Why arent my shouts unlocking?

If the shout you're trying to unlock is three words long, you may need three souls to unlock it. You may have the wrong shout selected. Skyrim's UI is tricky sometimes, and you'll have a different menu item highlighted than you think.
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How do I unlock new shouts?

In order to unlock shouts in Skyrim, players will need to complete an early main mission, then collect dragon souls to unlock Words of Power. Each Dragon Shout in Skyrim requires players to locate and unlock three specific Words of Power.
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Why won't my shouts work in Skyrim?

Look at your controls settings, maybe Shout isn't mapped to RB. Have you unlocked the shout in the magic menu? If you're not sure, go to Magic -> Shouts -> Unrelenting Force. You should know the first word, but if it is greyed out, you need to spend the dragon soul first by pressing (X).
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How many dragon souls does it take to unlock a shout?

Each dragon shout requires three words of power to be fully unlocked, and each word can be found at different Word Walls. Each word will require one dragon soul to be unlocked. You can acquire dragon souls by defeating dragons.
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How do I activate dragon Shouts?

To use a shout, it must first be selected from the Shouts or Favorites menu (only one shout or Power can be selected at a time). The shout can then be used by pressing the Dragon Shout/Power button. Once the second and third words of a shout are unlocked, the shout can be "charged" by holding the shout button down.
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How do you unlock shouts with console commands?

You can add shouts to your character using the console command addshout or player. teachword . After learning a word you will need to unlock it in your skills menu using a dragon soul. Alternatively, you can use the player.
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What is the best shout in Skyrim?

Skyrim: The Best Shouts In The Game, Ranked
  1. 1 Become Ethereal. It's hard to find a shout that allows players to decide exactly how they want to engage with enemies and situations as Become Ethereal can.
  2. 2 Unrelenting Force. ...
  3. 3 Slow Time. ...
  4. 4 Bend Will. ...
  5. 5 Dragon Aspect. ...
  6. 6 Soul Tear. ...
  7. 7 Summon Durnehviir. ...
  8. 8 Marked For Death. ...
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Can't learn new shouts Skyrim?

To actually learn a new shout, once you have discovered the word wall and have a dragon soul to use, you need to manually activate it in the shouts menu. Select the shout and press the Activate button.
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Which shout is Fus Ro Dah?

Skyrim: Dragon Shouts - Unrelenting Force [FUS-RO-DAH] - YouTube.
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What happens when you learn all the shouts in Skyrim?

Not surprisingly, the Shout increases in strength as you learn more words, culminating in a longer and more powerful version of the Shout once all three Words are combined. The individual words of each Shout are learned from Word Walls in the world. Once you find a word, you must unlock it with a Dragon soul to use it.
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How do you activate shouts in Skyrim?

Once you kill one, you'll automatically absorb its soul. Now head to your Magic menu and scroll down to Shouts. Imbue the desired shout with a dragon soul, and equip it. Once this is done, you can press R2/RB to activate it (or R1 if you're playing Skyrim: Special Edition on PS4).
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Why can't I shout at the greybeards?

This is how shouts are usually learned in Skyrim. Absorbing the dragon soul just lets you "unlock" a word of power that you already have. So you would need to learn the shout at the wall, then use the dragon soul to unlock it.
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Do you need dragon souls to shout in Skyrim?

You need dragon souls to unlock shouts. You can unlock them in the magic tab, under "Shouts." As for actually using shouts, you can use them as much as you like, but each shout has its own cooldown, and you can't use any other shout until that cooldown is over.
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How many shouts are there?

In order to learn a shout you need to take words from word walls and infuse them with dragon souls which have been absorbed from dragons you have killed. There are 20 Shouts total which can be learned over the course of the game.
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Do dragons stop appearing in Skyrim?

The dragons never stop spawning. You can easily test this by just travelling to various dragon nests, you can kill dragons at those spots over and over again.
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How many dragons are in Skyrim?

There are only five dragons you must fight to complete the game although plenty more will attack you while trying to progress from one point to another. There are even a number of unique dragons that will attack in service to their Lord Alduin but these are covered in the following section.
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Who created Dragonrend?

During the great Dragon War in ages past, the Dragonrend shout was crafted by the first mortal Tongues—Gormlaith Golden-Hilt, Hakon One-Eye, and Felldir the Old, who had learned the usage of the Thu'um from Paarthurnax to be used as a powerful weapon against dragons.
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What is Dragonborn Frost?

Effect. "Your Frost Breath Shout encases foes in ice." Unlike Ice Form, this Power allows the Dragonborn to use Frost Breath to encase an enemy in ice that will not break after a single hit, making it much more useful.
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Should I choose Dragonborn force flame or frost?

Depends on the kind of enemy. I use force against regular fighters such as bandits. But against the ones which are vulnerable to fire such as draugrs, I use flame. I prefer frost magic in general.
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Why is my bend will shout not working?

Make sure you are using all three words of the shout, as any less will be completely ineffective. If it continues not to work, try killing yourself in Apocrypha so you are forced back to Solstheim, then re-enter the black book and try again.
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What shout does Ulfric use?

If you'd listened to what he said you'd know he used Unrelenting Force (Fus Ro Dah) to knock him down then stuck a sword in him.
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What does Fus Ro Dah mean?

Unrelenting Force "Fus Ro Dah" is the first Dragon shout the player learns in the game. Fus means "Force". Ro means "Balance" and Dah means "Push". The effect of the shout varies, Fus will only stagger enemies in front of the player, "Fus Ro" will push back, "Fus Ro Dah" will send them in the air flying.
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Do all shouts have 3 words?

Yes, all shouts involve 3 words. Here is releveant information on the words: You can learn thu'um words even if you dont have dragon souls. However dragonsouls are needed to activate a shout word.
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How do you reduce Shout cooldown?

Find An Amulet Of Talos

To pull off the first of these exploits, you are going to need an Amulet of Talos, which reduces Shout cooldown time by 20% when worn. Radiant Raiment in Solitude will very often have one in stock but may require resetting their inventory to find one.
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