Carved-bone key & clawed key - where are they used ?

vsrs_au

During the Zenithar event, I've received 2 carved-bone keys and 1 clawed key, but I have no idea how/where to use them. Can someone enlighten me, please ?

SilverBride

Imperial City.

Google will tell you which vaults you need to use those keys.

Ambzillius

In IC vaults - Clawed is in Arboretum & Carved is in Memorial

Marcus684

Once you've discovered all 6 trophy vaults in the IC districts you can open the map and hover your pointer over each one to see it's name. One of the words in the vault name will match a word in the name of the key, so that's where you use it.

There's also 2 that don't match a district vault name, Daedric Embers and Daedric Shackle, which are used at the vaults at the beginning of White-Gold Tower and Imperial Sewers dungeons, respectively.

See https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Trophy_Vaults for more details.

Edited to add that you don't need to run those dungeons to access the vaults. Once you have discovered the entrances in the Imperial City and the IC sewers you can port into them solo at any time from any wayshrine, and the vaults are accessible without aggroing any mobs there,

Dagoth_Rac

Note that these are not terribly dangerous to loot. The vaults are a safe zone. You cannot be attacked inside the vault while using the key on treasure chest. So you can just find correct district, go up ladder to that district, then sneak for 30 seconds or so to vault. Is it absolutely, positively, 100% you will not be sniffed out and attacked by an enemy player? No. But it is very rare. Don't be afraid because this is a PVP zone. Your odds of having to engage in PVP to reach vault are very low.

Marcus684

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

Note that these are not terribly dangerous to loot. The vaults are a safe zone. You cannot be attacked inside the vault while using the key on treasure chest. So you can just find correct district, go up ladder to that district, then sneak for 30 seconds or so to vault. Is it absolutely, positively, 100% you will not be sniffed out and attacked by an enemy player? No. But it is very rare. Don't be afraid because this is a PVP zone. Your odds of having to engage in PVP to reach vault are very low.

In past events I've heard of gankers camping out at the vault entrances hoping to catch squishies turning in keys, even though it must be boring [snip] waiting at 1 vault out of the 6, but there are ways to mitigate this. Build fast and tanky, use stealth or invisibility, and go to the non-CP IC campaign, especially outside prime time, and you should be fine. If you don't carry any Telvar on you you don't lose anything if you do get caught by gankers, and they'll probably quit if they aren't gettting Telvar.

[edited for avoiding curse filter]

Necrotech_Master

i made this thread up last year after i saw a lot of people wondering what the keys were for lol

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/609985/where-to-use-the-imperial-city-keys/p1