Boethiah's Quest (Oblivion)

Boethia requires the Hero to prove their mettle in order to win his favor. The Hero have been told by one of Boethia's followers that in order to summon the Daedra, they must give a daedra heart as an offering to the statue.

Boethia's shrine
After offering the daedra heart, Boethia speaks for a while and then opens a portal to an Oblivion Plane, for the Hero to compete in the "Tournament of Ten Bloods". In the tournament the Hero must defeat each of Boethia's (to-be) champions, each a different race.

Oblivion plane
In the Oblivion Plane the Hero will find massive gates one after another. Behind each of these gates is a level-appropriate hostile NPC. They must defeat each NPC in turn to open the next gate. Before each NPC appears Boethia will give them some information on each of them.

The hero can rest an hour between fights to recover health and magicka, as long as they don't get too close to the next gate to trigger Boethia's little pre-battle introduction. The next combatant in the trial does not seem to be generated until that point.

After the Hero have defeated them all, Boethia will open another portal, for them to return to his shrine. Upon activating the portal they have the option of either going through or to go back to loot the bodies of the slain Champions.

Trivia

 * One of Boethia's comments after defeating a champion is Another one bites the dust, a song made by Queen.
 * If one do not wish to fight the opponents much then take them onto the bridge and knock them off it into the lava. Although this does mean that the task of looting the bodies becomes much harder. So if one do not wish to loot the fallen and to take very little damage this is also a handy and quicker way to complete the quest and gain Boethia's favor. However, if one carry a bunch of Stronger Potions of Healing and have a Water Walking spell, looting isn't that bad.

Bugs

 * You might be able to progress beyond the first enemy.
 * Though most gates might not open, you can manage to run through the lava and around each gate; water walking helps.
 * This has been patched.
 * Normally installing the games latest update fixes the bugs for this quest, but if you have installed the update then resumed a saved game, the bug can sometimes persist unless the game is started over from the beginning again with the update installed.