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It is located just over the cliff south of Castle Anvil and can be accessed from the Abecean Sea. The cave becomes the player's property after completing the Dunbarrow Cove quest and is added by the Thieves Den official mod.

Contents 1 Related Quests 2 Upgrades 2.1 Personal Quarters Upgrade 2.2 Supplier (Jak Silver) 2.3 Fence (Khafiz) 2.4 Security Expert (Tahm Blackwell) 2.5 Fletcher (Melliwin the Mongrel) 2.6 Spymaster (Kovan Kren) 3 Features 4 New Items 5 Exterior 6 Zone 1: Smuggler's Cave 7 Notes 8 Bugs

[edit] Related Quests

• Dunbarrow Cove: User:Dunbarrow Cove/Description (official plugin)

[edit] Upgrades

Dahlia can find the following crew members for hire, much like purchasing a house upgrade. Purchases from Dahlia are done via the Dunbarrow Cove Upgrades dialogue rather than using the standard purchase menu. One implication is that the following prices are fixed and are not subject to haggling.

More details are available on the Oblivion Houses page.

[edit] Personal Quarters Upgrade

• Base Cost: 500
• Description: You now have a bed, chest, dresser, cupboard, and better lighting, all located in the Captain's Quarters.

This upgrade provides a bed, chest, dresser, and cupboard, all located in the Captain's Quarters. The chest at the foot of your bed contains a Smuggler's Key that opens the door to the Anvil castle Dining Hall in Smuggler's Cave (see the page on Smuggler's Cave for details about where this door leads). This is also where you will find your cut of any loot acquired by your pirates. On the table you will find four lockpicks and a steel cutlass and on the wall is a Gray Fox poster, in case you have not yet joined the Thieves Guild.

[edit] Supplier (Jak Silver)

• Base Cost: 1000
• Description: A salesman with many rare goods.

Jak Silver is a male Imperial Nightblade who can be found belowdecks on the Black Flag. If your mercantile is less than 50, Jak only sells lockpicks. At higher mercantile levels he also sells potions, weapons, and armor (including enchanted versions). The potions include Nightmask potions that are only available from Jak. He also provides training in Speechcraft up to level 75. Many other items are also become available (for free) in the room belowdecks where Jak Silver is located. Five chests in the lowermost deck of the Black Flag can be used to store loot.

[edit] Fence (Khafiz)

• Base Cost: 1000
• Description: A smuggler/fence. Will buy any stolen goods.

Khafiz is a male Redguard who can be found on the main deck of the Black Flag or in the small cave to the north. He sells lockpicks and a selection of weapons and armor (including enchanted items); he will buy any items. Khafiz also provides training in Mercantile up to level 75. The fence upgrade includes Bacon, an unkillable pet boar who can be used for easy training of combat skills. (Warning: This may cause him to permanently attack the player. However, he won't leave Dunbarrow Cove in this state.)

[edit] Security Expert (Tahm Blackwell)

• Base Cost: 1000
• Description: A housebreaker, will teach you and your crew Security. Provides the security training chest.

Tahm Blackwell is a male Imperial who can be found in the northwest corner of the main cave (near the entrance from Smuggler's Cave); he sells potions and scrolls. The only potions he sells are Potions of Magnification that cannot be bought anywhere else. The only scrolls he sells are standard Open scrolls. He also sells several spells, some unique, that provide Fortify Sneak, Security, and Open effects. Tahm provides training in Security up to level 75. The upgrade also includes a Training Chest that can be used to train your Security skill: it has a Hard lock and every time you open it, it immediately locks again.

[edit] Fletcher (Melliwin the Mongrel)

• Base Cost: 1000
• Description: Marksman supplies and training.

Melliwin the Mongrel is a female Bosmer who can be found in the southeast corner of the main cave, along with several archery targets. She sells bows and arrows (including enchanted ones; some of the arrows are newly introduced by this mod and only available from Melliwin). She also several spells, some unique, that provide Fortify Marksman, Sneak, Agility, and Speed, and Soul Trap effects. Melliwin provides training in Marksman up to level 75.

[edit] Spymaster (Kovan Kren)

• Base Cost: 1000
• Description: Has some weapons and armor for sale and also teaches Sneak.

Kovan Kren is a male Dunmer Nightblade who can be found in the northeast corner of the main cave, where he is usually practicing Blade skill on the target found there. Kovan sells armor (including enchanted items); he also buys books, clothing, and potions. The armor includes Gauntlets of the Manhunter, Silenced Boots, and Silenced Gauntlets that are not available anywhere else. He also sells several spells, some unique, that provide Fortify Blade, Fortify Sneak, Chameleon, Charm, and Invisibility effects. Kovan provides training in Sneak up to level 75.

[edit] Features

The more upgrades you purchase, the more well known you become as a pirate. You will receive messages telling you that certain pirates have heard about you and have joined your crew (in addition to the merchants you have already hired):

• Zedrick Green (a male Imperial) will join your crew after purchasing two upgrades.
• Scurvy John Hoff (another male Imperial) will join your crew after purchasing four upgrades.
• Yinz'r (a male Argonian) will join your crew after purchasing six upgrades.
• All three are tagged essential (unkillable).

Once all upgrades have been purchased, the quest is completed and you will have obtained the ability to send the three pirates who joined your crew out to pillage and plunder.

• Talk to any one of the three pirates and you will see the topic "I want you to head out and plunder". Select this topic to send them off.
• After one week you will receive a message saying your crew has returned and your share of the plunder is waiting back at Dunbarrow Cove.
• Your share is leveled and can be picked up every week in the chest at the foot of your bed in the Captain's Quarters. The amount of gold you receive is 100 times your current level (up to a maximum of 2000).
• You can send your crew back out to pillage again one day after they return from the previous mission.
  • You won't get any infamy points for sending your pirates out to plunder.

Once upgraded, you can find the Smuggler's key in a chest located in the captain's quarters. This will allow you to enter the Dining Hall area of the smuggler's cave. Within the dining hall / royal quarters you can activate 2 secret passages that will allow you to enter Anvil castle.

[edit] New Items

See Smuggler's Cave Items for a list of items added by the Thieves Den mod.

[edit] Exterior

• The exterior is located at coordinates: Tamriel -46, -11
• 1 Nirnroot is at location N on map
• The following plants can be found near the entrance: 2 Flax plants, 3 Foxglove plants, 4 Morning Glory plants, 3 Sacred Lotus plants, and 5 Water Hyacinth plants

[edit] Zone 1: Smuggler's Cave

This zone has sections that are underwater Treasure:

• 1 Nirnroot at location N on map
• 1 Chest containing 1 Security Skill Book, The Locked Room at B
• The following books will always be found: 1 Followers of the Gray Fox

Doors and Gates:

• There are two doors in/out of this zone (without installing the Dunbarrow Cove mod)
  • 1 (Out) leads outside
  • 1 (C) leads to Anvil Castle (locked, opened by the Smuggler's Key)

Other:

• 1 bedroll at location b on map

[edit] Notes

• The first zone, Smuggler's Cave, is fully accessible without the related plugin (although without the plugin it does not have any map marker).
• There are two entrances to this cave, one from the ocean shore (Out), and one from inside Anvil Castle (C).
• From within Smuggler's Cave, the door leading to Anvil Castle (C) is locked and requires the Smuggler's Key to be opened (from either side).
  • The only known way to acquire the key is from the Dunbarrow Cove mod, at which point the key will appear in a chest at the foot of the Captains Quarters bed, after purchasing the Personal Quarters Upgrade.
  • When you acquire the key, this door provides access to the Anvil Castle Dining Hall and Royal Quarters, via a set of dusty tunnels and some secret doors. The secret doors are all concealed in alcoves; the door is activated by using a Movable Pillar (coming from the cave, the pillar is on the right side; coming from the castle, the pillar is on the left side).
  • The secret door to the Dining Hall is one-way only (it can only be opened from the Anvil Castle side). This door is found in the northeast room of the Dining Hall complex; this area is accessible without trespassing.
  • The secret door to the Royal Quarters opens up in the eastern corner of the royal bedroom. Entering the royal bedroom is trespassing.
• This cave conceals the door to Dunbarrow Cove, which only becomes unearthed if you purchase the Thieves Den official plugin. When you purchase the plugin, a map marker is added for the cave with the label "Dunbarrow Cove".
• The various spells sold by the merchants include multiple spells with the rare Fortify Skill effect; these are the only standard spells available with this effect.
• All of the merchants (not just Khafiz) will buy stolen goods, although the others only have 100 gold (rather than Khafiz' 1500 gold) to spend.
• The name "Umbranox" is referenced to in Cap'n Dugal's journals. Moreover, "Umbranox" is the name of a Captain who defeats Dugal and his pirates, and Dugal states that he expects that Captain Umbranox returned to the Imperial City to be rewarded with titles and land. "Umbranox" is the last name of the Count and Countess of Anvil in the game, so one must assume that Captain Umbranox was rewarded in this manner. And indeed, this is confirmed by Bethesda on the Thieves' Den's official page in the online Oblivion store.

[edit] Bugs

• The Spymaster (Kovan Kren) will randomly decide to attack other occupants of the cavern. See Kovan's page for details on how to deal with this problem.
  • This bug is fixed by the Unofficial Official Mods Patch.

• There is a glitch with the doorway between the entrance and bedroom of the Captain's Quarters in Dunbarrow Cove, where items you drop can fall through the floor. Smaller items can be quite hard to retrieve, you might have better luck with larger objects such as shields or other armor.