From there, a corridor leads to a room with a cave-in trap to the west and an opening to the east, which leads to two paths. The plateau across the room can be reached by descending into the chasm (either by jumping below or walking down a formation of rocks). Sideways Cave resembles any other cave for its first section, with the corridor leading to a room with a large chasm. The third used cell is also called new, but there is no earlier iteration of it to be found. Two of the original cells still exist in the files: 'Sideways Cave', internally just known as 'SidewaysCave' and 'Sideways Cave - Muttering Pool', internally known as 'SidewaysCave02'. This dungeon was re-made at some point as the internal names of the cells are all suffixed with 'New'.'Abagarlas' translates as 'Forbidden Cavern' in Ayleidoon.This cave contains 3 Cairn Bolete plants and 19 Wisp Stalk plants.Meridia's vengeance for this violation was swift: She crushed Abargarlas with her stone roots and, incensed that some survivors escaped, buried the grotto almost entirely.' In doing so, they uncovered a forgotten shrine to the Daedra lord Meridia.

They made it their own-in the end, too much their own.

The official Prima guide lists Sideways Cave in its Freeform Quests section as one of the more interesting dungeons and has this to say about the tablets: ' Can you put it all together? The big picture is that, long ago, Ayleid settlers stumbled onto this grotto.

A half-collapsed shrine to Meridia can be found in the Ayleid Ruins.

People-out (escape? present tense? imperative?).'

'Meridia-child, Earth root power, sea wave like (earth like a flood?).

'Fourth Star Hour (time?) Terror-of-the-Most-Terror of Meridia come (came?).'.

'Stone-Settlers (builders?) not rest (wake?) Meridia.

Picking up each tablet causes a message to pop up stating that 'A hasty translation is scrawled here'.At the end, in the Abagarlas throne room, is the recently deceased body of a wealthy Altmer scholar who was most likely responsible for the tablets.

In the ruin and around the lake you'll find Ayleid tablets which suggest that the city was destroyed by a 'child of Meridia', probably by the flooding and extraordinary plant growth in and around the city.In all three zones of the cave you will find remains of previous, unlucky, explorers.

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