The Agent The Agent , later known as the Hero of Daggerfall ( Born 3E 375 ) , is the player character and main protagonist of . The Hero was a close and loyal friend of Uriel Septim VII . History . Background . The Agent was born in 3E 375 , making them 30 - years - old at the start of . During the Imperial Simulacrum , the Agent was imprisoned due to varying reasons ( the Hero ' s history changes during character creation ) , but after the Eternal Champion defeated Jagar Tharn , and Uriel Septim VII was reinstated to the throne , many prisoners , among them the Hero of Daggerfall , were released . This particular prisoner caught the Emperor ' s attention , no doubt due to the visions the Septim line is known for . According to the book " " The Warp in the West " " in , the Hero is canonically a male . Iliac Mission . In 3E 405 , the Emperor presented the Hero with a task : investigate the circumstances of King Lysandus of Daggerfall ' s death . Rumors abounded that Lysandus stalked the streets of his capital city in undeath . The Emperor gave the Hero a second , lower - priority mission : track down the whereabouts of a misplaced letter the Emperor had written to the Queen of Daggerfall , Mynisera , and destroy it . The following day , the Hero embarked from the Imperial City for the city of Daggerfall . While entering the Iliac Bay , the Hero ' s ship was hit by a fierce storm and wrecked on the western cliffs of the Kingdom . After fighting through a series of privateer - infested caverns in the cliff face , the Hero emerged in the southern forests and made the journey to the capital . Lady Brisienna . Before speaking with Lysandus ' s widow , Mynisera , the Hero received a letter from a Daggerfall noble , Lady Brisienna . The letter told the Hero to see Brisienna in a remote village tavern . The Hero altered course and eventually located the noblewoman . Once face - to - face Brisienna admitted that she was actually a high - ranking member of the Blades . She warned the Hero that the situation in the Iliac Bay was far less stable than it appeared : each kingdom and city - state was at each other ' s throats for control of the twin provinces of High Rock and Hammerfell . Brisienna also warned the Hero that enemies of the Empire had discovered her true identity , and that she would soon be returning to Cyrodiil . In closing , she encouraged the Hero to speak directly to the primary powers in the Bay area , but to first work up from the lower nobility to avoid suspicion . The King of Worms . After the meeting , Brisienna left the province and the Hero began to meet with courtiers across the Bay . They asked the Hero to do minor favors in exchange for information regarding Lysandus ' passing . Along the way , the Hero met Lady Morgiah , daughter of the ancient Dunmer queen Barenziah . Morgiah requested that the Hero speak with the necromancer lord Mannnimarco to arrange a wedding between herself and the eminent ruler of Firsthold . The Hero journeyed to Scourge Barrow , high in the Dragontail Mountains , and entered the ancient tomb , eventually locating the King of Worms and striking the deal . Upon returning to Morgiah , the Hero was told that the Emperor ' s letter to Mynisera had been intercepted by Princess Aubk ' i of Daggerfall . The letter had then been stolen by the Thieves Guild , before being bought by Gortwog gro - Nagorm , king of the Orsimer . Death of Lysandus . The hero then traveled to the court of Sentinel , the Hero spoke with Queen Akorithi , who asked that the Hero recover a stolen painting of Lysandus that had been sealed within Castle Wayrest . The Hero managed to infiltrate the castle undetected and then fought up the castle tower to the large room where the painting was stashed . Before taking the painting the Hero looked at its canvas , which replayed the events of King Lysandus ' s death . It was revealed that Lysandus had not died on the field of battle , but had been assassinated before the battle even occurred . The assassin was none other than Lysandus ' s trusted adviser : Lord Woodborne . The Hero then journeyed back to Sentinel and returned the painting to Akorithi . The Underking ' s Ruby . After discovering the true fate of King Lysandus , the Hero was contacted by an agent of the Underking . The mysterious agent asked the hero to recover a magical gem resembling a ruby from a band of renegade Blades knights . The Hero journeyed to Castle Llugwych in the fiefdom of Ykalon . Fighting into the castle ' s dungeon , the Hero found the Ruby being studied by a number of the renegade Blades . After killing the knights and retrieving the Ruby , the Hero returned to the Underking ' s agent , who disappeared after telling the Hero that Lysandus ' s remains did not lie in Daggerfall or on Cryngaine Field , but in a crypt in Menevia . Freeing Medora . Prince Lhotun of Sentinel would send a letter to the Hero shortly afterward , informing him of an Altmeri sorceress named Medora Direnni , who had been Lysandus ' s lover before his assassination . After the king ' s murder , Queen Mynisera had sealed the sorceress in a tower on a remote island in the Bay . The Hero traveled to the island , located the tower , and eventually met with the sorceress after slaying the tower ' s wardens . Direnni informed the Hero that there was a way to speak directly to Lysandus ' s shade without fear of harm . Before offering to help the Hero to this end , the sorceress asked for the Hero ' s aide in freeing her from her tower . She could not physically cross the threshold of the tower without a unicorn horn . She then told the Hero of Nulfaga , Lysandus ' s mother . Nulfaga was a sorceress with powers rivaling Direnni ' s , and she was in possession of a unicorn horn . She then bid the Hero travel to Shedungent , a castle on the border of High Rock and Skyrim where the aging Nulfaga resided . The Dust of Restful Death . The Hero met with Nulfaga , who granted the Hero a single unicorn horn . The Hero returned to Direnni with the horn , and the sorceress was finally freed . After emerging into the open air , the sorceress told the Hero that the only way to pacify Lysandus ' shade was to cast the Dust of Restful Death upon the dead king ' s body . The only known sample of the Dust was in the possession of Gortwog gro - Nagorm , King of Orsinium . With the knowledge that both the Dust and the letter lay in the hands of the Orcish king , the Hero returned to the Wrothgarian Mountains . Deep in the mountains ' highest peaks lay Orsinium , the fortress city of the Western Orcs . Upon entering Gortwog ' s keep , several of the king ' s warriors attempted to kill the Hero . After slaying the warriors , the Hero spoke with Gortwog himself . The king said that he would give the Dust to Direnni only out of respect for the benevolent King Lysandus . He also told the Hero to tell Direnni that the price for his cooperation was a " claim to the heart , " but failed to explain himself to the Hero . The Hero recovered the Dust from Greensly Hall and returned to Direnni . Lysandus ' revenge . After retrieving the Dust of Restful Death from King Gortwog , the Hero traveled to Lysandus ' crypt in Menevia . After locating the king ' s sarcophagus and casting the Dust on the bones , the Hero spoke with the shade face - to - face . Lysandus told the Hero that he would continue to haunt the mortal plane until his assassin , Lord Woodborne , was killed or humiliated . The Hero learned that Woodborne had a large manor in the forests north of Wayrest . The Hero infiltrated the castle and enacted Lysandus ' s revenge ( depending on player choice , Woodborne is either slain in combat or hanged by Daggerfall officials if the Hero gives the traitor ' s journal to the rulers of the Iliac Bay ) . With justice meted out to the traitor , Lysandus and his ghostly army disappeared from Mundus . The Emperor ' s Letter . With Lysandus finally at rest , the Hero began to track down the whereabouts of the Emperor ' s letter to Queen Mynisera . Eventually cornering the original courier , the Hero questioned the messenger , who claimed that he had in fact delivered the letter to the Queen of Daggerfall , as asked . But because of the disturbance of the War of Betony , the letter did not reach the court of Daggerfall until after Lysandus ' s assassination . After the war ended , Queen Mynisera was succeeded by her daughter - in - law , Princess Aubk - i . As the new Queen of Daggerfall , the letter had been delivered into Aubk - i ' s hands . After she had read the letter , the Thieves Guild had stolen it from Castle Daggerfall , at which point it had been bought by King Gortwog . The Hero then returned to the Wrothgarian Mountains once more . Upon confronting Gortwog , he admitted to having bought the letter knowing its value . He agreed to hand the letter over , but only if the Hero could recover it without being slain by the hostile Orcs of the fortress . The Hero eventually did , after defeating some of Orsinium ' s finest warriors . The Hero read the letter , and discovered that it had never been addressed to Mynisera , but to Lady Brisienna . The seal on the envelope was meant to tip off the Spymaster that the letter was for her . The letter warned the Blades that the Numidium , a Dwemer automaton of incomprehensible size , had recently been unearthed in the Iliac . The Numidium was powered by an enormous Soul Gem known as the Mantella , which had been created by the Underking in the Second Era . The only person who knew the location of the Mantella was Nulfaga , mother of the late Lysandus . The only Mundane artifact that could control the Mantella was small amulet called the Totem of Tiber Septim . Lysandus had been in possession of the Totem , which had led to his assassination after the discovery of the Numidium . The Hero returned promptly to Daggerfall , presenting Mynisera with the letter . She warned the Hero that Gortwog would have sold copies of the letter to every major power in the Bay , and added that should the Totem be recovered , its only safe guardian was the Emperor . The Totem of Tiber Septim . Not even a day passed before the Hero received a letter from Lady Brisienna . The letter told the Hero to meet her in a pub in Daggerfall , adding that the Empire ' s fate lay in the balance . The Hero met with the Blade , who had returned from Cyrodiil with grave news . The Totem of Tiber Septim had been located . It had been briefly in the hands of Lord Woodborne . The Blades had launched an attack on Woodborne ' s castle , suffering heavy casualties only to find that the Totem had been moved . Brisienna believed that the Totem was in the possession of King Gothryd of Daggerfall . Upon entering Castle Daggerfall , Gothryd ordered his guards to slay the Hero . The Hero then fought down into the Castle treasure vaults , which were protected by magical wards . After killing all guards and dissipating the wards on the vaults , the Hero found the Totem . As soon as the artifact was lifted out of its vault , a voice filled the Hero ' s thoughts , warning that only a descendant of Tiber Septim could bear the Totem . Since every major leader in the Bay knew of the Emperor ' s letter , the Hero began to receive numerous letters and requests formally asking for the Totem . The King of Worms , the Underking , King Gortwog , and the Bay leaders all sent missives to the Hero requesting the Totem . It was at this point that the Warp in the West began to occur ( depending on player choice , the Totem can be given back to the Emperor , to the King of Worms , to the Underking , to any of the Bay leaders , or kept by the Hero ) . The Mantellan Crux . The Hero made one last journey , this time to the High Rock - Skyrim border to speak with Nulfaga . Deeming the Hero worthy , Nulfaga told the Hero that the Mantella did not exist in the mortal plane , but occupied a plane of Aetherius known as the Mantellan Crux . Nulfaga explained how to retrieve the gem , and then transported the Hero to a rock in the Eltheric Ocean . The only object on the rock was a portal of pure magicka . The Hero stepped through and was transported to a realm of infinite darkness and architecture defying the laws of nature . Savage Daedric sentinels guarded a labyrinth of intensive puzzles and tests . The Hero completed all of these tests , passing through starry voids , buildings of magma , and briefly coming face - to - face with Sheogorath , who was watching the Hero ' s progress from the comfort of an isolated sitting room . Finally the Hero arrived at the heart of the Crux , and found the Mantella . All that needed to be done to free the Mantella was to touch it . When the Hero touched the Mantella , the Crux collapsed and a Dragon Break occurred . The Dragon Break . At this point , all of the Hero ' s actions over the course of the mission occurred simultaneously , with results so different they caused a Dragon Break that would later come to be known as the Warp in the West . The Miracle of Peace . Twelve years after freeing the Mantella , all realities were restored into a single continuity when the Dragon Break was divinely repaired in an act referred to as the Miracle of Peace . Over the course of three days in 3E 417 , the peoples of the Iliac were blighted by disease , teleporting armies and shifting borders . After the three days , the Iliac region was reshaped into a peaceful land at rest internally and with the Empire . Final fate . In one of the Dragon Break ' s continuities , the Hero was killed in Aetherius , effectively destroying the Hero ' s soul for eternity . The Hero survived in all other timelines , so it is unknown what the Hero ' s final fate was after the Miracle of Peace , when all possibilities were resolved .