Bloodmoon:The Ritual of Earth

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1 Quick Walkthrough
2 Detailed Walkthrough
3 Maps
4 Quest Stages

Learn the Song of the Earth.^edit

Quest Giver: Tharsten Heart-Fang at Skaal Village
Location(s): Cave of Hidden Music
Prerequisite Quest: The Ritual of Water
Next Quest: The Ritual of Beasts
Concurrent Quest: The Skaal Test of Loyalty
Reward: Progress in story
ID: BM_Earth
Suggested Level: 30
Difficulty: Medium

The Earth Stone looms above the countryside

[edit] Quick Walkthrough

Find and activate the Earth Stone.
Travel to the Cave of Hidden Music and enter the Chamber of the Song.
Complete the two musical puzzles and return to the Earth Stone to activate it.

[edit] Detailed Walkthrough

The Earth Stone is a ways south down the coast from the Water Stone, northwest from Raven Rock as shown on the paper map. The Earth Stone pillar is barely visible from the shore line and is on the top of a small hill in the forest (coordinates -207444, 167015, 1496). Activating the stone will tell you to travel northeast to the Cave of Hidden Music to learn the Earth Song.

Follow the stone's directions and head out to the northeast. Almost immediately you should hit the Bloodskal Barrow which is locked (20) and trapped but this is small tomb and obviously not what you are looking for. Like before, the directions are only approximate and the Cave of Hidden Music is more north from the Earth Stone than north-east (coordinates -197459, 182085, 1358). The cave's entrance is composed of large, black stones and is hard to miss.

The Cave is relatively empty except for a few draugr. Continue until you find the entrance to the Chamber of Song. There are no enemies in this area but you will occasionally hear a strange 'musical' sound. The sound emanates from a cluster of three stalactites and three stalagmites in the large chamber in the Western end of the cave. The sound is the same four notes over and over again. You'll notice that if you activate the stones you can produce similar notes and it may become obvious to you that you'll have to reproduce the sound by activating the stones in the correct order. You get as many chances as you want, but if you aren't musically inclined the first order of notes is: Middle, Right, Left, Right. The music then changes to another pattern of four notes which you should also duplicate (it should be Left, Right, Middle, Left). Once you get the two patterns correct, you will receive a journal entry to return to the Earth Stone. Return to the Earth Stone and activate it to complete this portion of the ritual.

[edit] Maps

Map of the Cave of Hidden Music

[edit] Quest Stages

These Codes can be used along with the Journal Console Command and Quest ID given above the chart(s) to update the quest to a certain point.

BM_Earth
Index	Journal Entry
10	I approached the Earth Stone, and words magically appeared on its surface. They said: "Travel northeast to the Cave of the Hidden Music and learn the Song of the Earth." Then the words disappeared.
20	In the Cave of the Hidden Music, I have found a large structure made of stalagmites and stalactites. An odd music seems to be coming from them.
30	I have found that when one of the hollowed stalagmites is struck, it produces a musical note like the ones I can hear in this cave.
40	By striking the stalagmites in succession, I was able to recreate the sounds I can hear in this cave. When I did, the pattern changed.
50	After repeating the new pattern, the sounds swelled, and then grew silent. I should return to the Earth Stone.
100	When I returned to the Earth Stone, it began to glow with a mystical light.