And also: uesp wiki wrote: Your choice at this point has several implications, although either choice allows you to complete the Main Quest: The Ring of Lordship you receive as duke or duchess has different enchantments for the Mania and Dementia versions. Your choice, however, will determine just when you will receive each power and the duration of the summon.
The unique item you get to loot from your dead predecessor is different. Syl is carrying Nerveshatter, whereas Thadon is wearing the Diadem of Euphoria. However, you will subsequently be able to acquire the other item during The Roots of Madness quest.
The final opponent during The Roots of Madness will be different: it will be whichever of Syl or Thadon you previously left alive, and you will now get to obtain their unique item. You will receive full access to your respective House, Mania or Dementia, once you are granted Lordship. A realm of pure madness shouldn't be, well, a teeny bit dull. And that's the problem: The Shivering Isles is mildly eccentric and quite pretty, but it's definitely not ecstatically, brain-boiling insane.
As such it's a wasted opportunity. All the characters you meet are supposed to be loonies, but instead they generally just say something a bit odd when you meet them. They have over-the-top character traits, but isn't that a bit like all videogame characters, ever?
Instead of making us want to take a step back with this screaming lunacy, or putting a chill in our bones with their grotesque fantasies, they're just a mildly weird. One guy is interested in meat who isn't?! One person believes she's going to die, another is worried about diseases. One guy is hungry. Are mad people just hungry? It would explain a lot. One guy - get this - wants a house. The crazy fool!
All this might be excusable with a grand turn from the prince himself, but he's just vaguely amusing. It's a childish portrait of a lunatic. He's like the evil madman might be in a children's TV show - all camp and without substance.
He never really seems threatening, in the way that the truly disturbed do. It's all an act, and thank goodness he's got quests to dispense so you can get back into that exquisite world And, well, that's another less than satisfactory subject: quests. The overall story-arc is splendid, and well told with it: The Knights Of Boredom are coming along to normalise things, and the forces of madness must put a stop to it. That, I like. It's just all the tasks you have to perform along the way that seem under the bar.
There's none of the expectation-defying intrigue and guile that made Oblivion's quests so compulsive. You're able to listen to what both mad priests have to say about the great flames and how to actually go about becoming duke or duchess.
For Mania, you must poison Thaden's food. Find Thaden's secondary and ask her for help in killing their lord. It's tradition after all. Wide-Eye can be found either in the Halcyon Conservatory or in Bliss. Bribe her enough so that she will tell you the daily routines of Thaden.
Speaking to Wide-Eye reveals there's a secret silo filled with Bliss' favorite drug. You must follow her and sneak inside. This place will be a cave full of Golden Saints you can either sneak past or murder in this quest.
When you get to your destination there will be a mound of Greenmote and Wide-Eye. After you collect the Greenmote your quest will update and say you need to sneak inside another restricted area to effectively poison Thaden's meal before it gets to him. The quest explains that you must wait for the right time of day to sneak in and drug the food.
Press T on the keyboard to wait and change the times of day. Follow the quest marker around New Sheoth's palace grounds until you find the door to Mania's private quarters.
You can lockpick the door and sneak through the halls filled with Golden Saints. You can use any item that has a status effect called Life Detection to see when there are guards around the corners.
Personally I would prefer Mania as an eccentric creator. Gameplay, they are effectively the same but whatever. Mania is all I like about Sheogorath as a personality. While Dementia can be 'fun', Mania is just more appealing to me. Personally, I prefer Dementia. Its people, though very suicidal, aren't as overly annoying as those that can be found in Mania.
Plus, its scenery is easier on the eyes. All those bright colors
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