Dustman's Cairn
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 Dustman's Cairn
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| Hold | Whiterun Hold |
| Type | Tomb |
| Enemies | Draugr Skeever Silver Hand members |
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Location
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Dustman's Cairn is located south-east of Morthal and south-south-east of Labyrinthian. The entrance is blocked until the The Companions quest, "Proving Honor" has been activated.
WalkthroughEdit
The first room contains "Battle of Sancre Tor", a book that increases two-handed skill, along with a novice locked chest. The dungeon will begin with the Dragonborn facing draugr. Once reaching the part where they get locked in by pulling a lever, the Silver Hand will show up. Proceeding through the dungeon, they will now face a mix of Silver Hand and draugr.
Eventually, the Dragonborn will come to a large room with a locked iron door, the key for which is in the chest in the same room. The room immediately preceding this room has a locked wooden door (adept) that has some ingredients inside. Through the iron door a few skeever will be encountered. There is also an alchemy lab. A passage off this room will lead to a spider's lair with a giant frostbite spider and a regular frostbite spider.
Next, pass through a waterfall and walk across some catwalks to run into some draugr. Walk through the next passage containing draugr crypts and come to an iron door. Through this door is an altar room with the piece of the Wuuthrad for the companion quest Proving Honor and also a Word Wall for the word of power fire breath. Grabbing the fragment causes the draugr in the room to attack. There are several urns and a chest in the altar room. To exit the dungeon take the stairs to the upper level in the altar room and go through the opening in one of the coffins. This leads to a secret passage exiting at the beginning room.
The Word Wall romanisation and translation:
"QETHSEGOL VahRUKIV KiiR JUN JAFNHAR WO LOS AG NahLaaS Naal YOL DO LOT DOVah LODUNOST"
Stone commemerate child' king Jafner who is burn a'live by fire of great Dragon Lodunost
Notable lootEdit
- Spell Tome: Sparks in a chest in the last room. Spell Tome: Conjure Flame Atronach is another possible Tome in that same chest.
- Circlet of Restoration - in the same chest as the Sparks Tome
- Word of Power, "Fire, Fire Breath", in the last room.
- Necklace of Dwindling Frost, in master chest off to side near the end, in ruined walkway.
- Flawless Amethysts
- Battle of Sancre Tor, a two-handed skill book in the first room on a table.
- Shard of Wuuthrad (quest item)
FacilitiesEdit
TriviaEdit
- At the end there will be several waves of draugr. It is possible to short-circuit this ambush by attacking the coffins in the walls to bring them out one at a time before taking the fragment.
- The first lever the Dragonborn comes upon will lock him or her into a room. At this time it's revealed that Farkas is a werewolf.
- Dungeon Lock Outs
- The name comes from the Nord expression for draugr, 'dustman'.
- One of the very few locations in which birds' nests are found indoors.
BugsEdit
- PS3 This is actually a bug when doing the companion quest for the search of the Wuuthrad. There is a huge graphical bug near the ending of the dungeon. The walls might flash blue all over the place and then when one gets out everything is pitch black even the characters. Quitting and restarting the game fixes this.
- PC Possibly due to Ultimate Followers Overhaul mod editing Farkas, I was able to enter Dustman's Cairn & Crypt without starting the main quest line. Grabbing the Wuuthrad Stone did not trigger the Draugr spawn event, so I was trapped. ~->tcl solved problem... will post whether or not killing watchtower dragon will let me snag the Words off the wall and trigger the spawn even.
AppearancesEdit
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (First appearance)
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