A Guide to What’s Worth Your Archival Fortunes, Gold, and Telvar Stones

? Introduction: When the Box Isn't Full of Snakes
“What’s worse than a box of snakes? A box that was supposed to be full of snakes.”

Welcome to another Tuesday in Tamriel, which feels suspiciously like a Monday. If you’re staring at vendor inventories wondering what’s worth your hard-earned currencies and what’s a trap, you’ve come to the right place. This guide breaks down the weekly offerings ESO Gold from the Infinite Archive vendor, the Skullarium, and the Telvar merchant—so you don’t end up with an empty snake box.

? Part 1: Infinite Archive Vendor (Archival Fortunes)
Located in Apocrypha (free-to-play area)

Mythic Leads Notable Items
Item Cost (Archival Fortunes) Worth It? Notes
Carved Stone Key (Solstice music box lead) 5,000 ❌ Skip Drops from Solstice zone dailies (terrible RNG). Only if you desperately want the Hermit Crab Dance music box.
Spore Savant Body Markings Fragment 4,000 ❌ Skip Drops from a world boss in Telvani Peninsula. Easier to farm than dailies. Body markings are niche—they can layer with glowing skins for cool effects, but not worth premium currency.
Mien of the Inferno (Bind on Pickup) 4,000 ❌ Skip Saves you ~300k gold (PC prices), but it’s… aesthetically challenging. “A face only a mother could love.”
Consumable Diagrams (e.g., Pile of Books) 1,000–2,000 ⚠️ Niche Bound diagrams. You’d need to craft and sell furniture to profit—requires mats (mundane runes, sprockets). Only for completionists.
Companion Jewelry Box 1,500 ⚠️ Situational Guaranteed jewelry (ring/necklace) with random trait. Jewelry is universally needed, but companion gear is cheap on guild traders. Gamble only if you enjoy RNG.
Scripts of Expedition/Mangle/Multi-Target/etc. 2,500 ❌ Skip Available for gold at the Skullarium. Not worth premium currency.
Fragments (Winterborn, Shattered Mirror Maze, etc.) 1,000–3,000 ❌ Skip Farmable in dungeons/Archives. Not worth buying unless you’re one fragment short and impatient.
? Part 2: Skullarium Vendor (Gold Purchases)
Gold-purchasable scripts—always better than spending Archival Fortunes.

Available Scripts This Week:
Savagery (Weapon Critical)

Prophecy (Spell Critical)

Disease Damage

Generate Ultimate

Class Mastery (Static, tied to achievement)

Leeching Thirst

Recommendations:
✅ Generate Ultimate – Excellent for PvP builds, especially with the new event.

✅ Disease Damage – Synergizes with disease-based PvP sets.

✅ Savagery/Prophecy – Solid for solo/PvE builds where you’re missing crit buffs.

⚠️ Class Mastery – Only if you’re completing achievements/unlocks.

Pro Tip: Buy all scripts you don’t already have unlocked on your main. Duplicates can be resold for 1,000 gold—minimal risk.

⚔️ Part 3: Telvar Merchant (Imperial City Sewers)
Use ESO Helper to find vendors.

Notable Sets Items:
Item Telvar Cost Gold Value (PC) Worth It? Notes
Almalexia’s Mercy (Healing set) 5,000 ~2,500 ⚠️ Niche/6/10 Heals group members when you take damage. Odd but fun in some group PvP/support builds. Scales off max magicka/stamina.
Shield Breaker 5,000 ~8,000 ✅ 8/10 (Meta-dependent) 6% increased damage (doubled to 12% vs. damage shields). Less useful in current shield-light meta, but still a solid damage set.
Coral Plating Fragment (Thrassian Stranglers mythic) 12,500 — ❌ Skip Farmable in Arteum fishing (which is itself a top gold-making activity). Don’t spend Telvar here.
Gold-Shock Clasp Fragment (Velothi Ur-Mage mythic) 10,000 — ✅ Consider Drops from Scrivener’s Hall trophy chest (painful RNG). BiS for many builds (e.g., Arcanist). Great penetration + Minor Force.
Vial of Tainted Blood (Eviscerate fragment) 5,000 ~12,000 gold/stack ⚠️ Flip Option Turn 5k Telvar into ~12k gold. Not amazing ROI, but an option if you have excess Telvar.
Prism Runes 50 Telvar each — ✅ Good Value Better than 2:1 gold return. Stock up for crafting or resale.
? Quick Decision Table
Currency Buy Skip
Archival Fortunes Almost nothing—save for truly rare leads you can’t farm. Music box leads, companion boxes, fragments, diagrams.
Gold (Skullarium) Generate Ultimate, Disease Damage, missing scripts for achievements. Immobilize, Thieves’ Swiftness, Brutality/Sorcery unless needed for a specific build.
Telvar Stones Shield Breaker (if meta shifts), Velothi fragment (if you hate Scrivener’s Hall), Prism Runes. Coral Plating (fish instead), Eastmarch maps, most scripts unless you’re swimming in Telvar.
? Final Meowments
As dictated by the feline overlord resting on my chest:

Don’t overpay for farmable items. Time currencies in most cases.

Gold Archival Fortunes for scripts. Always check the Skullarium first.

Telvar has better uses than buying maps or common fragments—invest in meta sets or flip for gold.

Giveaway Alert cheap TESO Gold: We do weekly trivia every Friday with giveaways! Check the Golden Vendor video and our Friday Twitch stream (9:30 PM EST).

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—Jake Clips (and his cat)

Happy hunting, and may your boxes always be full of snakes (or at least something useful).