Rendspire Palace Reborn SPOILERS!
Version 3.07


NOTE: All hidden pannels and doors, with one exception, require a secret pull-bar or chain to activate, despite the text that displays that they can be activated directly.
Exterior Activators: Switches located outside of the hidden room.
Interior Activators: Switches located inside of the hidden room.


** This readme file only contains spoilers **
If you would prefer to discover these secrets yourself, do not read any further!





I. Three types of teleport stones:

1) Palace Teleporters
- These teleport stones are for faster travel throughout the palace interior.
- Including "Providence", there are seven secret rooms which hold palace teleporters, each of which teleports to the "Map Room".
- Each teleporter requires a unique key to unlock.
- See the individual secret room details below for more information.

2) Secret Armory Teleporters
- These teleport stones are for faster travel throughout the "Secret Armory" and "Secret Armory Nordic Ruins", as well as one connecting to "Providence" and one connecting to the "Lord's Private Chambers".
- They all require a single key to unlock, which is in the possesion of a master vampire (Asher Octavious) located in the "Secret Armory".
- Asher is aggressive and will try to kill you.
- See "Secret Armory" below for more details

3) Skyrim Teleporters
- No key is required for these stones.
- They will only teleport one way, to the exterior of the corresponding city.
- See "Map Room" below for details.




II. ** Secret Armory **

Location: Lord's Private Chambers - Secret wardrobe door on the north side of the master bedroom.
Exterior Activator: Pull-chain behind the banner on the east side of the bedroom (it also activates the door to the Map Room).
Interior Activator: Pull-chain on the west wall behind the candle in the Coffin Room - the secret room with the coffin (it also activates the door to the Map Room).

Details
- This is the largest secret area in the palace, which contains its own set of teleport stones over multiple cells.
- The Coffin Room contains a teleport stone which teleports to the main storage area of the Secret Armory, and a door which leads to the Secret Armory Nordic Ruins.
- The Nordic Ruins contain a teleport stone which teleports to the main storage area of the Secret Armory, as well as alchemy and enchanting stations, additional storage, and a rather large cave garden.
- Asher Octavious is a Master Vampire in the Secret Armory, and be warned, he will try to kill you.
- Asher Octavious is in posession of the key that unlocks all of the teleport stones within the Secret Armory, including the teleporter to "Providence".
- All of the palace door keys are located in a display case by the Statue of Mara in the "Secret Armory". You can swim to it, or use a teleport stone once you've killed Asher.

If you are having trouble killing Asher, I recommend luring him to the top of the scaffolding and using your force push shout to blow him off the top of the scaffold. If done correctly, the fall should kill him.
If you are really having trouble killing Asher, you can cheat by following these steps:
1) Open the console ("~")
2) click on Asher - his form ID (string of letters and numbers) should appear.
3) type "KILL"
4) Close the console ("~")
5) If he doesn't die, if means that you didn't have him selected on step 2 - so rinse and repeat.




III. ** Map Room **

Location: Lord's Private Chambers - Secret wardrobe door on the south side of the master bedroom.
Exterior Activator: Pull-chain behind the banner on the east side of the bedroom (it also activates the door to the Coffin Room that leads to the Secret Armory).
Interior Activator: Pull-chain on the only wooden pillar in the Map Room - it's hard to miss (it also activates the door to the Coffin Room that leads to the Secret Armory).

Details
- The Map Room contains the key to unlock the teleporter to "Providence" only. The keys to unlock the other Palace Teleporters are in their corresponding secret rooms.
- This room also contains the Skyrim Teleporters, each of which teleports just outside of one of the five major cities. They do not require a key, but only go one direction.
- The Skyrim Teleporters will teleport you to the city identified by the stone's location on the map in the Map Room - I thought this was common sense, but who knows.




IV. ** Providence **

Location: Providence, down the stairs at the end of the hallway which deadends.
Exterior Activator: Pull-Chain behind the banner on the north side of the room.
Interior Activator: Pull-Bar on the south wall of the hallway to the right of the stone pillar (it's on a stone wall piece).

Details
- This is the only secret room which contains teleports directly to both the "Map Room" and the "Secret Armory" storage area.
- There are no keys in this room - the Map Room teleport key is in the "Map Room", and the Secret Armory teleport key is in possesion of a Master Vampire in the "Secret Armory".
- For convience, there's a lot of storage here, including mannequins, to allow for quick drop-offs and equiping.




V. ** Rear of Throne Room **

Location: Great Hall, secret wardrobe door near the upper level, north entrance to the "Lord's Private Chambers".
Exterior Activator: Pull-Chain behind the banner opposite the door to the "Lord's Private Chambers".
Interior Activator: Easily visible pull-bar adjacent to the secret wardrobe door.

Details
- Contains the key to unlock the teleport to the "Map Room" from this location.




VI. ** Interrogation Room **

Location: Sub-level West in the Cellar, west wall secret storage cabinet door behind the large mead tanks.
Exterior Activator: Pull-Chain behind the banner on the wall opposite to the secret storage cabinet door.
Interior Activator: Pull-Bar on the stone framing the short hallway.

Details
- Contains the key to unlock the teleport stone to the "Map Room" from this location.
- The teleport stone itself is inside of the small storage cabinet in the room (I usually make a game of trying to shut the cabinet door and activating the teleport stone while it's closing... maybe too much time on my hands).




VII. ** Treasury **

Location: Public Armory, upper level short hallway which leads to a door to the "North Wing", there's two storage cabinets on the east wall - the one on the left is a secret storage cabinet door.
Exterior Activator: Pull-Chain behind the banner just around the corner from the secret door.
Interior Activator: Pull-Chain on the wall opposite the secret door - it's easy to see.

Details
- Contains the key to unlock the teleport stone to the "Map Room" from this location - the key is located in the small storage cabinet.
- Contains a number of containers themed around gems and riches, inluding one which respawns (it's identified as "respawning"), and the only remaining key box as of this version.




VIII. ** Secret Smithing **

Location: Foundation, west side of the cave through a secret cave door.
Exterior Activator: Pull-Bar on the right side of the secret cave door just below eye-level. It's not hidden, but it can be hard to see.
Interior Activator: Pull-Chain just outside of the cave call that leads to the secret cave door.

Details
- Contains the key to unlock the teleport stone to the "Map Room" from this location.
- This is one of the larger hidden rooms, and contains the only smelter in the palace, as well as all other blacksmithing tools.
- Contains a respawning forge supply container (it's identified as "respawing") along with a number of safe storage containers.




IX. ** Office **

Location: North Wing private office through the secret wardrobe door on the north wall.
Exterior Activator: Pull-Chain behind the banner on the north wall, left of the secret wardrobe door. Be careful not to accidentally activate the mannequin.
Interior Activator: Pull-Bar on the wall to the right as you walk through the secret wardrobe door.

Details
- Contains the key to unlock the teleport stone to the "Map Room" from this location.




X. ** Library **

Location: South Wing at the back of the small room off the library, lower level through the south wall secret wardrobe door.
Exterior Activator: Pull-Chain behind the small banner left of the secret wardrobe door.
Interior Activator: Pull-Bar on the wall right of the secret wardrobe door.

Details
- Contains the key to unlock the teleport stone to the "Map Room" from this location.




XI.** Super Secret Area **

Location: Sub-level East, back of the first dungeon cell on the right (first dungeon cell moving counter clockwise) when entering the dungeon - the brick wall swivels open. This door can be activated directly.
Exterior Activator: None
Interior Activator: None

Details
- Doesn't contain any teleport stones.
- There's a letter in Shalice Viamura's room that indicates that she likes to disappear on Sundas (Sunday) at dinner time, roughly 6pm - 8pm. If you follow her, she'll lead you right to this room.
- The ruins through the secret dungeon door lead to "Bloodlust Cavern".
- Within Bloodlust Cavern resides a secret 8th follower, Isabelle Viamura - Shalice's sister who is a friendly vampire.
- Isabelle Viamura is a very powerful, high level follower. She's minimum level 35 and levels with the player.




XII. Guardian Stones

Rendspire Palace contains all 13 Guardian stones.
- The four Guardian stones which impact leveling (experience modifiers) are located in the Canyon of Tears. Three of the stones are on the ridge by the dam, with the lover stone nearby on the rocky path area that overlooks the small lake.
- The other nine Guardian stones are located in the Cave Garden within the Secret Armory Nordic Ruins.




XIII. Easter Eggs

- The book "Lord Asher Octavious of Windhelm" is available randomly through level lists, plus there's a copy in the Secret Armory. It discusses the history of Rendspire Palace and the vampire, Asher Octavious, in the Secret Armory.
- There's a creepy love letter in Xia Maeva's room which I had way too much fun writing.
- A letter in Ra'Viijal's quarters lists all of the unique NPC's in Rendspire Palace.
- Isabelle's journal reveals that Asher Octavious is her and Shalice's great uncle (probably several generations removed).
- Asher Octavious also carries a journal which fills in some of the blanks of the backstory.