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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Hints
Bleak Falls Temple
1 of 13: Crouch down and sneak your way across the large entry chamber to see if you can get the drop on the two bandits near the campfire.
2 of 13: After you kill them and check the chamber for loot, head down the passage until you get near a chamber with another bandit in it. You can either charge him and attack, or you can wait and watch as he kills himself by activating a trap.
3 of 13: Check the small chamber past the gate for a few items, including a Pickpocket skill book, then go down the winding stairs to reach a room with several skeevers in it. These rat-like creatures are easy to kill, but beware the diseases that you can catch from them.
4 of 13: Past the skeevers' room, go down the passage to find a doorway that you can't go through until you bash or zap the webs out of it. In the next chamber, a very large frostbite spider will drop down and attack you.
6 of 13: Arvel will run on ahead instead of giving you the Golden Claw item, but that's okay. You'll catch up with him soon. Go along the passage he fled down to enter a large crypt, where you'll start encountering the skeleton-like draugr creatures.
7 of 13: In the crypt area past the trap, look for Arvel the Swift's dead body next to one of the corpse slabs. If it's not there, look back near the trap.
8 of 13: Loot him to get the Golden Claw item and some other stuff, then move on to the next crypt room to find several more draugr to fight, plus a swinging blades trap to get past.
9 of 13: Go down the passage past the swinging blades trap, ready to fight a lone draugr. Past him, go across the oil spill to lure some draugr onto it, then quickly back up and ignite it with the Flames spell to roast them easily.
10 of 13: A ways past them is a small cave with a draugr and a rushing stream.
11 of 13: Look down from the end of the stream to see a draugr that you're going to have to fight. Either take it down with ranged attacks, or use the nearby passage to get around to where you can fight it at close range.
12 of 13: Go across the snow-covered rock bridge that's next to the waterfall, then down the next passage until you reach a chamber with another restless draugr in it. He won't use any cold magic against you, but he has lots of health and hits very hard with his two-handed weapon. You might want to try sneak-attacking him.
