Skyrim:Frostflow Abyss (quest)

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Investigate the Frostflow Lighthouse to discover the source of an attack on the family living there. Quest Giver: Walking into the Frostflow Lighthouse Location(s): Frostflow Lighthouse, Frostflow Abyss Reward: Sailor's Repose ID: dunFrostflowAbyssQST Suggested Items: Hevnoraak - Any Resist Poison Suggested Level: 18 Difficulty: Medium

Murder in Frostflow Lighthouse

Quick Walkthrough

1. Arrive in the Frostflow Lighthouse noting Ramati's corpse lying near a chaurus corpse.
2. Investigate around the lighthouse living areas reading the family's journals.
3. Retrieve the cellar key from the burial urn on the mantle.
4. Search for the remaining family members in Frostflow Abyss.
5. Kill the family's attackers.
6. Take Habd's remains to the lighthouse brazier.

Detailed Walkthrough

Frostflow Lighthouse

While traveling the area between Dawnstar and Winterhold, you might see a lighthouse icon on their map. Following it will lead you to a secluded lighthouse. A dead horse lies in front of the structure, and there's a work shed behind it with a few potions.

Upon entering, you will see a ransacked room ahead of you, with locked doors to your left and right. Moving forward will activate the quest. Search Ramati's corpse for the first journal indicating what went on here. You'll find the corpse of a chaurus in front of the fireplace. Inspecting the other rooms for journals will lead you to the key to the basement in the burial urn above the fireplace. Head down carefully, as there are bear traps, and you'll be confronted by two chaurus. Kill them and proceed into Frostflow Abyss.

Frostflow Abyss

Frostflow Abyss comprises a network of icy caves under the lighthouse, populated by Falmer, chaurus, and frostbite spiders. Follow the tunnels and eventually you will reach a slightly larger room with a raised bridge across the center. To your right you will see a fence and gate, behind which are the remains of Sudi, clutching a couple of notes about her father. Keep following the path up onto the raised area, and drop from the western side to continue. The tunnel ends with a drop into a round room with a couple of chaurus at the bottom and plenty of egg sacs. Drop down using the ledges, or dispatch the chaurus from above. Continue through the watery, chaurus-filled tunnels until you reach a large cave with a huge chaurus reaper sat on an island at the eastern end, along with two regular chaurus. Kill the reaper, and the quest will complete. Loot the corpse to collect Habd's remains, and Habd's Lighthouse Key.

Follow the path up from the left, and eventually you will drop into the first part of the Abyss. Re-enter the lighthouse, and using the lighthouse key proceed to the top of the lighthouse. Use Habd's Lighthouse Key to loot the chest there, then climb the ladder to activate the brazier and you will be granted the active effect of Sailor's Repose, which will increase the effectiveness of your healing spells.

Notes

• For players that use Alchemy, the Frostflow Abyss is an excellent source of chaurus eggs and glowing mushrooms.

• Using the Animal Allegiance shout makes this quest incredibly easy to complete since it will cause every chaurus in range (including chaurus reapers) to become harmless and attack other chaurus that remain hostile to you. Any chaurus under the effect of Animal Allegiance can also easily be killed with sneak attacks.

• As you walk through the main floor of the light house you can clearly hear the chaurus below making scratching sounds referenced in many of the families' journals.

Bugs

• If you clear Frostflow Abyss before the quest is started, you won't be able to actually finish the quest.
  • Typing setstage dunFrostflowAbyssQST 100 in the console doesn't seem to fix this problem.
  • Using the console and typing setstage dunFrostflowAbyssQST 90 will complete this quest and remove it from your Miscellaneous Quests.
• On approaching the lighthouse, some followers may refer to it as a cave, saying "Hmm. Caves. Wonder what's below."

Quest Stages

Frostflow Abyss (dunFrostflowAbyssQST)
Stage	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
5		(Objective is assigned): Find the source of the murders in Frostflow Lighthouse
100

• The following empty quest stages were omitted from the table: 0, 7, 10, 20, 21, 22, 90, 95

 

Notes

• Any text displayed in angle brackets (e.g., <Alias=LocationHold>) is dynamically set by the Radiant Quest system, and will be filled in with the appropriate word(s) when seen in game.
• Not all Journal Entries may appear in your journal; which entries appear and which entries do not depends on the manner in which the quest is done.
• Stages are not always in order of progress. This is usually the case with quests that have multiple possible outcomes or quests where certain tasks may be done in any order. Some stages may therefore repeat objectives seen in other stages.
• If an entry is marked as "Finishes Quest" it means the quest disappears from the Active Quest list, but you may still receive new entries for that quest.
• On the PC, it is possible to use the console to advance through the quest by entering setstage dunFrostflowAbyssQST stage, where stage is the number of the stage you wish to complete. It is not possible to un-complete (i.e. go back) quest stages, but it is possible to clear all stages of the quest using resetquest dunFrostflowAbyssQST.

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