The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles Game Guide/Walkthrough
Quest: The Roots of Madness
In order to clear the Font of the taint of order, you'll need to head down into the Fountainhead below the throne room (there's a doorway behind the tree) to reach where Order is poisoning the waters.
There are plenty of Gnarls in this area, as Haskill has stated, but many of them are friendly to you, or at least tolerate your presence. The friendly Gnarls will remove the Order taint on the root doors here, allowing you to bypass them. If you come to an Order-tainted door, look around for a Gnarl Chrysalis and activate it to spit out a new Gnarl. Eventually the Gnarl, or one of its kind, will open the doorway and let you move on. There are also a few corrupted pools in this area; kill the Priests of Order who dwell nearby and grab the Shards of Order that they carry to both cleanse the pool and let you break through any Order-tainted doors that you see. You can also use these on the crystal-encrusted tree stumps in the area to unlock their treasures, but you probably won't be finding anything too useful.
Head into the Pools of Mania and Dementia and kill the groups of Priests around the large crystal clusters there to cleanse the Font of Madness. Either Syl or Thadon will appear in one of the pools, so kill them as well to finish your job and return to Haskill to complete your little quest.
Quest: The End of Order
After activating the Font of Madness and obtaining the Staff of Sheogorath, you'll be told of an Obelisk that has activated on the Palace Grounds. Your job? Go out there and clean up the mess.
As soon as you enter the courtyard, one of the Obelisks will be active. No secret to what you need to do here; throw down and put three Hearts of Order into it to shut it down, then kill the Priest nearby to seal it shut. While you're doing so, another Obelisk will appear across the way, so repeat the process on it as well. You may find it helpful to use the Staff of Sheogorath here; it'll freeze all of the people around you in place as you walk up and insert the Hearts into the Obelisks.
After both of the Obelisks are sealed, Jyggalag will suck up all of his Knights and Priests into the sky and manifest himself onto the ground, resulting in a one-on-one fight between you and the God of Order. He'll occasionally zap you with lightning, but apart from that, he'll mostly be content to whack you with his sword. He was no problem for our fighter character; we simply popped a Restore Health potion and went toe-to-toe against him with a Perfect Madness Axe with the Damage Health enchantment, and he died after a few good whacks. However you might deal with a single tough character, feel free to bust out the chops here; use poisons, summons, or whatever else you might've been saving for a special occasion.
When Jyggalag dies, he'll give you a lengthy speech and leave you to run your kingdom. You can find Sheogorath's outfit on the throne, and will be able to speak to Haskill to deal with other minor emergencies around your realm, such as bandit or animal attacks on the towns. These aren't full-fledged quests, so they won't appear as such.
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