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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Hints
Clear out Wolfskull Cave.
1 of 9: Travel to Wolfskull Cave, which is a long way west of Solitude. See its section of the World Map Exploration Guide for directions.
2 of 9: Kill the two skeletons that are just outside the cave, then enter it and make your way along until you meet a draugr.
3 of 9: Past it is a cave with two necromancers in it. Try to sneak-attack them, then look for a door with torches on either side of it.
4 of 9: Just past it is a necromancer, a draugr wight, and a skeleton. Finish them off, then carefully drop into the large pit.
5 of 9: Go down the next tunnel to enter the Wolfskull Ruins area, then crouch down and move forward to the tip of the rocky ridge with the flaming brazier on it. From there, see how many draugr and necromancers you can snipe with your bow or ranged spells. (Fireball is a particularly great spell to use for this.)
6 of 9: Look all around the old fortress for targets, including on top of the tower where a shimmery ghost-like figure is hovering. (It's not a target, but the necromancers near it are.) When you've gotten all you can from there, carefully drop down the rocks that are on the right side of the ridge to reach the lower ground.
7 of 9: Go up the stone steps ahead, then look in the tower on your left for a draugr to kill. Go up the steps past the tower, then go up some more steps past that and turn left to find more steps.
8 of 9: Past another set of steps, move on and around to where you reach the base of the tower that has the ghostly figure hovering above it. Even if you managed to snipe one or two of that tower's necromancers from the rocky ridge, there may still be several up there.
9 of 9: Try to sneak in and lure them away from the ritual area one or two at a time. When you kill the one called Ritual Master, you'll get the next objective. (Note that the Ritual Master might have gotten killed while fighting some of the draugr if you sniped the necromancers on the tower earlier.)
