Broken Tower Redoubt is overgrown with thicket. Yet within the ruins the Forsworn had eked out a living... they also look different from the usual - the guards better armed, more capable at spellcasting, and the place is strewn with clues of some kind of demented nature worship.
And they're led by Briarhearts - zombie-like (ex) persons that had replaced their hearts with a briar through some magical ritual. By some perversion of nature this gives the Briarheart unnatural toughness. They say that if you managed to sneak up on a Briarheart and pick his heart from the crevice of his chest, the undead will fall on his feet and die... But they die by arrows through the heart easily enough.
In the heart of Broken Tower Redoubt, I find an old shrine of Dibella, desecrated by Forsworn dark ritual. Further down the room in a cell I find two prisoners. The Sibyl is thankfully unharmed. The other man I now recall is the priest of Boethiah that Molag Bal had required me to free.
Logrolf is reasonably cautious that anyone would have come to save him, but I convinced him that Boethiah sent me, so that he can continue his humiliation of Molag Bal in "that room"... realising that I know of his task, Logrolf became a lot more trusting. A wiser person would realise that Boethiah, the Daedric Prince of treachery who revels in the sacrifice of the weak, would never save someone so weak as to have gotten himself caught... but then again a wise person would not have devoted faith to seek power from a Daedric Prince that's all about exploiting the weak.
The priest of Boethiah found his way to Molag Bal himself, while I escort the little Sybil, who needed more protection. At the Temple of Dibella, the priestesses thanked me for going above and beyond to rescue their Sybil. Our past... transgressions with the temple is forgiven, and they offer a boon of Dibella for my efforts - I can now do better with the opposite sex.
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