Prerequisites: Complete Main Quest: The World-Eater’s Eyrie

Intersecting Quests: Main Quest: The World-Eater’s Eyrie, Main Quest: Dragonslayer

Locations: Sovngarde, Hall of Valor, Shadowed Vale, Whalebone Bridge

Characters: Erlendr the Quick, Felldir, Gormlaith Golden-Hilt, Hakon, Hunroor the Agile, Jurgen Windcaller (“The Calm”) , Olaf One-Eye, Stormcloak Soldier, Tsun, Ulfgar the Unending, Ysgramor, and many others.

Enemies: Alduin

Objectives: Find out how to defeat Alduin, Gain admittance to the Hall of Valor, Talk to the heroes of Sovngarde

Terror in the Shadowed Vale

Objective: Find out how to defeat Alduin
Target: Lost soul, in the Shadowed Vale

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You have crossed the threshold of the living and entered the afterlife, the realm of Aetherius.

Alduin’s presence is powerful here; indeed, you can see the dragon in the distance, below the red glow of the eternal sunset. Follow the pathway down (north), passing between the mammoth tusks and the monolithic cowled statues and into the valley of mists—the Shadowed Vale.

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The mists—created by Alduin—begin to thicken, impeding your path and vision. Use the Clear Skies Shout to clear the fog back for a few moments.

Look at the winding path through the misty valley, which is interspersed with runic stones and blue torchlight that indicates the main route to take.

Soon you make out a figure, a Stormcloak Soldier, lost and terrified. He pleads with you to turn back. The fellow splutters out a riddle: “vain is all courage against the peril that guards the way.” You surmise he’s talking about Alduin.

He tells the tale of his own demise but is even more terrified of Alduin, whose hunger is insatiable.

The dragon hunts the lost souls snared within this shadowed valley, feasts upon them to regain his power, and returns to Tamriel...