Frequently Asked Questions: Legacy of the Dragonborn - Omni-guides/Tuxborn GitHub Wiki

You have a few options for this.

If you want to do the Relic Hunter start, when you create your character, choose the option that has you arriving in Solitude by ship. Once you exit the starting cell and you arrive on the docks at Solitude, the very first thing you should see is a dialog box asking if you're arriving in Solitude as the relic hunter for the museum. Tell it yes. Then go to the museum, talk to Auryen, and get his initial tour. This will also get you instant access to the Safehouse, and a small quest from Auryen to get him three artifacts to get started. This small quest will give you an excuse to swing by Helgen and get the main quest underway, as well.

Note: you are not actually expected to get the relic in Helgen! Because of course Helgen gets torched by Alduin as soon as you show up. This is just LOTD giving you an in-character excuse to go there and kick off the main quest.

If you do not want to run the Relic Hunter start, then any of these methods will work:

• You should see notices from Auryen available in inns, typically at the counter where the innkeeper will be, labeled "Seeking treasure hunters". You can pick up one of these notices to get the pointer to go talk to Auryen.
• Auryen will send you a letter directly inviting you to come speak to him, if you sell any museum-displayable object to a merchant. This is not level-dependent.
• If you're in Solitude, you can simply walk into the museum's front entrance. You'll immediately see Auryen, once you go through the door of the main building. You can talk to him to start the quest.

Note that none of the options for this path will give you immediate access to the Safehouse. You can, however, unlock the Safehouse once you have 50 displays in your museum. Also, these options will give you a variation on the initial three relics Auryen will want you to get, and this version will not include going to Helgen. So you'll need to go to Helgen separately in this scenario.

Choose whichever route appeals to you.

The Safehouse is by far the most important of the player homes available in LOTD. It's the player home space built into the Dragonborn Gallery, the main museum building added by the mod. It has a large variety of crafting stations, not only vanilla ones but additional custom ones as well. It has a very thorough storage system for many types of items, a storage system you can access from the Dev Aveza, from Rains' Shelter, from Explorer's Society outposts, and from the Stash Supplies spell. And it has a Sell Cart you can use to sell off excess loot that you don't want to have to personally haul to a merchant. It's also very customizable! In short, it's extremely worth getting.

See the page for the Safehouse on the Legacy of the Dragonborn wiki for more information.

How you get the Safehouse will depend on how you choose to start your playthrough.

If you want the Safehouse right out of the gate, then you should choose the Relic Hunter Alternate Start when you make your character. To do this, choose the option on the Mara statue that has you coming to Skyrim on a ship, and choose Solitude as your destination. Once you arrive on the Solitude docks, you will get an additional prompt asking you if you're coming to Solitude as the museum's relic hunter. Tell it yes, then proceed to the Dragonborn Gallery to meet Auryen. At that point, he'll give you the key to the Safehouse.

If you take any other path through Alternate Start to set up your character, but you still plan to play Legacy of the Dragonborn, Auryen will give you access to the Safehouse as soon as you have 50 displays in the museum. He will do this by sending you a courier with a letter and a key, who will find you in the first city you enter after hitting the 50 display mark. (Note: if you're in Solitude when you reach 50 displays, the courier may not show. If he doesn't, go to any other city instead.)

So if you go this route, you may wish to purchase Breezehome first or the land to start building Lakeview, just so you can have a starter home while you work on the museum.

This is the airship you acquire as part of the Legacy of the Dragonborn plotline, and it's likely to be where you spend a lot of your time as you travel the land throughout your playthrough. While it doesn't have all the same custom craft stations the Safehouse does, it does have its own versions of all the vanilla crafting stations.

There's only one safe storage chest, but given that the airship hooks into the Safehouse's on-site storage, this isn't really an issue.

There is no way to house a family on board the airship, or for that matter, to assign followers to live there with you even though there are several hammocks belowdecks. Followers that have custom AI may follow you belowdecks and sandbox, or even sleep in the player bed, but that will depend on which followers you choose to use.

So the Dev Aveza might serve as a complement to an on-ground home base, if a house you like doesn't include all the crafting stations you want, but is otherwise good for you.

The airship can go anywhere on the map you've already discovered, and for which there is a fast travel marker. This includes alternate worldspaces, such as Wyrmstooth, Solstheim, and Midwood. For Solstheim in particular, if you can arrange to go there prior to launching Dragonborn, do so! Because then, you'll be able to use the Dev Aveza to return to Solstheim later, and that will give you a very handy way to store loot and craft supplies until you run the plot to get Severin Manor.

Here's a usage tip for the airship: if you tell it to use the fast travel marker for the Dragonborn Gallery to return there for relic dropoff or a stop in the Safehouse, then the Dev Aveza will drop a ladder down near the museum's front gate. If you want it to dock behind the Explorer's Society Guildhouse, you can't do that off the airship's main navigation. You need to go belowdecks, to the console that shows the maps, in the bow of the ship. Look immediately to the left of the maps, and there should be an activator there to tell the ship to return to the museum and dock.

And here's a very important word of warning: The Dev Aveza requires fast travel to be active in order to work. If you are playing Survival Mode, be sure to leave fast travel active even though you can turn it off in the INI file for Starfrost. If you turn off fast travel, the airship will not function. This is not an issue Tuxborn can fix; it's based in a conflict between how LOTD handles the airship, and how Starfrost handles turning off fast travel.

To get the Dev Aveza, you need to pick up a quest from Auryen to go get the Staff of Indarys. The NPC who has it is in the worldspace for Moonpath to Elsweyr, so you have to go run the entire Moonpath to Elsweyr plot. See further down the page for more on this.

Once you return from running Moonpath, then a few in-game days after, you will be gifted the Dev Aveza by the Khajiit that you helped out down in Elsweyr.

The LOTD wiki seems to indicate that the Dev Aveza is the same airship you receive as part of the Moonpath to Elsweyr questline (source), as far as its canon is concerned. However, if that's the case, there's a discrepancy of names for the ship between Moonpath and LOTD, so you may wish to just headcanon that your Khajiit contacts rename it for you when they deliver it to you in Solitude.

Karagas' Tower is a subset of the Ruins of Rkund. This is a vanilla location greatly expanded by Legacy of the Dragonborn, and one of the major LOTD questlines involves you doing an excavation there with your guild.

You need to run the entire Rkund excavation to get access to the tower. But once you do, you can use it as a player home. You'll acquire a staff to use that will give you instant porting back to the tower if you wish, and you'll also be able to come back on the Dev Aveza.

Note that the tower, unlike the Dev Aveza, does not hook into Safehouse storage. So if access to the storage is important to you, that may be a dealbreaker for using the tower as your home base all by itself. If that is not a dealbreaker for you, and if you also are a fan of Dwemer ruins and don't mind its location, you might consider it.

Through the course of the LOTD plotline, if you trigger the correct circumstances, you can receive side quests to build outposts for your Explorer's Society. These are intended to serve as waystations where members of your guild can restock when they're in the field.

The three outposts are all structured the same way, and include a couple of beds as well as all critical crafting stations. Additionally, each one should come with a merchant NPC who will have access to the same inventory carried by Eriana in the main guildhouse. Since they are all very basic, you wouldn't want to use them as primary home bases. But they are excellent places to stop, sleep, and restock if you need to.

Requirements to build these outposts are:

• You need to have fully launched your guild, so that you have Marassi available to give you the outpost quests.
• To build the outpost near Saarthal, you have to complete The Eye of Magnus in the College of Winterhold questline.
• To build the outpost near Rorikstead, at least a week of game time has to pass after the first outpost is built, and you must also complete No One Escapes From Cidhna Mine.
• To build the outpost near Fort Amol, you should have a similar short delay since building the second outpost, and you must also complete the acquisition of the Gauldur Amulet.

This is a player home only in the very loosest sense of the term, because it's not actually a house, it's a tent. But it's a tent that comes very well equipped--and it does hook into Safehouse storage.

You can acquire this tent as part of running the Legacy of the Dragonborn quest Tools of the Trade. (See further down the page for more on this quest.) Acquiring the shelter ASAP is highly recommended, as the Tuxborn load order does not include a camping mod, and Rains' Shelter is definitely superior to the Camping functionality included in the AE. Since Rains' Shelter is its own tiny worldspace you port into when you use the Shelter from your inventory, you can use it anywhere. Including places you can't put AE campsites!

Important note: Rains' Shelter exists in the world even prior to you signing on with the museum, so if you know where to look, it's possible to pick it up and use it even before you begin Legacy of the Dragonborn. However, for RP purposes, this is counter to the intention of the Tools of the Trade quest, a scavenger hunt to find various useful items that are all dedicated to contributors to Legacy of the Dragonborn. So players should decide for themselves if it's more important to get the shelter ASAP, or to preserve the RP of the scavenger hunt. With that in mind, we will not document its location here, in the name of preserving a bit of a sense of surprise and exploration, and to avoid spoilers. We will, however, note that if you don't know where to look, Kamahl's Map will give you quest markers.

Also, similarly to turning on the Stash Supplies spell in the LOTD settings, Rains' Shelter gives you access to the Safehouse storage even if you don't have the Safehouse yet. Players should be cautious in taking advantage of this. Any weapons, armor, jewelry, or clothing you stash this way will not be available to you until you actually acquire the Safehouse. So if you have an item in any of these categories that you wish to sell, temper, or enchant so that you can use it, do not stash it until you do so.

This is a side quest in Legacy of the Dragonborn that can get you access to a whole bunch of tasty useful tools, which are all special Easter eggs that are tributes to various contributors to the mod. Note that the quest is not required to find the items; you do not need to launch it if you already know where to look for them.

However, since Tools of the Trade basically is a scavenger hunt, players not already familiar with it are encouraged to run it at least once to have the RP experience. I will not be calling out the specific locations to look here, to preserve a bit of surprise.

The requirements to launch this quest are:

1. Launch Legacy of the Dragonborn and sign on with Auryen as his relic hunter
2. Build the Explorer's Society guildhall, which you can do by talking to Auryen once you have 150 displays in your museum
3. Recruit at minimum Professor Marassi for your guild
4. Look for Kamahl's Map to spawn on the upper floor of the guildhall
5. Use the map to start the quest

LOTD's wiki says that you need to recruit all five members of the guild, but in actual practice, all five of them do not appear to actually be required. The map should spawn even if you've only recruited Professor Marassi. (It may also spawn if you recruit any other member, but if you recruit anyone else and the map doesn't show up yet, go find Professor Marassi next.)

The map will give you quest markers for all 16 tools covered by the quest, and a few of them in particular are highly recommended:

• Rains' Shelter - portable mini-home you can use as a tent, and which also hooks into the Safehouse storage. See above for more on Rains' Shelter
• Deano's Bag - green backpack which gives you +200 to carry weight, very useful if you're a loot goblin
• Picky's Beacon and Picky's Resonator - these two items will allow you to actually remote control the Dev Aveza and bring it to you, but you have to go to Solstheim to get both of them

More info on the various items can be found on LOTD's wiki page for the quest if you don't mind the spoilers for the object locations.

All five of the NPCs you recruit for the Explorer's Society can also be recruited as followers:

• Marassi
• Eriana
• Latoria
• Kyre
• Madras

How useful they'd actually be as followers, however, is open to debate. At the very least, for RP purposes, keep in mind that all five of these people are in Legacy's story as relic hunters, not necessarily as warriors. They can and do engage in combat when LOTD's story needs them to, but it's not their main point. And stats-wise, especially as you proceed into middle and later stages of your playthrough, you will very likely be able to do better with other followers.

But still, they are an option to consider. Each of their pages on the LOTD wiki has a little detail of unique things they can do if you happen to use them as followers. In particular, Latoria is described on her page as a capable Destruction mage, so that might be helpful for lower level characters.

At least a couple of these NPCs (Eriana, Latoria) are listed on the LOTD wiki as leveling with the player, as well, without a specified level cap.

BE ADVISED: the linked pages here for Marassi and Kyre do contain major spoilers for the overall Legacy plot. Do NOT scroll down too far on their pages if you want to avoid those spoilers. Fortunately, you don't need to to see the info about using them as followers.