Activate pillars skyrim dragonstone

An oil slick is on the ground around a floor grate in the middle of the room. To the right of the entrance to the room is a smaller room containing a potion. Go up the wooden stairs and around the upper level to cross a stone bridge to the west leading to a large iron door. The door opens to a long passageway blocked by a puzzle door. The locking mechanism is controlled by three concentric circles: each is marked with animal symbols, and can be rotated.

As hinted in Arvel's journal, the correct combination is marked on the palm of the golden claw. From the outer to the inner circles, the correct sequence Bear—Moth—Owl. After the circles are properly arranged, activate the keyhole to open the door. The default angle of the claw when examined in your inventory makes the symbols almost impossible to read.

Placing the cursor over the claw and pressing your "Auto Move" button zooms in and allows you to rotate the claw, making it possible to see the symbols clearly. At the top of the stairs past the puzzle door is a large, well-lit cavern, with an iron ore vein on the wall to the left near the entrance. Proceed through the cavern and across the bridge. Before walking up the steps to the dais, head behind the runed wall on the right-hand side to find a chest on the rocky ledge behind the waterfall.

There's another chest with a potion on the ground nearby hidden behind the waterfall on the other side of the cavern as well. Ascend to the dais and loot the chest next to the sarcophagus, as well as the poison and soul gem on the small shelving unit nearby, then walk into the arc of the wall.

As you approach the wall, you will hear chanting, the screen will rapidly darken, and part of the wall will start to glow, with threads of energy rushing from it to you; don't worry, they're harmless. Once you are close enough, you will automatically "read" the glowing rune, which is the first word of the Unrelenting Force dragon shout.

You won't be able to do anything with it yet. However, the surge of magic will cause a draugr "boss" to burst from the sarcophagus and attack. This enemy is much stronger than the draugr you faced previously. Your best strategy is to dish out as much damage as you can as quickly as you can use fire spells if you're a mage , drink healing potions sooner rather than later, and if things get desperate or if you prefer to use ranged attacks , sprint past the boss to buy some breathing room.

There are a few locations in the cavern where you can maneuver yourself into a safe place to snipe at the enemy if need be; across the river in the southern corner works well. Once your foe is dead, loot its corpse for the Dragonstone. Following the passage to the west to the top, you will reach what appears to be a dead end.

There is a pedestal nearby with a handle on it. Activate the handle to lower the rock wall in front of you, revealing a passage to yet another chest, and an exit to the opposite side of the mountain from where you entered the barrow.

Outside, a potion is on the ground around the corner to the left. Two corundum ore veins are also near the exit: one nearby south-southeast of the exit, and the other about feet to the southwest. This translates to: Here lies The Guardian keeper of the Dragonstone and a force of eternal rage and darkness.

Jump to: navigation , search. Nordic Ruin: Bleak Falls Barrow view on map. Dragonstone Golden Claw Thief. Falkreath Hold. Northwest of Riverwood. Follow the passage round so you pass the waterfall on your left you can continue down for a chest and press onward until you reach a Restless Draugr, which is a little more powerful than the rest. Once vanquished, enter the Bleak Falls Sanctum. Want more help with Skyrim?

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Take the steps at the back, go left at the top and round onto the bridge elevated into the middle of the room, and continue on until you reach a long area with a puzzle containing a series of rings and symbols on the wall.

To solve this puzzle, examine the Golden Claw that you got from Arvel the Swift earlier in the Items menu it's designated as a 'Misc' item. There you'll see the symbols you need to match - a Bear, a Butterfly and an Owl, going from top to bottom. Head through the cavern, and up the short steps and approach the curved word wall inscribed with words to learn the Dragon Shout 'Force, Unrelenting Force', completing the 'secret of Bleak Falls Barrow' quest.

As you turn to leave, you'll face a powerful Dragur who climbs out the coffin. You can get a few cheap hits in as he climbs out and draws his weapon, otherwise make sure you are healed regularly and take your time to evade and block, and he should go down quickly. To leave the dungeon, head up the steps along the far left of the wall, where you'll find a switch that'll open a hidden passage. At the end is a way out back to the open world, where you can either drop down the rocky cliff face and make your way on foot, or fast travel.

You can go straight to Whiterun to continue the story, but you may as well as complete Golden Claw sidequest first. Travel to Riverwood and go to the Riverwood Trader again, it's the second building on the right as you enter from the south. Talk to Lucan Valerius at the counter and hand over the Golden Claw. If you never started the quest here, ask if something has happened first to earn Gold.

If you were also on the main story path, now travel to Dragonsreach in Whiterun and hand over the Dragonstone to the mage Farengar to complete the quest. Sometimes we include links to online retail stores.

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