Discover Sabjorn’s silent partner. Approach the table and press the designated “Read” button on your game controller as prompted on the game screen to read the letter. You’ll find that the letter came from Maven Black-Briar, which is Sabjorn’s silent partner.

Quick Walkthrough[edit]

1. Speak to Maven Black-Briar.
2. Meet Mallus Maccius at The Bannered Mare.
3. Speak to Sabjorn in the Honningbrew Meadery.
4. Engage in some industrial sabotage and witness the mead tasting failure.
5. Acquire the promissory note and return to Maven.

Dampened Spirits is a quest available in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in which the Dragonborn must shut down Honningbrew Meadery, a business competing with Black-Briar Meadery, for Maven Black-Briar.

Mallus Maccius is an Imperial who works at the Honningbrew Meadery. He is initially found in Whiterun at The Bannered Mare.

Once you have killed him then poison the nest and proceed into the basement of the brewing room. Go upstairs and activate the lid on the marked pot to put the poison. Now grab the key beside the door and exit.

Key to Sabjorn’s dresser in his room at the Honningbrew Meadery. Given to the Dragonborn by Mallus Maccius. Cannot be dropped.

transitive verb. 1 : to check or diminish the activity or vigor of : deaden the heat dampened our spirits. 2 : to make damp the shower barely dampened the ground. 3 : damp sense 1c.

To dampen something such as someone’s enthusiasm or excitement means to make it less lively or intense. Nothing seems to dampen his perpetual enthusiasm. [ VERB noun] I hate to dampen your spirits but aren’t you overlooking a couple of minor points. [

Eimar is a Nord in Whiterun who works at the Honningbrew Meadery just outside of the city walls. When he is not working, he can be found in The Bannered Mare after the quest “Dampened Spirits” has started. His dream is to take over the business some day.

Mallus Maccius is an Imperial citizen who works at the Honningbrew Meadery in Whiterun. Once you complete Dampened Spirits, he will become the Thieves Guild fence for Whiterun, though he is actually located at the meadery rather than in the city itself.

Gulum-Ei. Gulum-Ei will most likely be in the Winking Skeever in Solitude. It is possible to persuade him with a high enough Speech skill.

However, Brynjolf may not assign “Dampened Spirits” despite providing the necessary dialogue and task. Speaking to Maven as Brynjolf asks will not trigger any new dialogue on her part. This may be worked around by saving before talking to Brynjolf, then talking to him.

The Dragonborn is to fulfill this job, poisoning the meadery vat in the process. Sabjorn will give the Dragonborn a key to the meadery’s basement with instructions to kill all the pests and to poison their nest. This presents the opportunity to poison the vats as well.

At this point, Mallus will help locate the books that identify Sabjorn’s “silent partner.” Upstairs, a promissory note is in Sabjorn’s dresser. Behind the door to the right of the dresser is the Honningbrew Decanter (a larceny target ), which can be sold to Delvin Mallory .

When you get close to the nest, you will run into a lunatic named Hamelyn, a disgruntled alchemist breeding a Skeever army to get revenge on the people who wronged him in the past. Hamrlyn has a very powerful magic attack and can be a tough fight. Do whatever you can to avoid getting hit by his attacks and take him down quickly.