Beyond Skyrim:Cyrodiil/Rielle

Ayleid Ruin: Rielle (view on map) (lore page)
# of Zones	2
Clearable	Yes
Dungeon	Yes
Respawn Time	10 days or 30 days
Occupants
Undead Ayleids, Surilaron, Synod Researchers
Important Treasure
Flamelight Spire
Console Location Code(s)
CYRRielleExterior01 CYRRielle01 CYRRielle02
Region
County Bruma
Location
Northeast of Applewatch; southwest of Cloud Ruler Temple

Rielle

Rielle is a medium-sized Ayleid ruin containing undead Ayleids, located northeast of Applewatch and southwest of Cloud Ruler Temple. It contains two zones: Rielle and Crypt of Rielle.

Related Quests

• Handler for first Rielle playthrough events: Discover the secrets of Rielle.

Notes

• As revealed during the related quest, Rielle was once a temple to Meridia, or Merid-Nunda, as the Ayleids called her.
• Rielle also appeared in Oblivion, and is added to Skyrim by the Creation The Cause.
• This ruin is rather dark throughout, so torches or a light spell are recommended.
• This ruin contains 3 Motherwort Sprig plants, 2 Blue Mountain Flower plants, 1 Cairn Bolete plant and 1 Wisp Stalk plant.

Walkthrough

Exterior

Outside the ruin you will find three leveled wilderness animals or ogres, as well as three Motherwort Sprig plants and one Wormwood plant.

Rielle

The throne room in Rielle

As soon as you enter the ruin, you will be greeted by two rats. Dispatch them and quickly pop into the room to east, which hosts a bloodied corpse of an Imperial female Synod researcher, her notes on the ruin, a bedroll and a potion of minor healing. Once you head into the western corridor, a mysterious voice will boom throughout the ruin and the related quest will commence; see the quest page for further details. Pressing on you arrive on a balcony overlooking a large room with two Ayleid undead. Snipe at them from here and dispatch a third undead on your way down, where you will also find a small, bloodied campsite with the corpse of an Imperial male Synod researcher, two bedrolls, an Ayleid coffer and a Welkynd stone.

From here you can head north or west. Take the northern passage, looting the coffer and Welkynd stone on your way. The next room is a large chamber with a collapsed stone bridge now covered by an uprooted tree, with snow and rubble littering the ground. You will find four more undead here, as well as three coffers: two on the east side and one on the west side. The corridor in the southwestern corner of the lower level takes you back to the previous room. Instead, head north to a corridor with an undead and a High Elf Synod researcher, and head turn west into a small room containing two Ayleid undead and an Arcane enchanter.

Track back east and then north and, accompanied by the same mysterious voice, you will arrive on balcony overlooking a large room with thrones with Ayleid undead sat asleep on them. They will wake up once you walk down so be prepared to fight four of them at once. Also in the room are two Ayleid undead corpses and a Synod researcher, on whose body are some helpful notes to activate the stone stairs beyond. Track back to the western balcony and press the button there, raising the stairs leading to the door to the Crypt.

When re-entering from the Crypt you will find yourself on a balcony overlooking the room with the fallen tree. Follow the corridor along and then jump down when you reach the room with the small campsite.

Crypt of Rielle

The high sanctum of Merid-Nunda

Immediately upon entering, the mysterious voice will again reverberate in the ruin. In the first room you will find an Ayleid coffer by the eastern wall and two Ayleid coffins high up on the western wall. In a small room to the south is another Ayleid coffer. Return to the first room and you will face an intersection.

Heading east leads you to a room with two sleeping Pelinaga on thrones, two coffers, one stone coffin, an Ayleid dagger and an open coffin containing an Ayleid skull and a coin purse. Heading north takes you past two Ayleid vases, a skeleton, a throne and a pressure plate-activated dart trap. Either route takes you to the same room, hosting two stone coffins in alcoves. Press on west, picking up three more vases on the way and looting an alcove with another vase and a flawless ruby. You will then arrive in a room with a small frozen pool in the middle and two undead Ayleids guarding three stone coffins.

From here head into the final room, illuminated by a ghostly red glow, where you will find four dead Synod researchers at the foot of a central structure. From here Surilaron will descend and attack you. This is a very tough fight, as the lich is a formidable opponent who will also occasionally reanimate nearby corpses. Once you've defeated the former High Priest, loot the Flamelight Spire from his corpse and head up to the raised area in the center, which hosts a Varla stone, a coffin, a reliquary and six Ayleid vases. In the lower area you will find two coffers, two skeleton corpses, a Pelinaga corpse and four Welkynd stones high up on pillars, which can be shot down with arrows. From this room press on west until you arrive at the door leading back to Rielle.

Maps

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  Map of Rielle

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  Map of Crypt of Rielle