Skyrim:Whispering Lady

This article is about the avatar encountered during The Whispering Door. For the placeholder NPC used for Mephala's voice, see Mephala (Khajiit).

The Old Wooden Door

The end table behind the door

The Whispering Lady is an avatar of Mephala. She is not seen in-game but is instead spoken to through an Old Wooden Door in the basement of Dragonsreach.

Related QuestsEdit

• The Whispering Door: Investigate Nelkir's story of a Whispering Lady behind a locked door.

Quest-Related EventsEdit

The door is locked and requires a key to open, but you can activate the door to hear Mephala's voice.

(Listen at the door)

"At last. I've been waiting for someone more fit to carry out my will. The child is spirited, but lacks... agency."

Is there someone behind the door?

"Regrettably, I cannot reach your plane so directly. But I forgive you for not knowing who I am. Few hear my whispers anymore. I am Mephala, the Lady of Whispers. I tug at the web of connections between mortals. Love, hatred, loyalty, betrayal. The boy was good at sussing out secrets. You, I expect to take a more active role."

What could the boy not do?

"The boy is good at sussing out secrets, but the corruptibility of children is ultimately too limited for my purposes. You, though, I expect will prove far more malleable."

Who are you to expect anything?

"I forgive your not knowing my name. Few can hear my whispers anymore. I am Mephala, the Lady of Whispers. I tug at the web of connections between mortals. Love, hatred, loyalty, betrayal."

I'm not so easily molded.

"You may think so. But in the end, you mortals will always flit like fire with the winds of your desires and conveniences. And those winds issue from my whispers."

Regardless of your choices above, you can either ask her what she wants or you can decline to help, the latter of which will exit conversation.

What do you want me to do? "First, you must open this door. A piece of my power has been locked away behind it, and even my eyes cannot see past the seals. I'd much rather it be in the hands of an ambitious and talented person such as yourself."

I don't want to help you. "Suit yourself. But those who listen at doors always wonder what is beyond them. Eventually your curiosity will drive you back to me."

If you chose to help, you can continue by asking:

How do I open the door?

"The whole of Whiterun is ripe with paranoia and tensions. The Jarl's court is right to fear the power I hold behind this door. The Jarl trusts few, and they will be his undoing. The dark child knows of what I speak. Let him guide your path."

Once you open the door with the Whispering Door Key and take the Ebony Blade resting inside, Mephala speaks to you again.

"Excellent work. Now, I trust you're sharp enough to see that the sword doesn't match the description of the Ebony Blade you may know. It has languished too long outside the winds of alliance and betrayal."

Each time you power the Ebony Blade to the next level, Mephala will say one of the following lines:

"Excellent work, child."

"I can feel their heartbreak swelling in my blade."

"Their tears shine the ebony to a sharpest gleam."

"Ah, the blood of deceit is a nourishing flow."

When the blade is fully powered, she'll tell you:

"At last, my blade is returned to its full glory. Now go forth, child. Continue your tiny subversions against the orders of trust and intimacy."

NotesEdit

• The refID of the Old Wooden Door is 0004A48C.
• The source of Mephala's voice behind the locked door is actually an end table with a refID of 0004A38A.