Haunted by the Soul of Dusk

Araneae6537

It’s been ongoing for nearly a week, while doing overland, another dungeon, the Endless Archive, I’ll hear one of the Dusk Warden’s lines. I have NPC dialogue appear in my chat, so I have screenshots of it too.
Upon entering a wing of the archive, Soul of Dusk whispers: “A futile act by a futile creature.”
Upon reaching Tho’at at the end of arc 1, Soul of Dusk whispers: “Your kind works so hard to survive. Why?”
But his favorite line: “You will suffer for this indignity, mortal.”

rauyran

It's because you're using the unique shield that drops from the end of Imperial City Prison. https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Soul_of_Dusk

I've been using it more recently and it's so enjoyable to hear those lines of dialog. I wish we had more bound items!

biminirwb17_ESO

"You fight boldly, but without skill."

Necrotech_Master

i love that item and have never destroyed it, i end up having a copy of it on every toon because its considered unique and can only bank 1 lol

virtus753

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

i love that item and have never destroyed it, i end up having a copy of it on every toon because its considered unique and can only bank 1 lol

It’s actually possible to get two on one character by transferring one copy to a character who hasn’t done the quest and then running the quest on that character. Like the Pelinal scroll, the game will just shove a second copy into your inventory upon turning in the quest even though normally you can’t have more than one. It doesn’t check whether you already have one.

Araneae6537

rauyran wrote: »

It's because you're using the unique shield that drops from the end of Imperial City Prison. https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Soul_of_Dusk

I've been using it more recently and it's so enjoyable to hear those lines of dialog. I wish we had more bound items!

Thank you! Now that I know, it seems obvious and I feel I should have figured it out! Somehow I was sure it had something to do with the Endless Archive, but only it that it prompted me to experiment with more tanky sets like Leeching Plate! Now that I know, I’m keeping this shield forever!

Mods, this thread can be closed or moved to wherever discussion of a dungeon set item would be appropriate since I was happily mistaken and this is not a bug — thank you!