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After a lengthy set of stairs you open a door and get your first glipse of the forge itself shrouded in steam. Proceed down a path that lights itself for you until you reach a locked gate with two tonal locks above it, hit them both to open the gate and enter a near pristine Dwemer facility. When you do the earth starts to rumble and you need to step aside quickly as a large tower shoots from the ground revealing a great lift. Katria speaks up that you should try taking it out. As you finish placing them the wheels spin the arrow around and then stops. After you speak with her you need to activate the Dwemer Mechanism which looks like two circular wheels with an arrow shot through them. The Forge is located at the Ruins of Bthalft, when you reach them Katria will ask to speak with you. Travel to Mzulft but dont go inside, the 4th shard is inside a Dwarven Storeroom south of the entrance to Mzulft, it is behind either one locked gate or two locked doors and depending on your lockpicking the doors may be easier.

Head up to the top of the site to see what looks to be an altar of some kind, the 3rd shard is on the backside of it. In the next room you see an entrance into Blackreach, bypass it and head down the other corridor into a small side path where Katria's ghost awaits you in front of the 2nd Aetherium Shard.Įxit through the great lift up to the surface and head north of Markarth to Deep Folk Crossing.

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Free the 4 bones and dwarven scrap metal (underwater) from the gears to unlock the bridge button and fight with the centurian. Work your way past them and the traps until you reach a large room with some falmer, charus and gears on the walls that have bones stuck inside them. Further in there is a lever that leads to the Raldbthar Deep Market which is filled with falmer.

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Raldbthar is full of bandits and dwarven automatons if you havent cleared it before now, feel free to now. If you have found and explored Raldbthar and have unlocked its great lift already, just skip the next paragraph and continue on.

Before you leave dont forget to pick up Zephyr the unique bow from off the end of the tree where Katria fell to her death. The two side doors open and you continue on past the centurian into the vault with the first Aetherium Shard to the key to the forge.Īt this point you leave Arkngthamz and venture out into the world again, the next dungeon you enter to continue this is Raldbthar. Bottom left, Bottom right, Top left, Top right, Center. The Correct pattern is fairly easy to deduce from these clues. If you have picked up katria's journal from her dead body in the first large chamber it gives you the first two in order that you need to hit, a scrap of paper on an adventurer in the tonal lock room gives you the 3rd. Accept her assistance to journey deeper and you will begin Lost to the Ages as a quest proper.įight your way upwards through falmer and charus until you reach another large cavern where 3 locked doors and 5 tonal locks await you. When you enter the first main cavern the spirit of Katria will greet you and say how foolhardy you are to enter this place. Rumbling and groaning from minor earth shifts will happen spilling minor dirt up from time to time as well as large chunks of rock falling from the ceiling to the water in the chasm below. Upon entering Arkngthamz you will begin hearing a voice saying to turn back.

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Hell, the two kids who told me the location of it were literally selling Dwemer artifacts and they have presumably been to Deep Folk Crossing since they know its location, so surely they would have taken it with the intention of selling it.Īlso, why did the Dwemer put it there in the middle of nowhere anyway? They could have safely stored it at any number of their various ruins. A random traveler who stumbled upon it would surely take the shiny, blue, mystical looking and likely valuable object even if they didn't know what it was. while this one is not hidden at all and completely unprotected. It just seems really odd, especially considering when all the other shards are locked up deep in the Dwemer ruins protected by countless automatons, Falmer, etc. Surely it would have been stolen or blown away by a storm or something? I absolutely loved the Lost to the Ages quest, but it was kind of jarring to see that one of the precious aetherium shards has apparently just been sitting out in the open at Deep Folk Crossing for thousands of years.

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