How to Get Nightingale Armor in Skyrim

Last Updated: June 17, 2021

Nightingale armor is an awesome choice for a thief class in Skyrim. If you want to get your own, you have to join the Thieves Guild and complete some of its main questline.

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Joining the Thieves Guild

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Go to Riften. You can get there by walking or you can take a carriage from Whiterun, Markarth, Solitude or Windhelm. If you have already been to Riften you can fast travel to it.
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Go to the main marketplace and you will see a red headed Nord male called Brynjolf approach you. He will ask you to steal Madesi's silver ring from his strong box under the stall and place it inside Brand-Shei's pocket

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Go back to Brynjolf. Once this is successfully done, speak to Brynjolf again and he will ask you to go into the sewers to find a place called the Ragged Flagon which is the Thieves Guild hideout.
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Get money. Once you are there, he will ask you to extort money from three bartenders at places called Haelga's Bunkhouse, The Bee And Barb and the Brawny Prawn.
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Once you have gotten the money from all of them, go back to the Ragged Flagon and talk to Brynjolf.
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He will induct you into the Thieves guild after you follow him into Ragged Flagon cistern
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Finish every quest he gives you (not including the quests you get from Delvin or Vex ) until you are on a quest called Trinity Restored.
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Once you are on the quest called Trinity Restored, you need to follow Karlia and Brynjolf into The Nightingale Hideout and from there, follow Karlia and Brynjolf some more until you're all standing in front of three armor stones
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Activate the armor stones and you will get the full set of Nightingale armor. There will be a cutscene where you and Brynjolf are inducted as Nightingales.

Community Q&A

Question

Is talking to Delvin and Vex a quest from him?

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Community Answer

Finish every quest he gives you (not including the quests you get from Delvin or Vex ) until you are on a quest called Trinity Restored.