1 History 2 Quests 2.1 Waking Nightmare 3 Enemies 4 Notable items 5 Gallery 6 Trivia 7 Bugs 8 Appearances Erandur refers to the temple as a ruin within a ruin. If you are going for the achievement that requires all Daedric artifacts, then yes, you should kill him. We have to get down to where it is and perform a ritual. It normally does 20 points of damage but, if you have stored people's dreams in it, it does 50 points of damage. Waking Nightmare is a quest available in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in which the Dragonborn must assist Erandur, a priest of Mara and formerly a priest of Vaermina, to stop the nightmares experienced by the people of Dawnstar. The good news is that (like Olld-Onne already pointed out) the Skull is pretty useless. As he is calling for help from Mara, Vaermina will speak into your mind, trying to persuade you to kill Erandur before he destroys the Skull of Corruption. Nightcaller Temple is a fort in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Grant me the power to break through this barrier and to send the Skull to the depths of Oblivion!" Erandur is a pretty cool guy and a decent follower, while the skull of Corruption is kind of a shit item, like a lot of daedric artifacts in Skyrim. The number of dreams left contained in the staff, as noted in-game, may drop from 0 to -1. I hope that helps. The catch was that the Skull of Corruption was protected by an unbreakable force field. Bugs . In Daggerfall and Oblivion, the Skull of Corruption had the ability to clone people. Otherwise I usually let him live; I like having Joshua Graham follow me around Skyrim. This will let you keep the staff from that quest. After the battle, speak to Erandur who will move to the ritual of removing the magical barrier surrounding the Skull of Corruption. Both endings to the mission here , personally i think the staff is kind of lame cause of the charging. This Daedric Artifact can be missed if you allow Erandur to destroy it during Waking Nightmare. He's killable but you will get the Skull only if you kill him when prompted during the Vaermina daedric quest. Also known as the Tower of Dawn, it is a ruin located on a mountain top overlooking Dawnstar from the east. Can get you some good gold though. When I searched up on the internet that you could have 2 decisions: Killing Erandur and receive the Skull of Corruption OR don't kill him, I felt a big big bigggg failure. In here he will show you the Skull of Corruption, an artifact that Erandur believes is eating memories. Erandur and I fought our way through the awakening Orcs and priests (all hostile) to find the source of the Miasma: a staff called the Skull of Corruption, Vaermina's Daedric artifact. Well, I've finished the quest, but I DID NOT kill Erandur, so I can use him as my follower. Myrwatch's gallery CC contains a special holder for this item. 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