Nchuand-Zel: The Lost Expedition

Understone Keep

Meet Calcelmo at the entrance to the excavation site, and tell him you wish to see Nchuand-Zel. In order to proceed, he asks you to defeat Nimhe, the “poisoned one,” a giant Frostbite Spider. You receive the key to the dig site. Or, you can simply ignore Calcelmo and his spider problem (which isn’t part of this quest), and unlock the giant bronze door to the Nchuand-Zel Excavation Site (Adept).

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Items gained:
Key to Nchuand-Zel

Miscellaneous Objective: Kill Nimhe inside Nchuand-Zel

Nchuand-Zel Excavation Site

Head through the connecting chambers, down the pit chamber, through the cobwebbed spider chambers, to an excavation entrance room where Nimhe attacks. Fight her or flee. Defeating her completes the Miscellaneous Objective.

Miscellaneous Objective: Tell Calcelmo that Nimhe is dead

On the platform slightly above Nimhe’s intrusion point is a dead Imperial named Alethius. Check his corpse for some notes, which officially starts this quest. Read the note: It mentions chaperoning some researchers into these vast dwarven catacombs. Cut through the cobwebs, heading south into Nchuand-Zel.

Items gained:
Alethius’s Notes

Objective: Recover Stromm’s journal

Nchuand-Zel

This is a giant open cavern with numerous towers and sloping paths linking them. Fight through the Falmer and down to the door leading to Nchuand-Zel Quarters.

Nchuand-Zel Quarters

Stromm’s body is located near a small tree and fire runes on the floor. Avoid them, but inspect the corpse, and read the journal as the objectives update. There is more research to find...