I just noticed a sort of arena in windhelm is there an active quest for it? How to start?

No clue.... but the wiki has this: http://uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Windhelm_Pit#Windhelm_Pit

Perhaps something that will be in future DLC. Bethesda did the same sort of thing with FO:NV; there was a bunker that you couldn't go in until they released the DLC for it.

Where is this in Windhelm? I can find nothing via Google but Serethil's link.

I actually don't know where it is - Windhelm is the city I won't set foot in outside the market.... seriously, I HATE that place.

I thought this thread was about how Windhelm is the pits.

I saw in ck is right behind the castle seems...

Yeah there's a faction associated with it in the CK. Some characters even belong to it.

Looks like it wasn't implemented though.

No I saw the arena in the CK ...

Yes it's in the CK, but it was never implemented in game.

CK?

CK = Creation Kit

Ah.
I take it this is only on the PC version?
I play on PS3 and don't remember ever seeing an Arena anywhere in Windhelm.

im with you. never ran into it before.

It's not in the PC version either.

What he's talking about is there are files in the CK showing that the arena was planned for Windhelm, but never implemented.

ok got ya, thought you guys were talking about a physical pit.

Yeah, it is kind of a physical pit actually
Behold: http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s272/Tribler/Whelmpit.png

I am going to make a Michael Vick dog fighting pit mod!

No I'm not.

Well you should. There was a dog-like thing pit fight in ME2, so maybe they won't hang you for it.

I actually started some work on a mod that would restore the arena in Windhelm, and I have a general idea for alternative plans for it in the instance they decide to do it in DLC. The main issue I'm having right now is the scripting stuff. None of the vanilla Arena quests were ever finished, so all the scripting would have to be created from scratch without any real references as to how to do it. If they do the Pit in DLC, they should use the actual lore name for the Windhelm arena team, the Paladins. If not, well, I could just include that team in a mod.

LOL I must be one of the few that likes Windhelm

Though I am hoping that they will put seasonal weather into the game. It will be good to see Windhelm in the summer.

It will be interesting to find out what is to become of Windhelm pit.

Might be an dropped feature as in took to long time to get right, similar to the couriers in Oblivion.
If it was an expansion placeholder it would just be an door like the door in the mage university in Oblivion.

Yeah, the only traces in the accessible areas of the game that point to the arena are the fact that some NPCs still refer to the Windhelm Barracks as the "Bloodworks," and a small piece of corridor behind a wall next to the staircase leading to the holding cells. The worldspace still exists within the game data (either they plan on adding it back in, didn't have time to remove it, or didn't have the heart to delete it), it's just not accessible without mods.

Though I must say, the general layout of the Windhelm Barracks does make more sense when connected with the "Pit." It's kind of weird in the vanilla game with the seemingly random staircase to the right as you go in, leading up to the guard barracks, and that odd dead end just past the staircase that leads down for whatever reason into the prison cells, which I have always felt carried an odd gladiator feel to it. Now we know why.

Here a couple of screenshots from the pits ....

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/6796/27140998.jpg


http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/9791/26919298.jpg

I actually tought of making a pitfight arena in my island I am working on , but much more closer to the http://www.conancompletist.com/img/photos/A1/pitA02.jpg, also because I made the pitfight outfits so ....

Is that Erikur watching from above in the first pic?! Interesting stuff, nice find.