The Dangerous Past The Dangerous Past is a quest available in . A courier will approach and sends word that the fighter ' s guildmaster wishes meet the Vestige as soon as possible . Summary . The Fighters Guild quests are the same for all factions . However , the closest city will change based on the faction . Walkthrough . When meeting the guildmaster the Vestige will find out that Doshia ' s Journal has been translated . It turned out Doshia was looking for something hidden in the Dwemer ruin Mzeneldt , connected to Mortuum Vivicus . She then asks them if they want to venture with her walking through the portal she has prepared , to carry them across Tamriel . Mzeneldt . After following the guildmaster through the portal , either talking to her to get more detailed information about the mission or start exploring Mzeneldt . The path takes them into a larger room with Dwarven Spiders and Dwemer Spheres . Defeat them and proceed through the door to the next room where a ghostly scene is starting to show with the ancient ones who were there to hide the crystal , one of them is lying on the floor dying . When the scene has faded out there is a discarded journal left on the ground . One by one of the ancient ones suffers and dies , shown in more ghostly scenes , and journals are left behind . Lanath ' s Journal and Valasha ' s Journal . After reading them , find Sees - All - Colors and update her with the journals . There where two cities , one worshipped Meridia , the other Molag Bal . Abagarlas , the city of dead , creates a relic to strike at the Meridians , Delodiil , city of light , creates their own weapon , forged around a heart of crystal . The journals describes the ancient ones stole into the heart of the enemy with this crystal weapon , stopped the ritual and their king ends the dark rule of Abagarlas . They felt hunted and hid the crystal heart and a tome with instructions on how to make the weapon , spoken about in the journal , here in Mzeneldt . The priestess of Meridia gave her life and relit the crystal so the weapon could one day be forged . Continue searching the ruin and in the next room another scene appears with the last two of the explorers fighting Dwemer spiders and a Dwemer sphere . There is only one survivor and on the ground Endarre ' s Log will appear after the scene fades away . Reading the log will give the Vestige the hint in how to open the large doors . Collecting five Dwarven crystals , held by the nearby guardian constructs and place them in the special sockets near the doors . When all crystals are placed in the sockets , a light will go from each up to the doors and this will open them . When inside a final ghostly scene is appearing with the ancient one fighting a Dwarven Centurion . The scene fades and leaves a last journal on the ground . After reading it , the crystal heart , the prismatic core , and the tome can be found in the chest nearby . After retrieving the artifacts a Dwarven Centurion activates and the Vestige must defeat it before returning to the guildmaster . She instructs them to give the items to Merric , creates a portal back and tells them she has urgent business to take care of . Before the Vestige can walk through the portal , Jofnir Iceblade appears and he has something important to tell . He tells the Vestige they are in danger , he can ' t fully comprehend them , even in death . He implies someone near them will betray them and warns them to be careful before fading away . After walking through the portal back to the Fighters Guildhall , Merric is waiting for the artifacts . Hand them over and he ' ll start with his research on them at once . He also hands a reward over to the Vestige with an excuse from the guildmaster , she had urgent matters to attend to and regrets she couldn ' t stay .