Shrouded Grove is a tucked-away spot just north of Korvanjund and southeast of Dawnstar, hiding a small cave called Shrouded Grove Cave. It is a short detour, but a rewarding one: a free Light Armor book, a chest, and the chance to watch nature be extremely rude to itself before you join in.
What you’ll find
- Level-dependent animals fighting each other inside the cave – typically ice wolves, bears, snow bears or snowy sabre cats.
- A spriggan matron or spriggan earth mother around a corner. She starts out dormant, leaning against a tree trunk, and springs to life if she spots you.
- Around three dead draugr, some of them easy to overlook, and a coffin worth checking.
- A chest with random loot near the back of the cave.
Quests
The grove is one of the places where Urag gro-Shub of the College of Winterhold may send you to fetch Shalidor’s Insights. If so, it will be in the chest towards the back of the cave.
Notable items
- Light Armor skill book Ice and Chitin, inside a draugr’s coffin.
- A random-loot chest.
Tips
Let the animals finish their argument before you walk in – whoever wins will be weaker. Then crouch: with a decent Sneak skill you can spot the spriggan while she is still inactive against her tree, which makes her a perfect target for a sneak attack before she ever gets going. Bring something with fire or a good bow, and grab some Spriggan Sap off her afterwards. Take your time looking around the corpses; one of those draugr coffins holds the skill book, and it is easy to walk past.
Nearby
Closest places covered on TamrielSaga: Korvanjund, Silverdrift Lair, Weynon Stones, Nightgate Inn, Tumble Arch Pass.
Location data (hold, map position, editor ID) read from the Skyrim game files; details checked against community wiki articles and summarised in our own words.
