Gaining Powers

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When you made it to Sky Haven Temple, you immediately had a puzzle to solve, however it was very easy, being the snake, whale, eagle puzzle. Upon proceeding further into the temple, Draugr fluttered to life one by one, and everyone prepared for a fight.
One Draugr approached with a war axe, only for you to behead it with your sword. Sinon handled a Draugr archer and Lisbeth easily dispatched two more low-level creatures.
You then heard a perculiar sound and turned around to see Frostbite Spiders coming your way, but again, they were easy pickings as you quickly and efficiently cut them down, harvesting the venom from them.

After proceeding down the hall, you arrived at a drawbridge with three more stones, similar to the animal puzzle, only this time it has symbols which translate in the Dragon Language.

"Let's see here... It appears we need to pick the symbol that represents the Dragonborn. Only then will the path open before us." Delphine muttered as she scanned over her notes on the area.

Half an hour later:

"I have no idea what this puzzle is supposed to be!" You yelled out of frustration.

"May I give it a try?" Lisbeth asked innocently.

"Go for it." You replied, stepping aside so that she can give it a go, and almost immediately, the drawbridge lowered itself for everyone to cross.

"I got it!" She said proudly, only for you to give her a look asking more questions than she was willing to answer.

"How?" You asked with suprise.

"With pure luck." She replied with a smile.

"At least we made it past. Great job." You replied with slight irritation towards the fact that she got it so easily when you struggled for half an hour.

"Wait! This book says that we need to step only on the path of the Dovahkin." Esbern said seriously as a room filled with pressure plates posed a challenge.

You remembered the symbol on the second puzzle at that moment.

"Follow the path I walk on!" You said seriously as you stepped on two of the pressure plates carefully.

Lisbeth lost her balance and fell to the side, triggering a live plate. You grabbed her by the collar and pulled her back to safety before anything went from bad to worse while the triggered plate spit fire out of the top.

"Thanks for the save." She said with a breath of relief.

"It's not a problem." You replied nonchalantly as you continued along the set path, jumping across to the next pressure plates in order to take a shortcut.

Everyone else did the same thing and made it through okay, turning around a corner to find a wall with inscriptions of dragons on it.

"Here it is... Alduin's Wall. The wall that fortells the coming of the world-eater, and the Dragonborn who will stop him." Esbern muttered to himself.

"Hm, I don't know what it is, but the word Dragonrend keeps on showing up." He continued the monologue.

"Maybe it's a Shout?" Delphine said seriously.

"Ah. That would make sense, it says that Dragonrend is the one thing that Alduin cannot resist. Using this will surely aid you. But it says that the shout has been lost for several centuries!" Esbern said nervously.

"Then, surely all hope at saving this world is lost." Delphine replied seriously.

"No. It is not. I'll go and talk to the Greybeards, maybe they will help me to gain knowledge of the shout." You chipped in.

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