Elder Scrolls
Register
Advertisement
Elder Scrolls

For other uses, see Eastmarch.

Eastmarch is one of the Nine Holds of Skyrim, located in the east of the province, and is one of the four oldest holds known collectively as the Old Holds. The zone shares a border with the Rift to the south, Morrowind to the east and Bleakrock Isle is located to the northeast of the hold, just off the coasts of Solstheim and Vvardenfell.[1]

Background[]

"One of the "Old Holds," Eastmarch was among the first regions of Skyrim settled by the Nords when they arrived from Atmora. Its capital, Windhelm, is the oldest continuously inhabited human settlement in Tamriel, and was founded by Ysgramor himself."
Loading screen[src]

The zone stretches from Skyrim's jagged, northern Velothi Mountains and the frozen Sea of Ghosts into the southern volcanic tundra, which is inhabited only by a few hardy settlers, and formidable creatures, including giants, mammoths, trolls and even vampires.[1] Locals sometimes exchange whispers about the dangerous menaces that stalk the land.[source?] Hot springs, giant camps and ruins are common throughout the south of Eastmarch while the north of the zone is much more civilized, thanks to the presence of the ancient city of Windhelm and the surrounding towns and villages.[1]

Despite its size and importance, Eastmarch only has one major city, Windhelm, which sits at the mouth of the White River which flows out into the Sea of Ghosts.[1] The Windhelm docks provides a vital link to trade with the rest of the Ebonheart Pact, and there are several small fishing fleets in operation.[source?] The Velothi Mountains, which span the entire eastern tip of Skyrim, create a natural border with Morrowind. The mountains are impassable, save for one pass outside of Fullhelm Fort north of Fort Virak in Stonefalls, that leads into and out of the Rift.[1]

Eastmarch covers much of Skyrim's eastern border with Morrowind. The surrounding holds are Winterhold to the north, the Pale and Whiterun to the west and The Rift to the south.[2]

Central Eastmarch is a volcanically active area, plains with steaming gas leaking in between cracks in the ground, colorful, mineral filled bodies of water, and geysers. The far west of the hold, a cold, snowy tundra, resembles much of the rest of northern Skyrim and the northern tundra is where the hold's capital Windhelm lies. The east is composed of the Velothi mountain range, which extends all the way down to Stonefalls in Morrowind.[1]

Locations[]

Main article: Locations (Online)

The following are locations accessible in Eastmarch and, with the exception of unmarked locations, are discoverable on the map. Points of Interest serve as locations with unique side quests, while cities serve as the centralised areas with multiple sublocations and act as a hub for services and merchants. Explanations of the types of locations are provided in the main locations page.

Wayshrines Dungeons Points of Interest

Wayshrine Icon Cradlecrush Wayshrine
Wayshrine Icon Fort Amol Wayshrine
Wayshrine Icon Fort Morvunskar Wayshrine
Wayshrine Icon Jorunn's Stand Wayshrine
Wayshrine Icon Kynesgrove Wayshrine
Wayshrine Icon Logging Camp Wayshrine
Wayshrine Icon Mistwatch Wayshrine
Wayshrine Icon Skuldafn Wayshrine
Wayshrine Icon Voljar Meadery Wayshrine
Wayshrine Icon Windhelm Wayshrine
Wayshrine Icon Wittestadr Wayshrine

Group Dungeon Icon Direfrost Keep
Group Dungeon Icon Frostvault WS
Public Dungeon Icon Hall of the Dead
Delve Icon Icehammer's Vault
Delve Icon Old Sord's Cave
Delve Icon Stormcrag Crypt
Delve Icon The Bastard's Tomb
Delve Icon The Chill Hollow
Delve Icon The Frigid Grotto

Set Stations Mundus Stones Dark Anchors Striking Locales

Crafting Station Icon Crimson Kada's Crafting Cavern (Vampire's Kiss)
Crafting Station Icon Hammerhome (Alessia's Bulwark)
Crafting Station Icon Tinkerer Tobin's Workshop (Song of Lamae)

Mundus Stone Icon The Ritual
Mundus Stone Icon The Thief
Mundus Stone Icon The Warrior

World Event Icon Frostwater Tundra Dolmen
World Event Icon Giant's Run Dolmen
World Event Icon Icewind Peaks Dolmen

Locale Icon Bitterblade's Camp
Locale Icon Cragwallow Cave
Locale Icon Darkwater Crossing
Locale Icon Giant's Heart
Locale Icon Hermit's Hideout
Locale Icon Ragnthar
Locale Icon Thane Jeggi's Drinking Hole

World Bosses Housing Unmarked locations

Housing Icon Enchanted Snow Globe Home
Housing Icon Frostvault Chasm
Housing Icon Grymharth's Woe

Pin Icon Border Crossings
Pin Icon Dark Water Temple
Pin Icon Raldbthar Great Lift
Pin Icon Hfirorg Farm
Pin Icon Mzark Cavern GM
Pin Icon New Life Tent
Pin Icon Priestess Hodyette's Camp
Pin Icon The Grinning Horker

Quests[]

Main article: Quests (Online)

Eastmarch features a series of zone story quests and unrelated side quests. The zone story quests tie into the Ebonheart Pact's overarching storyline and carries on from Stormhaven before continuing to The Rift, but it is not necessary to complete the story quests for zones prior to those in Eastmarch. Side quests are non-sequential and can be completed in any order, except where one carries on from another, and repeatable quests can be completed multiple times: weekly for arenas and trials and daily for all others. Pointer quests are optional zone quests that send the Vestige to the tarting location of another zone quest.

Zone Quest Icon Zone quests
Zone Quest Icon Pointer quests
Online Quest Icon Side quests
Solo Dungeon Icon Solo dungeon quests
Group Dungeon Icon Group dungeon quests
Online Quest Icon Faction quests
Companion Icon Companion quests
  • Between a Rock and a Whetstone NE
Online Quest Icon Prologue quests
Online Quest Icon Event quests

Characters[]

Random encounters
Traveling merchants

Item Sets[]

Main article: Item Sets

Item sets are related armor and weapons that, when worn together, provide unique benefits. Overland sets can be acquired from world bosses, world events, delves, public dungeons and containers and as quest rewards; dungeon sets can be acquired from within group dungeons; monster sets can be acquired from the final boss of veteran group dungeons and Undaunted Enclaves; and crafted sets can be created at specific locations across the zone.

Overland
Dungeon
Monster
Craftable

Skyshards[]

Main article: Skyshards (Online)

Sixteen Skyshards can be found in Eastmarch totaling in five skill points with one left over. The zone guide provides clues as to the location of each Skyshard, but many can be found simply by exploring and watching for the distinctive pillar of light they emit. Skyshards will appear on the map and compass when the Vestige is close to one and will remain discovered on the map even if it was not collected.

# Description Location
1 Nestled beside Morvunskar's royal tomb. Against the mountain east of the lower entrance into Fort Morvunskar.
2 Giants despoil the village below. Shortly southwest of Giant's Heart.
3 Leave the hollow to cure the chill. Northeast of the Chill Hollow.
4 Strewn between tusks near the barrow. North of the intersecting roads at Bonestrewn Crest.
5 Deside a bridge to Amol. Northeast of Fort Amol by the far end of the east bridge.
6 Lost in ruins beyond the grotto. South of the Frigid Grotto and west of Lost Knife Cave.
7 Mzulft's secrets are not all underground. Above the entrance of Mzulft.
8 Attempting to spy on Aelif. Against the inside face of the mountain southwest of Jorunn's Stand.
9 Stashed near a farm in icy winds. Southwest of Icewind Peaks Dolmen behind the east-most house.
10 An illigitimate child's reading material. North-most chamber of the Bastard's Tomb.
11 Search the slipperiest places in the hollow. South-most section of the Chill Hollow.
12 Three eyes gleam, a frigid prize. South-most section of the Frigid Grotto.
13 Crashed from the sky to open the vault. West-most chamber of Icehammer's Vault.
14 Old Sord excelled at hide-and-seek. South-most section of Old Sord's Cave.
15 Among the dead, sheltered from storms. West-most chamber of Stormcrag Crypt.
16 Near a throne in the Hall of the Dead. Central chamber of the Hall of the Dead.

Achievements[]

Main article: Achievements (Online)

Achievements can be earned by completing specific tasks such as completing quests and discovering locations. Achievements are separated into categories and their progress is viewable from the journal. Earning achievement provides the Vestige a number of points, and some achievements unlock unique rewards such as furnishings that can be bought from Achievement Furnishers or collectibles.

Character Journal Icon Character
Skyshards
  • Eastmarch Skyshard Hunter
Dungeon Journal Icon Dungeons
Public Dungeons
  • Hall of the Dead Conqueror
  • Hall of the Dead Group Event
  • Hall of the Dead Conqueror
Group Dungeons
  • Direfrost Keep Vanquisher
Veteran Dungeons Journal Icon Veteran Dungeons
General
  • Direfrost Keep Conqueror
Death Challenges
  • A Dish Served Cold
Slayer Challenges
  • Veteran Draugr Slayer
  • Veteran Frozen Skeleton Slayer
Speed Challenges
  • Direfrost Keep Assassin
Survivor Challenges
  • Direfrost Keep Survivor
Exploration Journal Icon Exploration
Ebonheart Pact
  • Ammabani Ambusher
  • Armene's Bane
  • Bastard's Tomb Explorer
  • Beralagr Hunter
  • Chill Hollow Explorer
  • Eastmarch Cave Delver
  • Eastmarch Master Explorer
  • Eastmarch Pathfinder
  • Frigid Grotto Explorer
  • Icehammer's Vault Explorer
  • Mannskadi's Maulder
  • Old Sord's Cave Explorer
  • Rageclaw Hunter
  • Ratmaster Crusher
  • Stormcrag Crypt Explorer
Fishing
  • Eastmarch Angler
Quests Journal Icon Quests
Ebonheart Pact
  • Blood Feud
  • Giant-Friend
  • Eastmarch Adventurer
  • Skald-King's Arrow
  • Skald-King's Salvation
Group Dungeons Journal Icon Wrathstone
General
  • Coldsnap Style Master
  • Collateral Damage
  • Drop Testing
  • Frostvault Vanquisher
  • Rat Race
  • Running the Right Angles
  • Three Sheets to the Wind
  • Wild Walloping
  • Wrathstone Dungeoneer
  • Wrathstone Explorer
Veteran
  • A Variety of Vermin
  • Cold Potato
  • Frostvault Challenger
  • Frostvault Conqueror
  • Relentless Raider
  • Safe Keeping
  • Smash and Grab
  • Vault Cracker
  • Veteran Centurion Slayer
  • Veteran Riekling Slayer
  • Wrathstone Delver

Shalidor's Library[]

Main article: Shalidor's Library

Thirty-two books that are a part of Shalidor's Library can be found in Eastmarch and added to the collection. Books that have already been found in other zones will already be marked as completed in the zone tracker.

Fish[]

Main article: Fishing (Online)

Fish can be caught from fishing hotspots, ideally with the correct bait. Common fish will be caught most often while rare fish and alternative bait are rare catches. Each zone has unique rare fish than can be caught from hotspots. Slaughterfish and trodh can be caught from foul hotspots, dhufish and longfin can be caught from saltwater hotspots, silverside perch and spadetail can be caught from lake hotspots, and salmon and river betty can be caught from river hotspots. Chub, minnow, shad and fish roe can be caught and used as bait from foul, saltwater, lake and river hotspots, respectively.

Fish Source Quality
Char Lakes Fine
Eastmarch Pike Lakes Fine
Ghost Haddock Saltwater Superior
Golem Shark Saltwater Fine
Ice Fish Rivers Fine
Ice Remora Foul water Superior
King Sturgeon Lakes Superior
Modoc Sucker Foul water Fine
Pigfish Saltwater Fine
Snipe Eel Foul water Fine
Steelhead Rivers Fine
White River Fish Rivers Superior

Gallery[]

Interactive map[]


Trivia[]

  • The outline of Eastmarch on the map of Tamriel does not match that of other media such as that which is seen in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and the Tamriel Anthology Map. Responding to this in a post on June 19, 2015, entitled 'Eastmarch and Skuldafn appear to be wrong, geographically, in Elder Scrolls Online,' then-ZeniMax Online Studios Loremaster Lawrence Schick wrote, in the character of Phrastus of Elinhir, "Our latter-day Nords are not well known for the scholarly attainments, and cartography is not one of their strongpoints. On their maps, sites of great importance—to Nords, that is—are often distorted and exaggerated. So it is with the eerie aerie of Skuldafn, which holds great significance for our superstitious northern brethren. They have never been comfortable with the fact that the Dark Elves hold the west coast of the Inner Sea all the way up to Blacklight; in some cases their maps elide that fact entirely. But it is there nonetheless."[3]

Bugs[]

This section contains bugs related to Eastmarch (Online). Before adding a bug to this list, consider the following:

  1. Please reload an old save to confirm if the bug is still happening.
  2. If the bug is still occurring, please post the bug report with the appropriate system template  360  /  XB1  ,  PS3  /  PS4  ,  PC  /  MAC  ,  NX  /  PS5  ,  XS  , depending on which platform(s) the bug has been encountered on.
  3. Be descriptive when listing the bug and fixes, but avoid having conversations in the description and/or using first-person anecdotes: such discussions belong on the appropriate forum board.
  •  PC   Wolves along the bluff near Cragwallow Cave may disappear randomly, including in the middle of combat.

Appearances[]

References[]

Advertisement