Oblivion:Arkved's Tower

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Fort: Arkved's Tower
# of Zones	8
Occupants
Arkved Daedra
Important Treasure
Orb of Vaermina 1 Illusion Skill Book
Console Location Code
ArkvedsTowerExterior, ArkvedsTower01, ArkvedsTower02, ArkvedsTower03, ArkvedsTowerWorld, ArkvedsTower04, ArkvedsTower05, ArkvedsTower06, ArkvedsTower07
Location (view on map)
Southwest of Cheydinhal and past Vaermina's Shrine

Arkved's Tower is a large fort southwest of Cheydinhal containing daedra (quest-specific). [edit] It contains eight zones: Arkved's Tower, Arkved's Void, Arkved's Lost Halls, Arkved's Oasis, Arkved's Hall of Changes, Arkved's Retreat, Arkved's Rending Halls, and Arkved's Death Quarters.

Related Quests

• Vaermina: Retrieve the Orb of Vaermina from the wizard, Arkved.

Notes

• This fort cannot be entered until you have obtained the quest-related key. After the quest, you may re-enter the fort at any time.
• Be sure to climb all the outside floors (2 of them). Search all the balconies and such for a number of chests with some decent potions and such.
• Have some fun. In the second room of the area called Arkved's Tower, there is a table reversed on the ceiling. Throw a telekinesis spell up to the table on one item. All cutlery and bottles will fall to the floor.
• If you have very high athletics and can jump high enough you can sit in one of the upside down chairs. When you do you actually end up on top of the map and when you get out of the chair you are still up on top of the map.
• In the area called Arkved's Lost Halls, there is a room with oversized, but unusable furniture. However, the lootable chest in that room is smaller than a normal chest. This may or may not be intentional.
• You can enter the area called Arkved's Oasis, which looks like an outdoors Oblivion plane. Nothing of interest has been found here. There are two entrances - lower and upper. If you enter through the upper one, you can jump left to the ledge and then get inside the tower. This seems to be a place where players should never get to - when you get down inside the tower, the pillars and stairs do not end on ground and the door found there does nothing. There is no way out without sufficient acrobatics skill, since when getting in there you had to jump down to get to top-level floor inside the tower. If your acrobatics is at a decent level, you can jump onto the stairs. Climb up one level and go through a doorway to find an opening in the fort.
• At high levels, be cautious of the Clannfears that you meet in this ruin. At levels 17 and higher, the Clannfears are a leveled variety of Clannfear that are only found in this one location. They have much more health and do much more damage than regular Clannfears, and continue to get stronger as your character's level increases.

Exterior

Key to Maps

Map of Arkved's Tower Exterior

• The exterior is located at coordinates: Tamriel 24, 12
• This location's map marker (M on map) is named Arkved's Tower (editor name ArkvedsTowerMapMarker01). The entrance door is NE of the marker, 70 feet away.
• 1 Wilderness Chest 04 (non-respawning) is near the entrance
• The following potions can be found near the entrance: 1 Potion of Might and 1 Strong Potion of Sorcery
• The following plants can be found near the entrance: 12 Bergamot plants, 1 Flax plant, 20 Lavender plants, 22 Monkshood plants, 2 Morning Glory plants, and 3 Viper's Bugloss plants

Zone 1: Arkved's Tower

The first zone is straightforward and fairly unremarkable; except perhaps for the upside down furniture in the second room. Just walk down the halls until you reach the last room, in which there are two daedra. After you get past them, walk through the door (at C) into the next zone.

Occupants:

• 1 Daedra
• 1 Daedra (always best possible level)

Treasure:

• 2 Chests 01 (1 locked)
• 1 Chest 04
• The following books will always be found: 1 The Argonian Account, Book 2 and 1 The Argonian Account, Book 4

Doors and Gates:

• There are two doors in/out of this zone
  • 1 door (at Out) leads outside
  • 1 door (at C) leads to the zone Arkved's Void

Zone 2: Arkved's Void

This zone is comprised of boulders connected by Oblivion-style bridges suspended in black space. To get to the next zone, just run down the bridges to the door leading to the next zone. There are two chests (one at each door).

Treasure:

• 1 Chest 02 (locked)
• 2 Chests 03

Doors and Gates:

• There are two doors in/out of this zone
  • 1 door (at C) leads to the zone Arkved's Tower
  • 1 door (at D) leads to the zone Arkved's Lost Halls

Zone 3: Arkved's Lost Halls

The first room in this zone contains Clannfears and trees growing from the floor out the ceiling. After you deal with them, you can either go down the hall to the door to Arkved's Oasis (at E) or up the stairs and down the blood-soaked hallway. The last room is a very oversized bedroom. There are two more doors here. F also leads to Arkved's Oasis and G leads to the zone Arkved's Hall of Changes.

Occupants:

• 3 Clannfears (location-specific leveled variety)
• 4 Daedra

Treasure:

• 1 Chest 01 (locked)
• 1 Chest 03
• 1 Chest 04

Doors and Gates:

• There are four doors in/out of this zone
  • 1 door (at D) leads to the zone Arkved's Void
  • 2 doors (at E and F) lead to the zone Arkved's Oasis
  • 1 door (at G) leads to the zone Arkved's Hall of Changes

Zone 4: Arkved's Oasis

This exterior zone is situated on a small Oblivion island. There is nothing here in terms of loot or anything valuable. It is possible to climb down, but you will not be able to get back up without using the console. In the centre of the tower the stairs leading down, the tower's support beams, and a smell alcove, are all hovering above the ground. There is also an "Old wooden door" down here, but interacting with it has no effect. You can jump into the centre of the tower via a high acrobatics skill, or, if you entered at point E, jump left onto a sort of roof, moving around it, and climbing on it and falling through.

Doors and Gates:

• There are two doors (at F and E) in/out of this zone, both leading to the zone Arkved's Lost Halls

Zone 5: Arkved's Hall of Changes

This is a confusing area filled with fake doors and dead-end hallways. The first room here has a Dark Welkynd stone that shoots Frost spells at you, regardless of whether you are invisible or not. The second room has a trapdoor that leads to Arkved's Retreat. The third room has another Dark Welkynd stone (this one shoots Shock spells.

Occupants:

• 5 Daedra

Treasure:

• 1 Chest 01 (locked)
• 2 Chests 02 (1 locked)
• 1 Chest 03

Traps:

• 2 Dark Welkynd Stone traps at locations T on map

Doors and Gates:

• There are three doors in/out of this zone
  • 1 door (at G) leads to the zone Arkved's Lost Halls
  • 1 door (at H) leads to the zone Arkved's Retreat
  • 1 door (at I) leads to the zone Arkved's Rending Halls

Zone 6: Arkved's Retreat

This zone is mostly empty, except for corpses hanging from ropes that hang from the infinite darkness above, and a treasure chest near the ladder. You can jump down to one of the pillars, but that is a one way trip. To fall down into the void will cause death.

Treasure:

• 1 Chest 04

Doors and Gates:

• There is one door (at H) in/out of this zone, leading to the zone Arkved's Hall of Changes

Zone 7: Arkved's Rending Halls

There is only a straightforward corridor filled with Daedra and 3 treasure chests in this zone. There is a large number of unanimated zombies littering the steps towards the end of this section. The door at J leads to the last zone of Arkved's Tower.

Occupants:

• 6 Daedra

Treasure:

• 1 Chest 01 (locked)
• 1 Chest 02
• 1 Chest 03

Doors and Gates:

• There are two doors in/out of this zone
  • 1 door (at I) leads to the zone Arkved's Hall of Changes
  • 1 door (at J) leads out of dungeon to Arkved's Death Quarters

Zone 8: Arkved's Death Quarters

This room contains a sleeping Arkved, 1 skill book, several notes, and the Orb of Vaermina. To get back outside using a shortcut, go out the door at Out.

Occupants:

• Arkved (non-respawning)

Treasure:

• Orb of Vaermina
• 1 Illusion Skill Book: Palla, volume 1 at location Q on map
• 1 Crumpled Piece of Paper at d
• 1 Crumpled Piece of Paper at e
• 1 Handwritten Note
• Some of the above items are clustered at location c: 1 Crumpled Piece of Paper, 1 Crumpled Piece of Paper, 1 Handwritten Note, and Orb of Vaermina

Doors and Gates:

• There are two doors in/out of this zone
  • 1 door (at Out) leads outside
  • 1 door (at J) leads to the zone Arkved's Rending Halls

Other:

• 1 bed at location b on map