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| Frost Atronach (click images) @ ElderScrolls.wiki |
Coming off the mountain range where Azura is located, we descended above
Fort Kastav, a small, officially abandoned prison fortification, but inhabited by hostile frost mages. The fight involving a
Frost Atronach was tougher than I was used to. The hostile mages countered my flame with their frost (imagine a low budget Voldemort- Dumbledore magic fight, except fire against frost) and did not wither the way mobs usually do. Again my Fire Atronach and Lydia gave me added punch.
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| Fort Kastav Interior |
Afterwards we checked out the dungeons (prisoner cells) and found nothing of particular interest, but my ability to ferret out significant finds can be spotty.
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| Travels |
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| Companion Guild |
On a storage run back to the Whiterun Companions Guild, I got annoyed with all the snide comments made by envious members about Guild elders letting me join. A conference with Lydia decided that if I any wanted respect around here, I was going to have to complete another of the Companions quests to emphasise my worth. I was assigned to kill an escaped convict who was rumored to be a far piece off in the vicinity of
Windhelm. Our info was good and we found him to the SE of Windhelm. For a long trip, it was a short boring encounter, (flames and a whack to
the noggin).
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| Windhelm on a Good Day |
On the way back to Whiterun, we stopped in Windhelm but it was early in the morning. I could not find much in the way of shops for dumping loot, not that I expected them to be open at 6am.
The Candlehearth Inn was open. There I managed to get into a wagered brawl with a big mouth anti-dark elf bigot and picked up 100 gold. It's true that the Thalmor are Elf supremacists, but that is no reason to brand all elves as bad, is it?
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| Candlehearth Hall |
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| Candlehearth Hall Bar |
When I got back to the Companions in Whitefun,
Skjor invited me to meet him in a secret crypt that night for a
special ritual. Hopeful this was official Guild business and not personal, if you know what I mean. However, I postponed that meeting, until I could finish our initial tour of the North, I started several entries ago.
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| Dragon Overhead Forsaken Cave (outside) |
First a fast travel to Ft. Kastav, then we hoofed it West and discovered
Forsaken Cave. They say there is no such thing as a bad dungeon, but before we could enter, TWO dragons showed up! At least one was a frost breather. In a tense fight with me weaving and bobbing behind obstacles, one of the dragons was downed, but I'm not sure what happened to the other one. I assume it split.
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| Icy wonders and Gems Aplenty in Forsaken Cave |
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| Forsaken Cave (Routine) Action |
Inside the Forsaken Cave parts of it were very icy and beautiful, and practically every urn in the place contained precious jewels accompanied by the normal parade of not-beautiful Draugrs. At the end of the Forsaken Cave was the Forsaken Crypt with an undead boss who popped out of a crypt, but was not too hard to defeat. The pleasant surprise was the Word Wall at the end. I realized later there was a quest in this cave, but I did not have it. I'll have to come back, but hopefully most of the clearing work has been accomplished.
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