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Estate:
Black Drake Villa
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Group Dungeon
Discoverable Yes
Completion Objective
Dungeon Yes
# of Zones 7
Zone
Gold Coast
Location
Northwest of Kvatch
Instanced Dungeon
Min Level 45
Group Size 4
Bosses 4
Mini-Bosses 3
Veteran Speed Run Target 25 mins
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After the fall of the Longhouse Emperors, this grand retreat stayed largely abandoned aside from the occasional treasure hunter. Most of the spoils of Durcorach's campaign across Tamriel went missing, only to appear later on the black market.
Black Drake Villa

Black Drake Villa is a group dungeon on the Gold Coast.

It is included in the Flames of Ambition DLC alongside The Cauldron. The entrance is located along Varen's Wall northwest of Kvatch.

Backstory Description[edit]

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Tucked away in the northern Gold Coast sits an abandoned villa built as a retreat for former Emperor Durcorach, the Black Drake. Rumors tell of a vast library deep below that holds knowledge pillaged from across Tamriel. Hired by a mysterious benefactor, Eveli Sharp-Arrow arrives in search of a valuable book and a little adventure, but she soon discovers someone has set fire to the underground archive. Join Eveli in a race to find the book and defeat the forces behind the consuming blaze.

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The ever-enthusiastic adventurer Eveli Sharp-Arrow has been hired to retrieve a mysterious tome from the archives of the Black Drake Villa. This long-abandoned mansion, located in the Gold Coast's northern hills, was once the home to the infamous Durcorach the Black Drake, a Reachman conqueror and progenitor of the Longhouse Emperors dynasty … However, this job is not a simple smash and grab, and upon entering the estate's grounds, you'll quickly discover that a band of monsters now calls it home. Even worse, black smoke rises from the archives deep below the villa, and it's up to you and Eveli to race into the fire, confront the mercenary group known as the True-Sworn, and retrieve the tome at its heart.
But who are these flame-touched mercenaries? You'll have to discover that for yourself.

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Under the ruins of the once-opulent Black Drake Villa, a grand library holds treasures and ancient tomes from across Tamriel. Gather your companions for a race against time to recover a mysterious book before dark forces burn everything to ash.

Related Quests[edit]

  • Black Drake Villa: Enter Black Drake Villa and retrieve the mysterious book. / You defeated the Pyroturge Encratis and obtained the book.
    • ON-qico-Group Dungeon.pngBurning Secrets: Recover a book from an abandoned villa before it is burned to the ground.
  • Repeatable ON-qico-Group Dungeon.pngPledge: Black Drake Villa: Enter Black Drake Villa and return Undaunted.

Characters[edit]

Black Drake Villa
Eveli Sharp-Arrow Quest Giver

Enemies[edit]

Normal Enemies[edit]

Elite Enemies[edit]

Minibosses[edit]

Bosses[edit]

Layout[edit]

Decaying Vineyards[edit]

The vineyards are the outdoor area in front of the villa. The front entrance is boarded up, the doors to Colovia have been blocked off with dirt, and the stream and Dragon's Teeth Mountains block off the remaining sides. A backdoor entrance to the villa can be reached through the sewer grate. There is little of note in the vineyards besides a few badgers, two lynxes on a rock, and a decaying elk being fed on by some crows.

Black Drake Athenaeum[edit]

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Estate Grounds[edit]

Flooded Gardens[edit]

Glittering Den[edit]

Grand Archive[edit]

Books[edit]

Sets[edit]

Set Name Bonuses Armor Weight
True-Sworn Fury

2 items: Adds 15-657 Critical Chance
3 items: Adds 3-129 Weapon and Spell Damage
4 items: Adds 25-1096 Maximum Magicka
5 items: Adds 16-708 Critical Chance and increases your Critical Damage by 0-4%. While in combat, this bonus doubles when you are under 75% Health and quadruples when you are under 50% Health.

Light Armor
Kinras's Wrath

2 items: Adds 3-129 Weapon and Spell Damage
3 items: Adds 15-657 Critical Chance
4 items: Adds 3-129 Weapon and Spell Damage
5 items: Dealing damage with a Light or Heavy Attack grants you a stack of Burning Heart for 5 seconds, up to 5 stacks. While you have 5 stacks, you generate an aura of wrath, granting you Major Berserk, increasing your damage done by 10%. While you have an aura of wrath, group members within 12 meters of you gain Minor Berserk, increasing their damage done by 5%.

Medium Armor
Drake's Rush

2 items: Adds 28-1206 Maximum Health
3 items: Adds 25-1096 Maximum Stamina
4 items: Adds 25-1096 Maximum Stamina
5 items: When you Bash an enemy, you and up to 3 group members within 15 meters of you gain Major Heroism for 12 seconds, granting you 3 Ultimate every 1.5 seconds. This effect can occur once every 18 seconds.

Heavy Armor
Encratis's Behemoth

1 item: Adds 25-1096 Maximum Magicka
2 items: Dealing Flame Damage to an enemy grants you Behemoth's Aura for 12 seconds that reaches up to 12 meters. You and up to 11 group members in the aura reduce Flame Damage taken by 5%. Enemies in the aura increase their Flame Damage taken by 5%. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds.

Monster Helm Sets

Achievements[edit]

There are 18 achievements associated with this Dungeon:

Achievement Points Description Reward
ON-icon-achievement-Flames of Ambition Explorer.png Flames of Ambition Explorer 5 Enter either Black Drake Villa or the Cauldron for the first time. Outfit Style: Fire-Forged Maul
ON-icon-quest-Book 01.png True-Sworn Style Master 50 Learn every chapter in the True-Sworn style book, found by defeating bosses in Black Drake Villa.
Needed for Black Drake Villa Challenger
ON-icon-achievement-Black Drake Villa Challenger.png Black Drake Villa Challenger 50 Complete the listed achievements for Veteran Black Drake Villa.
ON-icon-achievement-Black Drake Villa Conqueror.png Black Drake Villa Conqueror 10 Defeat Kinras Ironeye, Captain Geminus and Pyroturge Encratis in Veteran Black Drake Villa. Memento: Illusory Salamander Stone
Bust: Encratis's Behemoth (page)
ON-icon-achievement-Snuffed Out.png Snuffed Out 50 Defeat Pyroturge Encratis after raising the challenge banner in Veteran Black Drake Villa. Title: Flamechaser
ON-icon-achievement-Unsinged.png Unsinged 50 Defeat all encounters in addition to Kinras Ironeye, Captain Geminus, and Pyroturge Encratis in Veteran Black Drake Villa without suffering a group member death.
ON-icon-achievement-Speed Reader.png Speed Reader 50 Defeat all encounters in addition to Kinras Ironeye, Captain Geminus, and Pyroturge Encratis within 25 minutes of entering Veteran Black Drake Villa. Your timer starts when you engage the first group of enemies.
Normal
ON-icon-achievement-Flames of Ambition Scout.png Flames of Ambition Scout 10 Complete both Black Drake Villa and the Cauldron in Normal.
ON-icon-achievement-Black Drake Villa Vanquisher.png Black Drake Villa Vanquisher 10 Defeat Kinras Ironeye, Captain Geminus, and Pyroturge Encratis in Black Drake Villa. Trophy: Encratis's Behemoth (page)
Fountain of the Fiery Drake (page) 0005000050,000 Gold
ON-icon-achievement-Bullseye!.png Bullseye! 10 Use a geyser to fire yourself into the eye of Pyroturge Encratis's Firestorm 5 times in Black Drake Villa.
Veteran
ON-icon-achievement-Flames of Ambition Delver.png Flames of Ambition Delver 50 Complete both Black Drake Villa and the Cauldron in Veteran. Dye: Scintillating ScarletScintillating Scarlet
ON-icon-achievement-Ardent Bibliophile.png Ardent Bibliophile 50 Defeat all encounters in addition to Kinras Ironeye, Captain Geminus, Pyroturge Encratis after raising the challenge banner for each in Veteran Black Drake Villa within 25 minutes without suffering a group member death. Title: Ardent Bibliophile
ON-icon-achievement-Flame Beast Slayer.png Flame Beast Slayer 10 Defeat 65 Blazing Salamanders, Flame Hounds, and Fire Behemoths in Veteran Black Drake Villa.
ON-icon-achievement-True-Sworn Slayer.png True-Sworn Slayer 10 Defeat 200 True-Sworn Soldiers in Veteran Black Drake Villa.
ON-icon-achievement-Amphibians Arrested.png Amphibians Arrested 10 Defeat Kinras Ironeye while preventing the Blazing Salamanders from casting their damage buff in Veteran Black Drake Villa.
ON-icon-achievement-Breaking Ranks.png Breaking Ranks 50 Defeat Captain Geminus after raising the challenge banner in Veteran Black Drake Villa.
ON-icon-achievement-Eviction Notice.png Eviction Notice 50 Defeat Kinras Ironeye after raising the challenge banner in Veteran Black Drake Villa.
ON-icon-achievement-Shake It Up.png Shake It Up 10 Defeat Captain Geminus without any group member being struck by a Seismic Tremor during the fight in Veteran Black Drake Villa.
ON-icon-achievement-Salley-oop.png Salley-oop 10 Defeat Pyroturge Encratis after killing at least ten Grotto Salamanders during the fight in Veteran Black Drake Villa.

Notes[edit]

Maps[edit]

A map of the Estate Grounds
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Pressure Plate
Pressure Plate
Pressure Plate
Pressure Plate
Pressure Plate
Pressure Plate
Pressure Plate
Pressure Plate
Trapdoor
Trapdoor
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Kinras Ironeye
Kinras Ironeye
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Servant Walkway
Servant Walkway
A map of the Estate Grounds
A map of the Luminous Grotto
Avatar of Zeal
Avatar of Zeal
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Trapdoor from the Estate Grounds
Trapdoor from the Estate Grounds
Avatar Artifact
Avatar Artifact
A map of the Luminous Grotto
A map of the Grand Archive
Captain Geminus
Captain Geminus
Glittering Den
Glittering Den
Glowing Cavern
Glowing Cavern
The Crowned Dragon
The Crowned Dragon
Imperial Decree Regarding the Elder Council
Imperial Decree Regarding the Elder Council
High Chancellor's Papers: The Tagh Droiloch
High Chancellor's Papers: The Tagh Droiloch
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Flooded Gardens
Flooded Gardens
A map of the Grand Archive
A map of the Glowing Cavern
Avatar of Vigor
Avatar of Vigor
Drop from the Grand Archive
Drop from the Grand Archive
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Avatar Artifact
Avatar Artifact
A map of the Glowing Cavern
A map of the Glittering Den
Avatar of Fortitude
Avatar of Fortitude
Grand Archive
Grand Archive
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Avatar Artifact
Avatar Artifact
A map of the Glittering Den
A map of the Flooded Gardens
Pyroturge Encratis
Pyroturge Encratis
Rotunda
Rotunda
Walled Arboretum
Walled Arboretum
Black Drake Athenaeumy
Black Drake Athenaeumy
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A map of the Flooded Gardens
A map of the Black Drake Athenaeum
Pyroturge Encratis
Pyroturge Encratis
Walled Arboretum
Walled Arboretum
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Avatar Artifact
Avatar Artifact
Sentinel Aksalaz
Sentinel Aksalaz
A map of the Black Drake Athenaeum

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