Skyrim’s new expansion, Dawnguard, introduces a whole new quest line involving vampires. In the quest Awakening, the Dragonborn is tasked with finding out who attacked the Hall of Vigilants. While the quest is fairly straightforward, the puzzle in Dimhollow Crypt can be hard to solve.
In this guide, we’ll cover how to solve the Dimhollow Crypt puzzle in Skyrim Dawnguard DLC, including where to go and what to do.
Dimhollow Crypt Location in Skyrim
The Dimhollow Crypt puzzle is part of a huge cave southwest of Dawnstar. It can only be accessed after you complete the other parts of the Cave.
You’ll see a wooden door at the end of the Dimhollow Crypt. Go through it to enter the Dimhollow Crypt. By staying on the balcony for a bit, you can eavesdrop on a conversation between Lokil, Vigilant Adalvald, and a nameless vampire.
After hearing this conversation, proceed down the stairs and turn right to face some vampires and a thrall. After taking care of them, look behind the staircase and you will find a chest next to the wall. Now, go across the bridge and encounter a puzzle on the island.
How to solve the Dimhollow Crypt puzzle?
To start the puzzle, press the button in the center. This will cause purple-colored flames to ignite a section of the floor. Push the brazier forward and backward until the fire has ignited all of them in a pattern covering the circle.
As you put the last brazier in the right spot, your screen will shiver, and the middle of the floor will sink. This will let out a stone monolith. Activate it and you will be met with a strange woman, Serena. You will talk with her, and afterward, you will have to leave with her.
How to exit the Dimhollow Crypt?
You cannot leave the way you came as a locked gate will close it. You must head towards the Northeast, across the bridge. On your path, you will encounter two gargoyles. Instead of going towards them, turn right and go up the slope and through the wooden door. Open the gate by pulling the lever in the next room.
You have to be cautious, as this will cause two skeletons to spawn from the floor and two draugr to emerge from the standing coffins on the wall to the right.
Before you exit, go along the wall to the south (on the level under the lever) and get a Spell Tome: Necromantic Healing from the chest on the adjacent table. Also, use your torch to look for the chest and urn behind the standing stones.
As you exit the room under the opened gate, you’ll encounter five skeletons and a boss draugr around a flaming pit in a large room. You will find the boss’s chest behind the throne of the Draugr.
From where you came in, head to the northeast, towards the word wall, and go up the stairs behind it. This will lead you to two enchanted weapons and coin purses on a table.
You will also find four Malachite Ore Veins in this room, two on each side. Use the double door to the north to get out of this room. This will lead you to a corridor with a gate at the end of it. This will take you outside.
Open the gate using the chain on the pillar to the East, and you will end up on the other side of the mountain. This is the end of the Dimhollow Crypt puzzle in Skyrim Dawnguard DLC.
