Morrowind:Dagoth Araynys

Dagoth Araynys (dagoth araynys)
Location	Mamaea, Sanctum of Black Hope
Species	Ash Vampire	Soul	Grand (360)
Level	30	Type	Ash Creatures
Attacks
1-100pts / 10-50pts, 15-15pts melee Hand of Araynys —  Damage Health 20-30 pts on Touch  Damage Fatigue 20-30 pts on Touch  Damage Agility 20-30 pts on Touch  Damage Speed 20-30 pts on Touch Wrath of Araynys —  Damage Health 10-20 pts on Target  Damage Fatigue 10-20 pts on Target  Damage Agility 10-20 pts on Target  Damage Speed 10-20 pts on Target
Other Information
Health	400	Magicka	500
Alarm	0	Fight	90
Drops
6th House Amulet Ash Salts Soul Ring

Dagoth Araynys

Dagoth Araynys is one of the Ash Vampires, and brother to Dagoth Ur. Vivec suggests killing him in order to weaken Dagoth Ur.

If you kill Dagoth Ur first, all the other Ash Vampires will die with him. Dagoth Araynys may be found in Mamaea, Sanctum of Black Hope. He carries the Soul Ring artifact.

Related Quests

Main Quest

• The Citadels of the Sixth House: Find the Ash Vampires to collect powerful artifacts and make your assault on Dagoth Ur himself.

Dialogue

Dagoth Araynys has some unique dialogue, if you can sneak up on him or cast Calm in order to speak to him.

• Greeting 1: "You've done well to come this far. I don't think we have anything to talk about, do we? Then let's get on with it."
• Greeting 2: "I'm ready whenever you are."
• get on with it: "I'm going to kill you. You don't believe that, or you wouldn't be here. You are the challenger, so, by House Dagoth custom, yours is the first move."

Notes

• Though he has dialogue saying that by the customs of House Dagoth, challengers are to attack first, Dagoth Araynys will attack the player on sight unless they are using Chameleon, Invisibility, or have cast a Calm spell on Araynys.

Bugs

• Killing Dagoth Araynys should weaken Dagoth Ur in the following way:

Strength -5 pts

Willpower -5 pts

Speed -5 pts

Health -50 pts

Fatigue -50 pts

Magicka -250 pts

However, scripts cannot affect actors that have not loaded yet, so Dagoth Ur will be weakened only if you visit him before killing Dagoth Araynys.

• OpenMW fixes this bug. However, that makes it possible to reduce Dagoth Ur's 300 health to zero by killing only six Ash Vampires. To prevent such an outcome, OpenMW also added a hardcoded exception. Thus, killing Dagoth Araynys will no longer affect Dagoth Ur in any way.