Skyrim:Sundered Towers

Nordic Tower: Sundered Towers (view on map) (lore page)
Clearable	No (see Notes)
Respawn Time	10 days
Occupants
Forsworn, Hagravens
Console Location Code(s)
RedEagleRedoubtExterior08
Region
The Reach
Location
Southeast of Karthwasten Northeast of Red Eagle Redoubt

Sundered Towers

Sundered Towers is a small pair of linked ruined Nordic towers southeast of Karthwasten containing Forsworn and hagravens.

Related Quests

• Rebel's Cairn: Find Red Eagle's sword.

Walkthrough

The towers are at the top of a series of stone staircases and winding paths interspersed with landings occupied by the Forsworn camped at Red Eagle Redoubt. The entrance to the towers is a level-locked iron door which can be unlocked with the Red Eagle Tower key carried by the Forsworn Briarheart of the redoubt. Inside is a copy of The Legend of Red Eagle and a random pair of gauntlets on a sideboard opposite. A flight of stairs to the right ascends to a doorway outside to a wooden ramp up to the next level, where a raised wooden bridge is on the right and a doorway is to the left. Just inside on the right is a chain that lowers the bridge. At the back of the room behind a flight of wooden stairs is an urn, while the stairs lead up to another level with more stairs up to the highest level; both of these levels are empty.

Once you have lowered the wooden bridge, you may cross to a second tower to the east. On the far side is a doorway ahead and a wooden ramp down to the left. Through the door, the room contains a novice-locked chest and a flight of wooden stairs leading up, with another flight above these leading to the top; again, these levels are both empty. Descending via the ramp brings you to a doorway with a broken sideboard opposite holding a random potion of magicka and a random empty soul gem. There are also stairs leading down on the right as you enter. At the bottom is a pile of rubble with a random potion among it, with an iron door opposite secured by a bar on this side preventing entrance from the other side.

Notes

• This location cannot be independently cleared. It will only show up as such when the boss-level creatures in Red Eagle Redoubt have been killed, as the game considers these zones one unit for the purpose of calculating clears.
  • Sundered Towers itself will never add to your count of cleared locations, and therefore does not contribute to the Delver achievement.
• Although the door bar prevents easy access to Sundered Towers from the plateau, this can be circumvented by climbing a rock ramp opposite the third tree south of the barred door, then jumping up more rocks to reach the tower with the bridge release chain. This approach allows Red Eagle Ascent to be traversed downward instead of upward.

Bugs

• The key might not be on the corpse of the Briarheart.
• The book may clip through the pillar on the altar, making it irretrievable. ^?
  • Cast an explosive area-of-effect spell such as Fireball, and the book should reveal itself, allowing you to grab it.