Motherload of Stalhrim: Should I mine it? : V

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:46 am

While exploring near White Ridge Barrow I found an unmarked nordic ruin; one of those circular thingies that often mark the entrance to a barrow. It is filled with Stahlrim encased coffins. Should I mine them now? Or is this place part of some quest?

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:12 am

part of a quest involving the smith of the skaal village and the thalmor
edit: dont think mining it matters though

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:09 am

Mining it now won't affect anything. Knock yourself out.

» Sun Feb 03, 2013 10:00 pm

How do I trigger this quest? What is the name of the quest and what are the prerequisites?

» Sun Feb 03, 2013 10:17 pm

How do I trigger this quest? What is the name of the quest and what are the prerequisites? :smile:

Free the Skaal at the Wind Stone from Miirak's control. After awhile the blacksmith will go missing and you'll hear two of the villagers talking about it. Talk to them to start the quest.

» Sun Feb 03, 2013 8:11 pm

How do I trigger this quest? What is the name of the quest and what are the prerequisites? :smile:

Have to have:

Spoiler

Freed the Skaal from Miraak's trance, and then leave and come back to town until you see two people arguing. They're talking about a missing Smith. Talk to one of them and start the quest.

If you want a walkthrough for the quest..

Spoiler

The smith is at the Abandoned Shack. It shouldn't be hard to find, Solstheim is pretty small, haha. There are Thalmor agents sitting around outside of it. Cut them down, and go inside and to the basemant. Talk to the Smith. He tells you that they're trying to find out how to craft Stahlrim. He then directs you to their boat that's docked on the Northern coast of the Island. Go there, and you can either go all out and kill them all, or you can be diplomatic and ask to speak to their leader. Talk to him, and you can either intimidate him to leave, offer to help him get Stahlrim weapons, or kill him. There are no advantages for any of these, because no matter what they'll disappear from the game. However, the Skaal doesn't want the Thalmor to have Stahlrim weapons.. so. Then go back to the Skaal and speak to the Smith to end the quest.

Pretty straightforward.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 5:45 am

Thanks for the quick reply! It is much appreciated, kind sir!

Verena will now go do this quest for her Skaal-Friends.

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:10 am

It respawns. You should be fine.

» Sun Feb 03, 2013 9:06 pm

the soiner the better, that way you can go backa month later... sooner

» Sun Feb 03, 2013 9:04 pm

There are also 2 additional stahlrim deposits on an island north of that site if you havent hit that already

» Sun Feb 03, 2013 11:33 pm

I believe you were given a map or some kind of indication of such sites as those. That one isn't the only one. Plus some ruins have small bits of it to mine.

» Sun Feb 03, 2013 8:23 pm

wait there is unmarked locations of stahlrim? i mean i know there are some in dungeons but other than that i just know the one location called "stahlrim source"

Is there more?

» Sun Feb 03, 2013 11:10 pm

I found two stahlrim 'caskets' on an island north of northshore landing and kaarstag castle

if you put your character in the middle between both locations and head straight north youll see a nordic statue with a couple horkers guarding the caskets. Theres two of them there =)

» Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:52 am

As far as I know there aren't any unmarked motherload sources of Stahlrim but there are caskets outside of tombs that have Stahlrim. Some of the icebergs seem to have either heartstones (ashlands) or Stahlrim. As stated above one is near Karstag castle.

I don't remember right now and I'm not on my game but I thought there was another Stahlrim source...Don't quote me as I could be wrong.

» Sun Feb 03, 2013 10:27 pm

There are two stahlrim caskets in the raven rock mine quest, one obvious, one not so obvious.