Beyond Skyrim:Cyrodiil/Northfringe Cave

Cave: Northfringe Cave (view on map)
# of Zones	2
Clearable	Yes
Dungeon	Yes
Respawn Time	10 days or 30 days
Occupants
Animals, Draugr
Important Treasure
Steinulf's Protective Amulet Corpse Preparation v III
Console Location Code(s)
CYRNorthfringeSanctumExterior CYRNorthfringeSanctum01 CYRNorthfringeSanctum02
Region
County Bruma
Location
East of Snowstone Rest

Northfringe Cave

Northfringe Cave is a medium-sized cave containing animals and draugr, located east of Snowstone Rest. It contains two zones: Northfringe Cave and Northfringe Sanctum.

Related Quests

• Fallen Stormcloak: Track down three fallen Stormcloaks and the keys to their locked supplies.

Notes

• Three additional zones in this cave are present in the Creation Kit but inaccessible during gameplay: Northfringe Catacombs, Northfringe Upper Crypts and Northfringe Desolation.
• This cave contains 33 31 Snowberry plants, 25 Hanging Moss plants, 9 15 Clouded Funnel plants, 6 Cairn Bolete plants, 6 Steel-Blue Entoloma plants, 1 5 Fly Amanita plants, 5 Wisp Stalk plants, 3 Milk Thistle Branch plants, 1 Blue Mountain Flower plant and 1 Motherwort Sprig plant.
• You may have this cave marked on your map by overhearing rumors of the Bruma townsfolk.

Walkthrough

Exterior

Outside the cave you will find three wolves and two other wilderness animals, frost trolls or ogres guarding two moonstone ore veins. Near the collapsed ruin of the nordic tower is a fallen Stormcloak soldier and an ornamented Nordic strongbox lodged in the snow. You will also find two Clouded Funnel plants nearby.

Northfringe Cave

The first zone is an icy cave clogged with snow, belying the ruins ahead. In the first room you will find two leveled wolves and a timber wolf, the corpse of a hunter, a knapsack, a random leveled potion and a moonstone ore vein. Head northeast into another room with a small pond, a leveled wolf, a timber wolf, a deer carcass and a moonstone ore vein. Behind the waterfall is an ancient Nord greatsword, while to the northwest is a skeleton and a door barred from the other side. Head north, jumping down some rocks, and follow the tunnel until you arrive in an ancient Nordic room with a chest, a draugr corpse and the door to the Sanctum.

When returning from the Sanctum, remove the block from the wooden door nearby and access the rest of the zone.

Northfringe Sanctum

The entrance to the Sanctum

Unlike the first zone, the second is a large nordic ruin, hidden below surface. Head east from the entrance, past a rat, to a room with three more rats and a Scroll of Calm on a nearby table. To the north is a gated balcony overlooking an altar room, so instead pull the nearby chain to open the southern gate, avoiding the tripwire-activated swinging mace trap beyond to enter a large room. Right in front of you, to the south, is an expert-locked door opening into a small room with Draugr corpses, a chest, a random leveled soul gem and a Third Era Colovian fur helm. Just to the west of this room is another door, with an apprentice lock, behind which are three urns and a cupboard with a random leveled potion, a Scroll of Bane of the Undead, a Scroll of Guardian Circle and a Scroll of Heal Other. Press on west until you come across a sleeping Draugr, three corpses and a leveled potion, looting a Scroll of Bane of the Undead and a leveled soul gem sat inside two nearby pots.

Turn round and head east, past a pressure plate dart trap. Turn north to reach a small room with an iron ingot, a Scroll of Circle of Protection, a coin purse and a bowl containing a philter of haggling and two Scrolls of Courage. Track back and this time press on south, to a room with a long stone table with a sleeping Draugr at its head. Nearby is another Draugr, a couple of urns, a leveled potion, a coin purse and a silver candlestick. Head down the northeastern stairs, past a stone carving and into a room with eight frost rune traps blocking off all passages. Here you will also find a frozen corpse, a Scroll of Fire Storm, a leveled enchanted bow and two leveled potions. Press on northeast into a room with two draugr, a leveled soul gem and a leveled potion. The tunnels heading both north and south are blocked by gates, so instead head east into a room with three draugr, a leveled potion, a coin purse and a couple of urns and corpses.

Take the southeastern tunnel and after dispatching a rat, you will arrive at an intersection. Continue southeast past a spider web into a room with three draugr (which you can dispatch by using the nearby oil trap), a rat, a novice-locked chest, some urns, a Scroll of Revanant [sic], a Scroll of Repel Undead and two leveled potions. Turn back and now head east: the next room holds a few draugr corpses, a steel ingot, a filled common soul gem and two empty lesser gems. Avoid the dart trap to the west by taking the southwestern tunnel, battling past three draugrs to loot an apprentice-locked chest and two common soul gems (one filled). Head southwest now, past a pressure plate-activated swinging blades trap, into a room with a draugr and a Scroll of Courage. Climb up the collapsed pillar and head down the stairs beyond; in a small room to the east are a draugr corpse, an urn and two leveled potions. The door to the northwest opens onto a room with a draugr, an arcane enchanter, a honed ancient Nord battle axe of frost, a honed ancient Nord war axe of ice, an ancient Nord armor, two Scrolls of Soul Trap, five leveled soul gems, a leveled potion, three random potion recipes, a portion of spriggan sap and some silverware.

Head northwest and you will arrive back in the previous room with the blocked gates: this time you are behind one and pulling the nearby lever will raise both, as well as opening two stone coffins with draugrs. Make your way up the stairs to the northwest and through a set of doors until you arrive in a long room with a draugr boss asleep on his throne. As you approach it, four stone coffins containing draugr will also open. In the room you will also find a chest, a few urns, a Scroll of Dead Thrall, the spell tome Absorb Health Cloak, an emerald, a silver candlestick and two coin purses. Jump up to the upper level via the wooden planks either side and make your way to the southern corner, where you will find a draugr corpse and a Scroll of Turn Greater Undead. On the eastern side is an adept-locked door concealing a chest.

Jump back down and head west from the throne, pulling a chain in the next room to lower a stone wall. Follow the tunnel and jump down into a small room with a leveled soul gem and some silverware. Head west, avoiding the tripwire-activated battering ram trap, into a long dining room with a jade, two silver ingots, two leveled potions, a bottle of Colovian Battlecry, some magus mint portions, silverware, coin purses, food and drink. Next you will arrive in the final room: on a stone altar are Steinulf's protective amulet, a leveled enchanted war axe, a leveled enchanted shield, the spell tome Pacify and a steel horned helmet. On the eastern side, behind an adept-locked door, is a room with two garnets in a silver bowl, a gold ingot, a copper necklace, a leveled potion and silverware. Around the corner is another copper necklace inside a silver bowl. Exit the chamber from the west side and proceed past a corridor with silverware and a coin purse into a room with a draugr, the Conjuration skill book Corpse Preparation v III, a boss chest, some urns and the door back to Northfringe Cave.

Maps

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  Northfringe Cave map

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  Northfringe Sanctum map