Blood on the Ice

Blood on the Ice is a quest initiated in Windhelm.

Accuse the Mage Method:


 * 1) Approach Windhelm's chapel graveyard; there will be several people gathered around a dead female corpse.


 * 1) Speak with the guard.


 * 1) Visit Jorleif to be granted permission to help the investigation.
 * 2) Return to the guard.


 * 1) Enter the Hall of the Dead and speak with the "coroner" inside.


 * 1) Return to the body, follow the trail of blood to Hjerim.
 * 2) Return to Jorleif for advice.


 * 1) Pick the lock (Master Level) or receive a key from the victim's mother and enter the house.


 * 1) Investigate all of the furniture that gives you the option. The dresser on the northeast side from entering the house will have a hidden door leading to an altar.


 * 1) Take the Butcher's Journal #2, exit and grab the first journal, strange amulet and flyer from the shelf.
 * 2) Visit the Candlehearth Inn or Calixto's House of Curiosities to speak with Calixto. You can show him the strange amulet and even sell it to him, if you so choose.  He will tell you it belongs to the court mage.
 * 3) Visit Viola Giordano. She's often found in the Inn.
 * 4) Return to Jorlief to end the quest and thus accuse the court mage of the murders.

''Note: There are two different endings to this quest. ''