Valthume · GTS

Kind: Dragon priest lair
In: The Reach, Tamriel
Level: At least 30: it follows yours within that
Resets?: No: once cleared, what you killed and took stays gone
Boss: Hevnoraak
Added by: Skyrim
Last changed by: Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch

Enemies here

16 enemy types: 10 undead, 3 animals, 3 people. Each links to its strength, resistances and what it carries.

Placed here: Frostbite Spider ×8, Skeever ×2, Valdar.

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 (57), Draugr Bane (26), Draugr Deathlord (26), Draugr Scourge (26), Draugr Wight (26), Restless Draugr (26), Draugr (24), Draugr Revenant (21), Savage Draugr (21), Hulking Draugr (12), Frostbite Spider (4), Dragon Priest (3).

And 2 more

Bandit (1), Giant Frostbite Spider (1).

Can come later: these start switched off, until a quest or an event brings them: Dragon Priest.

Radiant quests

11 radiant quests can send you here: The Break of Dawn (Daedric quests), Rings of Blood Magic (Dawnguard), Azra's Staffs (Dragonborn), Wind and Sand (Dragonborn), Task: Recover Artifact (JaySerpa's Small Mods and Resources (Mostly for GTS)), Retrieve From a Ruin (Missives), Fetch Me That Book! (Obscure's College of Winterhold), Alteration Ritual Spell (The College of Winterhold), Fetch me that Book! (The College of Winterhold), Shalidor's Insights (The College of Winterhold), Bounty: Daedric Relic (VIGILANT).

What's here

Word walls

Word wall: Laas, Yah, Nir Laas: Life; Yah: Seek; Nir: Hunt; Aura Whisper

Dragon priests

Hevnoraak appears later

Dragon claws

Iron Dragon Claw

Skill books

Withershins Skill book: Restoration

Alchemy labs: 1 here

Iron ore veins: 1 here

Quests that take you here

Dragon Cult: Hevnoraak Evil in Waiting

Lying only here

Items placed in the world here and nowhere else (some can also be bought, made or looted: their pages say).

Valthume Catacombs Chest Key Key
Iron Dragon Claw Odds and ends
Opaque Vessel Odds and ends
Opaque Vessel Odds and ends
Opaque Vessel Odds and ends

From base GTS 118's own records: the winning copy of ValthumeLocation (unofficial skyrim special edition patch.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.