The Legend of Red Eagle (Quest)

Overview

 * Prerequisites: None.
 * Quest Giver: Reading Books
 * Reward: Honed Ancient Nord Greatsword of Burning, Red Eagle's Bane,

Quick Walkthrough

 * 1) Fight up the mountian to get to the Red Eagle's Ascent
 * 2) Fight through the tunnel
 * 3) Defeat Forsworn Briarheart and take Red Eagle's Bane
 * 4) Make your way to Rebel's Cairn and use Red Eagle's Bane to open cave wall
 * 5) Fight Red Eagle

Detailed Walkthrough
After reaching the area the map directs you to, you will find several Forsworn in your path. Quickly defeat them and make your way to the iron doorway to Red Eagle's Ascent.

Make your way down the cave path and take out the 3 Forsworn you find at the beginning of the cave. There may be 2 or 3 more as you go through, but not many more than that.

Once you exit the Ascent, you will be attacked by 2 more Forsworn. Once you take care of them stick to the right side of the mountain, if you go to the left you will encounter a Forsworn Mage that is pretty tough along with 2-3 more Forsworn. If you climb the mountian (easy enough to do if you use some stamina and jump in the right spots) you will come accross another Forsworn Mage in a tent that will summon a Frost Atronach (Skyrim) that can be tough to deal with if you don't go right into the tent to take her out. 4-6 more Forsworn come out to help her, but the can be taken down easy if you have finished her off first.

Make your way up the steps and fight the Forsworn Briarheart and grab the Red Eagle's Bane. You can make your way through the tower at this point without running into anymore Forsworn and make your way over to Rebel's Cairn.

Once inside use Red Eagle's Bane to open the cave wall. Make your way down the tunnel and prepare to fight Red Eagle.

Once you step on the seal on the floor Red Eagle will awake and summon 4 Skeleton archers when he gets out of his coffin. The easiest way to defeat Red Eagle if you have a companion, Barbas, and Flame Atronach is to not fight him and let them do all the work.

Before you step on the seal set out a Fire Rune spell if you have it in the center of the last set of stairs (the one Red Eagle will come down first). Then run back up to where you opened the cave wall. Your team will take out the Skeleton's first and then start working on Red Eagle. If your Flame Atronach runs out of steam you can go back in and re-cast her and by this time Red Eagle should be at least half way dead if not more (remember there are 3 people striking him if all goes well). You can finish him off if you want, and if you have a Soul Trap weapon you can even grab Red Eagle's soul if you have the Black Star.

Once you have finished him off and looted the Honed Ancient Nord Greatsword of Burning behind his coffin there is a chest and some shelves with some goodies on it.

Enemies

 * Forsworn
 * Skeleton
 * Forsworn Briarheart
 * Red Eagle