Oblivion:Frostcrag Spire (place)

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Fort: Frostcrag Spire (place)
Console Location Code
FrostcragSpire01, FrostcragSpire02, FrostcragSpire03
Location (view on map)
East of Bruma at the end of an unmarked road
Region
Jerall Mountains

Frostcrag Spire is a tower east of Bruma that serves as a home for magic-oriented characters (plugin-specific). [edit]

It can be reached by fast travel or by following an unmarked road that leads from Bruma to Cheydinhal. The tower can be acquired as the player's property after the accompanying quest is completed and is added by the Wizard's Tower official mod.

Upgrades

Without upgrading, you've basically got Tamriel's highest altitude alchemy garden, and that's about all. The tower's real benefits only become available when you can start to afford some of the upgrades (which will cost more than the base prices once haggling is taken into account).

More details are available on the Oblivion Houses page.

Alchemy Lab

• Base Cost: 1500
• Description: Alchemy table that provides a +15 Fortify Alchemy enchantment.

The Altar of Alchemy is located upstairs in the living area. It increases your Alchemy skill temporarily by 15 points when you are standing at it (the ability is named Alchemical Brilliance). This is the only Fortify Alchemy effect in the entire game that actually works, i.e., it really does allow you to produce more powerful potions and poisons. (The difference between this effect and all other effects is that it is implemented as an ability rather than a spell effect; abilities modify a skill's base value not just its current value). Even with Alchemical Brilliance, your maximum effective Alchemy skill level is 100 (i.e., although your skills page may say 115, the potions will be identical to those that you brew when your skills page say 100). The Altar also contains Apprentice level alchemy apparatus, which can be very useful for low-level characters. In addition, a small bookshelf is added in the living area which contains a copy of A Game at Dinner, one of the Alchemy skill books.

Bedroom Area

• Base Cost: 1000
• Description: A bed and better lighting, various chests and containers.

Library Area

• Base Cost: 1000
• Description: Large collection of books and their accompanying shelves, tables and stands in the main level.

Purchasing the library upgrade will provide you with a large collection of books located in the main level.

Vault Area

• Base Cost: 1000
• Description: Fills vault with containers, vault guardians, and rare wines.

The vault is a nice place to store your precious equipment; it is accessed using a portal in the main room. Once you purchase the vault upgrade, it contains all kinds of chests, barrels and crates as well as a nice collection of fine wines, including 1 bottle of Surilie vintage 399, 2 bottles of Tamika vintage 399, and a bottle of Shadowbanish wine. Your treasure is guarded by seven friendly Imps known as Vault Guardians. These imps can be harvested for souls that can then be used at the Altar of Enchanting (if you are level 13 or higher they will be grand souls). They can also be looted for Imp Gall which can be used to make potions. Just like any other creature in the game they respawn after a few days, providing a convenient source of free, respawning souls. The imp you attack will defend itself, but the other imps will not help out.

Creature	Carries		Attacks	Soul
Vault Guardian xx008C40	Imp Gall	15× (lvl+5)	Leveled Drain Health spell (Major Wound, Dire Wound, or Superior Wound) Immobilize (Paralyze 7 secs on Touch) 4+((lvl+5)/2) pts melee	>=LesserL:+5

Magetallow Candles Box

• Base Cost: (2x2000)
• Description: Used to activate the spellmaking and enchanting altars.

Features

Alchemy Garden

This garden, located in an upstairs room adjacent to the living area, is present even without buying any upgrades. All kinds of known Tamriel (and Oblivion) flora are grown and can be harvested for their Alchemy ingredients. Several particularly rare specimens are present:

• Seven Mana Bloom flowers, that provide the very rare ingredients Ambrosia (from the four reddish-purple plants) and Lichor (from the three bluish-purple plants).
• One Nirnroot plant.
• Several Rice Plants (that yield, of course, Rice). Although rice is readily found in food sacks, these are the only rice plants in the game
• The Oblivion flora is all domesticated, in particular the Domesticated Spiddal Stick (yielding Spiddal Stick) will not poison you, unlike the wild variety. The Harrada Root (yielding Harrada) is also all of the non-dangerous variety. However, the domestication process was apparently unable to improve the harvesting probability.
• The complete list of available ingredients is:

2 Aloe Vera Leaves 4 Ambrosia 8 Bloodgrass 4 Cairn Bolete Cap 7 Dragon's Tongue 4 Elf Cup Cap 3 Emetic Russula Cap 4 Flax Seeds 6 Ginseng 9 Harrada

3 Lichor 1 Lady's Mantle Leaves 4 Lady's Smock Leaves 2 Mandrake Root 6 Milk Thistle Seeds 1 Morning Glory Root Pulp 4 Nightshade 1 Nirnroot 2 Pumpkin 5 Rice

10 Spiddal Stick 5 Steel Blue Entoloma Cap 6 Strawberry 4 Stinkhorn Cap 6 Tiger Lily Nectar (from Lily of the Valley) 5 Tinder Polypore Cap 8 Tobacco 2 White Seed Pod (from Goldenrod) 4 Wisp Stalk Caps 7 Wormwood Leaves

Portals

On an outside balcony, accessed from a door in the upstairs living area, you will find teleportation portals to all the Mages Guilds in Cyrodiil including the Arcane University. The Kvatch Mages Guild also has a portal, but it is inoperable, since that guild was destroyed. These portals will transport you to the first floor inside each Mages Guild. Be aware that there are no portals in the guild halls, so returning to Frostcrag Spire will require traveling.

Altars

Altar of Spellmaking

This altar is found in the main room on the first floor. In order to make it functional, you must first buy a box of Magetallow Candles and add them to the altar. It is then equivalent in function to any of the Altars of Spellmaking at the Arcane University.

Altar of Enchanting

This altar is found in the main room on the first floor. In order to make it functional, you must first buy a box of Magetallow Candles and add them to the altar. It is then equivalent in function to any of the Altars of Enchanting at the Arcane University.

Atronach Altar

This altar is found in the main room on the first floor. It allows you to summon a permanent companion atronach, who will listen to your commands. You can summon a Flame, Frost, or Storm Atronach, by sacrificing three Fire, Frost, or Void Salts, respectively.

Creature							Attacks	Soul
Flame Atronach Familiar xx001254	Lvl×22 (Lvl=1-12)	100		-50	100	15	Fire Damage 5/12/20pts on target (level 1-3; 4-7; 8+) Fire Damage 5/10/20pts on touch (level 1-3; 4-7; 8+) Lvl×3pts melee, unarmed	Common
Frost Atronach Familiar xx000D26	Lvl×22 (Lvl=1-18)	-50		100	100	15	Frost Damage 5/15/25/40pts on target (level 1-3; 4-9; 10-14; 15+) Frost Damage 5/10/20/30pts on target (level 1-3; 4-9; 10-14; 15+) Lvl×33pts melee, unarmed	Greater
Storm Atronach Familiar xx000D27	Lvl×21 (Lvl=1-22)		100		100	15	Shock Damage 5/15/25/40pts on target (level 1-3; 4-9; 10-14; 15+) Shock Damage 5/10/20/30pts on target (level 1-3; 4-9; 10-14; 15+) Lvl×17pts melee, unarmed	Greater

Hard to Find Items

After purchasing the vault upgrade you will find 2 gravestones in the vault. They are located side by side, both against the outer wall on the southwest side of the room. In that area there is a circular alcove containing a winerack and seven barrels. Exit from that alcove and continue clockwise around the vault; you will immediately come across a metal strut. Follow that strut to the outer wall and tucked into a corner between the wine alcove and the outer wall you will find the two gravestones.

• Lennasaan's Gravestone casts Lennasaan's Touch on you, which fortifies Personality by 10, Mercantile by 15, and Speechcraft by 15, all for 800 seconds.
• The second one is Rindsey's Gravestone. When you activate it you will receive a message about Rindsey: "Here lies Rindsey, acclaimed archer and celebrated aficionado of Tamrielic ales. We honor him for his bravery and for his famous Daedric Lava Whiskey discovered during his perilous expedition to Dagon's Realm." You then receive a single bottle of Daedric Lava Whiskey; reactivating the stone will not give you another.

Do not miss the jewelry box! It is located in the living area on top of the small bookcase. You have to buy everything to get the jewelry box, including the candles. However, once you do, you'll be pleased to see a Pentamagic Loop.

Name			Effects
Daedric Lava Whiskey xx008C37	1	0	Fire Damage 1pt for 10 secs on self Paralyze for 10 secs on self Restore Health 20pts for 20 secs on self Summon Dremora Lord for 60 secs on self
Pentamagic Loop xx005E36	0.1	2640	Fortify Conjuration 5pts Fortify Destruction 5pts Fortify Illusion 5pts Fortify Mysticism 5pts Fortify Restoration 5pts

Notes

• You can summon a creature using a spell in addition to the atronach summoned by the altar. This enables you to have two summoned creatures active at the same time, which is not otherwise possible.

• Casting a fire spell at the base or surrounding area of the hand by the front door will cause a weird effect and allow temporary glimpses of a large Frost Atronach buried in ice.

• The plugin gives non-PC users a method of accessing a special test cell.

Bugs

• You can summon an atronach from the altar in the main hall. If you leave it waiting too long, it may become lost and then you will not be able to summon a new one or dismiss the old one, eliminating one of the benefits of this mod. Most commonly it seems that this happens when you leave it waiting in the vault or in the first room. The guardian actually stays in the Frostcrag Spire and is actually part of it; the problem is re-releasing it.
  • This bug is fixed by the Unofficial Official Mods Patch.
• If the player gets expelled from the Mages Guild while in the Anvil guildhall with Frostcrag Spire active, the player will be transported to the Anvil teleportation portal at Frostcrag Spire, instead of just outside the Anvil guildhall (as the destination portal in the guildhall added by the Frostcrag Spire plugin wasn't set up properly)
  • This bug is fixed by the Unofficial Official Mods Patch.