Skyrim Mod:Echoes of the Vale/Darkmaw Passage

Cave: Darkmaw Passage
Added by	Echoes of the Vale
Respawn Time	10 days
Occupants
Vale Sabre Cats, leveled Chaurus, Shellbug
Important Treasure
Istvan’s Adze
Console Location Code(s)
FVEDarkmawPassage01
Region
Forgotten Vale
Ore Veins
# of Quicksilver	1
# of Moonstone	1

Darkmaw Passage entrance

Darkmaw Passage is a cave passage in the south of the Forgotten Vale that leads to Darkmaw Vale. It can be found along the left wall of the first area, opposite the Wayshrine of Sight and south of the Frostbite Spider canyon.

Walkthrough

Exterior

Leading up to the entrance, there is a flag post with a cart next to it. Pinned to the cart is a note titled Faded Message. A vale sabre cat keeps watch for prey here. If you have the Calm spell, the Voice of the Sky blessing, or the Kyne’s Peace shout, you can pass by the cat without incident.

Interior

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Sabre Cat's Den

The first chamber you enter is inhabited by a Vale Sabre Cat in the middle of the cavern. Beyond it, up a ramp to an elevated platform, is a Quicksilver Ore vein.

The only way further in is to use the tunnel to the left.

Sabre Cat Corridor

Another Vale Sabre Cat stands in your way, patrolling a snowy area of the tunnel.

Chaurus Nest

Two Chaurus, one of them leveled, have made a home in this chamber. A stream has cut a trench through the floor from south to north, with Hanging Moss growing on the ceiling of the entrance and exit tunnels.

Mammoth and humanoid bones litter the cave. Oddly, along the streambank is what appears to be an articulated whale's flipper.

Three more tunnels lead out of this chamber, to the north, southwest, and northeast:

Shellbug Hideaway

Down the southwest tunnel from the Chaurus nest, follow the stream back to its source. After you go through a very dark passageway, you will find the Shellbug that was making all that chittering at a dead end with a waterfall. In the middle of the stream is a mammoth ribcage with the unique woodcutter’s axe Istvan’s Adze embedded in it.

Whitewater swimming

The north tunnel, where the stream is flowing, opens out into a pit that leads to the Darkmaw River area. Be careful you don't hit the sides of the shaft on the way down and get killed.

Tomb of the Imperial Soldier

The last tunnel leads out from the northeast corner of the nest chamber.

After turning left and then right, the tunnel opens out into another Chaurus lair, where a Chaurus Hunter hovers above the ground.

Once the Chaurus Hunter is defeated, you can have a look at the spot where it had been. On the left, a skeleton lies sprawled against the wall, still wearing an Imperial Light Helmet. Close by are an Imperial Sword and an Imperial Light Shield,. Chaurus have since devoured any clothing or armor this skeleton was wearing, but at the dead imperial's hip a Satchel is still intact. To the right of the former soldier is a patch of Blisterwort, and above to the right is another cluster of Glowing Mushrooms.

Further down, the Passage leads to Darkmaw Vale.