Prerequisites: Complete Main Quest: The Horn of Jurgen Windcaller

Intersecting Quests: Main Quest: The Horn of Jurgen Windcaller, Main Quest: Diplomatic Immunity

Locations: Kynesgrove, Kynesgrove Dragon Mound, Riverwood, Sleeping Giant Inn

Characters: Delphine, Iddra, Orgnar

Enemies: Alduin (“World Eater”), Sahloknir (“Phantom Sky Hunter”)

Objectives: Talk to Delphine, Locate the dragon burial site, Kill the dragon Sahloknir, Talk to Delphine

Grave Concerns

Objective: Talk to Delphine
Target: Delphine, the Sleeping Giant Inn, in Riverwood

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Once Delphine has given you the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller, she requests that you follow her. Oblige her, walking across the inn to the bedroom opposite, where Delphine opens a cabinet and pushes the fake back, revealing a secret set of cellar steps.

This leads to a war room of sorts, complete with a map of Skyrim on a central table and various potions and items you can take.

Delphine mentions the Dragonborn, and through conversation choices (answer as you wish), you realize Delphine was the one who took the horn (she was Farengar Secret-Fire’s “reliable source” back in Dragonsreach who found the location of the Dragonstone). She knows that Thalmor spies are everywhere, so she took precautions to arrange this meeting.

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Delphine is part of a group that has been searching for someone like you—a Dragonborn—for a very long time. Delphine needs to know if you can devour a dragon’s soul, as you’ll have a chance to prove it soon enough. She also holds a low opinion of the Greybeards.

Finally, she reveals the reasons for her agitation: She’s discovered that dragons aren’t just coming back—they’re coming back to life! It seems that the dragons weren’t banished; they were extinguished from this land, and now something is bringing them back from the dead.

Using a pattern she discovered on the Dragonstone you found, Delphine has deciphered the location where she believes the next dragon will rise from the dead, and she needs you to help her stop it. The location is Kynesgrove in Eastmarch...