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Where are some of the region's special things?
1 of 11: From where you talked to Valerica, go back down the stairs to the ground, then go straight east until you reach one of the healing crystal craters. A short way almost directly south from there is a glowing little shrine structure where you can find the skull you need for the "Find Arvak's skull in the Soul Cairn" miscellaneous quest.
2 of 11: Go directly north from the skull's shrine to reach a structure with a giant soul gem hanging over it. Go up its interior stairs to get onto its roof, then loot the chest near the floating soul gem to get a special reaper gem fragment. (If the soul gem starts leeching your health, immediately bring up your inventory and eat a soul husk to put a stop to it.)
3 of 11: Going SE from the giant soul gem structure, you'll soon come to some steps that lead up to a platform. (Note that if you go straight SE, you'll see the steps a bit to your left.) On the platform is a small altar with the spell tome for the Conjure Mistman spell on it. On the floor near the altar is page 7 of Jiub's opus, which is related to the side quest mentioned below.
4 of 11: Return to the shrine where you got Arvak's skull (retracing your exact route to avoid getting lost), then go directly SW until you see another giant soul gem floating in the air over a large structure.
5 of 11: Go a short way east from the south side of that structure to find a special soul named Jiub. Talk to him to get the "Impatience of a Saint" side quest, then ask him how he earned his nicknames to learn that he exterminated all of the cliff racers in Morrowind. Too bad he didn't do that before the events of the Elder Scrolls III game!
6 of 11: From Jiub's area, go almost directly south to find a structure with a door on it that leads to the Reaper's Lair area. There's no point in going in there until you get all three reaper gem fragments, though.
7 of 11: Look a very short way east of the entrance to the Reaper's Lair for a skeleton with a note and a leveled weapon next to it, then go west from the lair to find a small structure. Inside it is a pedestal with the Conjure Wrathman spell tome on it.
8 of 11: Go back north to the structure with the giant soul gem hovering over it, then go directly west until you reach the large region-dividing wall. Turn right and go along the wall until you reach the spot where you can pass through it, then go a short way east to find a spirit named Morven Stroud.
9 of 11: Go back to the huge wall, then move NW along it until it ends. From there, go north and through a small structure, then look among all the small standing stones for an altar with the Conjure Boneman spell tome on it.
10 of 11: Go west from the altar toward the tall structure with the swirling, floating rubble on top of it. Go up to where the resident Keeper is, then look to the left for a barred doorway with a giant floating soul gem past it. It's hovering over the chest with the final reaper gem fragment in it.
11 of 11: It's now time to head back to the Reaper's Lair and make use of those three reaper gem fragments. Before you go, you might want to look nearby for a soul essence gem (especially if you had Serana partially soul-trap you earlier).
