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A bloodied skeleton at Karthspire/Karthspire Camp?

Closer, but not quite.

Reposted:
I lie alone in a pile of red,
In pieces in a place of dread,
Down the path to rotting pools,
In the halls of all the wand'ring ghouls,
I give no thing, I have no name,
No tell me, what am I? Where am I in the game?

I think I figured it out, but I don't remember enough to be certain... I'll give it a shot anyway.

In Bleak Falls Barrow ("A place of dread"= Hadvar mentions he used to be scared of it), there's a ramp down to a puddle/stream thingy ("Down the path to the rotting pools...") If I remember correctly, there's a chest down there with a skeleton beside it. I can'd remember whether you can loot the skeleton or not, and I don't remember any "piles of red", but the rest fits, I think. Assuming it is, in fact, an unlootable skeleton, which I think is mostly settled?

There's a similar path leading downwards to a pool in Ustengrav, but I don't even remember a skeleton there, and Ustengrav doesn't seem to match up quite as well with 'place of dread'...

That is so close to correct I'll say screw it and give it to Elenath.

You CAN loot that skeleton, but ON the ramp on the way down, there is a large blood spatter with an unlootable skeleton in it. It was that skeleton.

Oh, yeah, I think I remember that guy.

I'll come up with a riddle tomorrow. Tired now.

One has to wonder what mauled him so badly... Can't have been a draugr.

I think there was a Frost Troll above him in the original demo, maybe that was it. It's been a Draugr every time I went through, but maybe it switches to a Troll if you're high enough level? Dunno.

Anyway, riddle.

The star at the foot.
The shining ambition.
The coldest of flames.
We are here.
Reunite us,
And bring us home.

The fort in the lake for Azura's star quest?

Nope.

meridia, the deadric princess and her beacon?

Nope, sorry.

I decided to add a new line, by the way.

the pieces of mehrunes razor?

Also not it.

It has nothing to with Daedric artifacts.

Is it those strange orbs in Yngol Barrow?

Mm, nope.

This is a hard one. I feel it has something to do with the Thalmor.

Wrong track.

I have a couple clues, but I intended to wait a bit on them, as it's only a day old as yet. I will give you this: It's entirely Vanilla Skyrim.


ETA: Fiddled with the riddle again. Subtle change this time.

Gallus and Karliah?

Nope.

Hm... Trying to decide when to start giving clues. Thoughts?

Yeah, I think we need a clue here...

Is it those two lovers at the monument by Rorikstead...

Gjukar's monument, isn't that the name?

Nope, nothing yet.

I think I'll just give a clue every day until it's guessed. Today's hint: There's three of them.

Is it the Gauldurson brothers (Or the Gauldur Amulet Fragments)?

In that case, the location would be... Reachwater Rock.

Nope. Knew that would come up, but nope.

Yeah...

I didn't really expect it to be that. Too obvious.

If it had been QI, I'd have gotten the buzzer.