Angarvunde
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Hold	The Rift
Type	Nordic Ruin
Quests	Medresi Dran and the Wandering Dead Discover the Treasure of Angarvude
Characters	Medresi Dran
Enemies	Draugr

Angarvunde is an ancient Nordic tomb located in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Contents 1 Description 2 Exterior 3 Angarvunde 4 Angarvunde Ruins 5 Angarvunde Catacombs 6 Quests 7 Dangers 8 Loot 9 Enemies 10 Trivia 11 Word Wall 12 Bugs 13 Appearances

DescriptionEdit

Angarvunde is a large forgotten temple ruin, deep in the Rift’s southwest mountains, far west of Riften.

ExteriorEdit

An abandoned camp lies just outside the Angarvunde’s cavelike entrance. Inspect the informative journal of Medresi Dran on the table and grab the nearby Skill Book before heading inside. Skill Book [Speech]: A Dance in Fire. v7.

AngarvundeEdit

As you enter the ruins, you start out in a narrow passage. A short walk later, you come across Medresi Dran who will ask you to help her. Continue down the passage way and you come across a door way, and a smaller room that opens up into the larger inner chamber, and in this room there are urns open them up some have gold and rubies in them. Inside this larger room are 3 Draugr (leveled), who you need to take care of. After killing these enemies, you can talk to Medresi Dran and she will give you the key you need, or just pickpocket it off of her if you do not want to help her. Now you can go one of two ways, one door leads to the Angarvunde Catacombs, while the other door leads to the Angarvunde Ruins.

1. After you head through the Ruins in the layout below, it will open the first gate needed to advance further into Angarvunde, to open the second one you need to head through the Catacombs.
2. After heading through the Catacombs and pull the second lever, it opens the second gate to head for the treasure.

After Medresi Dran runs to get the treasure, and gets promptly killed for being so greedy, head down the long spiral staircase and down the stairs and through the hallway. Collect your word of power and the chest. The word on the wall is Raan, one of the words for Animal Allegiance as stated in the notes.

Angarvunde RuinsEdit

In the Angarvunde Ruins, you start in a hallway. After coming down a flight of stairs or two you come across your first trap, a pressure plate that, when activated, swings blades. You enter a room, that has a Draugr enemy in it. There are two doorways with bars blocking them off and an iron door that has two burial urns in it. There is also an easily missed chest behind the table with tools on it. Exit through the open doorway, and you enter another larger room, Take out the enemy in the room, and if you want to stay up the stairs and jump the broken bridge to come across a stand with a pressure plate on it. Removing the item makes spears come out of the wall so dodge those.

Head down through the doorway, and watch out for the Draugr that is patrolling the hallway. Keep going in the hallway and it leads you back to the first small room that has the iron bars blocking a doorway. Flipping the lever lowers the bars and allows access to a chest with a novice lock. Head through the other unblocked door way and head down the stairs. There is another Draugr patrolling and a pressure plate on the floor that drops a battering ram trap, this trap kills draugr instantly use to your advantage. After taking care of him there is another one also patrolling past a bend in the hallway. As you enter the large room, 2 more enemies bust out of their coffins and another one on top on a catwalk. After taking care of these enemies there is a chest to the right of the door you came through, and a few potions you can loot on the table by the coffins. Walk across the catwalk and head up the stairs. If you didn't kill the guy up top, no worries you will find him on the catwalk after the stairs. Head through the blue room and loot all the gold on the table. Head up the stairs and take out the last enemy and head through the door back into Angarvunde.

Angarvunde CatacombsEdit

As you enter the door to the catacombs, head down the stairs and into the hallway, then through the hole in the wall on the left. Head down the stairs and into the hole in the floor, before you take the final step off the stairs beware the Draugr that will walk into the room you land in. Move into the hallway and kill the enemy that patrols the hallway. Half-way down the hallway on the left is a staircase that leads to a chest. The chest is trapped, so pick the trap to deactivate it and open up the chest. At the end of this hallway is another enemy, kill him. Continuing on leads to a corner room with an enemy Draugr resting in his hole, take him out and head down the stairs killing the next enemy as well. At the bottom of the stairs is another "resting" Draugr so an easy kill and moving forward is another sleeping kill and a chest. The next room holds another enemy and another chest hidden on the other side of the pillar. Head through the door and start up the stairs but be careful, hidden under some roots halfway up the stairs is a pressure plate, it shoots arrows up from the floor on the staircase in front of you and lasts a while. Another staircase and another pressure plate exactly like the first one as well as an enemy at the top in the doorway.

Head up the vegetated area and kill the two Draugr. At the top of the stairs you enter another burial room where two more Draugr wake up. Keep going and play is smart to take out all the other sleeping enemies in the room. Head up the stairs and keep killing all the sleeping enemies. After killing the rest of the sleeping enemies you head up the final set of stairs and it leads to a door heading back into Angarvunde.

QuestsEdit

Medresi Dran will speak to you when you approach her, you can offer to help her which will start the miscellaneous quest Medresi Dran and The Wandering Dead. If you choose not to follow this quest, the Angarvunde Key may be pickpocketed or looted from her corpse. Looting the key starts the quest Discover the Treasure of Angarvunde.

DangersEdit

• Battering Ram Trap (pressure plate)
• Floor Arrows (pressure plate)
• Spear Trap (pedestal pressure plate)
• Swinging Blade Trap (pressure plates)
• Trapped Chest

LootEdit

• Skill Book [Illusion] - Before the Ages of Man.
• Skill Book [Speech] - A Dance in Fire, v7.
• Broken Steel Sword Handle.
• One Corundum Ore Vein.
• Black Soul Gems.
• Book: Wraith's Wedding Dowry.
• Alchemy Ingredients:
  • 4 Canis Root.
• Countless gems on the dead draugrs in the catacombs.
• gold and countless flawless gems in urns scattered through-out

EnemiesEdit

• Draugr
• Draugr Deathlord
• Draugr Scourge
• Restless Draugr
• Draugr Wight
• Hulking Draugr^DB - These are also added to the main game if you purchased and installed the Dragonborn DLC.

TriviaEdit

• To open the gate in the central chamber, you must go through both the ruins and catacombs and open all the spike gates that lead into the main chamber. Once this is done, the main gate will open.
• There is an easter egg in the spike trap room where Madresi is killed. An opened chest, containing a broken sword, a gold ring (sometimes a coin purse) and a severed hand. This is a reference to the first defeat of Sauron in Lord of the Rings.
• The vegetated area in the Catacombs has four of the biggest Canis Roots in all of Skyrim.

Word WallEdit

• Word Wall: Animal Allegiance

BugsEdit

• If the undead in the main hall are killed and the outlying passages explored before returning to speak with Medresi Dran, the quest will not update until both gates are open even though it still says to speak with her. Once both gates, are open the quest will advance normally upon speaking with her. Alternatively, she can also be killed and the quest will continue.
• If the player pickpockets the key from Medresi and opens the gates before talking to her, she will not realize the gates have been opened. To fix this, the player must talk to her to so that she gives the player the key again, then exit the chamber, reenter, and close and reopen the outer gate. This process must be repeated twice, once for each gate. You have the option of killing Medresi instead, which will raise the staircase and allow you to progress.
•  PC   360  Word wall malfunctions. Sound plays, but wall will not glow, so the player is unable to receive the final word of power. Killing Madresi has no affect on receiving this word. No current known solution. This seems to be caused by the player already knowing all three words of the Animal Allegiance shout.

AppearancesEdit

• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (First appearance)

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