Lore:Rueful Axe

The Rueful Axe

The Rueful Axe is a Daedric artifact created by the Daedric Prince, Clavicus Vile, as part of a terrible bargain. It takes the form of a large iron battleaxe engraved with images of werewolves, although it is actually made of ebony. It is enchanted to steal the strength of anything it strikes, as well as a bane for beasts.

Circa 2E 582, a number of visual replicas designed in the Rueful Axe's image were seen throughout Tamriel.

Sometime after the end of the Great War, circa 4E 180, the Warrior came across the axe in their journey. The method of its acquisition is conflicted, however; some claim that it was obtained from the plane of Oblivion known as the Abyss, while others believe it was looted from a chest.

Clavicus Vile gave the axe to Sebastian Lort, a powerful Breton conjurer whose daughter was a worshipper of Hircine and cursed with lycanthropy. To cure his daughter, Sebastian prayed to Vile for his aid. In response, the Prince gave him the axe, allowing him a means of "curing" his daughter-- by slaying her. Sometime afterward, Sebastian would lose the axe.

In 4E 201, Clavicus Vile tasked the Last Dragonborn with retrieving the axe from Sebastian, who had reclaimed the axe. He was residing in a cave named Rimerock Burrow in Haafingar, Skyrim. In return, the Dragonborn requested that Vile would forgive Barbas, whom he had banished to Tamriel. Vile gave the Dragonborn the option to, either keep the Rueful Axe and use it to slay Barbas, temporarily vanquishing him to the Void, or going through with the original deal in which Vile would take both Barbas and the Axe in return for the Masque of Clavicus Vile. It is unknown which option the Last Dragonborn chose.

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See Also

• For game-specific information, see the Skyrim, ESO, and Blades articles.