Dark Brotherhood (Skyrim)



The Dark Brotherhood is a group of assassins who are willing to assassinate anyone that they are paid to. They are a perverted offshoot of the "legal" assassins guild, the Morag Tong, who are based in Morrowind. While the Morag Tong are a respected, if feared presence in Morrowind society, the Dark Brotherhood are a secretive underground cult who worship Sithis, the avatar of death.

Characteristics
It has been revealed that the Dark Brotherhood is an available Faction that can be joined in Skyrim

Joining the Dark Brotherhood
While on your travels in Skyrim, talk to the inn keeper at Rorikstead and ask for rumors. He will then tell you that there is a child trying to summon the Dark Brotherhood in Windhelm.

When you seek this child out, he will give you a strange and disturbing quest in Riften, where you have to go and kill a woman at an orphanage who treats the children badly. Upon killing her the children will see and start laughing and thanking you for killing her; one will even praise the Dark Brotherhood. After you go outside, a courrier will appear and give you a note with a black hand in the middle, beneath this black hand is written: "WE KNOW".

The note asks you to rent a room at the sleeping giant inn in Riverwood and sleep, then you will be visited by a member of the Dark Brotherhood.

You will awake in an unknown location talking to a girl named Astrid. She will tell about the woman you've killed, and how it pleases the Brotherhood. when you walk outside of your bed, you will see 3 people tied up. on one of them, there is a contract, and you have to figure out who by talking to them. it doesn't really matter which person you choose here, you'll be rewarded with an initiation to the Brotherhood.