Oblivion:Deepscorn Hollow (place)

Cave: Deepscorn Hollow (view on map)
Console Location Code(s)
LairVile01, LairVile02, LairVile03, LairVile04
Region
Blackwood
Location
Southeast of Leyawiin

Deepscorn Hollow

Deepscorn Hollow is an underground lair southeast of Leyawiin catered to infamous characters (plugin-specific).

The Hollow becomes your property after the Deepscorn Hollow quest is completed. It is added by the Vile Lair official plug-in.

Upgrades

The following upgrades may be purchased from Rowley Eardwulf at the Wawnet Inn.

More details are available on the Oblivion Houses page.

Note: Rowley Eardwulf may not have the upgrades available when he is supposed to. See Bugs.

Coffin Bed, ideal for Vampires

Bedroom Area

• Base Cost: 1750
• Description: Desk with various Ingredients, an amazing Coffin bed that is ideal for Vampire types.

Once you purchase the Bedroom Area upgrade, a desk will be added to a corner of the bedroom with a set of novice level alchemy equipment and a few ingredients. The most notable of the ingredients is a harvested Nirnroot sample (not a plant). This sample will respawn every three days, and is therefore the only respawning source of Nirnroot in the game. This provides an easy, yet slow, way to get enough Nirnroot to complete the Seeking Your Roots quest.

The Cattle Cell - meals on demand

Cattle Cell

• Base Cost: 1750
• Description: A prison cell with an unwakable captive always ready for Vampire feedings, can be healed when "tapped" out.

This is a prison cell for vampires to dine whenever they please without having to leave the lair or wait for a victim to sleep. Inside the cell is a prisoner locked in an eternal slumber; he cannot be awoken by any means available, so feel free to use his life's energy for your own. He is marked as an essential NPC, so he cannot die. Because he is essential, this prisoner can also be used as a method for training various skills, including Blade, Sneak, Destruction, etc.

The Minion in his room

Dark Minion

• Base Cost: 1750
• Description: A Vampire Minion that can be sent out to murder, bringing back the victim's items for you and adding one infamy point.

Once you buy the appropriate upgrade, a Dark Minion will appear in your lair. He can be found within his cave-like room. There, you may find him sleeping vampire style, or practicing on the punching bag. He is an artist, and uses a human rib-cage as a bloody paint palette. For a canvas, he uses someone else's beautiful work and defiles it with his bloody ink. You may also find him within the dining area. At any point you can command him to kill in the name of Sithis. If you do, he will disappear and return at midnight two days later. You will only be notified of his return if you are in Deepscorn Hollow, at which point you will be informed whether or not he succeeded (see Bugs if he does not reappear). He always has a 25% chance of failure. If he succeeds:

• You will receive one infamy point.
• Random loot is added to the Victims Loot Chest (leveled gold, 25% chance jewelry, 10% magic armor, 10% magic weapon, 25% unenchanted weapon, 10% soul gem, 25% lock pick, 25% potion, 25% poison). This loot can be left to accumulate if you wish: it does not get replaced each time the Minion returns.

A more conventional dining area

Dining Area

• Base Cost: 1750
• Description: Table with food and cupboards, some better lighting.

The Garden of Venomgrowth

Garden of Venomgrowth

• Base Cost: 1750
• Description: Main room flourishes as The Garden of Venomgrowth, contains strong poisonous ingredients including the new Chokeberry Vine.

You now have an indoor garden of venomous plants, where just about any ingredient needed to make a poison grows. Specifically, you will find:

• 3 Chokeberry Vines
• 5 Elf Cup Caps
• 4 Fennel Plants
• 6 Ginseng Plants
• 5 Milk Thistle Plants
• 2 Morning Glory Vines
• 6 Nightshade Plants
• 10 Stinkhorn Caps
• 5 Wisp Stalk Caps

The Storage Area

Storage Area

• Base Cost: 1750
• Description: Various chests, crates, etc. including the incredibly useful Greywyn's Poison Supply chest.

Study Area

Study Area

• Base Cost: 1750
• Description: Desk and bookshelves, two new and many rare Skill books.

The study upgrade provides two new books, the Manifesto Cyrodiil Vampyrum and Opusculus Lamae Bal ta Mezzamortie. You will also obtain five skill books: Sithis (Alteration), Immortal Blood (Hand to Hand), Rislav the Righteous (Light Armor), The Gold Ribbon of Merit (Marksman), and Sacred Witness (Sneak).

Ichor of Sithis

The shrine to Sithis

• Base Cost: 3000
• Description: Potion necessary to activate the Shrine of Sithis.

This is just like the chapel shrines you can pray at for blessings of the nine if you are famous (good), except this one will only work for you if you are infamous (evil). If you are infamous, you may heal, neutralize curses, and be cured of disease.

• 6 Nightshade flowers are floating above the water at its base
• To activate the Shrine, you must obtain the Ichor of Sithis
• The shrine requires that your Infamy must exceed your Fame. Characters with a higher (or equal) fame will be prompted to "Recant your honorable nature and you shall be rewarded!"
• Much like chapel altars, you may only use the Shrine once per day.
• The blessing you receive depends on your level of infamy:
  • If you have completed the Thieves Guild quest line and have the Gray Cowl of Nocturnal, donning the cowl will give you instant infamy of 100 allowing the highest level of blessing.

Infamy	Blessing	Effects	Duration
1-20	Call of Sithis	Restore All Attributes 100pts, Restore Health 200pts, Cure Disease, Fortify Health 10pts	900 secs
21-50	Scream of Sithis	Restore All Attributes 100pts, Restore Health 200pts, Cure Disease, Fortify Health 15pts, Fortify Agility 2pts, Fortify Sneak 5pts	900 secs
51-90	Lament of Sithis	Restore All Attributes 100pts, Restore Health 200pts, Cure Disease, Fortify Health 20pts, Fortify Agility 5pts, Fortify Sneak 10pts	1000 secs
90+	Death Knell of Sithis	Restore All Attributes 100pts, Restore Health 200pts, Cure Disease, Fortify Health 25pts, Fortify Agility 10pts, Fortify Sneak 20pts, Chameleon 50%	1200 secs

Features

Font of Renewal

Font of Renewal

The Font of Renewal is a pool of water that houses a shrine where you may purge yourself of Vampirism using the new Purgeblood Salts mined from the nearby Purgeblood Crystal Formations. No upgrades are necessary to use this font.

If you use the Font of Renewal, you can take the Vampire Cure quest without being a vampire.

Hard to Find Items

Scattered around Deepscorn are Greywyn's Jewelry Caches containing a large amount of leveled miscellaneous jewelry, gems and gold. These are available as soon as you enter Deepscorn Hollow (no upgrades need to be purchased)

• Greywyn's First Cache is located in the left hand side corner of the first room you enter (behind the garden).
• Greywyn's Second Cache rests beside the Font of Renewal under the water.
• Greywyn's Third Cache is located in the corner of the Cattle Cage that holds the feeding body near the Cell Door. (If you have not yet purchased the Cattle Cage upgrade, this location is in the cave-like room on the west side of Deepscorn Cloister, hidden against the wall south of the entryway).
• Greywyn's Final Cache is behind a glowing blue rock on the left side of the Shrine to Sithis area. This one cache will contain a random, leveled enchanted ring or necklace.

High above the first room (where the Garden of Venomgrowth is eventually placed) there is a bucket filled with gold. If you shoot it, the gold will fall to the ground. This is mostly for the novelty value of seeing all the gold come out, because you will have to pick each piece up individually.

• Any gold you do not pick up will respawn in the bucket after three days, meaning you can shoot it again and again and pick up any hard-to-find coins.

Located on top of the Shrine to Sithis is an "Unusual Box" that contains yet another unique leveled item, the Crimson Eviscerator. This box, and the dagger, are present when you first enter Deepscorn Hollow.

Immediately to your left when entering the first room is the storage area. Once you purchase the Storage Area upgrade, you will find Greywyn's Poison Supply hidden in the back of this room. This is a chest filled initially with a dozen or more poisons of various useful varieties.

• This chest can also be used as a storage container. For example, using the ingredients from the nearby Garden of Venomgrowth you can make quite powerful poisons even at low Alchemy levels. This chest is a good place to store your most wicked concoctions separate from your healthier ones.
• There are three scattered jewelry boxes that contain some jewelry (possibly enchanted) and possibly some potions.

Once you purchase all the upgrades for Deepscorn Hollow you are rewarded with a special item. The Deepscorn Bedroom gets a special piece of furniture called Greywyn's Armoire next to the Coffin Bed.

• Inside you will find the leveled Raiment of the Crimson Scar which is basically an upgraded version of the Dark Brotherhood's Shrouded Armor.

New Items

See Deepscorn Hollow Items for a list of items added by the Vile Lair plug-in.

Notes

• The trapdoor entrance to Deepscorn Hollow located behind a rock to the west does not appear until you enter from the main underwater entrance.

Bugs

• Some users experience an issue in which the Dark Minion disappears on a mission to kill somebody and never reappears. This may be caused by the Minion's scripting; you need to be near where he left for the scripting to resume processing. If your Minion has disappeared, go to where the trapdoor ladder is and he may return.
  • This bug is fixed by the Unofficial Official Mods Patch.
• If you cast a Paralyze spell on the cattle in the cell, paralyze him with the master Marksman ability, or achieve a knockdown with either Blade or Marksman, he will stand up but will not lay back down again. It is impossible to feed on him while he is standing up, and you still cannot talk to him.
  • This bug is fixed by the Unofficial Official Mods Patch.
• The trap door exit in Deepscorn Cloister cannot be used by NPCs to exit Deepscorn Hollow (apart from the Dark Minion, whose departure is scripted). If anyone were to enter through the trap door and then proceed to leave, they will attempt to activate the trap door, but will not be able to exit (similar to the Summitmist Manor door glitch, but not as irreversible). ^?
  • In order to fix this, simply lure the person out through the main entrance.
• If the Unofficial Vile Lair Patch is activated, Greywyn's Armoire will become unsafe for storage. It will spawn a new Raiment, but any other items stored inside will be lost.
  • This bug is fixed by version 12 of the Unofficial Official Mods Patch.