Skyrim Can I Keep The Golden Claw

1 Quick Walkthrough
ii Detailed Walkthrough
- 2.1 A Stolen Heirloom
- ii.ii Retrieving the Claw
- two.three Observe the Hugger-mugger of Bleak Falls Barrow
- 2.4 Return the Claw
3 Notes
4 Bugs
5 Quest Stages

A shopkeeper wants y'all to think his family heirloom from a brigand.

Quest Giver:	Lucan Valerius or Overheard from bandits during Bleak Falls Barrow quest
Location(southward):	Riverwood, Bleak Falls Barrow
Concurrent Quest:	Bleak Falls Barrow
Reward:	Leveled Golden
Disposition:	=1 (Lucan Valerius) =1 (Camilla Valerius)
ID:	MS13
Suggested Level:	6

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Quick Walkthrough [edit]

(Optional) Find Lucan Valerius at the Riverwood Trader and talk to him.
Think the golden claw from Dour Falls Barrow.
Observe the undercover of Bleak Falls Barrow.
Return the hook to Lucan.

Note: The events of this quest are closely related to those in the quest Bleak Falls Barrow, at times taking over of import objectives. Information technology tin be triggered right after entering Riverwood, only information technology is recommended to follow the intended path and initiate the Bleak Falls Barrow quest in Whiterun. Otherwise, yous may miss a few story-related events and details. Come across this section for details.

Detailed Walkthrough [edit]

A Stolen Heirloom [edit]

In Riverwood, you may hear concerned townsfolk talk most a contempo robbery at Riverwood Trader. When yous pay a visit to the store you volition observe proprietor Lucan Valerius and his sister Camilla in the middle of a hefty argument, both of them frustrated with recent events. Talking to Camilla volition non help much, while Lucan will be more than informative, although puzzled: "Aye, we did accept a flake of a... burglary. Only we however have plenty to sell. Robbers were only after one thing. An ornament, solid gilded. In the shape of a dragon's claw." If you offer to help him get the claw dorsum, he will offer a gilded advantage and will then continue debating with Camilla. She will argue that you may need a pointer in the correct direction and will then get up and leave. Follow her outside and she will indicate out Bleak Falls Barrow, barely visible in the distance behind Alvor and Sigrid's Firm, and lead you to the bridge northeast of town. She will provide some sparse directions, only follow her communication and pick the northwestern trail upward the mount. At this point, make sure you lot have the concurrent quest in your journal. If not, you can go to Whiterun and actuate it.

If you don't want to go through the introduction at Riverwood Trader, become straight to Bleak Falls Barrow and y'all will receive the quest when you overhear two bandits in the first room.

Retrieving the Claw [edit]

"Cut me down before that thing gets usa!"

When you arrive at Bleak Falls Temple, y'all may overhear two bandits talking almost a Dark Elf that'due south gone on alee. If yous did not speak to Valerius in Riverwood, this moment serves as the start of the quest. After killing these two bandits and progressing farther into the barrow, you will see another bandit budgeted a gate. Upon activating the lever for the gate, the bandit is killed by poisonous darts and the gate remains closed, blocking your progress. Find the broken piece of stone next to the lever. Information technology has the paradigm of a snake. Notice the spinning symbols behind you to the left. These rocks must be rotated to the correct position to activate the lever. Look up to run into the carvings on the wall that denote the correct sequence: Snake, Serpent, Whale. (The middle rock has fallen off the wall and onto the ground, hence the snake being the correct solution.)

Proceed through the gate and descend the wooden spiral staircase to your left. Three skeevers will sally and assail, but they shouldn't pose a problem. As you progress further, you will hear Arvel the Swift calling out for help. Some webs block your path; cut through them to proceed.

When you lot find the thief, Arvel the Swift, he volition be trapped in a spider web past a Wounded Frostbite Spider. Kill the spider and talk to Arvel. Arvel claims that he volition give you the hook if you costless him from the web. One time you lot free him, Arvel will flee, forcing y'all to pursue him deeper into the dungeon. Alternatively, if the spider is likewise stiff for you, you can only free him from the spider web and pursue the fleeing Arvel. You can also retreat out of the room to recover, equally the spider is too big to exit. If you overtake Arvel quickly, y'all can kill him yourself; otherwise, he will shortly run into a grouping of draugr, who will likely eliminate him easily. If yous protect him from the draugr, he may exist killed past the spike trap up alee. The spike trap will reset after utilize, and tin can exist activated over again to help deal with the draugr. You can loot the hook and a periodical from Arvel's trunk. The periodical hints that the hook is really a key of some sort.

Notice the Secret of Bleak Falls Barrow [edit]

Although yous have constitute the golden hook, you cannot return it to Lucan until y'all find the secret of Bleak Falls Barrow, and then continue through the chambers. After a while y'all volition find yourself in what appears to be a burial tomb and you will accept to fight your fashion through a group of draugr. If y'all have not killed Arvel by the time he reaches this room, the draugr volition likely kill him. Continue on until you find a puzzle door with 3 creature seals on it. The claw is the key, however it will not open the door similar a regular cardinal would. Instead, examine the claw in your inventory and you will run across several symbols engraved in it, palm side up. Set each ring to the right seal and open the door. From the outermost to the innermost ring, the solution is Bear—Moth—Owl.

When y'all enter the door, follow the tunnel until you find yourself in a big, open room with waterfalls. You will run into a Give-and-take Wall. When you arroyo it, one discussion will stand out, and your character volition learn a Word of Ability, Fus. A level-dependent creature (at low levels a Draugr Overlord and at higher levels a Dragon Priest) will then rise out of a coffin and yous volition accept to kill it. Leave the dungeon and return to the village. To go out the dungeon, climb to the superlative of the stairs and activate the lever on the pedestal.

There are three chests in this room where you obtain the Word of Ability; one centered by the sleeping draugr is quite well seen and unlocked. The second is behind the waterfall on the left. The third has a novice lock and is located to your right behind the waterfall. To observe it, go across the bridge but not upwardly the steps leading to the wall, go right forth the river path to the bigger waterfall, you will have to jump effectually on the large stones to the right of the waterfall to gain access to the breast. You will see the chest nesting amid the rocks behind the waterfall when in third person view.

Return the Claw [edit]

If yous render the Gilded Claw, Lucan or Camilla will give you lot a leveled corporeality of gilded, increase their disposition toward you lot to "friend" (assuming you previously were not), and return the particular to its dwelling house on the counter.

Levels	Reward
1-9	400
ten-xix	600
20-29	800
30-39	1,000
40+	1,200

Notes [edit]

This quest counts towards the Sideways achievement regardless of whether y'all do the quest for Lucan or Camilla (i.eastward., both quest stages 100 and 110 qualify).
You cannot return the claw to Lucan until this part of the concurrent quest is complete.
While guiding you to the span, Camilla often gets stuck in place. Walking a few steps exactly behind her in line with the road prevents this, and if already stopped, returning yourself to that exact position will usually make her start walking again. If all fails, just get on and leave her; she will return to Lucan and her directions are non needed for the quest.
If Camilla is somehow killed Lucan will exclaim how he wishes Camilla was here to see this.

Bugs [edit]

If the puzzle door does not work, check here for possible fixes.
If y'all kill Arvel before he turns against you, so you cannot check your adjacent objective. However, this can exist fixed by reading his journal and skipping to the last step of returning it to Lucan once the dungeon is finished.
Arvel can be thrown into the wall when he steps on the pressure level plate that activates the swing fasten trap. Unfortunately, it is unlikely yous will be able to reach his body in order to search him for the claw and journal if this happens. ^?
If you cast Fury on the Wounded Frostbite Spider, Arvel volition somehow run over and begin to fight it. Afterwards it dies or Fury wears off, he volition stand where he is and engage in the normal dialogue with yous. You still have to go cut the webs, and after you do, he will begin his sprint down the hall like normal. ^?
If you don't speak to Lucan earlier going into Bleak Falls Barrow, you lot may trigger a problems which will prevent you from completing the quest if yous endeavour to give him the claw later on you have obtained it in the dungeon during your quest for the Dragonstone. You tin can ready this by loading a relieve from before the commencement of the quest.

Quest Stages [edit]

The Golden Claw (MS13)
Stage	Finishes Quest	Periodical Entry
10		Lucan Valerius in Riverwood is offer me a gilded advantage if I call up his antique Golden Hook, stolen past bandits camped in Bleak Falls Barrow. Objective ten: Think the Gilded Claw
10		Camilla Valerius in Riverwood is offer me a gold reward if I retrieve her antique Golden Hook, stolen by bandits camped in Bleak Falls Barrow. Objective 10: Call back the Aureate Claw
12		I've overheard a group of bandits talking about a gilded claw that they've recently stolen. Plain, 1 of the bandits has taken the claw further into Dour Falls Barrow. Objective ten: Call back the Golden Claw
15		Objective 15: Cut Arvel down
35		Objective 10: Think the Gold Hook
37		Objective xl: Bring the claw to Lucan Objective 45: Bring the claw to Camilla
40		Objective 30: Find the secret of Bleak Falls Barrow
sixty		Objective 35: Observe the owner of the Golden Claw Objective twoscore: Bring the claw to Lucan Objective 45: Bring the claw to Camilla
100	Finishes quest	I accept returned the Aureate Claw to Lucan, who rewarded me for my effort.
110	Finishes quest	I accept returned the Golden Claw to Camilla, who rewarded me for my endeavor.
200	Fails quest	Camilla and Lucan Valerius are dead. Any risk of getting a reward from them for retrieving the golden claw died with them.

The following empty quest stages were omitted from the table: v, 6, 7, eight, thirteen, xx, 30, fifty, 250.

Notes

Whatsoever text displayed in angle brackets (eastward.1000., <Alias=LocationHold>) is dynamically prepare by the Radiant Quest organisation, and will be filled in with the appropriate word(south) when seen in game.
Non 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 commonly the instance with quests that accept 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 equally "Finishes Quest" it ways the quest disappears from the Active Quest list, but you may all the same receive new entries for that quest.
On the PC, it is possible to employ the console to advance through the quest by entering setstage MS13 phase, where stage is the number of the stage you wish to consummate. It is not possible to un-consummate (i.eastward. get back) quest stages, but it is possible to clear all stages of the quest using resetquest MS13.