Medresi Dran

Greedy Dunmer treasure hunter stuck at the entrance of Angarvunde after her diggers fled from walking corpses, and doomed by her own impatience.
“Cowards, every one of them. Running at the first sign of trouble…”

Medresi Dran is a Dark Elf treasure hunter obsessed with the riches she believes are buried in Angarvunde, an old Nordic tomb. Her hired workers took one look at a chamber full of walking dead and fled, leaving her alone with a key, a plan and no muscle.

Where to find them

She waits just inside Angarvunde, grumbling about her cowardly crew.

Quests

In Medresi Dran and the Wandering Dead she wants you to clear the main chamber of draugr. Agree and she promises to split the treasure – a legend says it grants great power – though she nearly says “mine” instead of “ours”. Refuse and she’ll still give you the key once the chamber is clear. You can also just kill her and take it. Afterwards she follows you to a sealed pair of doors, gives you a key for the side passages and sends you deeper into the ruin to open them.

Once both doors open, she dashes ahead shouting that the treasure is all hers, steps on a pressure plate and is impaled by a spike trap. Whatever you do, she is scripted to die – even players who block the spikes with tricks like Ice Form and healing only see her collapse moments later.

Personality & relationships

Impatient, bossy and blinded by greed, she sees you mainly as brawn to go with her brains. She wrote Medresi’s Notes, the journal outside the tomb detailing her obsession with Angarvunde and getting rich.

Good to know

If you pickpocket her key and open the gate before she reaches it, her death script can break and stall the quest; killing her in front of the opened gate fixes it.

Details checked against community wiki articles and the Skyrim/DLC game files, written in our own words.

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Angarvunde in Skyrim: Nordic ruin west of Riften – help Medresi Dran, survive the traps of the Ruins and Catacombs, and learn Animal Allegiance.

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Sources checked: Elder Scrolls Fandom character articles (DLC exports 2026-10-12); Skyrim/DLC game files