Online:Vaults of Madness

The Vaults of Madness are the masterpiece of the infamous Mad Architect, who is said to be one of the few entities ever to serve multiple Daedric Princes and profit from it. How he is paid for his "services" is a matter of wild and horrible conjecture.

Group Dungeon: Vaults of Madness (view on map)
Discovery	Leveled XP
Completion	Objective Leveled XP
Zone
Fist of Stone, Coldharbour
Location
Coldharbour
Instanced Dungeon
Group Size	4
Bosses	4
Mini-Bosses	4

Vaults of Madness

The Vaults of Madness is a group dungeon found in Coldharbour. Gasteau Chamrond needs you to help him and his friends escape from the Vaults by destroying the Mad Architect. You can learn about its location from Tubidan the Alarmist in The Hollow City.

Related Quests

• Vaults of Madness Objective: Explore the Vaults of Madness.
  • Mind of Madness: Escape a labyrinthine structure in Coldharbour.
•  Pledge: Vaults of Madness: Prove you are truly Undaunted by clearing the Vaults of Madness.
•  Vaults of Madness Pledge: Explore the Vaults of Madness and return Undaunted. (disabled since Patch 2.6.4)

Vaults of Madness

Enemies

• Various Dremora
• Various skeletons
• Various Dark Seduceers
• Banekin
• Flame Atronachs
• Watchers
• Soul Shriven

Minibosses

• The Cursed One, a wraith
• Death's Head, a bone colossus
• Achaeraizur, a daedroth
• The Ancient One, a watcher

Bosses

• Ulguna Soul-Reaver, a harvester
• Grothdarr, a flesh atronach
• Iskra the Omen, a daedric titan
• Mad Architect, a lich and designer of the Vaults

Maps

The Cursed One Ulguna Soul-Reaver Death's Head Grothdarr Achaeraizur The Ancient One Iskra the Omen Mad Architect A map of Vaults of Madness

Achievements

There are several Achievements associated with this dungeon:

Achievement		Points	Description
	Vaults of Madness Vanquisher	10	Defeat Ulguna Soul-Reaver, Grothdarr, Iskra the Omen, and the Mad Architect in the Vaults of Madness.
	Vaults of Madness Conqueror	15	Complete Veteran Vaults of Madness by defeating the Cursed One, Ulguna Soul-Reaver, Death's Head, Grothdarr, Achaeraizur, the Ancient One, Iskra the Omen, and the Mad Architect.
	New Mayor of Crazy Town	50	Defeat the Mad Architect in Veteran Vaults of Madness, after invoking the Scroll of Glorious Battle.
	Veteran Dremora Slayer	10	Defeat 150 Dremora in Veteran Vaults of Madness.
	Veteran Feral Shriven Slayer	10	Defeat 750 Feral Shriven in Veteran Vaults of Madness.
	Vaults of Madness Survivor	50	Defeat the Cursed One, Ulguna Soul-Reaver, Death's Head, Grothdarr, Achaeraizur, the Ancient One, Iskra the Omen, and the Mad Architect in Veteran Vaults of Madness, without suffering a group member death.
	Vaults of Madness Assassin	50	Defeat the Cursed One, Ulguna Soul-Reaver, Death's Head, Grothdarr, Achaeraizur, the Ancient One, Iskra the Omen, and the Mad Architect in Veteran Vaults of Madness within twenty minutes of starting the dungeon. Timer starts when players engage the first group of tormentors.

Sets

Set Name	Bonuses	Location(s)	Set Type
The Worm's Raiment	2 items: Adds 1-129 Spell Damage 3 items: Adds 12-1096 Maximum Magicka 4 items: Adds 1-129 Magicka Recovery 5 items: Reduces the cost of your Magicka abilities by 4% for you and up to 11 other group members within 28 meters of you.	Vaults of Madness	Light Armor
Oblivion's Edge	2 items: Adds 9-833 Weapon Critical 3 items: Adds 1-129 Weapon Damage 4 items: Adds 1-129 Stamina Recovery 5 items: Adds 1-129 Weapon Damage 5 items: When you kill an enemy, you fill an empty Soul Gem and heal for 20-1720 Health.	Vaults of Madness	Medium Armor
Rattlecage	2 items: Adds 14-1206 Maximum Health 3 items: Adds 1-129 Spell Damage 4 items: Adds 1-129 Spell Damage 5 items: Adds 1-100 Spell Damage 5 items: Gain Major Sorcery at all times, increasing your Spell Damage by 20%.	Vaults of Madness	Heavy Armor
Grothdarr	1 item: Adds 12-1096 Maximum Magicka 2 items: When you deal damage, you have a 10% chance create [sic] lava pools that swirl around you, dealing 20-1800 Flame damage to all enemies within 8 meters of you every 1 second for 5 seconds. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds.	Vaults of Madness	Monster Helm Sets

Notes

• Before dungeon scaling was introduced in Update 5, Vaults of Madness was designed for 47–50.