Initiates must display the ability to kill mercilessly, without regret or sorrow. Man or woman may join the Dark Brotherhood. 'Sweet Mother, sweet Mother, send your child unto me, for the sins of the unworthy must be baptized in blood and fear.' ―The Black Sacrament ritual This type of life for the Brotherhood continues until the Dragonborn joins them. In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the Dark Brotherhood has no listener to hear the Night Mother and thus hears about The Black Sacrament through rumors.

Cicero, one of two remaining Dark Brotherhood assassins outside of Skyrim (the other believed to be a deserter), took the Night Mother's corpse from Bravil to the last remaining Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary. By the end of the war, the Brotherhood was near total destruction once again. They managed to survive until the Great War, when, one after another, each Brotherhood Sanctuary was destroyed. Due to the events of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the Dark Brotherhood in Cyrodiil was crippled. The Dark Brotherhood has been struggling for survival ever since the end of the Third Era. 3 Attracting the Dark Brotherhood's attention.

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