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The Elder Scrolls IV: Knights of the Nine Hints
How can I get that gate open?
1 of 15: Look on the floor next to the bedroll to find Drothan's Field Journal.
2 of 15: Read it to learn that the task of opening the gate has to do with Dagon's champion.
3 of 15: That's Msirae Faythung, the inanimate guy in the vertical coffin a bit to the right of the gate.
4 of 15: If you click on Faythung, you'll be able to take his beating heart from his corpse.
5 of 15: As Drothan's journal noted, you can open the gate by eating the heart.
6 of 15: Find it in the ingredient section of your inventory and click on it in order to do this.
7 of 15: When you do, Faythung will come to life and attack you, but will quickly die without his heart. Just make sure you're a ways back from him when you eat the heart so he won't be able to hit you at all.
8 of 15: Other bad effects of eating the heart include a +4 to your Infamy stat, a special disease that drains your Agility and Intelligence, and the porphyric hemophilia disease. (See the vampirism section in the main Oblivion hint file for more about porphyric hemophilia.)
9 of 15: Read on for some alternatives to eating the heart if you don't want to open the gate that way.
10 of 15: You could ignore Faythung, click on the gate, and choose to try to force it open.
11 of 15: If your Strength is 91 or higher, you'll be able to open the gate and claim the razor. If not, the gate will remain closed.
12 of 15: In either case, Faythung will come to life and attack you.
13 of 15: If you got the gate open, you can grab the razor and fight Faythung with it, hoping to get lucky and kill him before he can kill you.
14 of 15: Or you can go through the door that opens up behind the razor when you take it and run along the escape passage, hoping you can leave Faythung behind.
15 of 15: If you can't force the gate, you'll have to kill Faythung in order to get it open.
