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Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition Guide The Atlas Solstheim: Southern Ash Lands

[S.S11] Fort Frostmoth

[S.S11] Fort Frostmoth

Related Quests

  • Solstheim Side Quest: March of the Dead
  • Solstheim Side Quest: The Great Solstheim Strongbox Hunt*

Recommended Level: 25

Dungeon: Military Fort

Collectibles

  • East Empire Strongbox [DB29/33]
  • Unique Weapon: Champion’s Cudgel [DB9/11]

Miscellaneous

  • Area is locked
  • Chest
  • Potions
  • Loose gear

Exterior

This was once a sizable Imperial garrison, where unruly soldiers were sent as penance. Now it is a ghostly shell. Ash Spawn patrol the walls, and the booming voice of General Falx Carius instructs his minions to attack. Expect around six foes to contend with along the battlements and in the southeast tower (where you find skeletal remains and a knapsack). To the south is a sunken Nord merchant boat with a few mead barrels and a skeleton, and a three-tiered harbor wall with steps up to the main southern entrance.

The fort proper is half buried by the ash, and there are numerous gaps in the battlements that allow you into the central courtyard. The western tower is accessible, with a foe at the top and a good vantage point for long-range attacks. But the most intact sections of the fort lie along the north and west walls. The north wall door is accessible only from the inside, leaving you with one entrance—to the west. Heading inside is the only way to reach the western and northern rooftops, where you find a chest along the western side.

Interior

Door to Solstheim

Western Entrance Corridor

The choking ash is everywhere, as are three or four Ash Spawn to contend with, throughout Locations 1, 2, and 3. Adjacent to the door is a small guard chamber with a couple of potions. Move to the main north-south corridor and check the nearby small armory to the southeast for Imperial equipment, some books, and an East Empire Strongbox [Expert]

  • Ash Spawn
  • Potions
  • Book: The Legend of Red Eagle
  • East Empire Strongbox [Expert] [DB29/33]
  • East Empire Pendant
  • Loose gear

Imperial Barracks

The ruined remains of beds and imperial equipment are located here. Watch out for the foe and the chest [Adept].

Training Room

A ramp to a ladder and trapdoor allows access to the western roof, where you’ll find a chest. The room has scattered items and a few potions.

Trapdoor to Solstheim

Ruined Hallway

Including the steps down you’ve taken to reach here, there are five separate exits and one blocked-off alcove in this chamber, along with two Ash Spawn. There’s scattered equipment and a cobwebbed entrance to the west. There’s a locked cell door [Master] to the north (you can also unlock it with the Fort Frostmoth key, found in Location [6]). Inside is a chest, some hidden moon sugar, and a variety of drinks. The other exit north leads down to the crypt. To the east is a wooden door requiring the Fort Frostmoth Key to open (which is in the crypt). To the south, a wall has fallen on the skeletal remains of Maximian Axius, with a letter and knapsack nearby. Check the knapsack for three more letters.

  • Ash Spawn
  • Loose Gear
  • Chest
  • Maximian’s Knapsack
  • A Letter to Selina, I–IV

Geode Chamber

Five nasty little spiders guard seven egg clusters in this gloomy rock cave, with Heart Stone and ruby geodes to mine afterward.

  • Albino Spider
  • Flame Cloaked Spider
  • Jumping Flame Spider
  • Heart Stone Deposit (2)
  • Ruby Geode (3)

Crypt

Face Ash Spawn in this narrow crypt lined with Imperial coffins, with two stacked atop each other at the chamber’s west end. Aside from a chest and a few potions, there’s a knapsack with a key inside that opens the wooden door to the east in Location [4]. Ildari’s Journal is atop the coffins, detailing Neloth’s old apprentice Ildari Sarothril and her attempts to raise the dead (for more about Ildari, see Solstheim Side Quest: Old Friends).

  • Ash Spawn
  • Chest
  • Potions
  • Knapsack
  • Fort Frostmoth Key
  • Ildari’s Journal
  • Loose Gear

Wooden Door [Requires Key]

Use the Fort Frostmoth Key to open this door.

General Falx Carius’s Chamber

If you’re here for Solstheim Side Quest: March of the Dead, the resurrected remains of the general fight you here, along with four Ash Spawn minions. There’s a chest, some books, and potions to obtain.

  • Ash Spawn
  • Book: Ahzidal’s Descent
  • Book: Deathbrand
  • Chest
  • General Falx Carius
  • Unique Weapon: Champion’s Cudgel [DB9/11]

Trapdoor to Solstheim

This leads up to the roof for a quick escape.

Door to Solstheim [Requires Key]

Use the Fort Frostmoth Key to open this door.