I am trying to get past the wall in High Hrothgar to continue doing the quest . I casted the Shout Spell Clear Skies many times at the wall and it will not go away. I even loaded save from various old ones to continue on, but it still doesn't work. I checked to see the spell is activated and arrow clicked to it in Magic-->Shout tab and it is. Can someone tell me what did I miss, or is there some quest I have to do before hand. This is frustraiting not sure why I can't progress on.

I am not sure what your are trying to do but......

He is saying the shout isn't working.

Hmmm well my last resort is to go into the console and somehow figure out how to clear out the fog with complete quest commands. I hate doing it this way but it looks like I have no choice without starting all over again. If anyone know another way to get past this fog, let me know.

But I dont recall casting it at a WALL....turn around, look for the Archway, go up the Hill!

What wall?

Edit:http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee72/camaro_69_327/Skyrim%202012/TESV_2012_01_14_00_22_43_642.png.if there was a wall here I appoligize as i don't recall a Wall. If you pass the Archway you will Die if your don't cast clear sky's.
Is Clear Sky's grayed out, or have you Spent your dragon soul?

There is a wall of wind blocking the way, and yes it is the Archway. I cast Clear Skies it at it, and it does not allow me to go through, it just stays there.

It shows it is not grayed out, it is activated and it includes all 3 shouts given for it. I am not sure why this game is not responding to this shout. No matter where I cast it, it does not work.

Two things I can think of: First you get the words, then you recieve knowledge of the words from one of the Greybeards and the graphic looks kind of like absorbing a dragon soul. It sounds like maybe you missed the receiving knowledge part, or that part bugged out. Secondly, are you holding the shout button down long enough?

If it's not greyed out then you should have gotten the knowledge, so . . . Skyrim can be pretty weird sometimes with stuck animations and key inputs not registering. Restarting the game might help.

Yeah I think it is bugged, I tried to reload from a previous saved game and started from there and still no go. I get the Greybeards to give me the shout, it becomes activated, I recieve animation from him giving me the shout, than the quest line says to go and cast Clear Skies at target, and nothing happens. I wonder If the save games got corrupted somehow. This is not the first time it's done this. I had to get passed the quest line for Winterhold by going into control console and setting it complete. No matter what I casted at the mage meeting, he did not move on from the same dialogue. Don't think I can set complete on the Mainquest, no info on how to do that. Looks like I will have to wait for the next patch or Creation Kit to set the quest as complete. I don't want to start all over again, all the hard work and time, won't have time when college starts again next week.

I am having the same problem. I learn all 3 words of the Clear Skies shout and I receive the knowledge from the greybeard. When I check the tab menu, it indeed shows that I have all 3 words of the shout unlocked. I go up to the archway and face the blizzard, then I hold down the shout key and yell all 3 words of the Clear Skies shout. Skyrim gives me a quest completed message for clearing the blizzard and tells me to go see Paarthurnax. However, despite all of this, the blizzard remains blocking the archway.

I have tried to reload previous saves to no avail.

Bump... add me to the list with the same bug.

wall of wind doesnt disappear (however, the fog behind the wall disappears.. just the wind that stays..)
Tried zig-zaging/jumping across the mountain and actually made it up to the throat of the world,
only to find no paarthurnax waiting for me.. just empty there (my guess would be it doesnt proceed to the correct stage in the quest because of the windwall..)

When walking down the road again, all windwalls/fogs disappeared as soon as i shouted at them..
just the first one that doesnt.

video of the bug for those interested;
go to youtube and add this to the url: /watch?v=6xYKvKC4UCM
(not allowed to post link to video directly...)

Any ideas?
Devs; bugfix?
I wouldnt want to restart the entire game bc of this...

Hello @All,

help me please. I have the exact same problem here.

I even tried to get passt the blizzard/wall with climbing. I could shout the other blizzards/wall son the way out of my way, but had the same problem with the last wall a feew meters before the map-marker for the throat of the world. Even if I climb past that last blizzard the quest doesn't continue (no Paartunax and so on).

Is there any way to repair this? I am willing to use the console for this.

Greetings
Juy Juka

Ive been to the top using a horse to climb the back side. No need for the clear sky shout. Did this to do a side quest before starting the main quest. Also can use console TCL. Just fly up the side. After you get to the top and it shows up on your map. Use FT to get to the top after that..

Hello puddumper,

Thank you for the tip, but to get up there doesn't repair the quest.
As I mentioned earilier - no Paarthurnax, not able to continue the Main Quest.


Greetings
Juy Juka

console comands ...

ShowQuestTargets

Player.sqs MQ204

Do you have the main quest for the Throat of the World ( MQ204) and if so. What stage is it at?

Hello puddumper,

MQ204 is aktivated. I have several save-files with different quest stages for MQ204.
I have one with stage 86 (aka. before using Clear Skies for the first time) and one with stage 90.
In the second I climbed (tcl-ed) up to the top of the mountain and could not go past the last blizzard/wall without tcl and even if I did that Paarturnax would not be there.

Greetings
Juy Juka

Hello puddumper,

it took long, but I typed sqs down for both saves:

the first save:
Stage 0: 0
Stage 1: 0
Stage 10: 1
Stage 20: 1
Stage 30: 1
Stage 35: 1
Stage 40: 1
Stage 50: 1
Stage 55: 1
Stage 60: 1
Stage 65: 1
Stage 66: 1
Stage 65: 1
Stage 70: 1
Stage 71: 1
Stage 72: 1
Stage 80: 1
Stage 81: 1
Stage 82: 1
Stage 83: 1
Stage 85: 1
Stage 86: 1
Stage 90: 0
Stage 95: 0
Stage 100: 0
Stage 110: 0 (Item 0, Item 1)
Stage 120: 0
Stage 125: 0
Stage 130: 0
Stage 135: 0
Stage 140: 0
Stage 150: 0
Stage 180: 0
Stage 190: 0
Stage 195: 0
Stage 200: 0 (Item 0, Item 1)

the second save:
Stage 0: 0
Stage 1: 0
Stage 10: 1
Stage 20: 1
Stage 30: 1
Stage 35: 1
Stage 40: 1
Stage 50: 1
Stage 55: 1
Stage 60: 1
Stage 65: 1
Stage 66: 1
Stage 65: 1
Stage 70: 1
Stage 71: 1
Stage 72: 1
Stage 80: 1
Stage 81: 1
Stage 82: 1
Stage 83: 1
Stage 85: 1
Stage 86: 1
Stage 90: 1
Stage 95: 0
Stage 100: 0
Stage 110: 0 (Item 0, Item 1)
Stage 120: 0
Stage 125: 0
Stage 130: 0
Stage 135: 0
Stage 140: 0
Stage 150: 0
Stage 180: 0
Stage 190: 0
Stage 195: 0
Stage 200: 0 (Item 0, Item 1)

Greetings
Juy Juka

both of your saves indicate you have past the point of meeting paarthurnax. setstage 50.
See wiki http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:The_Throat_of_the_World for quest stages
hopefuly you have a save before you start MQ204
Also post in Mod forum and see if one can triger the path with out using the shout. Also see if the stages for this quest has changed with the last updates.

But a lot has changed with the last few updates as far as dragons go. I have 2 missing atm. One shows up in my quest log. Game thinks it is in game. But the dragon is gone. The pointer is just marking the spot he died long ago. The second dragon is just missing and will not respawn. Been over game 60 days still no respawn. But for the 2 side quest's I have. Setstage can complete them with no problim.

Just did your quest a cpl days ago. All worked just fine. No glitch. But the quest before was a pain. Could not get Esbern to leave the Riverwood Inn.

For your case. Shout Clear Skies is key to the last part of the main quest. So even if you can get Paarthurnax to spawn without the shout. You still have a major problim.

Hello puddumper,

Thank you, I'll have a look and try to fix the quest-stages.
I have enough saves from before.

Greetings
Juy Juka

Hello puddumper,

now I have tried a save where I had not advanced the quest this far. I only had "Stage 10: 1" and everything else 0.
I replayed the quest and got the same result in sqs (already before learing the shout).

I am currently trying to get the word of power "YOL" un-teached, because it could have caused the problem.
Or I am trying to set the states achived as needed (meaning everything from 10 to 25 to the value 1 and everything above to the value 0).

But I don't know either of this console commands. Does anyone have a idea how to set this?

Greetings
Juy Juka

Hello,

I succeded to remove "YOL" but the quest stages still continue "too far" when I talk to Arngeir.
But I discovered a new problem, the stages as listed on www.uesp.net seam not to exist at all.
If I use player.sqs MQ204 I get stage 10, 20, 30, 35, 40, 50, 55, ... but not 25 as it should be.
What's worong here? Anyone any idea?

Greetings
Juy Juka

I'm having trouble with this quest too. I succedeed in clearing the archway with the Clear Skies shout, but was blocked at the wooden bridge halfway up to the Throat of the World. Not only the blizzard there would not clear with the shout (easily overcome by becoming ethereal or using healing spells) but I could not get onto the bridge, like an invisible wall were blocking its access. I got past this with the tcl console command, but no Paarthurnax on top of the mountain... the marker for him was off the mountain top and he was not there. I "summoned" him with console commands "prid 0003c57d" (refid for paarthurnax), "enable" and "moveto player", but the conversation gets stuck after the line "Drem, patience, there are some formalities etc etc..." and the dragon never teaches me the word "yol".

I may just toggle the quest finished, but I'm afraid my main quest may become glithced if I proceed like that.

Hello mazeppa,

with that trick I tried it too, but my main quest broke later again ( the sequence where I should learn dragon fall didn't work).
Just one try, no details and I have no idea if that would happen to you too.

Greetings
Juy Juka

Guys understand "Clear Skies clears ONLY clears fog. If you're using it to try and clear walls or other physical obstructions you're doing it wrong and it won't work. If you run into a wall or other physical obstructions, you'll have to look for another way around. That's the point!

If you're really having a problem with the quest look at a youtube clip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW56mNIZk9g Start around the 6 minute mark. The thing to realize is that there's no clearing any walls away and you must follow a path.

Hope this helps.

Hello sygnus21,

perhaps you missunderstand something. There are 3 (I think) scripted invisible barriers that should disappear when using "clear skies" on them.

Greetings
Juy Juka