![]() Before entering the Cairn, you can exit the laboratory through a door in the southern corner.This is the only way to enter the Soul Cairn without becoming a vampire and will add the Weakened Soul effect, which reduces your health, stamina, and magicka by 45 points (as well as their regeneration rates) while in the Soul Cairn.Ĭhoosing either will allow you to enter the Soul Cairn.Allow her to trap part of your soul in a soul gem.Allow her to turn you into a Vampire Lord.Serana will explain that to enter the Soul Cairn you must be "dead" and then give you a choice: If you are not a vampire, you will suffer some health damage when attempting to use the portal. If you are vampire (whether by siding with the Volkihar or through "regular" infection when siding with the Dawnguard), you will be able to enter straight away. She will then add her blood to the mixture, opening a portal to the Soul Cairn. Once you have all three, place them in the vessel in front of the portal, which Serana is typically standing next to. Note that "regular" bonemeal, soul gem fragments, and void salts will not work. The Purified Void Salts are on a shelf with other ingredients, near the farthest point of the raised area of the room, on the balcony above the entrance.Īll of these items are in silver bowls, and will be added to your miscellaneous inventory when you pick them up, as they are considered quest items.The Soul Gem Shards are on the first wardrobe up the stairs that lead east.The Finely Ground Bone Meal is on the table by the entrance beneath the mammoth skull.After Serana reads it, she will tell you to find certain ingredients which can be found in the laboratory: Here you will need to search for her journal, which is located on the central bookcase to the west of where you entered. Head through the secret door to Valerica's study. There is also a vampire royal armor near the shelf to the right. Note that pulling the chain will unleash the stone gargoyle. Serana will tell you there must be a secret entrance somewhere, and sure enough, you can either turn the candlestick near the fireplace or pull the chain behind the gargoyle to reveal a secret door. Fight your way past more gargoyles and skeletons until you reach a room with gargoyles and a fireplace. Once all pieces are back in place, the dial will swivel to reveal steps leading down to the ruins below the castle. Serana opening the portal to the Soul Cairn The Crescent Moon Crest can be found up the stairs just to the right of the entrance to Volkihar North Tower lying on the floor beside a table and chairs.The Full Moon Crest can be found behind a patch of nightshade lying against the castle's exterior wall in the fenced off area identified as Valerica's garden.The Half Moon Crest can be found in the center of a pond lying against a rock in the northwest corner of the courtyard. ![]() You will need to find the three missing pieces and place them in the moon dial in order for a secret entrance to open. The courtyard itself is abandoned and derelict, and Serana will immediately tell you there is something wrong with the moon dial. Once you've dispatched it, pull a lever to lower another bridge, which gives you access to the courtyard. You can snipe at the spider from the tunnel, as it's too large to enter the tunnel. Climb the stairs in the southern section and pass through a tunnel, which leads to a room with a giant frostbite spider. Cross the bridge and take a left as instructed by Serana: this leads into an open area inhabited by death hounds. Head up a set of stairs on the opposite corner of the room to find the lever needed to lower the bridge. Use the secret entrance to the undercroft and fight your way through death hounds, skeevers, skeletons, and a feral vampire.Īfter dealing with the vampire, you will arrive at a stone archway with a raised drawbridge. When you reach the castle's old docks, you will be attacked by four high-powered skeletons. When you reach the castle, head northwest, along the coastline. Simply telling them to wait is not enough: Serana won't accompany you unless you send your follower home. ![]() If you have a follower at this point, you must dismiss them. Though you will not be able to enter through the Keep, Serana knows of a secret entrance you can use. Serana believes Valerica may have left a clue in the courtyard at Castle Volkihar. She thinks her mother, Valerica, may have information on it, and may even possess it. Serana will speak to you after the Moth Priest reads the Elder Scroll, saying she may know where to find one of the scrolls. Locations of the missing crests on a map of Castle Volkihar Courtyard
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