Skyrim Mod:A Tale of Blood and Snow/Lair of the Lothid

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Investigate a group of dead Quarra explorers. Quest Giver: Entering Reachwind Depths for the first time. Location(s): Reachwind Depths Reward: Access to Blackreach. Added by: A Tale of Blood and Snow

Quick Walkthrough

1. Use the elevator to Reachwind Depths at Reachwind Eyrie.
2. Find the Quarra Explorer's Journal, Part 2.
3. Destroy Jnchuthgo Narrowsight.
4. Enter The Blinds.
5. Navigate to the elevator leading to Blackreach.

Detailed Walkthrough

Upon entering Reachwind Depths, the quest starts. Several dead Quarra vampires can be found in the room, and next to the one nearest the door is Quarra Explorer's Journal, Part 1 which explains what they were doing there. A few Dwemer spiders and spheres can be found in this area, as well as some locked chests. The dead Quarra are likely to carry spellbooks with Quarra-specific spells.

Down a corridor, another dead Quarra with a note, the part 2 of the journal, waits in front of a door at the bottom of a descending corridor with blade traps. Reading the note causes a Dwemer steam centurion to break open the door. Past that room is a drop-down which serves as a point of no-return until near the end of this quest.

Navigate down the ruined corridor. There are a large number of chests along the way, including a locked room with a full shelf of locked chests. This should only be approached if you have the Light Foot perk, as the entire front of the shelf is a pressure plate that triggers a large number of mechanical traps that never stop. Eventually you reach a room with red lighting where the unique named Steam Centurion Jnchuthgo Narrowsight holds court over a few Dwemer Ballistas. Defeating it opens the way to an elevator leading to The Blinds.

The Blinds is a large cavern full of island pillars on which luminescent Blackreach mushrooms grow. There are several Falmer here, including the unique named Falmer Brute Grom-Bok. Navigate through the bridges to reach the elevator to Blackreach, which is lit by three glowing purple orbs attached to a Steam Centurion frame. Once you enter the elevator (there is no need to actually use it), the lights disappear and the quest is completed.

You can then go and explore Blackreach, or backtrack to an elevator on the South that will lead you back to Reachwind Depths above the drop-down point, letting you go back to the surface of Skyrim.

Notes

• The Lothid Clan and Reachwind Depths, including The Blinds appear in Elder Scrolls Online.