Hard Answers

Hard Answers: get Gallus' journal translated – break into Calcelmo's museum in Markarth to copy the Falmer writing on his stone.

Objectives

  1. Speak with Enthir
  2. Speak with Calcelmo in Understone Keep
  3. Gain entry to Calcelmo's Museum
  4. Find Calcelmo's Falmer Translating Guide
  5. Copy the writing on Calcelmo's Stone
  6. Return to Enthir
  7. Speak to Karliah

In Hard Answers you need to read Gallus’ journal – but it’s written in Falmer. Karliah sends you to Enthir at the College of Winterhold, who sends you on to the Dwemer scholar Calcelmo in Markarth.

Walkthrough

Calcelmo won’t help. Get into his museum in Understone Keep – with the key from him or his nephew Aicantar, or by sneaking and lockpicking. Find his Falmer Translating Guide, then take a rubbing of Calcelmo’s Stone with charcoal and paper in his laboratory. Bring it all back to Enthir and talk to Karliah: the journal confirms what you feared about Mercer.

Rewards

The Nightingale Blade and Enthir as a fence.

Characters

KCharacterKarliahDunmer Nightingale framed by Mercer Frey for Gallus' murder, and your ally in the Thieves Guild questline.

Factions

TFactionThieves GuildSkyrim's down-on-its-luck guild of thieves, hidden in the Ratway beneath Riften – home of the Nightingales.

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