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How can I open a gate in the Angarvunde Ruins area?
1 of 10: Move down the passage until you come to a narrow part with four pressure plates on the floor.
2 of 10: Move across the first pressure plate and stop just past it. Wait for the axes to stop swinging, then edge by the next two pressure plates without stepping on them.
3 of 10: Step on the final pressure plate if you want to, since you're past the swinging axe trap, then kill the draugr in the room beyond.
4 of 10: Optionally read the Illusion skill book that's on a table-like slab, then go down the only unblocked passage to find a large room with some draugr in it.
5 of 10: After killing them, go through the lower floor's SW doorway and on to a room with a large lever.
6 of 10: Use the lever to lower all of the nearby spear gates, then go through the right one to find yourself back in the room with the Illusion skill book. The spear gate on the room's other side was also lowered, so go down its passage next.
7 of 10: Watch out for a pressure plate and some draugr as you move along the passage, then hang back and lure draugr to you when you reach a large room.
8 of 10: Go up the log stairs in the back of the room and along a narrow walkway, then down a short passage to an even higher walkway.
9 of 10: Past that, watch for one more draugr as you make your way to a door that leads back to the main Angarvunde area.
10 of 10: Go down the short passageway to find a lever you can use to lower the two nearby spear gates. Doing so also opens one of the two gates that Medresi is standing near.
