Hunting for artifacts (Side)

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(After buying the sapphire claw from a merchant at shroud hearth barrow, Leonidas begins to question how many there are. So far he has found golden, coral, diamond, glass, iron, silver, and now sapphire)

(He glides back to the college of Winterhold to find Urag in the library. What a surprise)

Leonidas: Urag. Do you have any books on ancient artifacts?

Urag: I'll be right back

(Urag gives Leonidas a book related to ancient forbidden legends to see if he can find anything)

Leonidas: SLEN TIID VO!

(Leonidas reads the whole book twice over at super speed, much to Urag's confusion)

Leonidas: Thank you Urag. I must be going now

Urag: Sometimes I just don't understand your goals. What you're looking for is a myth. But yet again so was that ebony mail, and that dragon priest mask

(Leonidas glides to a place called Folgunthur and finds an abandoned campsite)

(He finds the journal of a man named Daynas Valen, and he sees that he was after some kind of magic amulet. He heads inside a nearby dungeon and proceeds to take a look inside)

(As soon as Leonidas goes in, the door drops shut behind him, and a bunch of draugr run at him)

Leonidas: Time to see what this thing can do

(Leonidas summons a spectral dragon priest with his new power, and it powers through most of the draugr using magic)

Leonidas: WOW. I didn't even know I could do that

(While the spectral dragon priest fights off most of the draugr, Leonidas waltzes through the dungeon slashing a few draugr with his sword. He eventually comes across the corpse of Daynas Valen and finds the ivory claw)

(Leonidas uses the ivory claw to lower a bridge, and he walks through a hallway filled with draugr)

Leonidas: FUS RO DAH!

(Leonidas force shouts the draugr in the hallway and finishes them off with his bow. He finds a lever puzzle guarded by some draugr, which he powers through with brains and brawn, unlocking a hatch on the floor)

(Leonidas goes down the hatch to find the area filled with frostbite spiders, so he sets fire to the webs and spiders with his fire magic)

(He then finds himself in a central tomb with a huge coffin in the middle. It opens up to reveal a heavily armored draugr named Mikrul Gauldurson)

Mikrul: FIGHT!

(Leonidas and Mikrul draw their swords and begin to sword fight)

(Ultimately, Mikrul is no match for Leonidas, and gets stabbed in the head)

(On Mikrul's body is an amulet fragment, similar to the one he found in saarthal. Almost identical. He revisits Daynas's journal and finds the location of a third fragment, plus the way to piece them all together)

Leonidas: Interesting...

(Leonidas retraces his steps back out of folgunthur and glides to a place called Giermund's hall)

(He heads inside and finds a huge hole in the ground, which he takes a leap of faith into)

(He lands in a riven and swims through while being able to breathe under his mask)

(Leonidas emerges from the water to find a hall filled with cobwebs and frostbite spiders, which he quickly burns with his fire magic)

(He also finds a bunch of draugr in his way and rushes forward with his sword. Leonidas takes them all out swiftly, and presses on. He finds a bridge with two levers. He turns into his smoke form and flips both levers at once. The spike trap goes straight through him)

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