Ive stumbled on the before, but now I know more or less how it works. This glitch basically will let you have many more than one Standing Stone active once you've found the Aetherial Crown.

Below is an example of how to get The Mages Stone, Warriors Stone, and Thief Stone active with the Lovers Stone in the Aetherial Crown. Follow these instructions Perfectly!!! Otherwise it may not work. Basically only put on and take off the Aetherial Crown when it says to. Note this method works with other stones, but it will remove the effect that is alphabetically higher on the list first. Please test and let me know if this works I did this on Xbox 360.

3 GUARDIAN STONES AND THE LOVER’S STONE ALL AT ONCE

1) Warriors Stone in Aetherial Crown, Lovers Stone Effect on character.

Go to Guardian Stones, remove Crown and put it back on. Make sure it says Warrior Stone added!

2) Mage Stone activate, then very quickly inventory and remove the Crown. Active effects should be Lovers Stone and Mages Stone without Aetherial Crown.

3) With Crown off(DONT PUT IT BACK ON!!) go to Thief Stone activate, should get Lovers Stone Removed, so you will have Mage Stone and Thief Stone Active, then after put the Aetherial Crown on to gain the Lovers Stone effect.

4) With Crown on go to the Warrior Stone, activate, then quickly inventory and remove the Crown.

Should have, Mage Stone, Warriors Stone, Thief Stone, all active with no Crown.

5)Travel to Lovers Stone and activate(keep the Aetherial Crown off!), Should have Lovers, Theif, Warrior without crown.

6) Travel back to Standing Stones, put Aetherial Crown on, activate the Mage Stone then quickly inventory and remove the Crown. Lovers, Mages, Warriors Stone should be active without Crown.

7) Go to the Theif Stone with no Crown and activate, should now have Mages, Warriors, Thief Stone active with no Crown, Put the Crown on to gain The Lover’s Stone.

Enjoy you now have 4 Standing Stone Active effects.

There is nothing enjoyable about it for me. But if you enjoy it, good for you. It's your game, play it the way you want. Have fun!

Eh, not my thing. I stick with the Lover stone on everyone for the entire game. I don't even use the crown - it sits on a mannequin or a display.

That's good information for those who do not mind using glitches... I am sure someone will be very interesting in trying that out. And while not my speed, thank you for sharing.

If you've completed everything getting things like The Lord Stone, Lady Stone, Steed Stone at once can be useful too. Also this IS a cheats, hints, Spoilers forum so I thought i would share . You can also have a lot more than 4 on at once too.

It's very good of you to put that here... some don't bother and post things where they should not. Many of us are Role Players who don't use cheat's or glitches, because that would not suit the characters story... It's always nice to have new-ish people around... I see that you joined last year..

Ive been playing skyrim for ages , the only playthroughs now i do on legendary because i enjoy the challenge. I normally mess around with glitches when I'm totally bored if they're ones that just make the game too easy. There are things I generally do find fun though, like the Hybrid Vampire Lord/ Werewolf Glitch because it adds more variety to the gameplay and neither really compare later game to your human form anyway. I also strongly suggest getting the Ritual Stone ability in the Aethereal crown if your bored, so you can unequip/equip to reuse the ability to gather large armies to fight for you.

I admit though I am surprised though at the amount of Uprighteousness Player's that only use so called straight and narrow path that use the Cheats/Hints/Spoilers forums, yet claim they don't use any cheats, hints or spoilers lol .

Have you seen the Screen shot thread??? some pictures might be "spoilers".. so would only fit here where people know that they might be. Some of us write up our character stories, again if I write anything about the quest-lines it's a spoiler. The "most recent thing you have discovered" thread... major spoiler, but then if your reading it you know that.

I am not sure I would consider myself uprighteous or not, but then again not much of the game is a spoiler for me, I just don't use glitches or cheat's... though I did on 360 use the Dawnstar chest on a few characters.

But for Example... I have never done "The only Cure" ( on purpose... long story...short version.. I decided on getting the game, to not delve into Dwemer ruins unless a quest-line took me there...not just a "quest".. ) Now I know the gist of starting the quest, I know where it takes place, I have seen the outside of it... I know what the reward is. So if someone wrote a walk through and description of it .. major spoiler for me...If I read it when it was placed here in this forum, that's my fault.. if it's in General I'm going to be a wee bit mad at someone.

Plus I read this forum to see if I can help those who might need it.... or to put in my two cents worth of opinion.

I've played this game since release - hundreds and hundreds of hours, and practically every quest line in it at least once. I do post in other forums, but I'm here because I'm in Character Stories, and posting about things in this forum won't get me in trouble with the mods.

I don't use glitches because I play in god mode so don't need them. Which is another reason for posting in this forum, since that's a cheat for sure. Now as for using the crown and stone glitch to gather an army, oh, ewwww. I hate having even ONE follower, much less lots of them! No thanks. I'll just stick with the tgm cheat. And I didn't even know you could use the Dawnstar chest on a console, Areial - because I've never had one....

yeah... on console... and on PC...but the USKP... changed that... not sure which update, but I know it could be used for a while on PC. btw.. is a chest in Solitude and another in Whiterun, the Whiterun one is harder, the other two just required sneak mode and looking in the exact right place.

Nice find, thanks.

Its just a game, and sometimes I do like to goof around and whatnot. I usually don't bother on a playthrough as it kind of spoils it but yeah, some people do take things too seriously sometimes.

There's one at Markarth, as well.

... I never "found" that one.. the video I saw didn't use it and the Dawnstar one was enough... It did show how to do the Whiterun chest... but that was/ is way to much of a hassle for me.

Yeah, the Whiterun one is weird. Makes Skyrim all sad and empty looking. You can actually walk beyond the map borders, though, by leaving the city in that manner.

Yeah... I "fell through" more than once one 360... so I tired to get back to normal, without reloading... didn't work.. had to reload, but it was interesting.

Looking at that statement in backwards order might give some illumination. So first, a spoiler is not something one uses, it's something one avoids if one would like to enjoy not knowing what happens next or what is waiting a given spot. Like (for instance) going to see a movie after someone has told you the ending is just not as much fun, if you see what I mean. that's why it "spoils" the experience.

Hints... sometimes hints are necessary because with Beth's games, you are often uncertain as to whether you missed something, or if the game has glitched and altered something beyond salvage. As an example, once in Fallout 4 I searched for a safe I knew was in a particular building for several hours with several different characters, and never found it. After getting a "hint" I was able to find it. Not that there was anything really interesting or necessary in the chest, just that I was sick of looking for it. Most of the time, I prefer the old "Mother, please! I'd rather do it myself!" line. It's much more satisfying.

Cheats... I rarely use cheats, for instance I'd not even think of using the one you offered at the start of this thread. It's just not me, you know? I don't have an issue with you using it though. It also needs to be said though that not using a cheat and not knowing a cheat exists is two different things. For instance I could give myself unlimited perks, unlimited amounts of money, make myself unbeatable in combat, have unlimited magicka, or teleport out of any deadly scenario... but I don't, because that would ruin the game for me. the satisfaction comes from beating the game (which is why I like DiD play) and if I cheat, the satisfaction is gone.

If you look at these reasons I gave, you will see no uprighteousness is involved, simply selfishness on my part. i selfishly want to enjoy the game, and I can't if I abuse the system. If you can enjoy it that way, go for it. I don't think anybody cares at all what you do in your game.

Your sharing of the cheat is fine, but a lot of us just won't use it... not because of uprighteousness, but simply for selfish enjoyment purposes.

I understand where you are coming from100%, but whatever way you want to justify it, you are deliberately using outside resources to make your game play easier. Some will defiantly make the game play easier than others I admit. But for most of the people that are here, if its just a matter of being stuck on a quest and you want to make your life easier to finish it, I'm pretty sure UESP still exists. I base my statement on the fact that many of the above comments make posts sounding like that they are too high and mighty to explore them even when they are bored, I never stated you needed to use it on your character permanently.

If 2 people partake in a test of 50 questions, one cheats on one question and another cheats on all of them, one person might have a much greater challenge completing the test. At the end of the day however they both cheated. All I'm doing is sharing information, if your reading these forums I would say the 95% of the people have used certain information to make their gaming experience easier. It doesn't necessarily have to be a glitch.

You may be right in some cases, I don't know what people do in their own games. As for me, 90% of my reason for visiting this forum is the character stories thread and the screenshot thread. I probably wouldn't have even read this thread, except I saw a comment from one of the character stories contributors.

I suspect that it's not a case of being too high and mighty for most of us to use cheats, but rather that we go out of our way to make the game more difficult. For instance, I play Dead is Dead (or did until yesterday, and now I'm taking a break) and I also use mods like Immersive Creatures, Enemies Enhanced, and Deadly Dragons. I set Dragon health up an extra 10% to start with, and all opponents in the game as well. then I add in another 10 to 20% to the damage they do. My characters regularly fight creatures such as skeletal draman lichs who use devastating shouts, winged twilights, dark seducers, golden saints, ancient spriggan matriarchs, ancient slaughterfish, and dragons who vanilla players will never see, and use skills and attacks vanilla players will also never see. I also use Real Needs and Diseases, forcing my characters to eat and sleep and making catching a disease a real trial, with severe consequences for diseases that are untreated. Why? Because frankly, vanilla tends to be boring and far too easy.

To go to all that trouble to make the game harder then turn around and use cheats to make it easier wouldn't seem to make a great deal of sense if you think about it. I know I'm not alone, and several people I know use mods like Requiem and Frostfall, or Wet and Cold and so forth to make the game even harder than I personally prefer it.

I know, it seems to go against common sense, but a lot of players (including me) just don't want an easy game or shortcuts.

Thats completely fine if players don't wish to use shortcuts at any point or any time ever . But then you shouldn't be posting on a hints/cheats/spoilers forum or reading them at all. What surprises me is that you get stupid people reading the topic and adding no input other than the fact that they would never try it.

Comments like "There is nothing enjoyable about it for me. But if you enjoy it, good for you. It's your game, play it the way you want. Have fun! "

Junk like that adds nothing useful to the topic. If your not going to use it ever, or add any useful input, reserve to comment at all.

Like Neil... I use Deadly Dragon's, Immersive Creatures, Enemy Enhancer, .. but I also use ASIS ( which give's the mages in the game the same spell's my character uses from Grimoire) and I use Wet and Cold..... Now I do use Mod's that make my game.....easier isn't a good word, but the end is, still populated... When vampire's attack & Run for your Lives.

I make my game Harder, if you read the DiD thread's you will find that Rick ( yes sweetie using your name in vain ) makes his console game harder by playing DiD on legendary. Now have any of us never used a glitch or cheat... I have.. no lies their, I used the Chest's.. specifically the Dawnstar chest. But their is a good probability that some have never used a cheat or glitch... reading the forum, 5 years after the game came out... well unless like me one specifically tries not to do something, chances are they have done most of the game.

I have never done "The Only Cure" and I would not read a thread with that in the title.. even in the General, but on the flip side.. I have never done "Boethiah's Calling", I would read a detailed walkthrough... as I never plan on doing that... I have yet to think of a Character Story, that would allow for it. ( I don't do "evil" well ).

I read the cheat's ...way's to use Glitches...etc, because I find them interesting. The only one I was really tempted to use...and tried...lol.. is having 2 Dawnbreakers... 2 hr's later.. no double Dawnbreakers... said "Bump it".... which lead's me to my next comment..

Answering a post... even a subject that one may not have any real interest in. Many of us answer posts because "bumping it" oneself can get the poster a "warning", if done to many times.. so it's done to keep it where people who might be interested can see it.

Interesting, thanks for sharing!

As for the replies, my own 2 cents is that it's better to simply not use a "trick" like this if you don't like it. I'm not sure just what is to be gained by actually posting that this is not something you will enjoy. The only effect I can see is that such replies may take the wind out of the OP's sails, whether intended or not. Since activity has been rather slow around here lately, I'd suggest it's better to encourage new posters who take the time to come along and share something we may not have heard before.

I'd guess that depends on what you call "useful". As for me, I'd simply call such input "conversation"... which is actually what many of us are looking for when we post a topic. Personally, if I post a topic and nobody responds either good or bad, I feel that the topic was lacking or dull, or my presentation of it was, and I didn't attract anybody's interest enough to get a response.

In that light, you can say this topic was successful, even though the function presented was not widely accepted as something that would be used. Don't knock conversation, because one day you may really need somebody's response and not get it if people think you don't want to hear from them...

I saw it as a "troll" statement not conversation. I guess it depends weather you think people are trying to troll, converse, or put a context in which they might use the glitch. Most of the other comments were fine even the ones that didn't really wish to use the glitch or see a context to do so. I never discouraged people sharing an opinion, but there is a large difference between making an arrogant statement as opposed to trying to make friendly conversation . Im imagining you interpreted that comment differently to me as I don't see it as friendly or conversational.

Ah, well... Pseron can certainly speak for himself, but I doubt that he actually intended it in an unfriendly manner.

Exactly. If the OP isn't interested in hearing different opinions he probably should not have posted on a public forum. This is what we do here. We offer our opinions. We discuss. We debate. A forum should be a space that is open to free public expression within the rules of the forum.

I too would never exploit this glitch. I think the idea is dumb. However, it is the OP's right to promote an exploit...and it is equally my right to express myself about that exploit.

So telling other players to have fun and play it the way you want is a "troll statement" now?