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TESV Ragnvald

The exterior of Ragnvald.

For other uses, see Tombs.

Nordic Tombs are ancient Nordic burial sites spread throughout the province of Skyrim. Some tombs were also places of worship for Dragon Priests and Dragons, such as Bleak Falls Barrow,[1] Forelhost, and Skuldafn.[2] Some of these tombs were actual cities when they were first built, such as Labyrinthian/Bromjunaar, Korvanjund, Volunruud,[3] Saarthal,[4] and Ragnvald.

List of tombs[]

Tomb Nordic tombs
Name Hold Quests Word Wall
Angarvunde The Rift Medresi Dran and the Wandering Dead
Find the Source of Power
Animal Allegiance
Ansilvund Eastmarch Find Queen Freydis' Sword
Find Roggi Knot-Beard's Ancestral Shield
No Stone Unturned
A Love Beyond Death
Arcwind Point The Rift Drain Vitality DG
Bleak Falls Barrow Falkreath Hold Bleak Falls Barrow
The Golden Claw
Unrelenting Force
Dead Men's Respite Hjaalmarch Tending the Flames Whirlwind Sprint
Deepwood Redoubt The Reach The House of Horrors
Dustman's Cairn The Reach[note 1] Proving Honor Fire Breath
Folgunthur Hjaalmarch Forbidden Legend Frost Breath
Forelhost The Rift Siege on the Dragon Cult
Alteration Ritual Spell
Storm Call
Frostmere Crypt The Pale The Pale Lady Ice Form
Geirmund's Hall The Rift Forbidden Legend
Hag Rock Redoubt The Reach Trouble in Skyrim
Hag's End The Reach Find the Source of Power
Locate the Assassin of Old
Slow Time
High Gate Ruins The Pale A Scroll For Anska Storm Call
Hillgrund's Tomb Whiterun Hold Ancestral Worship
Ironbind Barrow Winterhold Coming of Age Become Ethereal
Kilkreath Ruins Haafingar The Break of Dawn
Korvanjund The Pale The Jagged Crown Slow Time
Labyrinthian Hjaalmarch The Staff of Magnus Slow Time
Dismay
Lost Valley Redoubt The Reach Become Ethereal
North Shriekwind Bastion Falkreath Hold
Potema's Catacombs Haafingar The Wolf Queen Awakened
Potema's Refuge Haafingar The Man Who Cried Wolf
The Wolf Queen Awakened
Ragnvald The Reach Kyne's Peace
Rannveig's Fast Whiterun Hold Rannveig's Fast Kyne's Peace
Saarthal Winterhold Under Saarthal
Forbidden Legend
Ice Form
Shroud Hearth Barrow The Rift Lifting the Shroud Kyne's Peace
Silent Moons Camp Whiterun Hold Bounty: Kill Bandit Leader
Silverdrift Lair The Pale Possible location for:
Fetch Me That Book!
Hitting the Books
Find the Source of Power
Find the Word of Power
Wind and Sand
Disarm
Skuldafn Eastmarch The World-Eater's Eyrie Storm Call
Snow Veil Sanctum Winterhold Hold Speaking With Silence Disarm
South Shriekwind Bastion Falkreath Hold
Statue to Meridia Haafingar The Break of Dawn Elemental Fury
Twilight Sepulcher Falkreath Hold Darkness Returns
Ustengrav Hjaalmarch The Horn of Jurgen Windcaller Become Ethereal
Valthume The Reach Evil in Waiting Aura Whisper
Volskygge Haafingar Find the Source of Power
Alteration Ritual Spell
Whirlwind Sprint
Volunruud The Pale Silenced Tongues
The Silence Has Been Broken
Aura Whisper
Yngol Barrow Eastmarch Ashore in a Sea of Ghosts
Ysgramor's Tomb Winterhold Hold Glory of the Dead
Purity
Animal Allegiance

The Elder Scrolls V: Dragonborn[]

Tomb Nordic tombs
Name Hold Quests Word Wall
Bloodskal Barrow Solstheim The Final Descent
Gyldenhul Barrow Solstheim Deathbrand
Kolbjorn Barrow Solstheim Unearthed Cyclone
Vahlok's Tomb Solstheim Lost Legacy Battle Fury
White Ridge Barrow Solstheim Cyclone

Inhabitants and enemies[]

"Woe to the unwary explorer who delves deep into the burial crypts of the ancient Nords, and disturbs the Draugr that dwell within."
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Unique named enemies[]

Gauldurson Family[]

Dragon Priests[]

Puzzles and traps[]

  • Tombs mostly have puzzle doors, which are opened by Dragon Claws.
  • Tombs contain many dangerous traps, such as cave-ins or poison dart guns.

Trivia[]

  • Several of the tombs are referred to as "barrows." In reality, barrows are a type of burial mound most often associated with Neolithic and Early Bronze Age European cultures. In a similar vein, the carvings found in Nordic tombs are based upon the carvings found in the Neolithic passage tomb at Newgrange in Co. Meath, Ireland.
  • Halldir's Cairn visually appears as the Nordic Tomb, but both the map icon and the Creation Kit shows it as a cave.
  • The idea behind Nordic ruins was to have magnificent stone structures that would stand the test of of time, like the pyramids of egypt. Adam Adamowicz came up with having them shaped like ribcages, giving the developers the sense that they were made out of dead dragon skeletons, and were filled with iconography similar to egyptian heiroglyphs.[5]

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Appearances[]

Notes[]

  1. The location is erroneously set in Creation Kit. It should be in Whiterun Hold.

References[]

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