- Kind
- Bandit camp
- Level
- 5 to 50: it follows yours within that
- Resets?
- No: once cleared, what you killed and took stays gone
- Boss
- Ghunzul
- Added by
- Skyrim
Enemies here
82 enemy types: 81 people, 1 animal. Each links to its strength, resistances and what it carries.
Placed here: Orc Marauder ×3.
Leveled ones: some enemies here are stand-ins the game fills when the area loads, each from a list, by your level. They can turn into these; the number is how many stand-ins here can give it, the most widespread first: Bandit Chief (70), Bandit (14), Orc Hunter (7), Plunderer Scout (3), Bandit Champion (2), Bandit Scout (2), Highwayman Champion (2), Highwayman Scout (2), Marauder Champion (2), Marauder Scout (2), Outlaw Champion (2), Outlaw Scout (2).
And 20 more
Pillager Champion (2), Pillager Scout (2), Plunderer Champion (2), Thug Champion (2), Thug Scout (2), Bandit Battlemage (1), Bandit Warrior (1), Highwayman Battlemage (1), Highwayman Warrior (1), Marauder Battlemage (1), Marauder Warrior (1), Outlaw Battlemage (1), Outlaw Warrior (1), Pillager Battlemage (1), Pillager Warrior (1), Plunderer Battlemage (1), Plunderer Warrior (1), Rat (1), Thug Battlemage (1), Thug Warrior (1).
Can come later: these start switched off, until a quest or an event brings them: Imperial Soldier, Stormcloak Soldier, Bandit Chief, Bandit, Bandit Scout, Bandit Warrior, Highwayman Warrior, Marauder Warrior, Outlaw Warrior, Pillager Warrior, Plunderer Warrior, Thug Warrior, Bandit Barbarian, Bandit Berserker, Bandit Champion, Highwayman Barbarian, Highwayman Berserker, Highwayman Champion, Highwayman Scout, Marauder Barbarian, Marauder Berserker, Marauder Champion, Marauder Scout, Orc, Outlaw Barbarian, Outlaw Berserker, Outlaw Champion, Outlaw Scout, Pillager Barbarian, Pillager Berserker, Pillager Champion, Pillager Scout, Plunderer Barbarian, Plunderer Berserker, Plunderer Champion, Plunderer Scout, Thug Barbarian, Thug Berserker, Thug Champion, Thug Scout, Bandit Archer, Bandit Vanguard, Cracked Tusk Keep Blacksmith, Highwayman Archer, Highwayman Vanguard, Marauder Agent, Marauder Archer, Marauder Vanguard, Outlaw Archer, Outlaw Vanguard, Pillager Agent, Pillager Archer, Pillager Vanguard, Plunderer Agent, Plunderer Archer, Plunderer Vanguard, Thug Archer, Thug Vanguard, Bandit Brawler, Bandit Spellsword, Highwayman Brawler, Highwayman Spellsword, Marauder Brawler, Marauder Spellsword, Orc Hunter, Outlaw Brawler, Outlaw Spellsword, Pillager Brawler, Pillager Spellsword, Plunderer Brawler, Plunderer Spellsword, Thug Brawler, Thug Spellsword.
Radiant quests
31 radiant quests can send you here: Bounty: Bandit Boss (Bounties), The Roadhouse Contract (Capital Whiterun), The Break of Dawn (Daedric quests), Amulets of Night Power (Dawnguard), Ancient Power (Dawnguard), Ancient Technology (Dawnguard), Hunting the Monster (Dawnguard), Lost Relic (Dawnguard), Preemptive Strike (Dawnguard), Protecting the Bloodline (Dawnguard), Rescue (Dawnguard), Rings of Blood Magic (Dawnguard), Azra's Staffs (Dragonborn), Kill the Bandit Leader (Jarl) (Favours), Like a Bad Septim (Less Generic Housecarls), Kill Some Bandits (Missives), Recover From a Hideout (Missives), Chaos in Falkreath (More to Say), Fetch Me That Book! (Obscure's College of Winterhold), Amulet of the Moon (Odd jobs), House Cleaning (Penitus Oculatus), Unfinished Business (Penitus Oculatus), Fetch me that Book! (The College of Winterhold), Shalidor's Insights (The College of Winterhold), Family Heirloom (The Companions), Rescue Mission (The Companions), Trouble in Skyrim (The Companions), Bounty: Daedric Relic (VIGILANT), Bounty: Piper (VIGILANT), Left for Dead (Why I Came to Skyrim), The Final Promise (Why I Came to Skyrim).
What's here
Skill books
- Light Armor Forging Skill book: Smithing
- Rislav the Righteous Skill book: Light Armor
Forges and anvils: 2 here
Smelters: 3 here
Tanning racks: 3 here
Alchemy labs: 1 here
Cooking pots and spits: 2 here
Corundum ore veins: 1 here
Iron ore veins: 1 here
People (2)
- Yakhtu gra-Orkulg
- Na'ir appears later, usually through a quest
Quests that take you here
A Debt of Blood Pieces of the Past The Aldmeri PrisonerLying only here
Items placed in the world here and nowhere else (some can also be bought, made or looted: their pages say).
- Delivery Assignment Book
- Jarl's Orders Book
- Cracked Tusk Vault Key Key
- Cracked Tusk Vaults Chest Key Key
In Jay's changelog
What Jay's changelog for GTS says about it, newest revision first. A later revision can have changed it again; the rest of this page is what base GTS does now.
- V102 Fight a Bunch of Orcs? No, Thank You!: Followers would refuse to enter Cracked Tusk Keep, also the terrain was looking rough around the big fire in the middle. Fixed.
- V93 Cracked Tusk Keep - 3DNPC Patches
- Fixes a few possible floating boxes that should now return back to the ground.
- V85 Uncracked Tusk Keep: The location Cracked Tusk Keep had a floating door and weird terrain around the entrance. This has been fixed.
- V75 Orc Exiles - The Cracked Tusk Keep
- Fixes, ore can now be mined properly
- V75 Orc Exiles - The Cracked Tusk Keep:
- Fixed clipping and positions of items around the keep.
- V72 Orc Exiles - The Cracked Tusk Keep
- This orc location has been overhauled with a stronghold worthy of the fearsome orcs that live inside.
From base GTS 118's own records: the winning copy of CrackedTuskKeepLocation (GTS Patches - Trees and Landscapes.esp). Level: the place's encounter zone, as the records set it. The game sets a place's level from yours, kept between its lowest and highest; GTS's Encounter Zones Unlocked keeps it following you rather than fixed at your first visit. Boss: who the place's own record marks as its boss (one picked by level has no name of its own and isn't shown). People: where the game places them as a game starts; they walk about.