I found myself going through the mages guild today and tonight, partaking in various exploits for each quest, finally got to the Bloodworm Helm quest. Anyone else find it odd how we find Irlav Jarol? The necromancers are only in the first part of the dungeon, they never reach him. The areas close to his body in the fort are surrounded by Daedra, who do battle with the necromancers, but why? What was he working on? Now the Bloodworm Helm does increase conjuration skill by a degree, but it seems odd that he would have summoned so many. Perhaps he was attempting to raise an army to tackle the Mannimarco problem? Even more confusing to me it the broken shrine to Nocturnal.(i'm guessing, the figure wears a hood and two birds alight on its shoulders) What does Nocturnal have to do with any of this?

Hmmm.... maybe Irlav was trying to summon either Nocturnal or some of her daedra minions in an attempt to get some information from her/them about what Mannimarco was doing and how strong his forces were and such?