Upon offering a sample of undead corpse matter, Meridia will awaken and speak to the Hero. They learn that, unlike other Daedric Princes, Meridia loathes undead and makes it the charge of her followers to destroy them whenever possible. She informs them that necromancers at Howling Cave loot and defile the graves of the recently dead in order to create abominations of reanimating undead. The Hero is tasked to destroy them.