The Dark Brotherhood questline is undoubtedly one of the best in Oblivion Remastered, featuring several enthralling quests, including optional missions like The Renegade Shadowscale. Once you get to the latter stages of the questline and begin to take your orders from Lucien Lachance, you’ll notice that your targets become more numerous.
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One of the bloodiest Dark Brotherhood quests is Next Of Kin, which tasks you with locating and killing every member of the Draconis family, starting with their Matriarch, Perennia. Perennia has a list with the locations of each Draconis family member, so she’s the key to completing Next Of Kin.
How To Start Next Of Kin
After you complete Affairs of a Wizard by collecting your reward from the Great Oak in Chorrol, you’ll immediately receive your next contract from Lucien Lachance: Next of Kin.
Where To Find Every Draconis Family Member
Your orders task you with sneaking into Perennia Draconis’ house, dispatching her, and collecting a list of her children and their locations so you can hunt them down as well.
First, head to Applewatch, west of Bruma and southwest of Cloud Ruler Temple.
How To Kill Perennia Draconis
Once you arrive at Applewatch, there are a few ways to handle the situation:
- You can kill Perennial inside, but make sure you’re not seen by her pet dog, Jake.
- You can ask for a list of her kids, then kill her.
- Wait until she comes outside to kill her, then take the list.
Whichever method you choose, you now have the list of Perennia Draconis’ children in hand. Read it to discover the whereabouts of her four children:
- Caelia – Leyawiin
- Andreas – Drunken Dragon Inn
- Sybilla – Muck Valley Cavern
- Matthias – Talos Plaza District
How To Kill Caelia Draconis
First, let’s start with Caelia Draconis, who you’ll find in Leyawin.
Whatever you do, don’t alert Caelia of what you plan to do to provoke her, as it will still incur a 1,000 gold bounty.
You can kill Caelia in a few places:
- In the barracks
- When she visits the cemetery at the Chapel of Zenithar
- At the Three Sisters Inn
All options are acceptable, but will incur bounties if you kill Caelia directly (though she can’t arrest you if you kill her in one hit), so it’s best to kill her indirectly.
The simplest method is by using a Frenzy spell on her to provoke her to attack and let the guards take her down, but you can always try a strong sneak attack with melee or arrows that will kill her quickly.
Go to a Thieves Guild Fence to have your bounty removed if you kill her directly, or you’ll be arrested when you next come across city guards.
Once Caelia falls via the Frenzy spell or a direct attack, you can continue with your mission.
How To Kill Andreas Draconis
From here, you can target Andreas Draconis at the Drunken Dragon Inn. Head to the southeast section of Cyrodiil, where you’ll find the inn southeast of the Nibenay Basin, northeast of Leyawin.
Enter the Drunken Dragon Inn, where you’ll spot Andreas at the bar. There are two easy ways to get him to die without being directly held accountable:
- You can use a Frenzy spell like you did with his sister, causing him to attack and likely getting him killed by the Imperial Guard inside.
- You can provoke him into attacking you by verbally taunting him about his mother, which is much simpler and the recommended route.
Once you finish letting the Imperial guard do your dirty work, you can move on to your next target.
How To Kill Sybilla Draconis
Next up, let’s turn our attention to Sibylla Draconis, who you’ll find in Muck Valley Cavern. Enter the cave and kill the bears you encounter along the linear path.
Luckily, this is a small area, and you’ll soon reach a larger room where a bear, rat, and Sibylla await you. Take them out however you see fit, and you’ll have another member of the Draconis family off your list.
How To Kill Matthias Draconis
Lastly, it’s time to find Matthias Draconis in the Talos Plaza District of the Imperial City.
As always, there are a few approaches to this, as Matthias can be most easily found in his home, or you can take him out on his way out of the Bloated Float in the Imperial Waterfront District.
To kill him on his way out of the Bloated Float, ensure you can hit him with arrows from a distance or sneakily using your sneak skill.
Or you can always use the good ol’ Frenzy trick when he’s near guards.
The most straightforward method is to head to Matthias Draconis’ home in the middle of the night and kill him while he’s at home and his partner is sleeping.
With the final member of the family dispatched, head to the Castle Skingrad Courtyard to collect your reward.
What Rewards Do You Get From Next Of Kin?
Inside the Stone Well here, you’ll find the following rewards:
- Your third Dead Drop contract
- 500 gold
Once you claim them both, you’ll immediately begin the next quest, Broken Vows.
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