Online:Depths of Malatar

Ruin: Depths of Malatar (view on map) (lore page)
Group Dungeon
Discoverable	Yes
Completion	Objective
Dungeon	Yes
# of Zones	1
Zone
Gold Coast
Location
Northwest of Anvil
Instanced Dungeon
Min Level	45
Group Size	4
Bosses	5
Veteran Speed Run Target	30 mins
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"The light that shone from the statue of Narilmor acted as both guide and protector to Ayleid ships crossing the Abecean, promising warmth and safe harbor in Garlas Malatar, until the city fell in the latter days of the Alessian Slave Rebellion." - Tjurhane Fyrre

Depths of Malatar

Depths of Malatar is a group dungeon on the Gold Coast.

Interior

It's part of the Wrathstone dungeon pack DLC, along with Frostvault. It is located beneath the Ayleid ruin of Garlas Malatar, connected to the sunken ruins of Fort Mistwatch. The ruins are occupied by followers of Meridia who have devoted their very life and essence to keeping one half of the Wrathstone Tablet hidden deep within.

An unlikely partnership with the spirit of her treacherous ex-husband, Quintus Verres, leads the acclaimed relic hunter Tharayya to the wreckage of an Imperial fort built to plunder Ayleid ruins on the Gold Coast. Believed to be abandoned after its destruction in an unnamed calamity, Tharayya's search reveals a terrible secret—the Imperials never left. With your help, Tharayya hopes to overcome the unnatural guardians protecting the legendary artifact that brought the Imperials to Garlas Malatar, and to ruin.

Backstory Description

Update 21 Patch Notes

An unlikely partnership with the spirit of her treacherous ex-husband, Quintus Verres, leads the acclaimed relic hunter Tharrayya to the wreckage of an Imperial fort built to plunder Ayleid ruins on the Gold Coast. Believed to be abandoned after its destruction in an unnamed calamity, Tharayya's search reveals a terrible secret—the Imperials never left. With your help, Tharayya hopes to overcome the unnatural guardians protecting the legendary artifact that brought the Imperials to Garlas Malatar, and to ruin.

Face Meridia's Minions Within the Depths of Malatar

Centuries ago, an Imperial expedition uncovered the lost Ayleid city of Garlas Malatar and built Fort Mistwatch within the ruin's entrance. While the fort was intended to protect the Imperials as they looted the city below, a sinister power was uncovered by the expedition, resulting in the loss of the entire cohort along with knowledge of the ruin's entrance. What they found buried deep within the ancient site, and their ultimate fate, remained a mystery until now. In the Depths of Malatar, the intrepid explorer and archeologist Tharayya, the very same Redguard scholar from the base-game dungeon Volenfell, has found the entrance to this mysterious ruin, and she now joins you on your journey deep into the fort and city below … The Depths of Malatar's secrets are ready to be discovered, but first, you must deal with the lost ruin's ancient defenders. Are you ready to venture into this buried city and come face to face with Meridia's best?

Wrathstone Bundle Details

Explore the forgotten halls of an ancient Ayleid ruin and uncover the fate of a long-lost Imperial expedition in Depths of Malatar.

Related Quests

• Depths of Malatar Objective: Investigate the Depths of Malatar. / I helped Tharayya recover part of the fabled Wrathstone.
  • The Guiding Light: Find the way into an ancient Ayleid city and recover a historical artifact.
•  Pledge: Depths of Malatar: Prove you are truly Undaunted by clearing Depths of Malatar.

Enemies

Normal Enemies

Daedra	Other	Purified Legionaries
Auroran Blazing Auroran Frost Atronach Mauler (Veteran-only) Phosphorescent Auroran Radiant Auroran Scavenging Maw's Shade Scintillating Auroran	Blazing Imp Blazing Orb Ice Pillar Mudcrab Phosphorescent Imp Phosphorescent Orb Radiant Orb Scintillating Imp Scintillating Orb	Purified Coruscanter Purified Harrier Purified Motivator Purified Oppressor Purified Orderly Purified Retainer Purified Subjugator Purified Vigilant Purified Vindicator

Elite Enemies

• Purified Warden
• Stone Watchers

Bosses

• The Scavenging Maw, a massive hunger feeding on the purified soldiers
• The Weeping Woman, an Ayleid woman who transforms into a frozen nereid
• Dark Orb, a magical relic with power over the Aurorans
• King Narilmor, an Ayleid king blessed with immortality by Meridia herself
• Symphony of Blades, the augmented form of King Narilmor, transformed into a Meridian Guardian

Hard Mode

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Hard Mode is only available in the Veteran version of the Depths of Malatar. When you get to the final boss fight against the Symphony of Blades, you have the option to burn the Dictates of the Lady of Light:

<This orderly pile of papers define proper supplication and worship rituals for proper veneration of Meridia. Each page is meticulously written in a precise hand with every letter and line in perfect alignment.>

<Torch and scatter Meridia's sacred words.>

Burning the papers will make the boss fight more difficult. If your group dies, the papers will need to be burned again to reenable Hard Mode.

Layout

Fort Mistwatch

Picking up the Pieces and Unearthing Garlas Malatar are located atop crates within the entrance of the dungeon. The first room in the fort proper contains two Purified Retainers and two Purified Orderlies. There are several containers (including one backpack) and provisioning ingredients strewn throughout. Up ahead, you'll hear several purified soldiers talking about a creature up ahead that has been eating their kin. The soldiers are trying to devise a plan to purge the creature. The group in the hallway consists of two Retainers, one Orderly, one Oppressor and one Harrier. This hallway is lined with bookshelves and the occasional table, one of which has an alchemy bottle on it. There is also one backpack in the hallway.

The door up ahead leads to the fort's storage room, where the beast the soldiers were talking about resides. You'll need to face The Scavenging Maw before you can proceed.

Garlas Malatar

The Frostbitten Journal is located in the Weeping Woman's arena.

Books

• Frostbitten Journal — The journal of a follower of Umaril
• Picking up the Pieces by Tharayya — An adventurer's notes on a hapless associate
• Send Your Forces, Narilmor by Thadoril — An ancient Ayleid letter requesting aid in order to capture the Wrathstone
• Umaril is Undone by Thadoril — A letter reporting the death of Umaril the Unfeathered
• Unearthing Garlas Malatar by Tharayya — A scholar's thoughts on an ancient Ayleid ruin

Sets

Set Name	Bonuses	Location(s)	Set Type
Auroran's Thunder	2 items: Adds 28-1206 Maximum Health 3 items: Adds 3-129 Weapon and Spell Damage 4 items: Adds 34-1487 Offensive Penetration 5 items: Dealing direct damage to a target within 10 meters of you summons a cone of lightning from your chest for 5 seconds, dealing 396 Shock damage every 1 second to enemies in the cone. This effect can occur every 10 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon and Spell Damage.	Depths of Malatar	Light Armor
Scavenging Demise	2 items: Adds 3-129 Weapon and Spell Damage 3 items: Adds 15-657 Critical Chance 4 items: Adds 15-657 Critical Chance 5 items: When you deal Critical Poison Damage to an enemy, summon the Scavenging Maw which attacks your enemy after 2 seconds. The Scavenging Maw deals 2587 Poison damage and inflicts Minor Vulnerability for 15 seconds, increasing their damage taken by 5%. This effect can occur every 10 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon and Spell Damage.	Depths of Malatar	Medium Armor
Frozen Watcher	2 items: Adds 25-1096 Maximum Stamina 3 items: Adds 28-1206 Maximum Health 4 items: Adds 25-1096 Maximum Stamina 5 items: Summon a blizzard around you while you are Bracing, inflicting 496 Frost damage every 1 second to enemies within 6 meters. This effect scales off your Max Health and has a 15% chance of inflicting the Chilled status effect.	Depths of Malatar	Heavy Armor
Symphony of Blades	1 item: Adds 4% Healing Done 2 items: When you heal a group member who is under 50% of their primary resource, grant them Meridia's Favor, which restores 13-570 Magicka or Stamina every 1 second for 6 seconds. This effect can occur every 18 seconds per target. This effect cannot target yourself, and the resource returned is based off the target's highest maximum resource.	Depths of Malatar	Monster Helm Sets

Achievements

There are 21 achievements associated with this dungeon:

Achievement		Points	Description	Reward
	Wrathstone Explorer	5	Enter either Frostvault or Depths of Malatar for the first time.	Hat: Ayleid Royal Crown
​	Meridian Style Master	50	Learn every chapter in the Meridian style book, occasionally found as rewards for completing the Depths of Malatar dungeon.
Needed for Depths of Malatar Challenger
	Depths of Malatar Challenger	50	Complete the listed achievements for Veteran Depths of Malatar.	Title: Purified Devastator
	Depths of Malatar Conqueror	10	Defeat the Scavenging Maw, the Weeping Woman, the Dark Orb, King Narilmor, and the Symphony of Blades in Veteran Depths of Malatar.	Skin: Meridian Purified Bust: King Narilmor (page)
	Throwing Shade	50	Defeat the Symphony of Blades after destroying the Dictates of the Lady of Light in Veteran Depths of Malatar.
	The Speed of Light	50	Defeat the Scavenging Maw, the Weeping Woman, the Dark Orb, King Narilmor, and the Symphony of Blades within 30 minutes of entering Veteran Depths of Malatar. Your timer starts on entering combat.
	Purified	50	Defeat the Scavenging Maw, the Weeping Woman, the Dark Orb, King Narilmor, and the Symphony of Blades without suffering a group member death in Veteran Depths of Malatar.
Normal
	Wrathstone Dungeoneer	10	Complete both Frostvault and Depths of Malatar in Normal.
	Depths of Malatar Vanquisher	10	Defeat the Scavenging Maw, the Weeping Woman, the Dark Orb, King Narilmor, and the Symphony of Blades in Depths of Malatar.	Trophy: King Narilmor (page)
	Soul Mates	5	Prevent Quintus from ever winning his deadlock with Tharayya during the battle with King Narilmor in Depths of Malatar.
	Reaping Rainbow	5	Defeat each color of Auroran during the battle with the Symphony of Blades in Depths of Malatar.
Veteran
	Wrathstone Delver	50	Complete both Frostvault and Depths of Malatar in Veteran.	Glacial Topaz
	Depths Defier	50	Defeat the Scavenging Maw, the Weeping Woman, the Dark Orb, King Narilmor, and the Symphony of Blades after destroying the Dictates of the Lady of Light in Veteran Depths of Malatar within 30 minutes without suffering a group member death.
	Veteran Purified Slayer	10	Defeat 350 of Meridia's Purified in Veteran Depths of Malatar.
	Veteran Stone Watcher Slayer	10	Defeat 150 Stone Watchers in Veteran Depths of Malatar.
	Hide and Seek	10	Don't allow any of the Scavenging Maw's Hunting Proboscis to be shattered and don't get hit by any of its shadow forms in Veteran Depths of Malatar.
	Color Blind	10	Don't destroy any colored orbs during the Dark Orb encounter in Veteran Depths of Malatar.
	Out of Formation	10	Prevent the Symphony of Blades from crossing the Auroran Phalanx and becoming empowered by Meridia's Light in Veteran Depths of Malatar.
	Ice Breaker	10	Destroy 5 Ice Pillars with Sunburst meteors during the encounter with the Symphony of Blades in Veteran Depths of Malatar.
	Lackluster	10	Defeat the Symphony of Blades in Veteran Depths of Malatar after reading the Dictate to the Lady of Light and destroying all of the colored orbs during the encounter.
	Skating the Ice	5	Have no group members get hit by Glaciation during your battle with the Weeping Woman in Veteran Depths of Malatar.

Notes

• Garlas Malatar also appeared in the Knights of the Nine download for Oblivion.
• Although the dungeon entrance is located in the Gold Coast zone, you are not required to own the Dark Brotherhood DLC in order to access Depths of Malatar, as it can be directly ported into like any group dungeon.

Maps

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  Fort Mistwatch

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  Ruins of Garlas Malatar

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  Halls of Garlas Malatar / Tabernacle of Light Unyielding

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  The Colored Rooms

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  Cove of the Guiding Light

Gallery

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  Depths of Malatar entrance prior to Update 21

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  The Wrathstone

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  The Dark Orb

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  The Colored Rooms

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  The Colored Rooms

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  The Colored Rooms

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  The Colored Rooms

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  Abandoned Imperial ship in the Cove of the Guiding Light