Kilkreath Ruins

Quests

 * The Break of Dawn – The Dragonborn is sent here by Meridia to cleanse it from the undead and the necromancer within.

Notable items

 * Battle of Red Mountain (Block) skill book, found in the second section of the ruins, in the upper west corner in a bookcase.
 * Large amounts of Gold on the desecrated corpses (far more than is usually found on characters). Although many of them appear to be wearing Imperial Armor and Stormcloak Armor, nothing other than gold can be taken from them.
 * Beside one of the corpses where the ruin is entered is an Imperial Helmet.
 * Some of the Corrupted Shades carry Imperial Swords as well as a variety of weapons.
 * The Elemental Fury shout is outside the temple northeast from the bottom of the stairs leading to Meridia's statue.
 * Various Soul Gems
 * Potion of Extended Invisibility can be obtained using the Telekinesis Alteration spell.

Alchemy ingredients

 * Bone Meal (as random Loot from the Corrupted Shades)
 * White Cap

Facilities

 * Arcane Enchanter

Trivia

 * Be careful of a trip wire in this ruin; when triggered, some swinging axes come out of the walls.
 * Do not stand in the path of the light, as it causes shock damage which drains health and magicka.
 * The light is actually a destruction spell shown in the spell book as kilkreathLightBeam. It can only be unlocked by the player through console commands in the PC version (console command PSB)
 * The corpses lying around the place look strikingly similar to the painting The Scream by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.
 * Do not tell Followers to wait inside of the room in which Malkoran is fought, or at least remember to recall them before taking Dawnbreaker: this room is locked for the rest of the game, and followers will be unable to be reclaimed.
 * A Letter from a Friend or the Greybeards may send the Dragonborn to Kilkreath Ruins, but the word wall is not inside the ruins, like with other word walls, but outside of the ruins uphill of the statue of Meridia.

Bugs

 * Sometimes the word wall at Kilkreath Ruins won't work.
 * First Solution: Save, reboot console and reload (fix confirmed)
 * Second Solution: or fast travel away and back again.