The Elder Scrolls: Tamriel

Carved into the cliffs northwest of Markarth, Bthardamz is one of the largest and most intact Dwemer ruins in Skyrim—a sprawling complex of bronze towers, echoing halls, and humming machinery long abandoned by its creators. Its exterior, partially overgrown with Reach foliage, conceals an immense subterranean city filled with steam-driven traps, mechanical guardians, and glowing animunculi that still patrol as if their masters never vanished. Now claimed by the deranged mage Orchendor and his cult of the afflicted, Bthardamz is shrouded in corruption. Fungal growths, toxic spores, and strange alchemical devices mar the pristine Dwemer architecture, signs of Peryite’s influence spreading through the ruin. Dangerous and labyrinthine, Bthardamz is more than just a ruin—it is a place where lost science meets divine plague, and where only the strong or the mad dare walk its brass-lit halls.