"The river runs with poison here. You'll want to stay back while we work our way inside."
Vigrod sent me to help break into the mine."Ssk! The Reach vermin hide behind their magical shield. We must bring it down, for the Pact and glory."
How do we disrupt the shield?"Outside town, dark shamans imbue bodies with corrupt magicka. Take this talisman. Use it to remove the corruption and return the bodies to rest. Then we will turn the Reach's evil against them."
I'll see it done."Too few have the strength to oppose the Reach shamans. Hurry, before they do more evil here."
What are you doing with those effigies?"The other mages and I have been trying to force our way inside. We've been preparing the effigies for a spell of our own. Hssk. Their shamans are powerful. Now, with your arrival, we can strike."
How will gathering their magicka help us?"Mysticism responds strongly to sympathetic acts. Their spell here wards the cave. Symbolically, it's the same energy hulled from the dead. We will set one against the other. Hss."
Why are the Reachmen digging up corpses?"They are mystics. The art of Mysticism allows a Mage to manipulate the flow of magicka. These dark shaman[sic] [Do not change this to shamans. This misspelled word is how it appears in-game.], they pull the corpses from the ground. They drain the remaining magicka from the body."
So they don't care about the actual bodies?"That's right. To these Boneshapers, the body is just the rind of a fruit. They squeeze it with rituals. Drain the last of the river water from the dead."
After destroying the corpses:
"I can hear the magicka singing with the talisman. The effigies are ready to receive your gift."
Now what?"Hssk. Imbue the effigies with the corrupt magicka. That should clear the way into the mine."
And then?"Look for the mine foreman, Gandis. He should know where the Reachmen are hiding, and if any workers survive. But first you must open the way into the mine."
I'm on it."Channel the magicka into the effigies. That should lower the shield that blocks the mine entrance."