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Guild Hall:Thieves Guild(view on map) (lore page)
Respawn Time	10 days
Important Treasure
Advances in LockpickingThieves Guild Armor
Console Location Code(s)
RiftenThievesGuildHeadquarters
Region
The Rift
Location
Riften
Special Features
# of Alchemy Labs	2
# of Forges/Anvils	1
# of Grindstones	3
# of Workbenches	1
# of Cooking Pots/Spits	1

The Skyrim Thieves Guild secret entrance in Riften.

The Thieves Guild is the headquarters of the Thieves Guild located with the sewers beneath Riften, known as The Ratway.

The headquarters are based within The Ragged Flagon - Cistern and a bar named The Ragged Flagon. For full details on these places, see their individual pages.

Residents[edit]

The Ragged Flagon Arnskar Ember-Master† Brynjolf* Delvin Mallory Dirge GalathilDG Gissur‡ Herluin Lothaire† Syndus† Tonilia Vanryth Gatharian† Vekel the Man Vex

The Ragged Flagon - Cistern Brynjolf Cynric Endell Etienne Rarnis Garthar Mercer Frey Niruin Ravyn Imyan Rune Sapphire Thrynn Vipir the Fleet

†Syndus, Herluin Lothaire, Arnskar Ember-Master, and Vanryth Gatharian are vendors added (in that order) during Under New Management. ‡Only appears during A Cornered Rat if left alive during Diplomatic Immunity. *Relocates to the Cistern or elsewhere after related quest(s). DGAdded by the Dawnguard official plug-in. Enables you to change your character's appearance.

Related Quests††[edit]

The Ragged Flagon[edit]

• A Cornered Rat: Locate Esbern.#
• Drowned Sorrows: Find Isabelle, Ranmir's lost love.#
• Imitation Amnesty: Help get a convicted prisoner released from jail.
• Loud and Clear: Send a message to a former Thieves Guild client.
• Meet the Family: Speak with some of the members of the Thieves Guild and pick up your gear.
• No Stone Unturned: Find the 24 gems to restore the Crown of Barenziah.
• Silver Lining: Recover a stolen silver mold for a silversmith.
• Summerset Shadows: Remove a rival guild from the picture.
• SurgeryDG: Change your appearance.#
• Taking Care of Business: Collect some debts for the Thieves Guild.
• The Dainty Sload: Frame a ship's captain to get revenge for a jilted merchant.
• The Litany of Larceny: Find items for Delvin Mallory throughout the questline.
• The Pursuit: Break into Mercer Frey's house and search for clues.
• The Silence Has Been Broken: Meet Amaund Motierre inside Volunruud and learn who he wants assassinated.#
• Toying With The Dead: Retrieve a necromancer's journals for an interested buyer.
• Under New Management: Become the Guild Master of the Thieves Guild.

Note: All radiant Thieves Guild quests have been omitted from the list. #Non Thieves Guild quests.

The Ragged Flagon - Cistern[edit]

• Meet the Family: Speak with some of the members of the Thieves Guild and pick up your gear.
• Taking Care of Business: Collect some debts for the Thieves Guild.
• Loud and Clear: Send a message to a former Thieves Guild client.
• Scoundrel's Folly: Squeeze a reluctant informer for information.
• The Pursuit: Break into Mercer Frey's house and search for clues.
• Trinity Restored: Become one of the Nightingales, Nocturnal's guardians.
• Under New Management: Become the Guild Master of the Thieves Guild.

††Other Thieves Guild quests exist, but do not require you to enter The Ragged Flagon or Cistern.

Walkthrough[edit]

Thieves Guild Headquarters[edit]

There are two entrances to the headquarters: one via the Ratway into The Ragged Flagon, and a second directly into The Ragged Flagon - Cistern hidden beneath a tomb that dominates the small graveyard to the east of Riften's Hall of the Dead.

You can only access the second entrance once you have joined the guild and completed Taking Care of Business. To enter the headquarters using this entrance, press a small button in the center of the tomb; this opens a secret stone staircase. Descend it and open the sewer covering. To exit directly from the Cistern, climb the ladder in the alcove to the southwest, then pull a chain to retract the tomb.

As you progress the Thieves Guild questline, complete reputation quests for Delvin Mallory, and complete miscellaneous guild quests, the headquarters will be upgraded, and additional thieves will move in.

Notes[edit]

• An extra room is added to the Flagon by the Unofficial Skyrim Patch. This room is located to the left of the door leading to the Ratway Vaults. It is mainly filled with beds for those who live in the Flagon.
• The special features within the Flagon only appear as the extra merchants move in after completing the required reputation quests.
• There is a "Guild" Shadowmark to the left of the entrance door from the Ratway Vaults.

Bugs[edit]

• If the Riften worldspace is loaded incorrectly, it is possible for the secret entrance's button can not be interacted.