Beyond Skyrim:Cyrodiil/Within the Ruins

Clear Fort Pale Pass of a spider infestation. Quest Giver: Legate Precilius Varro Location(s): Fort Pale Pass Reward: Leveled gold, random enchanted weapon ID: CYRFortPalePassFF01

The source of the fort's infestation

Quick Walkthrough

1. Talk to Legate Precilius Varro about Fort Pale Pass's infestation.
2. Kill the Broodmother in the Substructure.
3. Return to Legate Varro for your reward.

Detailed Walkthrough

Crawling Critters

About four days after helping Legate Precilius Varro with his interrogation of Bjarni Shatter-Stone in A Stormcloak in Chains, a courier will approach you and deliver a note from the legate, requesting your assistance in ridding the fort of a critter infestation. Once you arrive at the fort, the legate explains the military outpost is built upon a much older Akaviri structure and that a while back a tunnel was excavated linking the two. He now wants it closed to avoid any infiltration of the fort, but needs your help in dispatching the spiders that have made their lair there. He hands over the key to the substructure and wishes you good luck.

Sweeping the Substructure

The entrance to the substructure is via a trapdoor hidden under some hay in the prison. After a long, illuminated tunnel you will arrive at a wooden door. Past this are the ruins of the Akaviri fort: head down the winding stairs into the tower and head southeast into a large room with two spiders. Cross the rickety plank bridge to the southern side of the chamber and head up the tower stairs, battling past another two spiders. You will then arrive at the bottom of a collapsed tower. On the lower level are two more spiders, while on the upper is another critter as well as the source of the infestation: the Broodmother, a giant spider.

Once you have dispatched her, return back to the legate to collect your reward of a random enchanted weapon and a leveled amount of gold:

Levels	Reward
1–9	250
10–19	400
20–29	500
30–39	600
40+	750

Notes

• On the southern side of the Broodmother's tower is a mysterious Akaviri fire, burning white. Inspecting it will prompt a message that the flames "hunger to touch an item forged of ancient metal". If you are in possession of the blade Hvitbrand, you will be able to temper it in the flames, improving its enchantment and value.

Quest Stages

Within the Ruins (CYRFortPalePassFF01)
Stage	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
10		Objective 1: Report to Legate Precilius Varro at Fort Pale Pass
20		Objective 2: End the infestation of the Fort Pale Pass Substructure
30		Objective 3: Report success to Legate Varro
40	Finishes quest
200	Fails quest	Varro died

• The following empty quest stages were omitted from the table: 0, 5, 15, 41.

Notes

• Any text displayed in angle brackets (e.g., <Alias=LocationHold>) is dynamically set by the Radiant Quest system, and will be filled in with the appropriate word(s) when seen in game.
• Not all Journal Entries may appear in your journal; which entries appear and which entries do not depends on the manner in which the quest is done.
• Stages are not always in order of progress. This is usually the case with quests that have multiple possible outcomes or quests where certain tasks may be done in any order. Some stages may therefore repeat objectives seen in other stages.
• If an entry is marked as "Finishes Quest" it means the quest disappears from the Active Quest list, but you may still receive new entries for that quest.
• On the PC, it is possible to use the console to advance through the quest by entering setstage CYRFortPalePassFF01 stage, where stage is the number of the stage you wish to complete. It is not possible to un-complete (i.e. go back) quest stages, but it is possible to clear all stages of the quest using resetquest CYRFortPalePassFF01.