4/5 lights of meridia too, and I chose the warrior at the argonian village.
Hope this choice is not preventing us from getting the achievement.

Yea possibly related to another choice, or simply a bug.

Like I said, you can't simply "miss" the lights. Each time you need to get one, the related quest will give a quest objective "pick up the light of meridia". So if you did the related lines, you got them all. If it didnt count, prolly a bug. If you didnt pick up all 5, you managed a different choice in a quest then me most likely. No other way I can see it being.

How about the major choice for the fighters guild main west quest ? (Side with elves or lamias?)
As that quest 100% definitely results in a light ( I had it up on screen on achievement tracker and remember that one clearly). I choose elves and murdered the lamias with extreme prejudice.

(Result of this choice was a light inside the lightless oubliette, and some pretty bad ass elves helping me in the final battle, they wiped out a whole pack of daedra iirc)

I'm also at 4/5. I chose the argonian fighters, so maybe that's the problem.

I was thinking: Hey, I'm gonna kick Molag Bals a**. So, why should I sacrify the hist, if it could just recover, once Molag Bal is gone?

That's annoying....

Xiana wrote: »

I'm also at 4/5. I chose the argonian fighters, so maybe that's the problem.

I was thinking: Hey, I'm gonna kick Molag Bals a**. So, why should I sacrify the hist, if it could just recover, once Molag Bal is gone?

That's annoying....

Daedric princes have this way of coming back to life... Happens a lot.

So to assume/think you could permanently kill molag ball, is essentially arrogant, and thus also the more "evil" choice imo.

So imo the only way to truely help the Argonias in the long term is to either find a way for them to leave cold harbour (not a choice in that quest) or help them align with a different daedric prince (Meridia, if they leave and go to the city).

UnderKingRhun wrote: »

seems to make no difference, collected all five, only one resides within the chapel at the end anyhow. not sure if its an over sight or bugged, but i did get the achie. Also, the Argonian village will only yeld its shard if you side with the scholars.

You use up a bunch of them during the final battle quest, so that would explain why not many are left in the chapel at the end. Possibly exactly 4, explaining why 1 is left. Tho i dont remember the exact count. (They are used up to destroy the anchors).

Axer wrote: »

Daedric princes have this way of coming back to life... Happens a lot.

So to assume/think you could permanently kill molag ball, is essentially arrogant, and thus also the more "evil" choice imo.

Yes, he'll come back. But first we don't know, how long this takes, and second by killing him he loses control over the hist.

Any1 have complete list of all Lights of Meridia?

I am on 4/5 as well and no idea how i could missed a light.... can we have a staff look into this if possible?

@Divayith Thx.
So it's missable achievement. That's sad=(

I just got my achievement for this, and I never got a Light of Meridia from the Argonian village. I got mine during the quests:

The Library of Dusk (Outside platform before you jump down)
The Shadow's Embrace (The Lightless Oubliette)
The Soul-Meld Mage (The Vile Laboratory)
Truth, Lies, and Prisoners (Tower of Lies)

There doesn't seem to be a fifth location. I think the one in "The Soul-Meld Mage" counted twice, because you pick it up, place it in a "Dwarven Power Mechanism", then later take it again. I can't be positive, but I combed through my bazillion screenshots twice and can't find anything else.

What I can say for sure is that those 4 quests gave me one. And the quest "Wisdom of the Ages" (Haj Uxith) in the Argonian village did not (I sided with the mages), and I see no evidence it gives one at all regardless of who you side with.

I finished this before finishing "The Army of Merida" if that matters.

The Shadow's Embrace (The Lightless Oubliette)

Approaching the Light of Meridian:

Picking it up after moving the branch:

Picked up and showing the next quest step:


As you can see, you HAVE to pick it up before you can continue the quest. It's an actual quest step.

Here are screenshots for the other ones. As you can see it's a quest stage each time, and you cannot proceed unless you pick it up.

The Library of Dusk (Outside platform before you jump down)

The Soul-Meld Mage (The Vile Laboratory) {1st time}

The Soul-Meld Mage (The Vile Laboratory) {2nd time}

Truth, Lies, and Prisoners (Tower of Lies)


As you can tell, I take a LOT of screenshots, so I always have a good record of what I did when I need to know. I see nothing for a fifth Light of Meridia beyond taking the same one twice in The Vile Laboratory. (Having temporarily placed it in a "Dwarven Power Mechanism".) I can't help but think that one really did count twice because of it.

Sadae wrote: »

As you can see, you HAVE to pick it up before you can continue the quest. It's an actual quest step.

Thanks for sharing these pics, I finished all quests in coldharbour (i also have the quest achi) but I am on 4/5 meridia shards. I really have no clue how this can happen

I'm stumped. I can't for the life of me figure out how I got the fifth count, even with all my screenshots. I wish I thought to keep checking the achievement to see whenever the count went up. If anybody else hasn't started this quest yet they should do that, and take screenshots every time and note what you did to get it.

Has anyone ever found out where the fifth light is? I have 4/5 and believe I have done every quest in the area. Customer services are telling me to go back and look more carefully, but you can't go back once you have completed the quests. Finding this very frustrating. I sided with the fighters at the Argonian village.