the vicecanon to keep the soldiers from attacking you. Be careful to avoid the senche-tigers, as they can smell through your disguise. Keeper Uxith-Ei is just inside the entrance to the Hatching Pools. Keeper Uxith-Ei tells you to light the braziers in the xanmeers of First Light and Setting Sun (east and west). While you do this, you should listen to the Dominion and try to find Assistant Telixith.

The three objectives are northeast, north and northwest of Keeper Uxith-Ei. The stairs to the western xanmeer are at the northern side. Climb all the way to the top, and activate the brazier. Do the same for the eastern brazier.

While near the Xanmeers, you may overhear dominion soldiers having the following conversations:


Assistant Telixith lies to the north, on the lower level beneath the great Hist. She is standing across from the Hist Tree, near a circle of stones. She refuses to help with the Hatching Ritual because the Dominion is eating the baby Argonians. If you have the perk, you can persuade her to calm down and return to Keeper Uxith-Ei. Otherwise, she will tell you to kill the Dominion leader, Fimrimion, before she will return. Once all the braziers have been lit and you have convinced Assistant Telixith to return, talk to Keeper Uxith-Ei again. You tell him that the Dominion plans to kill everyone in the Hatching Pools after the hatching. He asks you to protect him as the ritual begins. Some soldiers attack, and the ritual doesn't work. 

thumb|right|Someone's been murdering Argonian children
Talk to Keeper Uxith-Ei again. He realized why the Dominion waited until the ritual—they wanted to see if it would work. It failed because the Argonians' connection to the Hist has been severed&mdash;the children can't hear the Hist, and the Hist can't communicate with the Argonians. The eggs don't know what to do with themselves, as they have no direction from the Hist. If they aren't removed from their nests, the eggs are going to die. He asks you to save the eggs as he sacrifices himself to Sithis to buy the eggs time as they begin to slip into the Void.

Head towards the pool of Hist Sap beneath the Hist Tree. You will see nests of blue eggs with dark spots on them. Activate the nests to save the eggs. A blue light appears in the center of the Hist sap after you have saved several eggs. This is your cue to talk to Assistant Telixith at the ritual site. She says the Argonians need to restore their link to the Hist. Without the Hist, no Argonians will hatch at the Hatchling Pools. She thinks the Dominion is using a powerful artifact to interfere. You tell her they have the Mnemic Egg, and she says they could destroy the memories of the Hist with it. 

Leave the Hatching Pools by following the southern path with Assistant Telixith in tow. Talk to Vicecanon Servyna at the top of the final set of stairs. She will have the eggs taken to Hissmir, where they will be safe. She then gives you a reward for saving the eggs.  
  

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