Hi. I've recently started playing Skyrim on PC, and have the complete edition with all the DLCs etc.

I'm currently having a bad time on the quest 'The Gardener of Men', which I believe is part of the Dragonborn DLC.

Basically, I've got to the stage where I read the Black Book in Hermaeus Mora's realm. There's some dialogue, in which he gives me the second word of a word of power, and then tells me I need to get some knowledge from The Skall. Hemaeus Mora then disappears, leaving me alone in his realm with an updated quest.

Unfortunately, I have absolutely no idea what to do beyond that point. There is an arrow hovering over the Black Book, but there seems to be absolutely no method of interacting with it, and I cannot leave the realm and return to Neloth. Clicking on the book does nothing.

Either I'm overlooking something really, really obvious here, or there may be some kind of glitch of bug. I don't usually use cheats of any kind while playing games, but I admit that I took a look at the Skkyrim wiki for help. It tells me that I am supposed to see three 'glowing orbs' which give me the option to choose a new shout.. however no orbs appear of any kind.

I have treid reloading from various earlier save points, but with the same result.

I'd be grateful for any assistance.

Thank you.

The book should be on a pedestal and you have to activate it to get the three orbs to appear, which gives you a new power, depending on which orb you choose. After selecting an orb you then either get sent back to Nirn automatically or you need to read the Black Book you read to get to Acophoryia or whatever it's called. Try reading the Black Book in your inventory to return to Nirn if you can't choose an orb. If you return to Nirn, read your Black Book again to return and try activating the book on the pedestal again. Hopefully that will fix your issue. It sounds like a glitch.

Thanks a bunch Darkfire. I did exactly what you suggested, used the book in my inventory to portal out, then went back in - lo and behold, the three portals were there, and this time I was able to interact with them.

Thank you.

No problem mate, with issues like these it's usually a script hasn't run or loaded properly, exiting and returning to the cell reloads them and that usually fixes the problem. When that doesn't work then you need to look at rebooting your console and loading a clean save etc. Most problems are fixed by these methods. It's good to know your problem was fixed easily enough.