Prerequisites: Complete the Companions Quest: Blood’s Honor

Intersecting Quests: The Companions Quest: Blood’s Honor, The Companions Quest: Glory of the Dead, The Companions Radiant Quests

Locations: Driftshade Refuge, Driftshade Cellar, Whiterun , Jorrvaskr

Characters: Vilkas, Werewolf

Enemies: Silver Hand

Objectives: Retrieve the fragments of Wuuthrad, (Optional) Wipe out the Silver Hand, Return to Jorrvaskr

Severing the Silver Hand

Objective: Retrieve the fragments of Wuuthrad
Objective: (Optional) Wipe out the Silver Hand
Target: Wuuthrad fragments, inside Driftshade Refuge

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Vilkas wishes to immediately depart for the Silver Hand stronghold of Driftshade Refuge and accompanies you as your Shield-Brother. Purchase any equipment if necessary, and then journey north into the Mountains of Winterhold, to the southeast of Dawnstar.

Combat begins immediately. Sneaking is inadvisable for a Companion, especially one with an optional objective to fulfill and a recently slain advisor. Dispatch the foes guarding the entrance to the Refuge. Kill the one on the roof with ranged weapons, or sneak up the steps to the rear of the entrance.

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Descend the stone-stepped corridor and into a lower shrine room, with moss-covered pillars and Silver Hand to cut down with speed and ferociousness...