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Quests
The Break of Dawn
The Dragonborn is sent here by Meridia to kill Malkoran and the Corrupted Shades that have taken up residence in her temple.
Notable items
- Dawnbreaker
- The Battle of Red Mountain (Block) skill book, found in the second section of the ruins, in the upper west corner on a bookcase.
- Large amounts of gold on the desecrated corpses. Although many of them appear to be wearing Imperial Armor and Stormcloak Armor, nothing other than gold can be taken from them.
- Some of the Corrupted Shades carry Imperial Swords, as well as a variety of other weapons.
- A Word Wall for the Elemental Fury shout is outside the temple northeast from the bottom of the stairs that lead to Meridia's statue.
- Various Soul Gems
- Potion of Extended Invisibility and Virulent Poison can be obtained using the Telekinesis Alteration spell, destruction spells or with arrows.
- Expert-level chest outside at bottom of steps leading up to the entrance.
- A gold emerald ring that is easy to miss sits on a table in the entrance room. On the lower level, in the southwest corner of the room behind some columns, it's on the square table to the right, next to an urn.
Alchemy ingredients
Facilities
Trivia
- The light causes shock damage, which drains health and magicka.
- The light is actually a destruction spell shown in the spell book displayed as kilkreathLightBeam. It can only be unlocked via console commands in the PC version. Otherwise, there is no way to get this book.
- If a follower is told to wait inside of the room in which Malkoran is fought, and is still waiting when Dawnbreaker is taken, when room is locked for the rest of the game, the follower will be unable to be reclaimed. This can also pertain to Dead Thralls and elemental thralls, leading to the loss of unique characters (like Ancano or Orchendor, for example).
- A Letter from a Friend or the Greybeards may send the Dragonborn to the Kilkreath Ruins.
- The iron door leading into the final hall will be locked after the completion of "The Break of Dawn." Using plate and Whirlwind Sprint combo will allow Dragonborn to enter the hall again but nothing can be found other than Desecrated Corpses from before.
- It is possible to get to the Expert-level chest on the balcony by standing on the top of the cliff near the Thalmor Embassy and dropping down (or sliding down) the cliff to the balcony. The doors leading to the rest of the ruins are key-locked, however.
Bugs
This section contains bugs related to Kilkreath Ruins. Before adding a bug to this list, consider the following:
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- Sometimes the Word Wall at Kilkreath Ruins will not work.
- This can be solved either by saving, reboot console and reloading, or by fast traveling away and back again.
- It is possible that the doors to Kilkreath Ruins will not open even if the Dragonborn has spoken to Meridia. This means that Dawnbreaker is inaccesible.