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Shardmarshal Vargas
Location	Rustwall Catacombs, Feldagard Keep Barracks, Ithelia's Shrine, Loom of the Untraveled Road, Miscarcand, Terthil's Well Cave
Race	Dremora	Gender	Female
Reaction	Friendly

Shardmarshal Vargas is a Shardborn Dremora who can be encountered leading forces around the West Weald in service to her Prince.

Related Quests

• The Missing Cohort: Investigate the fate of the missing cohort and servants at Rustwall Estate.

Quest-Related Events

The Missing Cohort

If you have started Paths of Chaos from Leramil the Wise, the Rustwall Estate will be one of the locations she asks you to investigate. Once there, you will assist Tribune Alea Idolus in finding out what has happened to the missing Rustwall staff and legion cohort assigned to guard the area. You eventually learn that the cohort forces were slowly whittled down, and the survivors had taken refuge within the Rustwall Catacombs.

Inside the catacombs, you will find members of the Recollection and the Shardborn, soon Tribune Alea will notice something on the level below you:

Tribune Alea Idolus: "Look, down there!"

<Tribune Alea heads over to the railing.>

Recollection Commander Erorath: "Still no sign of the escaped legionary, shardmarshal."

Shardmarshal Vargas: "No matter, mortal. More of our forces will come through soon."

Recollection Commander Erorath: "As you say, Shardmarshal Vargas. We have more than enough weapons now."

<Shardmarshal Vargas walks away and jumps down a hole.>

Tribune Alea Idolus: "That Wood Elf, he's with the Recollection. And he's taking orders from a Dremora? What's going on here?"

From a survivor you find, you learn there is an attack planned on Skingrad and that there is a Daedric portal on the lower level which is bringing in Daedric forces. Upon reaching the chamber containing the portal:

Tribune Alea Idolus: "The portal! Destroy the anchors, comrade!"

Shardmarshal Vargas: "Defend the anchors! Maintain the portal!"

<Marcorlaz of Mirrormoor is summoned to defend the anchors.>

Upon breaking reaching an anchor, Shardmarshal Vargas will cry out:

<First anchor shattered.>

Shardmarshal Vargas: "The anchors! Stop them!"

<Second anchor shattered.>

Shardmarshal Vargas: "Damn these mortals! Retreat!"

<Shardmarshal Vargas creates her own portal and leaves.>

Seeds of Suspicion

You encounter Shardmarshall Vargas in the throne room of Hoperoot, where she leaves the Staff of Many Paths of King Nantharion. Vargas notices you and you fight Greenspeaker Sorilen while Nantharion and Vargas perform the ritual to prepare the Wildburn Seed.

Shardmarshal Vargas: "I leave the Staff of Many Paths in your care, Nantharion. Use it well—bah! Your tree has pests!"

King Nantharion: "Greenspeaker Sorilen, deal with the intruders! They must not interfere with the ritual!"

King Nantharion: "Vargas, help me prepare the seed!"

You defeat Sorilen and destroy the Wildburn Seed, releasing a wave of energy that knocks Nantharion and Vargas down:

Shardmarshal Vargas: "No! The ritual is not complete!"

King Nantharion: "Something's wrong! It's too soon! The wildburn seed released its energy too early! Run!"

Vargas and Nantharion run away as Hoperoot shakes, covered in a dark miasma.

The Many Paths

While exploring the first alternate reality alongside Ithelia, you encounter alternate versions of Shardmarshal Vargas, Torvesard and that reality's Ithelia:

Torvesard "The enemy approaches! They come to imprison my Prince."

Ithelia: "No, Torvesard. They are … different. Approach, pathwalker, and speak with me."

You can speak to the alternate Torvesard and Shardmarshal Vargas, who will comment on your presence and that of your reality's Ithelia in their own world:

"Why does my Prince allow this mortal to speak with her? Hermaeus Mora and the other betrayers approach. We have no time to waste with mortal nonsense.

Where I come from, you and I are enemies.

"You are my enemy yet you still live? Perhaps there is more to you than I thought, mortal. Or, more likely, the Vargas of your path is a coward who runs from battles.
Either way, should you start a fight here, I will end you quickly."

Hold the Line

In the armory of the Feldagard Keep's barracks, you encounter the commander of the Daedric siege, Shardmarshal Vargas, who is using Abolisher to create a portal for her forces to enter the keep through.

Shardmarshal Vargas: "Go. Take your forces and capture the keep. I will gather reinforcements in Mirrormoor."

Shardborn Bulwark: "As you command, Shardmarshal Vargas."

You make your way across the side path. Vargas opens a portal with Abolisher, Alea leaps down and tackles her in, urging you to follow:

Tribune Alea Idolus: "She opened a portal! I'm leaping down!"

Tribune Alea Idolus: "I'll tackle her in. Follow us!"

Shardmarshal Vargas: "An attack? You dare!"

You enter the portal to find yourself in Mirrormoor. Alea is trying to take Abolisher from Vargas:

Tribune Alea Idolus: "Give me that blade, Vargas."

Shardmarshal Vargas: "Take Abolisher if you can mortal! Ah! No!"

Vargas kicks Alead down, having lost Abolisher. Shardborn forces appear out of portals to retrieve the blade:

Shardmarshal Vargas: "Kill them, my Shardborn! Recover Abolisher!"

As you fight and more foes appear, Vargas will comment.

Shardmarshal Vargas: "The Shardborn are endless, mortal!"

Shardmarshal Vargas: "More! I need more warriors!"

Upon defeating all the Daedra:

Tribune Alea Idolus: "She called the blade Abolisher. It's all yours, comrade."

Shardmarshal Vargas: "Abolisher will be mine again, mortals! We shall definitely meet again!"

Vargas opens a portal and disappears. You open a portal back to Feldagard Keep using Abolisher.

King Nantharion's Gambit

After entering the Old Well at Terthill Farm you come across a memory that can be revealed with the Echonir:

Shardmarshal Vargas: "This place should serve. Tell Nantharion to bring a seed here. And suggest he guard this seed better than the last few."

You destroy the Wildburn Seed and depart.

In the Miscarcand Deep Halls you come across a memory of the Daedra of Mirrormoor fighting the minions of Hermaeus Mora:

Tribune Alea Idolus: "Look! Didn't we see something like that in Hoperoot? Use the Echonir."

Torvesard "Guard the door! They must not reach the well!"

Tribune Alea will wonder who the forces fighting are:

Tribune Alea Idolus: "The memory of a great battle? Who are Ithelia's forces fighting?"

Shardmarshal Vargas will than run into the chamber and sends you into the memory itself, trapping you and causing you to vanish from the real world and making the Daedra in the memory real to you:

Tribune Alea Idolus: "Up there! It's Shardmarshal Vargas!"

Shardmarshal Vargas: "Warriors of Mirrormoor, stand fast against Mora's minions!"

Shardmarshal Vargas: "If this memory interests you so much, allow me to send you there!"

Tribune Alea Idolus: "Comrade? Comrade where are you?"

You defeat the Daedra in the memory and use Abolisher to destroy the Mirrormoor Portal. Than you use Abolisher to cut open a portal and return to the real world:

Tribune Alea Idolus: "There you are! You just...vanished.

Tribune Alea Idolus: "That memory showed Shardborn fighting other Daedra. Ithelia was defending something in this place."

You eventually fight King Nantharion, who is wielding the Staff of Many Paths and being aided by the Daedra of Mirrormoor, before the great well of Miscarcand. In the background Shardmarshal Vargas and Ithelia can be seen pulling on the power of the well.

After Nantharion is defeated, the Staff of Many Paths rises into the air and flies into the hands of Shardmarshal Vargas. Vargas uses the Staff of Many Paths to channel the power from the well into Ithelia, restoring her ancient might, causing her to grow larger and assume her glass-winged form:

Shardmarshal Vargas: "The Staff of Many Paths was never meant for mortal hands. Witness it's true power!"

Shardmarshal Vargas: "Ithelia! Unweaver, Mistress of the Many Paths, let your glory be restored!

Shardmarshal Vargas: "Remember your true self and free us from the chains of fate!""'

<Ithelia rises into the air and transforms>

Ithelia: "I am whole! Come, Vargas. It is time to go home. With the Loom I will restore all that was lost."

<Ithelia opens a portal and her and Vargas walk through>

Beragon has recovered:

Beragon: "I'm all right Tribune. You stopped Nantharion from unleashing that final wildburn on the Weald. Thank you, my friend."

Tribune Alea Idolus: "We stopped one threat, but did you see? Ithelia...changed."

Beragon: "Let's talk about this back in Skingrad, friends."

The Untraveled Road

In Fargrave, in the Inner Quarter, Shardmarshal Vargas appears and strikes at you and your allies with streams of magic, a storm of glass shards blows through the street. Vargas banishes Beragon and Alea to the Many Paths, but Leramil manages to shield you and herself:

Leramil the Wise: "Beware! Shardmarshal Vargas is above you!"

<Alea and Beragon are lifted into the air and scream>

Leramil the Wise: "Proxy, stay close!"

<A shield forms around you>

Shardmarshal Vargas: "You dare trespass in Mirrormoor? In the very heart of our power?"

Shardmarshal Vargas: "I banish you to the Many Paths, never to return!"

<Alea and Beragon vanish and Vargas disappears>

Leramil the Wise: "Vargas banished our allies into the Many Paths. It took everything I had just to shield us."

Leramil the Wise: "Beragon and Tribune Alea are beyond our help for now. We must go on without them."

After reaching the empty arch that held the portal to the pocket dimension where the Loom of the Untraveled Road is housed, you encounter an Echonir manifestation:

Leramil the Wise: "A lingering memory? Use the Echonir, proxy."

You see Shardmarshal Vargas and Torvesard standing before what appears to be an empty arch:

Shardmarshal Vargas: "Your wanderings are futile, Torvesard. What you seek is here. The Loom of the Untraveled Road. I have no idea what it is, but I am certain it is important."

Torvesard: "You can stare at the sealed portal until you go mad, Vargas. I go in search of my missing memories."

The memory ends.

Leramil the Wise: "A memory of Torvesard and Vargas before they recovered what had been forgotten. Let us talk."

After entering the pocket dimension and defeating some Shardborn, you come across another Echonir manifestation:

Leramil the Wise: "Proxy, look. Another memory. Use the Echonir."

In the memory Ithelia explains what the Loom of the Untraveled Road is to Torvesard and Shardmarshal Vargas:

Ithelia: My Loom of the Untraveled Road fills this place. From its core, I can break the shackles of fate. Undo mistakes. Unlock possibilities. Create new histories."

Leramil comments that Ithelia plans to use the Loom to change history and so restore all that was lost:

Leramil the Wise: "Ithelia can use the Loom to change history? That is how she will restore what was lost!"

The memory continues:

Shardmarshall Vargas: "It's magnificent! But won't some Princes see it as a threat?"

Ithelia: A threat? This is a gift. The gift of unconstrained choice."

Ithelia: The Loom will weave a new story for every being, what they choose to be true. All shall benefit!"

Torvesard: A wonderful gift indeed, my Prince!"

The memory ends, Leramil says you need to hurry and stop Ithelia and Vargas, who have reached the Loom's core, before the reality you know is destroyed:

Leramil the Wise: "Ithelia and Vargas have reached the loom's core. We must reach them before they destroy the reality we know."

After you reach a dead end and are unsure how to proceed, Leramil opens a portal in an attempt to reach the Loom. However, Shardmarshall Vargas notices and diverts the spell to lead to Ithelia's Prison:

Leramil the Wise: "Hurry, now. The portal I opened should carry us as far as the Loom's core."

Shardmarshall Vargas "Ithelia does not wish to be disturbed. Rot in the very prison that held her for all those eons!"

Leramil the Wise: "Vargas diverted my portal! She trapped us in Ithelia's prison. Look for a way out, proxy!"'

You encounter Vargas when you reach the Loom. It is a shell of crystal surrounded by floating crystalline formations. The giant skeletons of Bearers are arranged in a circle all around it. Leramil describes it as a device of unimaginable power which is what Hermaeus Mora feared:

Tribune Alea Idolus: "What in the name of all the Divines is that thing?"

Leramil the Wise: "A Daedric apparatus of unimaginable power. What the One Who Knows feared.

Leramil the Wise: "We must find our way to the Loom's core and destroy that infernal machine."

Beragon "I see Ithelia, Shardmarhsal Vargas, and Torvesard down there."

Tribune Alea Idolus: "What are we waiting for than? Let's finish this."

As you fight through more Shardborn forces, you can hear a conversation between Ithelia and her lieutenants. Ithelia explains she'll rewrite history by locating a path where she was never in conflict with the other Princes and weaving it into your reality with the Loom:

Ithelia "Now I can undo my long imprisonment. Make it so I was never forgotten."

Ithelia "I can find a path in which the Princes and I were never in conflict. And with the Loom I shall weave it into this reality!"

Torvesard: The Loom awaits my Prince. Reshape the fates and restore the glory of Mirrormoor!"

Shardmarshall Vargas "Mirrormoor stands ready, my Prince. Weave a better reality with your Loom!"

Leramil the Wise: "Ithelia has not yet activated the Loom. We can still intervene!"

You reach the core of the Loom. Ithelia is floating above, connected to it and pulling in power. Torvesard stands beneath. Shardmarshall Vargas waits to stop you:

Tribune Alea Idolus: "Now! Give them no quarter!"

Beragon "Watch out! The Shardmarshal's waiting for us!"

Leramil the Wise "Defeat Shardmarshal Vargas so we can reach the Loom!"

Vargas is shielded so you need to use Abolisher:

Beragon "Vargas is shielded, friend! Use Abolisher to detroy the portals!"

During the fight your allies fight with you:

Shardmarshall Vargas "You dare use Abolisher against me?"

Ithelia "Why, mortals? I do this for you. Vargas, protect the Loom!"

Ithelia will allow Vargas to draw upon some of her power, transforming her:

Ithelia "Vargas, draw on my power! Defend the Loom!"

After Vargas is defeated:

Ithelia "Vargas, no! Wait, I can set this right."

Leramil the Wise "Now, proxy! Use Abolisher to destroy the Loom!"

You use Abolisher to destroy the central sigil of the Loom. The floating crystals shatter, followed by the crystalline formation surrounding Ithelia exploding in a burst of energy:

Ithelia "Arggh! My Loom! But the power! Such terrible power!"

The light surrounding Ithelia becomes brighter and turns crimson, though the Loom is destroyed she has been filled with untold power drawn from the Many Paths through it:

Torvesard: The Loom is destroyed, my Prince! We must leave this place!"

Ithelia "I am the Last Tomorrow, the Unweaver! I am filled with the power of the Many Paths! Come, Torvesard, away!"

<Ithelia and Torvesard disappear>

Beragon "You did it, friend. But what's happening to Ithelia?"

Tribune Alea Idolus: "Ithelia has become...something else"

Leramil the Wise "Abolisher is depleted, but it did its job. The Loom has been destroyed. I shall open an exit. Let us leave this place."

Leramil opens a portal and you pass through to return to Skingrad.

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