Oblivion: Hermaeus Mora Quest

Requirements
Before you can activate the shrine and start this quest, you must meet the
following requirements:

a.. You must have completed all 14 of the other Daedric Shrine quests.
b.. You must be level 20 or higher.
c.. You must have at least started the Blood of the Daedra quest (the
point in the main quest where Martin asks you for a daedric artifact). It is
possible to have finished the quest, but that is not a requirement (in other
words, it is possible to use this quest's reward, the Oghma Infinium, as
Martin's daedric artifact).
d.. You can do this quest even if you keep Umbra in Clavicus Vile's quest
(although you must visit Clavicus Vile's shrine and tell him that you will
not give him Umbra, thus completing the quest).
If you have not yet met the requirements, you will be told by Ri'Jirr: "You
have not yet followed the path required to speak with the Lord Hermaeus
Mora". Unlike all other shrines, you will not be given any clues as to what
is required, nor will a quest be added to your journal. See the oblivion map
for the location of this shrine.

Bugs
a.. Do not cast the soultrap spell on two different beings (or twice on
the same being) within the 120 second time-frame of the spell. This will
cause the spell to stop functioning correctly on all future casts regardless
of whether you kill the NPCs that you double-cast on or not.
a.. On the PC, a fixing mod can be downloaded (Hermaeus Mora Daedric
Quest Fix). The bug is also fixed in the Unofficial Oblivion Patch (if you
use it, you don't need the separate patch).
b.. A workaround is possible on PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. Cast the soul
trap on an unwanted NPC and then cast it again (within 120 seconds) on the
NPC you actually want to trap (at this point, if everything was well a
pop-up message would appear telling you that you can only soul trap one
person at a time). Now kill the second NPC and you should trap their soul
successfully (assuming you needed their soul in the first place!). If this
does not work, cast the spell on an invalid target (e.g. a crate, barrel,
horse) and then on your desired target. All ten races can be collected this
way, without having to revert to an older save.
a.. Occasionally you will not be able to soul trap one of the races.
a.. Saving your game to a new save (be sure to not overwrite the last
save made before the start of the quest), quitting out of the game entirely,
restarting, and reloading can fix this problem.
b.. If saving and reloading does not work then you may have to load a
game that was saved prior to the start of Hermaeus Mora quest and redo the
quest.
c.. On the PC, you can use console commands to bypass the rest of the
quest. The command player.setstage 000146AF 40 gives you automatic credit
for capturing all 10 souls.
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