Skyrim:The Words of Power

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Follow the Greybeards' advice to learn a Word of Power from a word wall. Quest Giver: Arngeir at High Hrothgar Location(s): None Prerequisite Quest: The Horn of Jurgen Windcaller Reward: A Word of Power ID: FreeformHighHrothgarA

Words of Power, Way of Voice

Radiant Options

This quest can send you to almost any dungeon or dragon lair that contains a word wall. The list of possible values of Dungeon is:

Eastmarch	Falkreath Hold	Haafingar	Hjaalmarch	The Pale	The Reach	The Rift	Whiterun Hold	Winterhold
Bonestrewn Crest	Ancient's Ascent Shriekwind Bastion Sunderstone Gorge	Kilkreath Ruins Volskygge	Dead Men's Respite Eldersblood Peak Folgunthur Skyborn Altar	Forsaken Cave High Gate Ruins Shearpoint Silverdrift Lair Volunruud	Dead Crone Rock Dragontooth Crater Hag's End Lost Valley Redoubt Ragnvald Valthume	Angarvunde Arcwind Point (DG) Autumnwatch Tower Forelhost Lost Tongue Overlook Northwind Summit Shroud Hearth Barrow	Dustman's Cairn Rannveig's Fast	Ironbind Barrow Mount Anthor

The list of word walls you will not be sent to includes the following, most of which have an associated quest. In addition to those listed here, no Dawnguard or Dragonborn word walls will ever be targeted by this quest except Arcwind Point.

Location	Shout	Quest
Bleak Falls Barrow	Unrelenting Force	Bleak Falls Barrow The Golden Claw
Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary	Marked for Death	With Friends Like These...
Frostmere Crypt	Ice Form	The Pale Lady
Korvanjund	Slow Time	The Jagged Crown (Imperial/Stormcloaks)
Labyrinthian	Slow Time	The Staff of Magnus
Saarthal	Ice Form	Under Saarthal
Shalidor's Maze	Dismay	—
Skuldafn	Storm Call	The World-Eater's Eyrie
Snow Veil Sanctum	Disarm	Speaking With Silence
Ustengrav	Become Ethereal	The Horn of Jurgen Windcaller
Ysgramor's Tomb	Animal Allegiance	Glory of the Dead

Detailed Walkthrough

After completing The Horn of Jurgen Windcaller, you can talk to Arngeir and tell him that you would like to learn more about the Voice. He will respond:

"You have learned so much already, Dragonborn. Growing your gift too quickly would be dangerous. But there are many Words of Power in Skyrim, carved in the Dragon tongue. Even from here, we can feel the Thu'um resonate from them. Finding these lost Words would be a sufficient test, to temper your abilities with experience. Ask when you are ready to search."

Thereafter, you can ask him whether the Greybeards have located any words of power. He has two possible replies:

"There is only silence right now. Perhaps later we will hear one of the lost Words."

"We have felt the whisper of a Word. Give me your map, and I will show you where its echo can be found."

The latter response will cause the location of the word wall to be marked on your map, and you will be given a new quest objective.

This quest can be repeated multiple times, and it can also be active simultaneously with the other word wall quest, Shout - learn about word wall. Both quests can even point you to the same location as the other. However, if you choose to kill Paarthurnax for the Blades, this quest is no longer available.

Bugs

• If sent to Arcwind Point, finding the word wall may not mark the quest as completed in your journal. Arcwind Point may be given as a destination even when the word wall has already been found, preventing progress in the quest.
  • The Unofficial Dawnguard Patch, version 1.1a, fixes this bug.
  • Using the command SetStage FreeFormHighHrothgarA 20 will end the quest and allow you to acquire another quest normally. Setting Arcwind Point as cleared via SetLocationCleared fd685 1 will prevent getting sent there again.
• If you learn a word from a different word wall from the one that Arngeir points you to before visiting the quest-marked one, the test may be prematurely logged complete. For instance, after being directed to Shearpoint by Arngeir, visiting Lost Tongue Overlook instead can complete the quest. This is another possible solution for the Arcwind Point bug mentioned above.

Quest Stages

The Words of Power (FreeformHighHrothgarA)
Stage	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
10		Objective 10: Find the Word of Power in <Alias=Dungeon>

• The following empty quest stages were omitted from the table: 20.

Notes

• Any text displayed in angle brackets (e.g., <Alias=LocationHold>) is dynamically set by the Radiant Quest system, and will be filled in with the appropriate word(s) when seen in game.
• Not all Journal Entries may appear in your journal; which entries appear and which entries do not depends on the manner in which the quest is done.
• Stages are not always in order of progress. This is usually the case with quests that have multiple possible outcomes or quests where certain tasks may be done in any order. Some stages may therefore repeat objectives seen in other stages.
• If an entry is marked as "Finishes Quest" it means the quest disappears from the Active Quest list, but you may still receive new entries for that quest.
• On the PC, it is possible to use the console to advance through the quest by entering setstage FreeformHighHrothgarA stage, where stage is the number of the stage you wish to complete. It is not possible to un-complete (i.e. go back) quest stages, but it is possible to clear all stages of the quest using resetquest FreeformHighHrothgarA.