The Ragged Flagon Cistern is a location found in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. It is located through a cupboard in The Ragged Flagon, just before the entrance leading to The Ratway Vaults. After entering through the above entrance, it can then also be accessed through a hidden entry under a small tomb next to the chapel. After using this entrance for the first time, it will be marked on the city map, to the immediate right of Riften's marker, as "Thieves Guild."
The Ragged Flagon Cistern is the Thieves Guild headquarters, and Brynjolf and other Guild members can often be located here throughout Thieves Guild questlines.
Services
- There is also a room with a Master, Adept, Expert, and Apprentice chest. These are for practice, and the player character can lockpick these chests repeatedly to improve his/her lockpicking skill.
Notes
- Upon joining the guild, the Dragonborn can use this location as a player home.
- Upon completion of the Thieves Guild questline, a Shrine of Nocturnal can be found in the cistern.
- For every special job the Dragonborn completes for Delvin Mallory, the Cistern will receive upgrades such as banners, tables with food and ingredients, and new members.
- If the Dragonborn pickpockets the Steel Arrows that most of the guild archers use and replaces them with a type of arrow preferred, the archers will shoot those. So if the player puts Daedric Arrows in their inventories, they will shoot an infinite quantity of Daedric Arrows.
- The Dragonborn can obtain an infinite number of Steel Arrows at the archery range when certain members practice, because they shoot at a fast pace and (like all characters) have an infinite quantity of whatever arrow they have equipped.
- It might be possible to enter the Cistern without starting the Thieves Guild questline; If the player character goes in and begins beating on the members present in the Ragged Flagon, one will occasionally flee through the 'strange door' and lead the player into the Cistern, which can then be looted.
Bugs
- In the training room, if the player tries to lockpick a chest while someone is in the room but fails the first attempt, the player will be scolded for attempting to unlock the chest and will have to restart the lockpicking process.
- PC Entering the through the secret entrance in the chapel graveyard can (rarely) cause the game to crash. (unknown if this occurs on consoles)
- On rare occasions the people inside will attack you as though you are trespassing, even after you have been accepted into the Thieves Guild.
- ALL* Occasionally, if the player tries to exit the area through the ladder that leads up to the secret-entrance tomb, the tomb will close as soon as the player climbs up. Note that you can still fast travel from that location, and that on the righthand wall immediately before the stairs out of the tomb is a chain that can be activated to open the tomb. This can happen if you enter through the secret entrance and do not close it back up with the pull chain, it has no effect on gameplay whatsoever
- At the end table next to the cupboard at the secret entrance, there is two pieces of paper, probably letters beneath the end table. The second one can be seen by the help of the tfc console command.
- If the Dragonborn attacks Etienne Rarnis until his health is low, he will retreat into the vault, unlocking it.
Appearances
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Template:1st