The story begins as you are summoned to a secret midnight meeting with your friend, Emperor Uriel Septim VII in a dimly lighted room. He tells you that one year ago his friend King Lysandus was killed honorably on the field of battle, yet his spirit haunts Daggerfall, crying for Vengeance. He asks you to find out why this is so. He also tells you that several years ago he wrote a letter of a personal nature to the Queen of Daggerfall which never arrived. He asks you to find and destroy this letter.