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| Added by Add-On | Dawnguard | ||
| # of Zones | 2 | ||
| Occupants | |||
| Redwater Lookouts, Doorman, Dealer, Attendant, Addicts, Bandits, Nobleman, Imperial Deserter, Vampires, Vampire's Thralls, Death Hounds, Venarus Vulpin | |||
| Important Treasure | |||
| Telekinesis | |||
| Console Location Code(s) | |||
| DLC1RedwaterDen01, DLC1RedwaterDen02 | |||
| Region | |||
| The Rift | |||
| Location | |||
| West of Autumnshade Clearing | |||
Redwater Den is a drug den hidden beneth a dilapidated shack, supplying Redwater skooma, located west of Autumnshade Clearing. It has an exterior and two interior zones: Redwater Den and Redwater Spring.
You will discover that the drug den is actually a front for a group of vampires, who use a particularly nasty and addictive brew of skooma to ensure a constant supply of blood from helpless addicts.
Related Quests
- The Bloodstone Chalice: Fill the Bloodstone Chalice from the Bloodspring at Redwater Den.
- Culling the Beast: Kill the thin-blooded vampires. (radiant)
- Onmund's Request: Help Onmund negotiate the return of a family amulet from Enthir. (radiant)
Walkthrough
Exterior
At first sight, this is only a dilapidated shack, guarded by a lookout out front. So long as you do not attack or approach as a full-fledged vampire, he will direct you into the den, assuming you are after a skooma fix. If you enter through a hole in the side wall of the shack, you will find another lookout seated in front of the fireplace. A copy of the Block skill book Battle of Red Mountain and an iron war axe can be found on the nearby table. There is a charred skeever cooking on a spit in front of the fireplace. Somewhat hidden behind low walls in the corner is a trapdoor which leads into the interior of the den below.
Redwater Den
The trap door leads to a short passage and stairs down to an empty room, except for a doorman, who warns you to keep your weapons sheathed. There is a small room to the right of the guarded door, containing an unlocked chest and two rows of weapon racks holding a couple of iron swords. Through the guarded door and down more stairs lead to a room with a dealer behind an expert locked, caged counter. She will sell you Redwater skooma and can even be persuaded to give you a free sample. Behind her is a door, which appears to lead to a basic storeroom. Past the counter is a room containing a well, two sets of shelves holding clutter, several crates, a food sack and hanging above the well a whole salmon. To the right is a corridor with a slight red mist pervading it, and rug covered booths on either side; an attendant who walks the corridor, in each booth you'll find an Addict, including a Nobleman and an Imperial Deserter. They are all drinking Redwater skooma, with many empty skooma bottles scattered over the floor of each booth. In corner of the last booth, on the right is an iron shield and knapsack that are free to take. At the end of the corridor is an adept locked gate, which the attendant warns you not to tamper with.
Attacking either the dealer or attendant, regardless of whether you are seen will cause the other to become hostile. Both carry a bottle of Redwater skooma and a copy of a key, which opens most of the doors/gates in this zone. Inside the caged counter area is a steel war axe, a bottle of Redwater skooma, three honey nut treats, a sweet roll, several loaves of bread, a few loose septims, a large coin purse, four bottles of ale, two bottles of alto wine, three bottles of Nord mead, two bottles of wine. All apart from a bottle of ale are marked as owned and taking them is considered stealing. The storeroom behind the dealer contains several food sacks and a set of shelves holding a potion of minor healing, a lockpick, a bottle of alto wine and four bottles of Nord mead. There is also a doorway through to an area with a couple of large vat and a dead draugr lying in front of a sarcophagus with a concealed door behind, but no obvious way of opening it from this side.
From here, there are two options to continue forward: Either drink the Redwater skooma you got from the dealer. Your vision will blur, fade to black, and you will wake up in a large dim room filled with vampires, discussing the potency of the water and its effects on creating thralls. Unlocking the gate nearby will alert the vampires and put you back on the same path as above, allowing you to continue forward from the same point.
Or alternatively, pick the lock on the gate, either before or after dealing with the dealer and attendant, if they observe you they will instantly turn hostile. After dealing with them you will be able to proceed through the gate. The room beyond contains a set of shelves holding a cure poison potion, two random potions of magicka, an unlocked chest and several sacks of food. Beside the shelves is a wooden table with a medium coin purse on top. A tunnel heads south, opening up into a large multi-leveled room, with a vampire's thrall on a raised section opposite, and the same red mist rising above large boiling vats. A pair of wooden ramps on the left lead down to the cavern floor and hanging moss is growing from the walls around the cavern. At the bottom, on the right is a table with two open crates on top; one contains three bottles of skooma and the other empty skooma bottles. Under the wooden ramps are several crates and barrels, with a random potion of stamina, an adept locked chest. To the north is an adept locked cell containing a dead novice conjurer with a copy of the spell tome: Telekinesis beside them. This is where you will awaken if you choose to drink the Redwater skooma. Outside the cell is a cart containing a dead wood elf. Paths lead towards the rear of the room, either side of the raised section, and up ramps to the rear. At the front of the raised section, on the left is an alchemy lab built-in to a wooden table with a bottle of Sleeping Tree sap, a random poison and a total of four bowls of moon sugar, three of which are in an open crate, beside it. At the rear of the raised section is a set of shelves holding a beehive husk, a bee, a sample of hanging moss, a swamp fungal pod, a bowl of frost salts, a bowl of moon sugar, a bunch of lavender, a skeever tail, a piece of canis root, a bowl of ectoplasm, a silverside perch, a bowl of spriggan sap, and a sample of hawk feathers.
At the rear of the room is a large opening with two unowned single beds separated by a dresser beside it. There is a cooking pot and barrel of food at the foot of the right-hand bed. On the right is a ramp leading up, passing an empty set of shelves. At the top you will find a vampire and a thrall near a forge, complete with a workbench and a grindstone. The passage leading to the forge is filled with crates, an unowned bed roll and on one of the crates is a copy of The Aetherium WarsDG. Beside the workbench is a pair of iron boots, while to the left of the forge is a square wooden table holding a bottle of Black-Briar mead. Around to the east is a raised bridge that crosses over the previous multi-leveled room. On your right is a pickaxe and some cheese, with a bunch of dried frost mirriam hanging above. The lever to lower the bridge is in another alcove to the north. Between the alcoves is a crate holding a potion of minor magicka and a potion of minor stamina. While at the rear of the second alcove is a long wooden table holding a woodcutter's axe, a joint of cooked beef and two lockpicks.
On the far side of the bridge the passage turns north and descends, passing a wooden table with more pickaxes on top. Beyond this the chamber opens out, with an iron ore vein and a gold ore vein in the southeast corner and along the south wall. Ahead the architecture changes and begins to resemble that of an ancient Nord barrow. A doorway to the north gives access to a small area containing two large urns and one burial urn among the rubble from a cave-in with with a pressure plate in front that trigger a poison darts to shoot from either side. The passage continues to the south, where you will find a thrall and skeleton on guard. There are a couple of oil lanterns hanging above them. The passage ends with a crate holding two random potions of healing and a satchel beside a concealed door, which is opened using a chain.
A tunnel twists and turns before opening out into a room with an open coffin in the center, which if you are a vampire, you are free to sleep in. There are two death hounds and a leveled vampire guarding the room. To the west is a fireplace with an arcane enchanter built into a sideboard to the right of it. On the sideboard are a random filled soul gem and ruined books. Opposite this, to the east is another concealed door with the chain in a recess on the right. Behind the door is a small alcove with a plinth holding a random enchanted mace and a sideboard behind it with a potion of cure disease and a random potion of magicka on top. Back in the first room, to the south is a set of shelves holding a burial urn. A passage heads north, past two open sarcophagi with dead draugr lying in front of them. A flight of stairs climbs to a pair of double iron door with a puddle of red water seeping underneath it. The doors lead to Redwater Spring.
Redwater Spring
Through the doors the puddle continues off to the left before disappearing under some rubble. Ahead at a T-junction is a long sideboard filled with candles and in the middle a lit brazier, with a banner hanging above it. To the right of the brazier is a medium coin purse, Venarus Vulpin's journal and three of loose septims. Reading the journal, by the vampire who rediscovered the Bloodspring. The journal explains his reasoning behind setting up the skooma racket. To the northwest is a lowered gate blocking the only doorway, with no visible means to open it. To the southeast is a window with another lowered gate to the right. As you approach the window you will overhear someone asking why they don't just drink directly from the spring, rather using the skooma addicts. There are two sideboards, one either side of the window. The right-hand one has three more loose septims on top. To the north is a balcony with a wooden paneling surround. There is a passage leading down to the room below. There are several cages containing death hounds, with a leveled vampire and thrall wandering the room. Hanging from the ceiling above them are several oil lanterns with an oil slick underfoot. There are two stone pillars with a wooden ramp spiraling around the left-hand pillar and a bridge crossing to the right-hand pillar. By the start of the wooden ramp is a candle holder with a random potion of healing and a medium coin purse on top.
Take care as there is a trap door in the floor a couple of paces into the room, which is very difficult to see. It opens and drops you into a spike pit. There is a passage leading up from the stakes, but swinging blades start as soon as you drop into the pit. At the far end of the passage is a chest with an unlocked tension cable attached, that triggers poison darts from behind unless disarmed before opening. A second passage leads to the bottom of a wooden spiral staircase with a large urn, barrel of ingredients and a couple of food sacks underneath. The stairs lead back up to the room containing the caged death hounds. Beside the stairwell, against the east wall is a narrow table holding a copy of Fall from Glory and a potion of resist fire. In the northeastern corner is a fire pit with a cooking pot in front and beside this is a food barrel with a salt pile on top. There are several empty sets of shelves, sideboards and a long stone, blood-soaked table around the room.
Climbing the ramp and crossing to the top of the right-hand pillar, to the north is a balcony with an unlocked chest on it. A single word of Whirlwind Sprint is needed to reach it. Crossing from the first pillar to the east, to a balcony with several open upright sarcophagi, thrones and sets of shelves, holding mostly clutter as well as two burial urns. At the western end of the balcony is the window seen from the other side, a chain to the left opens both lowered gates seen at either end of the previous room. There are two sideboards by the now open gate at this end. On one is a random potion of healing an the other has an unlocked chest on top.
Through the gate at the far end you enter brightly lit catacombs. The passage turns north and starts to climb. At the top, take care to avoid the infected bones hanging down and in the northwestern corner are sunken paths between raised sections with several death hounds guarding some upright coffins some of which contain leveled vampires. There are also with more strings of infected bones hanging down and rotten planks linking some of the raised sections. The stairs up to the higher level is on your left part way along the passage. In the southern corner, on one of the raised sections is an alchemy lab. While in the northwestern corner is a lowered gate blocking access through a doorway to a smaller room. The chain to open it is on the right as you approach it.
The room beyond is in a half circle with closed doors opposite and on either side of a raised section, with a lit brazier over a shelves holding a human heart, a piece of human flesh, a bowl of frost salts, a potion of regeneration, a bowl of bone meal, and a random empty soul gem, with yet another alchemy lab at the front. The door to the right has an unlocked tension cable that will trigger a spear trap from the wall in front of you in a small alcove containing a unlocked chest. A wooden door opposite opens into another alcove contain a sideboard with the bones of a skeleton, a potion of cure disease and a burial urn. The door to the left of the raised brazier is iron and opens into more brightly lit catacombs. Take care as the floor of this section is littered with many pressure plates that trigger several spike walls. Around the corner are a couple more pressure plates, but these trigger multiple flamethrowers from the walls, in front of another iron door.
This door opens into a huge chamber containing several leveled vampires including the boss vampire, Venarus Vulpin (or a generic boss-leveled vampire if you haven't started the related quest), their thralls and skeletons. Venarus Vulpin will be carrying the key to the iron door at the end of this chamber, which leads to a large grotto and the source of the Bloodspring, required for the related quest. There are several upright coffins around the room and either side of a throne against the western wall. Opposite this is an arcane enchanter, with an altar behind it holding a random light armor cuirass, Venarus Volpin's Research Notes regarding the Bloodspring and a bowl containing a random filled soul gem, an amethyst, a garnet, an emerald and sixteen loose septims. The the right of the altar is an unlocked boss level chest and along the rear of the room is a long stone table with two bottles of Redwater skooma on top. Beyond the table is a passage leading to a master locked iron door, which opens with the key carried by Venarus Vulpin into a cavern containing the Bloodspring.
At the rear of the cavern is an unlocked door opening into a room with a row of open upright sarcophagi down both sides and two sideboards flanking a concealed door at the end. There are numerous dead draugr that can be looted on the floor and an empty random soul gem on the sideboard to the right. Through the door at the end is the room off of the storeroom behind the counter.
Drinking directly from the spring as a vampire gives you the effect Tainted Blood of the Ancients, while as a non-vampire it will infect you with Sanguinare Vampiris and another disease. Repeated drinking will eventually infect you with every disease in the game (which can all be cured simultaneously with a single Cure Disease potion). Exiting from this room will take you through a hidden passageway into the Redwater skooma dealer's stockroom and out of the den. If you have not already killed them, the doorman near the den exit and the two lookouts outside will become hostile to you.
Notes
- All key-locked gates in this location can be unlocked with the Redwater Den Backrooms Key, which can be found on the dealer and attendant, as well as some of the vampires and thralls within. An additional copy can be found on a table next to the prisoner cell in the first cave-like chamber.
- After completing The Bloodstone Chalice, every inhabitant left (except the dealer) living will turn into a vampire's thrall. However, these thralls in the shack won't turn hostile to you.
- This area exists and can be cleared no matter which side you align with in Dawnguard.
Maps
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Redwater Den interior
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Redwater Spring interior
