Head down and follow it to a corridor, at the end of which is a stone door with rings of special engravings adorning it. You should hear the sound of a mechanism being unlocked, and then pull the lever in the previous room to retract the metal grates. You should be able to move them then worked on Xbox version. Note that if you can not rotate the pillars even though it says activate pillar you need to leave Folgunthur and then return to the dugeon. Open the lever on the left throne to enter this room and move some tiles.įacing the tiles, the sequence should be the eagle, whale, and snake symbols all facing outward to mirror the similar pattern on the other side. You will come into a room in which stairs lead down, but a sturdy metal grate blocks your passage. You can pull the lever or just jump over to the stairs. Proceed further and fight some draugrs in the next room.
The inside of Folgunthur looks just as uninviting as the outside. Another way to start this quest is by reading a book entitled 'Lost Legends' found in the first room of Nightcaller Temple during the sidequest Waking Nightmare. It can also be found in Whiterun where the court wizard has his booksby following the quest line at the College of Winterholdor by reading a book during A Cornered Rat.
