

After combing around the room for loot and locked doors, you’ll find the first pedestal you can activate, which will open a door behind you. Inside the Kilkreath Ruins, you’ll find a large room with a few levels and a bunch of those corrupted shades. On the balcony, there’s a set of stairs that leads up to a door to the Kilkreath Ruins. Once you activate this one, you’ll see a door that leads out to the Kilkreath Balcony, which contains an expert-locked chest. There is also an Arcane Enchanter in this room, if you want to use it. Keep making your way through the dungeon, fending off the shades, until you reach the third pedestal. Note: when you step into the beam of light, your health and magicka will deplete. They’re mostly easy to deal with, just watch out for them like you would any skeletons or other undead in a dungeon.Īctivate the first pedestal and then make your way into the second room, where you’ll find more shades and the second pedestal. These are like shadow skeletons, swarming you with numbers. Inside the temple, you’ll come across an enemy type called corrupted shades. There are three pedestals in this temple that need to be activated in order to guide the light throughout. This is the darkness that Meridia spoke of, and the light will need to be guided through it to clear it out.

Inside the TempleĮnter the temple and you’ll find a strange black smoke floating through the air. Make your way down to it and then inside.

The temple, called Kilkreath Temple, is located right below the statue. In order to remove this scourge, you’ll need to direct a beam of Meridia’s Light through the temple and then vanquish Malkoran. Once you do, you’ll be whisked into the sky to speak with her. She’ll tell you about Malkoran, a necromancer who has desecrated her temple. Meridia will direct you to place the beacon at the feet of her statue. Whether you find the beacon on your own or you find the statue first and Meridia directs you to it, the quest will move on to the next step. This is when you’ll hear the very loud “A new hand touches the beacon,” from which many of the memes spawn. This means if you find it but don’t take it, it’ll remain in the chest where you left it. It’s in a random location for your file, and it’ll sit in a chest there until you go grab it.

The second way of starting this quest is by finding the beacon in one of those locations. However, she’ll need you to grab the beacon first, so you’ll receive a quest market to one of the over 150 locations that it can randomly be found. Meridia will speak to you and inform you that a defiler has begun desecrating her temple with darkness, and she wants you to deal with it. To do it yourself, find the Statue to Meridia, which is located on Mount Kilkreath near Solitude. There are two ways to initiate this quest, although one of them is more like the quest initiating itself.
