Online:Antiquity Leads

Antiquity Leads are items that are used to Scry for Antiquities. They can be found in a wide variety of ways and places throughout the world. You don't need to be an Antiquarian to find them, but you do to use them. Some Leads may require you to have done other tasks before you can obtain them – exploring a zone, completing a quest, or digging up other Antiquities. 

Leads expire 30 days after you obtain them, however you can obtain them again.
Leads are account-wide. This means if you discover a Lead on one character, another character can scry and excavate it.
Leads have fixed locations, such as drops from certain enemies, containers or merchants.

Lead sourcing is often related to the Antiquity it will lead to. For example, Leads to Antiquities regarding Glenumbra's history will be found in Glenumbra. For information on where to find Leads sorted by Zone, see: Antiquities by Zone.

 

Difficulty Levels
Leads come in various difficulties, and it determines how challenging the Scrying and Excavation mini-games are. There are five levels, but it should be noted that the difficulty of the Lead doesn't always accurately relate to the quality of the antiquity. For example, an   Lead can uncover an   item.

Simple
  Leads can be scryed by default and consist of mainly treasures, motifs chapters and antique maps. Every zone has one simple-difficulty Lead that is given to you for free. 

Intermediate
  Leads consist of mainly treasures, motifs chapters, cosmetics, and mount components. You need to be at least level 3 in Scrying, and have the Antiquarian Insight II passive to scry for Antiquities of this difficulty.

Advanced
  Leads consist of mainly treasures, motifs chapters, mount components and epic-quality furnishings. You need to be at least level 5 in Scrying, and have the Antiquarian Insight III passive to scry for Antiquities of this difficulty.

Master
  Leads consist of mainly Mythic item and mount components, and some legendary-quality furnishings. You need to be at least level 7 in Scrying, and have the Antiquarian Insight IV passive to scry for Antiquities of this difficulty.

Ultimate
  Leads consists mostly of a selected range of legendary-quality furnishings. You need to be at least level 10 in Scrying, and have the Antiquarian Insight V passive to scry for Antiquities of this difficulty. 

It should be noted that Ultimate Leads appear as the same shade of gold as found on Master-difficulty Leads, making it difficult to distinguish between the two. The following is a list of all Ultimate difficulty Leads:

 
Anvil of Old Orsinium
Blessed Dais of Almalexia
Brazier of Frozen Flame
Coil of Satakal
Echoes of Aldmeris
Moons-Blessed Ceremonial Pool
Moonlight Mirror
Shrine of Boethra
St. Alessia, Paravant
Stained Glass of Lunar Phases
Warcaller's Painted Drum

Mythic Items
Mythic Items are broken up into 5 fragments, each requiring a Master difficulty Lead to find. These Leads may require owning additional DLCs or Chapters to discover or excavate, in addition to the piece of content the Mythic item was released alongside. 

For example, the Ring of the Pale Order was released with the Markarth DLC, but it also requires access to the Orsinium DLC in order to find all fragment Leads. In addition, the Greymoor chapter is also required to Scry these Leads via the Scrying skill line. The table below shows the DLCs required to complete a particular Mythic item. 

Alongside having access to the appropriate content, you are required to be at least level 7 in Scrying, and have the Antiquarian Insight IV passive in order to scry Master difficulty leads. The dig site for fragments are usually found in the same zone as where the Lead drops, save for a few cases where it must be excavated in a different zone.



 

Furniture
There are three main categories of furnishings that can be unearthed.

Antiquity Furnishings
 

Composite Furnishings
These are essentially Antiquity Furnishings, but are broken up into several fragments of varying quality. All fragments must be excavated in order to obtain the item.
 
 
 

Antique Maps
 

Crafting Motifs
The leads for all Ancestral motifs only have a chance to drop from treasure chests that are marked on Treasure Maps. Regular chests do not have a chance to contain these leads. 

Ancestral High Elf
Ancestral Orc
Ancestral Nord
Ancestral Reach
Ancestral Akaviri
Ancient Daedric

Mounts and Pets
Several Leads are required to construct the antiquity mount and pet, which can be found in specific Dwemer Ruins. See the respective pages for exact locations:

Ebon Dwarven Wolf
Dwarven Scarab

Cosmetics and Outfit Styles


Emotes
Alinor Allemande
The Lead for the Alinor Allemande emote can be found by approaching the spirit of Kinlady Terannil, who can be found dancing on the banks of the river south of Rellenthil. When you approach her, she disappears, and you earn the Lead for this emote.



Treasure
Simple (green) treasures are worth 250 gold, Intermediate (blue) treasures are worth 1,000 gold, and Advanced (purple) treasures are worth 5,000 gold.