"Breathe the Waters of His Glory and the Way is Made Clear" (Shrine of Courtesy)

[masternoxx1]

There's absolutely no way, that anyone who is aware of the "water breathing" spell, can ever figure this out. Of course that means everyone who played Oblivion and Skyrim.
Three and a half weeks. That's how long I spent trying to figure this out.
Well anyone that needs a hint, you do not use the Water Breathing effect, spell, potion, or scroll to open the way. The order of the doors you go through makes no difference. The solution is right in the center room.
Can't even believe all the things that I tried, it's insane. You would laugh probably. Then I came to the conclusion that it must be a huge bug because the Book says the Dremora is in the center by the triolith. So unfortunately today I looked it up on the net and first time I cheated the whole game, sigh, well I doubt I would've ever figured it out except by sheer stupid luck and the chances were near zero...
So there is no bug, of course...
Seriously that "hint" triolith should have been reworded, it really just misleads you mainly.
I mean no one figured this out without cheating did they?
I find this highly irritating, I am irritated at myself for cheating, and I am irritated at the game for this near impossible "puzzle"

[Doggy Friend]

Yeah, I had to google it too.

[Chadicus]

I did not use outside sources, I am a intuectualalalalal threfore i am the supeior beingngng get off of steam you peasantststs

[psychotron666]

Isn't this the one where you let yourself drown to get past? I think it took me about 20 minutes and thought maybe I gotta let myself die and saved and tried out

[Nijn]

I actually did kind of find it after some thinking in my first playthrough, but I thought you only had to let your initial (blue) breath bar decline. Once it went red I thought I was doing something wrong and googled it only to find out you had to let yourself drown all the way, lol

[masternoxx1]

Originally posted by Ebby:

I actually did kind of find it after some thinking in my first playthrough, but I thought you only had to let your initial (blue) breath bar decline. Once it went red I thought I was doing something wrong and googled it only to find out you had to let yourself drown all the way, lol

Yes I tried that probably sucked in like 20 gallons of water, swam around underwater drowning and then using water breathing potion when I was near death, and then healing potion, for like 8 minutes, but apparently I was not near death enough...
You know that's how it should have worked, when player takes X amount of drowning damage, the way will open...
probably those were too hard to code or something...
likely they were also thinking about how is a lv 1 player going to do that? grrr...
why they not put some word like "sacrifice" on the triolith ?
stupid Bethesda!

according to the internet its supposed to activate when you are at 10 health or below but I'm pretty sure I had to die to activate it

Also I had not died even one time I guess I still haven't but now at lv 15 still no deaths technically but you know how it is I was trying to keep it that way. I don't know in a videogame where the solution is to kill yourself is not really acceptable and takes all realism out of the game, however I guess he was a "God" so I guess it's slightly acceptable?

If I were in charge of making this game would've never allowed this. All kinds of things you could've done differently or better. It's supposed to be a labyrinth yet there's no maze at all. There is no puzzle aspect besides this horrible "riddle." Having spent all this time on this I feel nothing but anger about it. In a game puzzle there should be an aha moment and you should feel glad that you spent time on it afterward.

If you are going to have this idiotic solution then you should leave more clues perhaps on a piece of paper in the area, in a book, an NPC topic, etc. You could have put a corpse on lv 5 with a note on it

[Dave of Infamy]

lol i figured this out by myself back in 2002/03 internet wasnt great in most rural places in uk like where i lived so google wasnt an option had to figure it out so i thought screw it i hit f5 then sat in the water and drowned turned out it worked

[Coalheart]

Originally posted by Dave of Infamy:

lol i figured this out by myself back in 2002/03 internet wasnt great in most rural places in uk like where i lived so google wasnt an option had to figure it out so i thought screw it i hit f5 then sat in the water and drowned turned out it worked

lol..same for me.

I remember my 1st play through...just the base game..before any expansions.


I had dial-up , AOL Internet with maybe, a 28k modem, in the middle of nowhere,GA (USA), that would disconnect if anyone called, or more often than not, for no reason at all.


Google may have existed, but the search engines I remember using were Alta Vista, Ask Jeeves and the "meta search engine" Dog pile.


We didn't readily look things up like we do today. Indeed, Internet was mainly for Email and....yeah, Email was about it.


I remember hating this quest and also the one where that shrine or whatever was only open during certain times of the day.



I remember going to "chat rooms" and all of us complaining about how much we hated this crappy game.....and wondering why none of us could stop playing it. :)