Bristleback Cave Bristleback Cave is a cave located south of Northshore Landing , next to a Riekling camp . The cave itself is one immense Riekling camp . Quests . Pendant Hunt . Locate the East Empire pendants for Fethis Alor in Raven Rock . Walkthrough . The cave begins heading north down a slope . At the bottom are the corpses of two reavers , but when it is approached , a riekling jumps out of the barrel nearby . From this point , turning left ( west ) , the cave turns south and leads to a dead end . Back at the ambush point , the cave continues north down another slope . At the bottom , an encampment is off to the left ( west ) , protected by three rieklings . Continuing on north , there is another riekling . The passage becomes quite narrow , then widens into a long room where many more rieklings are living . There are many potions here , along with a chest at the northern end against the west wall , and a riekling hut with random loot against the southwest wall of the room . Close to the northern end of the room , another passage leads east . At the first tent , a riekling will pop up from the snow floor . In the room beyond , numerous other rieklings are present to do battle . At the eastern end of the room , a tent on the left contains an unlocked strong box with a single gem , and just past that is a master - locked chest with random loot . The path continues south , where another riekling is waiting in ambush . There is another riekling hut containing random loot . The path turns left ( east ) again , proceeds through another narrow passage , and when it widens , leads to another ambush , plus several more rieklings who attack . It turns left ( north ) to another camp area with a riekling hut against the left ( west ) wall . At the very northern end of the room , the path turns to the right and eventually heads south down a slope to another riekling camp area . At the southern end of the room is a riekling hut with random loot . To its left is a barrel with an East Empire Company strongbox on top , and just to its right is an open crate with the book Ahzidal ' s Descent ( which , upon reading , begins a miscellaneous quest to " Investigate Kolbjorn Barrow " ) . The passage continues down to the right ( west ) , where two more rieklings wait in ambush . The path takes a sharp bend to the right ( northeast ) , then another sharp bend to the left ( west ) down to a small camp area where a single riekling waits . The path continues up a slope , then levels out . Where it turns left ( south ) , there are two riekling huts , protected by four rieklings . After going south , the path turns left ( east ) and leads to a very large room with many rieklings . A ramp against the left ( north ) wall leads down to one camp area , but the room continues up to the right ( south ) , where a bridge needs to be crossed to get to the other side . This area has several unmounted and mounted bristleback s . There are also two riekling huts to be looted . There are two paths out from this room that start from the back ( south ) wall . One leads to the east down a narrow slope , then turns left ( north ) , where a riekling hut and chest are found on the left side . The path continues down , then turns left ( west ) and leads to a dead end with a master - locked chest containing minor loot . The other leads up to the southwest . It turns south and comes to a riekling hut with a chest to its left and a table to its right with various loot on / in them . The path turns left ( east ) and leads up a slope , then takes a left - hand U - turn , then right right ( north ) and comes out above one of the first rooms in the cave ( the first dead end ) . This can be used as a shortcut back to the entrance ( jumping down , then proceeding north , east , then south ) .