Skyrim:Shout - learn about word wall

Explore a location and learn a Word of Power. Quest Giver: Courier Location(s): Varies Prerequisite Quest: Dragon Rising Reward: Word of Power ID: WICastMagic04

A word wall

Radiant Options

Radiant Settlements

The quest is triggered if you use a dragon shout in any settlement except High Hrothgar. Therefore, the list of possible values of Location is:

Eastmarch	Falkreath Hold	Haafingar	Hjaalmarch	The Pale	The Reach	The Rift	Whiterun Hold	Winterhold	SolstheimDB
Brandy-Mug Farm Darkwater Crossing Fort Amol Gloombound Mine Hlaalu Farm Hollyfrost Farm Kynesgrove Mixwater Mill Narzulbur Windhelm	Falkreath Fort Neugrad Half-Moon Mill Helgen	Dragon Bridge Dragon Bridge Farm Fort Hraggstad Katla's Farm Solitude Solitude Sawmill	Abandoned Shack Fort Snowhawk Morthal Movarth's Lair Stonehills	Anga's Mill Dawnstar Fort Dunstad Loreius Farm Nightgate Inn	Dushnikh Yal Fort Sungard Karthwasten Kolskeggr Mine Left Hand Mine Markarth Mor Khazgur Old Hroldan Inn Salvius Farm Sky Haven Temple Soljund's Sinkhole	Fort Greenwall Heartwood Mill Ivarstead Largashbur Merryfair Farm Riften Sarethi Farm Shor's Stone Snow-Shod Farm	Battle-Born Farm Chillfurrow Farm Fort Greymoor Honningbrew Meadery Pelagia Farm Riverwood Rorikstead Western Watchtower Whiterun	College of Winterhold Fort Kastav Whistling Mine Winterhold	Raven Rock Skaal Village Tel Mithryn Thirsk Mead Hall

Radiant Dungeons

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

Walkthrough

After you use a dragon shout in a settlement, a courier will find you and give you a Letter from a Friend, which provides the location of a word wall when you read it. Traveling to the location and learning the Word of Power from the wall completes the quest.

This quest can be repeated multiple times, and can also be active simultaneously with the other quest to locate word walls, The Words of Power. Both quests can even point you to the same word wall as the other.

Notes

• This quest can be triggered while shouting in a dungeon, not only in a settlement. Oddly, it can possibly even direct you to the same dungeon where you used the shout. The bug below may occur if the shout is used in the dungeon before finding the word wall in that same dungeon.
  • The Unofficial Skyrim Patch, version 2.1.1, addresses this issue. The quest will no longer be triggered by shouting in uninhabited locations; and specifically, only habitations/dwellings/military encampments will trigger it.

Bugs

• This quest may point you to a word wall that you have already visited, in which case your quest marker will lead you to a word wall with chanting and sound effects as though there were a word to learn on it, however none of the words will be highlighted. This prevents you from completing the quest and from obtaining another quest to find a word wall.
  • Use the console code SetStage WICastMagic04 200 to complete the quest.
• Sometimes when going to the word wall, the word will not even appear even though you don't have it yet. This can be fixed by reloading a previous save.

Quest Stages

Shout - learn about word wall (WICastMagic04)
Stage	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
10		Objective 10: Find the source of power in <Alias=Dungeon>
200	Finishes quest

• The following empty quest stages were omitted from the table: 0, 255.

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 WICastMagic04 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 WICastMagic04.