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The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles Hints
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1 = Door to Cyrodiil. This is the portal that'll take you back to the "A Strange Door" island in Niben Bay. 2 = Gardens of Flesh and Bone (undead lair). You'll come here on a main quest. 3 = Xeddefen (grummite lair). You'll come here on a main quest. 4 = Passwall (settlement). 5 = Gates of Madness. These two gates connect the Fringe with the rest of the Shivering Isles world area. 6 = Hardscrabble Camp (zealot mage camp). 7 = Blackroot Lair (grummite lair). 8 = Knotty Bramble (grummite lair). You'll come here to get something for one misc. quest, and may come for another misc. quest item.
12 = Inlet Camp (abandoned camp). 13 = Rotten Den (zealot mage and shambles lair). 14 = Xedilian (grummite lair). You'll come here on a main quest. 15 = Backwash Camp (zealot mage camp). 16 = Vitharn (ghost town). You can do a misc. quest here.
17 = Xiditte (zealot mage lair). 18 = Lost Time Camp (abandoned camp). 19 = Corpserot Passage (Dementia prison). You may come here to get an item for a misc. quest.
20 = Pinnacle Rock (dark seducer stronghold). You may come here on a main quest. 21 = Swampgas Hole (mixed critter lair). 22 = The Howling Halls (zealot lair). You'll come here to get an item for a misc. quest, but you won't be able to get to it until you're on a certain main quest.
23 = Deepwallow (settlement). 24 = Runoff Camp (zealot mage camp). 25 = New Sheoth Graveyard. 26 = Xirethard (shambles lair). You may come here on a main quest. 27 = Flooded Camp (abandoned camp). 28 = Hill of Suicides. 29 = Xaselm (undead lair). You'll come here on a main quest. 30 = Xaselm Secret Entrance. You can only use this entrance on a main quest. 31 = Knotbone Chamber (mixed critter lair). You may come here to get an item for a misc. quest.
33 = Wretched Camp (heretic mage camp). 34 = Aichan (Mania prison). 35 = Dire Warren (mixed critter lair). 36 = Camp Talltrees (heretic mage camp). 37 = Fetid Grove (grummite lair). You'll come here to retrieve an item on the misc. quest that's gotten at #52. 38 = Split (settlement). You can do a misc. quest here.
39 = Puddlejump Camp (zealot mage camp). 40 = Knifepoint Hollow (undead and zealot mage lair). You'll come here on a main quest. 41 = Fain (heretic mage and baliwog lair). 42 = Frenzied Camp (heretic mage camp). 43 = Ebrocca (undead lair). You'll come here to get an item for a misc. quest.
46 = Brellach (golden saint stronghold). You may come here on a main quest. 47 = Cann (heretic mage lair). You may come here to get an item for a misc. quest.
48 = Dunroot Burrow (elytra lair). You may come here on the same misc. quest listed with #47, but you can't get in until you're on a certain main quest. 49 = Camp Hopeful (abandoned camp). 50 = Dreamwalk Camp (heretic mage camp). 51 = Milchar (mixed critter lair). You'll come here to get an item for one misc. quest, and may come here for another misc. quest item. You'll also come here to get something for a main quest.