More specific strategies are listed throughout the guide.

Casting Invisibility so that you do not have to fight enemies.You can generally decrease the time it takes to complete this quest by: Even if you get lost on the way to the main tower, as long as you make it to the bottom of the tower with two minutes to spare, you should still be able to finish the quest as long as you can avoid stopping to fight anyone. A normal run should take 10 to 12 minutes. This countdown will continue until it tells you that you have 2 minutes left (at which point you really have 3 minutes left) 65 seconds later, the countdown starts to update every 5 seconds (starting with one telling you that you have 115 seconds left).įifteen minutes is a relatively short time to get through this world, but not so short that you need to panic. However, this countdown clock is actually one minute off: the first message you see tells you that you have 13 minutes left, when in fact you have 14 minutes left. You do not need to worry about losing track of time: every minute, the game will post a reminder on the screen telling you how many minutes you have left. This quest can also be terminated if Martin dies while you are in the Great Gate Oblivion World (although the combat in Tamriel actually pauses while you are in there, so Martin can only die if he receives a fatal blow just as you step into the Gate). At that point, the game is over: you must reload an earlier save game. Any longer and the indestructible Daedric Siege Engine will make it to Tamriel, resulting in Martin's death and the invasion of all Tamriel by Daedra. The Siege Crawler advancing towards the Great GateĪs soon as you step through the Great Gate, you will be given 15 minutes (real time) to complete this quest.

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