Prerequisites: Complete Side Quest: The Man Who Cried Wolf, You must be Level 10 or higher.

Intersecting Quests: Side Quest: The Man Who Cried Wolf

Locations: Solitude, Hall of the Dead, Potema’s Catacombs, Potema’s Refuge, Potema’s Sanctum, Temple of the Divines

Characters: Falk Firebeard, Styrr

Enemies: Draugr, Vampire

Objectives: Speak to Styrr, Defeat Potema, Retrieve Potema’s remains, Give Potema’s remains to Styrr, Return to Falk Firebeard

Malevolence Rising

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Once you complete Side Quest: The Man Who Cried Wolf and continue your adventuring, the next time you enter a Hold City (such as Dawnstar or Whiterun), a courier runs up and hands you a message. It is an urgent communication from Falk requesting that you return to Solitude, as Potema’s spirit is now free and a dangerous threat to Skyrim. There is one man who may be able to help you: Solitude’s cemetery keeper, a wizard and Priest of Arkay named Styrr.

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Objective: Speak to Styrr
Target: Styrr, in the Hall of the Dead, in Solitude

Locate the Hall of the Dead in Solitude, and enter this eerie place. It is made even more strange by the slightly befuddled nature of the man you’re meeting. Styrr beckons you over, and you may ask several questions about Potema, which he is happy to answer. Potema has been summoned in spirit form but fortunately was not raised from the dead; she will require help before she returns to the land of the living. For now, she lurks in a place where the dead eagerly serve her—the old catacombs. You are to find Potema’s physical bones and bring them back to Styrr for sanctification. He hands you a key to enter the Catacombs...