Online:Blackwood Borderlands

Ruin: Blackwood Borderlands (view on map)
Worldspace
Discoverable	No
Dungeon	No
# of Zones	1
Occupants
Swamp: Crocodile, Haj Mota, Kotu Gava Xith-Izkul Sanctuary: Dark Guardian, Spectral Assassin, Spectral Murderer, Spectral Punisher, Spectral Slayer, Spectral Strangler
Quest Chain
Dark Brotherhood
Location
Between Blackwood and western Black Marsh
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It would be easy to get lost in the trackless marshes east of Fort Blueblood, on the nebulous border between Blackwood and Argonia. Easy—and probably fatal.

Blackwood Borderlands

The Blackwood Borderlands are an area between Blackwood in Cyrodiil and western Black Marsh.

An abandoned Dark Brotherhood sanctuary can be found there, within the ruins of Xith-Izkul. You will travel to Blackwood Borderlands with Green-Venom-Tongue and Shazara-Ta to find out what happened at his old sanctuary.

Kotu Gava and Haj Mota, as well as harmless frogs and snakes, can be found in the exterior swamps. Like the Jerall Mountains Logging Track, there are also a number of material nodes.

Related Quests

• A Ghost from the Past: Accompany Green-Venom-Tongue on a journey to the past.

Xith-Izkul Sanctuary

Ruins of Xith-Izkul

Xith-Izkul Sanctuary

The Xith-Izkul Sanctuary is an abandoned Dark Brotherhood sanctuary located deep in the heart of Blackwood. It appears to be built in an ancient Argonian temple and houses a statue of Sithis as a centerpiece that is visible from the entrance.

The sanctuary was ordered to be purified by the Black Hand, who suspected a traitor among their ranks. There were only two known survivors of the purification: Lyra Viria, who was the Silencer instructed to carry out the task, and Green-Venom-Tongue, who was working deep within Black Marsh and was therefore considered above suspicion by the Black Hand.

With the Gold Coast Sanctuary threatened by the Black Dragon and with evidence that suggests Lyra is involved in somewway, Green-Venom-Tongue takes you with him on an unsanctioned visit to his old sanctuary to shed some light on Lyra's past.

Abandoned for years and reclaimed by nature, the sanctuary has been left very much as it was the day Lyra purified it. Skeletal remains can be found throughout the sanctuary, and the Black Door retains the same question - "What is the gift of death?" - and the answer - "Solace" - remains unchanged.

When you arrive, the sanctuary is empty save for hostile dark guardians that roam the halls and the spectral forms of assassins long dead. Upon entering a room the ghosts will initially be seen performing mundane actions such as leaning against an inaccessible balcony or sitting in a chair, but they will disappear into the ground and reappear with weapons drawn, attacking if they detect you.

Through burning resin from the Hist, you and Green-Venom-Tongue can relive the last moments that transpired between Lyra and Annalise, Duras, Hallan, and Vrayden, before they were killed. Afterward, you witness the conversation between Lyra and Speaker Arawen below the statue of Sithis.

Gallery

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  A hall within Xith-Izkul Sanctuary.

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  The Sithis statue.

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  Detailing of the sanctuary's Black Door.

Notes

• This location was originally marked around x: 630, y: 650 on the Tamriel map, later being moved to x: 717, y: 705 after Update 30.
• Despite being inland and small in size, swimming in the pool of water at the western edge of the area results in slaughterfish attacking you.

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