The Elder Scrolls: Tamriel

Located just off the main road north of Riften, the Rift Watchtower stands as a crumbling sentinel over the southern reaches of The Rift. Its stone walls, now broken and overgrown, once served to warn of dangers from the borderlands, but the tower has long since fallen into disuse and decay. Now occupied by bandits, the tower offers little shelter but a wide view of the surrounding forests and lakes. The upper floors have partially collapsed, leaving makeshift planks and barricades in their place. Scattered loot and crude furnishings hint at its current role as a bandit lookout and staging ground for ambushes along the nearby road. Rift Watchtower is a forgotten relic of Skyrim’s fractured defenses—where stone once stood against invasion, it now shelters outlaws, and where watchmen once stood guard, only greed and danger remain.