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Quick WalkthroughEdit
- Talk to Skjor.
- Meet with Skjor at night.
- Enter the Underforge.
- Participate in the blood ritual.
- Talk to Aela the Huntress.
- Kill the werewolf hunters.
Detailed WalkthroughEdit
A Secret MeetingEdit
After completing another set of radiant quests, the usual job providers will once again point you towards Skjor. Aela will say: "Still eager to please. This is good. Skjor may be right about you. He has something special planned for you. Better talk to him.", while Farkas will say: "Skjor was looking for you before. Talk to him before doing anything else."
Skjor turns out to be less talkative than usual and will request a meeting after dark near the Underforge, a secret crypt underneath the smithy of Eorlund Gray-Mane. At night, Skjor will wait for you near the secret entrance, determined to make you a stronger member of the Companions. He will then open the secret entrance and encourage you to follow.
Inside the Underforge, you will encounter Aela the Huntress in her lycanthropic form, standing next to an empty fountain. Skjor will introduce her as your 'forebear', and will inform you that this is to be kept secret from Harbinger Kodlak Whitemane, and will then ask if you are prepared. When you are ready, Skjor will cut open Aela's wrist, filling the fountain with her blood. Activate the fountain and receive the Beast Form power, which causes you to black out.
RampageEdit
You wake up outside the Underforge, now as a werewolf, where you will find all of Whiterun's residents are now hostile to you. If you head into the streets, citizens will flee and guards will attack you, leaving you no choice but to avoid them or kill them. Due to your beastly appearance, you will not gain a bounty for assaulting anyone. After a certain amount of time, you will black out once again.
The easiest way to avoid unwanted casualties is to simply wait a while after exiting the Underforge, as this causes your werewolf bloodlust to wear off, and the next scene to continue.
Another option is to go back into the Underforge as soon as you've transformed, and use the secret exit that leads you out of the city.
You can also simply avoid any attackers if you do not wish to kill any people in the city, you'll black out regardless of whether you killed anyone or not.
The Silver HandEdit
This time, you wake up in the middle of nowhere, with a concerned Aela looking over you. Your gear has been unequipped, but you haven't lost anything; simply re-equip to prepare for battle. Aela will congratulate you on surviving the initiation and inform you that the Silver Hand, a group of werewolf hunters, have inhabited Gallows Rock and will not hide the fact that they should be slaughtered right away. She also informs you that Skjor already entered the fort. From this point, Aela will act as your follower, dismissing your current follower if you have one. Head west towards the fort. A number of Silver Hand members will guard the exterior area, so dispose of them and enter the fort.
Gallows RockEdit
The first room is a sealed-off area, so pull the chain next to the severed werewolf head and proceed forward. The fort is buzzing with enemies and werewolves in cages, both living and dead, all seemingly exposed to torture by their captors. Be on the lookout for the One-handed skill book The Importance of Where in the huge southern chamber, the Smithing skill book The Last Scabbard of Akrash near the workbench, as well as several locked and unlocked chests. Aela will comment on the first dead werewolf you find, which is found next to a set of rare Torture Tools.
When you reach the northwestern chamber, Aela will rightfully warn you about Silver Hand leader Krev the Skinner, so be prepared. When the chamber is cleared, a worried Aela will run up onto the podium and discover the dead body of Skjor, obviously killed due to his lycanthropy. Once you speak with her, the quest will end and you will have to find your own way out, through the door to the northeast that was previously barred. Three new radiant quests are now available back in Jorrvaskr and you will have to complete two of them (for Aela) before you can access the next major quest. However, if a certain amount of time has passed, you may only have to do one radiant quest to begin Blood's Honor.[verification needed — see talk page]
AchievementsEdit
One achievement is unlocked once you speak with Aela after surviving the initiation:
Blood Oath (10 points/Bronze) — Become a member of the Circle
NotesEdit
- If you sleep before meeting with Skjor and Aela, you will retain the effects of being Rested, Well Rested or Lover's Comfort until time expires. Your beast's blood will prevent you from getting them again unless you cure your lycanthropy after the Companions questline is completed, so do not sleep in any of the many beds in the Silver Hand base.
- If you have Dawnguard installed, this is your first opportunity to start acquiring werewolf perks. If you're in Whiterun, you can kill and feed on guards and citizens for werewolf experience. Guards killed will respawn eventually, but citizens will stay dead.
- Once you enter the Underforge, you can talk to Aela in her beast form. If you have the Special Edition, Nintendo Switch version, or Anniversary Edition, you can also engage in conversation with Aela in her beast form (you'll hear her voice as well).
- Unless you have the Ring of Hircine, transforming is not immediately possible during the Gallows Rock section. This is because Beast Blood is considered a greater power, thus there is a one day cooldown before you can transform again. Simply waiting 24 hours will refresh this and allow you to use your new gift to fight the Silver Hand.
BugsEdit
- At the end of running around on your rampage through Whiterun, the screen will fade and load the next sequence in the quest. After it finishes loading, the game automatically closes for no reason.
- Simply restarting the game and trying again should fix this.
- Sometimes, you can transform again after the Rampage stage, but before the Gallows Rock stage, enabling you to fight the Silver Hand in Beast Form and ignoring the 24 hour cooldown.
- Sometimes, you won't go on the rampage through Whiterun and instead skip straight to the part where you are with Aela, although the 24-hour cooldown period is active. ?
Quest StagesEdit
| The Silver Hand (C03) | ||
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| Stage | Finishes Quest | Journal Entry |
| 5 | Aela and Skjor want to speak to me about some kind of special mission for the Companions.
Objective 5: Talk to Skjor
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| 10 | Skjor and Aela say they have some sort of special assignment for me. I'm supposed to meet them underneath the Skyforge tonight.
Objective 10: Meet with Skjor at night
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| 15 |
Objective 15: Enter the Underforge
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| 20 |
Objective 20: Participate in the blood ritual
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| 25 | I have ascended to the Circle which leads the Companions, and now share their blood as a werewolf. To celebrate my new status, Skjor and Aela have invited me to attack a Silver Hand camp nearby.
Objective 25: Talk to Aela
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| 30 |
Objective 30: Kill the werewolf hunters
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| 200 |  |
I have ascended to the Circle which leads the Companions, and now share their blood as a werewolf. Aela led me to a Silver Hand stronghold where Skjor fell in battle. She has enlisted me on her quest for revenge. |
| (After killing Krev)
Objective 31: Talk to Aela
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- The following empty quest stages were omitted from the table: 0, 1.
- 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 C03 stage, wherestageis 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 usingresetquest C03.
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