How To Get Armor From Rykas Skyrim
Skyrim Forgotten City Arbiter

This is the 4th part of a multi-post series on the Skyrim mod, “The Forgotten City”.

Part I: LINK

In this part of the forgotten city we speak to Domitus who turns out to be a massive douche, as well as to the rest of the towns folk. And i stole Rykas' Dwarven Armor and triggered the 'Dwarves. You must kill Rykas and take his armor. Though this will trigger the Dwarven Law, you just go to the lakehouse and travel back before you kill him (like restarting the whole quest). If you need any of the other amor pieces, get those in the following locations: Helmet: Underground tunnels by a corpse Boots: House next to inn Guantlents. Ur welcome:)P.S. All the armor piece locations, one of them is behind a shut gate in the abandoned palace, just climb on the stacked up cofins to get on the top pipe and get over the gate, the boots are inside the house of brenon or smth like that its by the tavern, the other you get by killing rykas looting the chest piece and then traveling. Note: I am on the PC version; the Immaculate Armor looks “checkerboarded” to me. I don’t know if that’s a glitch or if that’s a graphics issue on my end. You can check some of the coffins but you won’t get much: a few coins, some bone meal, maybe a torch. The key to getting through that gate is not to go through the gate but over.

Part II: LINK

Part III: LINK

After Part III, my play-through was at a 3-way crossroads: 1) find out what’s in the locked room at the top of the Citadel, 2) talk to Jarl Metellus (while in the Citadel) and accuse someone of breaking the Dwarves’ Law, or 3) go to the Palace and get that helmet for Domitus.

You must kill Rykas and take his armor. Though this will trigger the Dwarven Law, you just go to the lakehouse and travel back before you kill him (like restarting the whole quest). If you need any of the other amor pieces, get those in the following locations: Helmet: Underground tunnels by a corpse Boots: House next to inn Guantlents.

I did all 3.

I’ll recount my trip through the Palace in Part V. This Part will center on the other 2 choices.

THERE WILL BE SPOILERS IN THIS POST…. AND THEY WILL BE PLOT-HEAVY, THIS TIME.

First things first:

The Common Thread (BIG SPOILER)

You can choose to accuse any of the citizens in the Forgotten City (“FC”) of breaking the Dwarves’ Law. You can explore anywhere (… almost). Regardless of what you do, something will bring you back to the Lakehouse, with Jarl Metellus right behind you.

Once there, the Jarl sacrifices himself and implores you to “stop it [the Apocalypse] from happening”. The Lakehouse door starts to glow purple, you click on it…. and you are back in the FC, at the very beginning.

The Forgotten City is a Time Loop trap.

How you escape from the loop – IF you escape (and that is a big ‘if’) – depends on various choices throughout your travels in the FC, such as accusations made. If the Dwarves’ Law is broken, and those Dwarven statues come alive, you more than likely won’t survive; instead you’ll either respawn at the Lakehouse or will revive on the ground. That 2nd option means that you’ll have to find a way past a Centurion (most likely) and get to the Lakehouse, so you can “start over”. The consolation prizes: you keep whatever you found before, including knowledge and keys; few, if any, of the people in the FC remember what you talked to them about before, so you can try different conversation options and tactics; there are no limits to “restarting”: if you, say, wanted to shoot Rykas in his face, you can… but you’ll likely take a beating from Dwarven Centurions and Rykas before you get to the Lakehouse. Hey, sometimes it feels ‘right’ to put an arrow through an NPC that annoys you. 😉 Regardless, in these next few parts, I’ll mention if someone or something triggered the Dwarves’ Law.

4. a) The Locked Room

I made 3 separate Save files, one for each branch. My first stop was the locked room in the Citadel. The rationale behind that choice was: 1) I saw the room when I first arrived and was curious, 2) there was mentions of “sobbing at night” in the Citadel – maybe the cause was behind the locked gate?, and 3) Dooley’s brother not only explicitly mentioned the room, but gave me a key to it.

I climbed the sets of stone steps to get to the top of the Citadel. To the right is the hallway that leads to the Jarl’s quarters; the gate is to the left. Once the gate is unlocked, there is a very short hall that leads to a ‘T’ intersection. There are doors at the end of the left-right hallway. To the right, that door leads to an upper balcony, overlooking the FC. The door to the left is locked but will open with the key. Inside:

There is tall, long but narrow room with a fireplace at the far end. There is a broken Dwarven bust on the floor. On the right wall, near the fireplace, is a woman that is shackled. Wait…

How is she shackled to the wall, when that act would most certainly have broken the Dwarves’ Law??

That is another mystery for another time. You can (and should) walk over to interact with her. She immediately begs you to not hurt her and “don’t do it again!”. You reassure her that you don’t do either and see asks you to free her. You do have a choice here: free her, talk to her, or refuse to free her. If you talk to her, she tells you that she is… Maisi, Ulrin’s wife! The woman who you may or may not have found in the Underground Tunnels, dead. She explains that the Jarl probably planted her necklace in the Tunnels, like he definitely chained her up in this room. You are again offered the choice to free her. If you don’t free her, you tell her that you will have to find another way to free her. She’s not thrilled about that, begging you to come back. This gives you the time to look for other options, to search the Citadel, or even confront the Jarl (more on that in the “Accusations” section.

If you decide to free her, she thanks you and tells you that plans on doing some bodily harm to the Jarl. This would be baaaad, as you inform her; her response: “I don’t care”. She then asks you to help her escape.

As you both approach the now-closed gate to the rest of the Citadel, the Jarl runs up the steps, demanding answers as to what you both are doing. Maisi and the Jarl make eye contact: he flees into a nearby bathroon-type area, you open the gate, and Maisi goes into a rage, cornering the Jarl. He tells her think about her next move, since attacking him would get everyone killed. She, while conjuring up what appears to be an Ice spell, ignores his pleas. She blasts the Jarl, instantly killing him… but blowing a hole in a pipe, lining the left side wall (and blowing a hole in the wall). She shouts to… someone(s) to run, you black out… and wake up in the original timeline. There is a frozen, cobwebbed body by your feet (guess who?). The rest of the room is dark (unusual, since the Citadel and the FC is very bright) and also cobwebbed. An Imperial soldier rushes up to you, a little surprised to see you, and asks who you are and what happened. Via a few conversation choices, you can either stay in the Citadel or leave through the hole in the wall.

The soldier is Altruis, Cassia’s brother.

After stating that he’s “grateful for the rescue yet feels oddly unsatisfied”, you and him reunite with Cassia. She rewards you with a necklace that bolsters Speechcraft by 15% and give you the Bribery perk. You leave the area and the credits roll.

I can see why Altruis felt “unsatisfied”. He tells you some of the story that he found n a journal (I’ll let you see what that is), including finding your name in it, but I found myself thinking “that’s it?” with this branch of the story. It wasn’t a “bad” ending but I have a feeling that other “endings” would be more… satisfying.

4. b) The Accusation<

How To Get Rykas Armor