The Night Mother ' s Truth Written by Gaston Bellefort , The Night Mother ' s Truth details the many identities of the Night Mother , ranging from her possible ties with the Morag Tong and the Thieves Guild , as well as the location of her crypt before the Great War . Content . Although various works have been written on the subjects of both Morrowind ' s Morag Tong , and Tamriel ' s more widespread Dark Brotherhood , there remains confusion as to precisely when and how these two feared assassin ' s guilds formed . Or , more specifically , when and how the Dark Brotherhood split from the Morag Tong , as the former is widely accepted to have sprung from the latter . The largest point of contention seems to be the figure of the Night Mother , a woman who figures prominently in both organizations . Through extensive research and interviews , and not inconsiderable risk to my own life ( for the Dark Brotherhood holds this information sacred ) , I have finally solved this ages - old mystery . I have finally uncovered the Night Mother ' s Truth . Although her name has been lost to time , the Night Mother was once a mere mortal , a Dark Elf woman who lived in a small village once located where the city of Bravil stands now , in the Imperial Province of Cyrodiil . She was a respected member of the Morag Tong and , like her fellow members , this woman made her trade as an assassin in service of the Daedric Prince Mephala . In fact , the woman held the title of Night Mother , reserved for the highest ranking female member of the organization . To be Night Mother of a particular sect was to be that group ' s matron - the favored of Mephala , both respected and feared . However , it was not Mephala who facilitated the transformation from woman to spectre , but another , some would say far deeper form of evil - Sithis , the Dread Lord , embodiment of the unending Void . Following the Potentate ' s assassination in 2E 324 , strife descended upon the Morag Tong , and the guild was all but eradicated in Cyrodiil and much of the Empire . It was shortly after these events that the Dunmer woman claimed to hear the voice of Sithis himself . The Dread Lord , she claimed , was displeased . He was unhappy with the Morag Tong ' s lack of success . The Void , he told her , was hungry for souls - and it was her destiny to set things right . And so , according to Dark Brotherhood legend , Sithis visited the Night Mother in her bed chamber , and begat her five children . Two years passed , before the unthinkable happened . The Dark Elf woman followed through the Dread Lord ' s ultimate plan - one night , she murdered her children , and sent their souls straight to the Void . Straight to their father . When they learned of this affront to decency , the people of the village rallied against the woman . For such an act was considered incomprehensible , even for the Night Mother of the Morag Tong . In one night of vengeance , they descended upon the woman , killing her , and burning down the house in which the atrocity took place . And that was the end of the story . Or so everyone thought . A little more than thirty years later , an unarmed man heard a strange , comforting voice inside his very head , just as the Dunmer woman claimed to hear the voice of Sithis inside hers . The voice identified herself as the Night Mother , and named the man " Listener " - the first of many . And so the Unholy Matron set her servant on his path - he would found a new organization , a guild of assassins known as the Dark Brotherhood , in service not to Mephala , but to the Dread Lord Sithis . The Morag Tong , now surviving only in Morrowind , was an artifact of forgotten age . The Dark Brotherhood would marry business with death . The organization would grow in wealth and power , and the Void would swell with fresh souls . It was , the Night Mother told her Listener , the perfect arrangement . In the early days of the Dark Brotherhood , the bodies of the Night Mother and her children were recovered from their original burial site , and interred in a crypt beneath the site of her house . And there they remain , even today . So if , in your travels , you find yourself in the city of Bravil , and make a wish at the state of the Lucky Old Lady ( as is the local custom ) , know that you stand on sacred , if evil , ground . For you stand above the Night Mother , the Unholy Matron herself , and your luck has just run out .