Skyrim is one of the most remarkable games ever made. Yes it is! I will fight you!
It’s exciting, thrilling, interesting, and sometimes, it’s creepy.
This is the story of Frostflow Lighthouse.
Frostflow is the story of Ramati and Habd (Hab-d? Hab-ed? I’m going with Habd).The couple have long loved the lighthouse and finally achieved their dream of buying it. Their children, Sudi and Mani, not so psyched to be stuck in the middle of nowhere.
You only need to step through the front door to realize something is very wrong here. Ramati, the wife, is the first corpse you find. Not sure why she’s in her underwear, but whatever. In her journal, we discover that things went sideways pretty quickly for the family. Things started to go missing, which caused more strain. Odd scratching coming from the basement is also heard. The family thinks it’s Skeevers, Skyrim’s version of rats. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t Skeevers.
Ramati also mentions her husband’s final wishes. When he dies, he wants his remains to be cremated in the lighthouse’s flames.
Wanting to solve his Skeever problem, Habd goes to town to pick up some traps. When he returns, he finds his wife slaughtered and a Chaurus over her. What’s a Chaurus? That’s a Chaurus.
He managed to kill the beast and heads into the basement to save his children, who have vanished.
It turns out that the Falmer, a subterranean race that really wants to kill you, who keep the Chaurus as pets, have built a camp below Frostflow. Now there’s a face that only a mother could love.
During your search, you come across the remains of the daughter, Sudi. Her note tells a tragic tale. It seems that Habd charged in to save her and her brother, but didn’t get very far. Mani was already dead and Sudi was a prisoner. During the fight, Habd was bitten by a Chaurus, sending poison throughout his body and giving him a fever. Before the Falmer took Habd away, he left a dagger for his daughter. Seeing no hope for escape or rescue, Sudi chose to use the dagger on herself to avoid a fate much worse.
Heading further down and cutting your way through a bunch of Falmer and Chaurus, you enter a large cavern and… holy crap! That’s a big Chaurus! It’s actually a Chaurus Reaper.
Habd is nowhere to be found, though. Maybe he’s still alive somewhere. Maybe he’s a prisoner. Maybe he managed to escape somehow. Maybe… Oooh…
Well, if there’s any kind of silver lining to the mostly digested corpses, you can give Habd his final wish. Heading up to the lighthouse fire, you can cremate his remains and allow him to look out over the sea for all eternity.