Lore:Deepscorn Hollow

Deepscorn Hollow is a hidden underground lair located beneath a small island in Topal Bay, off the coast of Cyrodiil. The island is located within the Blackwood region, south of the swamps of   and far southeast of the city of  . 
Originally, Deepscorn was simply a system of natural caves. Like all natural caves, the tunnels once served as the capillaries of  , pulsing with the divine essence of the  .  In the First Era, a temple to   was built within its subterranean halls. The structure eventually fell into ruin and sank into the southern coast, although various vile cults were known to have taken shelter within the temple ruins over the years.  

By  , Deepscorn Hollow was being used as the base of operations of the  , a group of Sithis worshippers led by the self-styled "Daughter of Sithis", an Imperial woman named Lalais.  It was at this time that   entered Deepscorn in search of Quistley Silvelle, a noble from Daggerfall who had fallen in with the cult. Together with the mercenaries hired to track down the lost nobleman, the Vestige killed several members of the cult, including Lalais, in order to rescue him. 

Deepscorn briefly served as a hideaway for  , a vampire who was once held there as a prisoner by the Unmaker Cult.   

A homestead was built on the island at some stage along with a bridge connecting it to the mainland, although the house burned down and was abandoned. 

Greywyn later went on to found the  , a vampiric splinter faction of the Dark Brotherhood that planned to infect the entire guild. When the group's treachery was revealed to the   in  , Greywyn was forced to flee from  . He retreated to Deepscorn, planning to use it as the new headquarters of the Scars. Months passed while Greywyn waited for any surviving Scars to contact him. Eventually, a   Scar named   made contact, and helped Greywyn in acquiring the resources needed to restore Deepscorn to its former glory.  The caves were transformed into a crypt complex, and Greywyn constructed a great shrine to   in the hope of reconciling his treachery.

After many sacrifices, Sithis deigned to speak with Greywyn. He agreed to accept the Crimson Scars as the rightful leaders of the Brotherhood, as long as Greywyn cured himself of his vampirism as punishment. With a heavy heart, Greywyn labored to create a cure, eventually learning of the alchemical processes needed to create  . He spent months gathering the ingredient necessary to refine the salts. After gathering the ingredients, he infused the rock walls of Deepscorn Hollow with veins of Purgeblood crystal formations and built a Font of Renewal to bathe himself in. In  , almost twelve years after having found the cure, Greywyn sensed his impending death. He tracked down the Champion of Cyrodiil, a long-lost relative of his and the heir to Deepscorn Hollow.  For a time Greywyn watched the Champion of Cyrodiil from afar, and eventually delivered a note making himself known. He provided the Champion with a map to Deepscorn Hollow, requesting only that the Champion honor Sithis with the darkest of deeds.  With all his preparations for the cure complete, Greywyn approached his shrine to Sithis for one last prayer, when he was stabbed in the back by an assassin from the Dark Brotherhood, which had finally tracked him down. 

After arriving in Deepscorn Hollow, the Champion made contact with Rowley Eardwulf in the village of  , and arranged for further improvements to the lair. Among these was the Garden of Venomgrowth, a garden designed to cultivate various poisonous plants, including the rare  . Eardwulf also arranged for human cattle to be brought to the lair for vampiric feeding purposes, as well as a   vampire minion who maintained the lair and regularly killed in the name of Sithis.  

Notes
The official obliviondownloads.com description states that Greywyn was assassinated by the Dark Brotherhood before being able to use the Purgeblood Salts, which had only taken months to prepare. ''Greywyn's Journal states that preparations began in  . However, the Bloodstained Note states that Greywyn was still alive in  , almost twelve years later, a slight discrepancy.
Greywyn Blenwyth claims to have discovered and named the caves Deepscorn Hollow,  although this is contradicted by the location already bearing that name during The Elder Scrolls Online'''s time period.

See Also
For game-specific information, see the Oblivion and ESO articles.

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