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Dragonborn is the first quest for Dragonborn Main Storyline. Players will require the expansion to begin this questline.

If you have completed the Skyrim Main Quest Line up to The Horn of Jurgen Windcaller, simply travel to any of the main holds and wait for a pair of cultists to seek you out. They will ask if you are indeed the Dragonborn, and then attack you. Searching their bodies will yield a note that will lead you to Windhelm and on to the island of Solstheim. Upon arriving you will be able to question the NPCs of Raven Rock about your mysterious attack until you are pointed in the direction of the Temple of Miraak. Reaching the temple will complete the quest.

Objectives

• Find out who sent the Cultists
• Read Cultists' Orders
• Travel to Solstheim
• Search for information about Miraak
• Investigate the shrine
• Reach the Temple of Miraak

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You can either wait in one of the main holds, or head to Windhelm and take the boat to Solstheim yourself. In any case, two cultists will approach you and ask if you are the Dragonborn. You can play dumb or own up - either way they will attack you. The Cultists can also summon Seekers - nasty mage-like daedra that will shoot projectiles at you. If you would rather let someone else do the work, lead them to any town guards who will no doubt make short work of them. Search the bodies for a letter detailing the cultists plan to set sail from Solstheim to Windhelm to track you down and kill you - all for someone named Miraak.

Travel to the Windhelm docks to find a boat with a Nord named Gjalund Salt-Sage, and listen to his conversation about how he doesn't remember the cultists forcing him to sail to Windhelm, and how he's too creeped out to go back. You can either persuade him, intimidate him, or bribe to get him to take you to Solstheim.

Upon arriving on the islands port town of Raven Rock, a Dark Elf by the name of Adril Arano who will ask as to your intentions of arriving at Raven Rock. You will then be able to ask him and other townspeople about Miraak. Everyone will know the name, but not why they know it. Many residents will picture a temple in their mind that must have something to do. Some townspeople will point you towards the Earth Stone at the edge of Raven Rock, where several people seem to be building a shrine in a trance like state. If nobody you have spoken to as yet pinpointed the Temple of Miraak on your map, speak with the Dark Elf named Neloth who seems to be observing the entranced workers.

Once you have this location on your map, leave Raven Rock and head to the temple. It is likely that as you draw near and witness several Dragon skeletons that one may pop out of the sky and attack you. Defeat it and enter the Temple's exterior to find more enthralled workers bulding an even larger shrine - with one lone woman attempting to make contact with them. Approaching her will complete the quest and begin The Temple of Miraak.

Notes

• It is possible to travel to Solstheim before being accosted by cultists, and simply wander the island until they catch up to you and initiate the quest.
• When observing the enthralled workers at the Earth Stone, Neloth will comment on the Stone itself, and wonder what would happen if you touched it. Doing so will cause your character to black out, and reawaken as one of the enthralled, toiling on the shrine! In this state you can hear the whispers of Miraak that the other victims periodically chant. However with your awesome Dragonborn powers, you can simply move to resist being controlled.
• If you touched the stone, be careful if you plan to sleep somewhere, as you might possibly wake up working on a random stone!

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