Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-4057475-20130710075111/@comment-80.25.93.196-20140811162435

As some people have said, probably Vahlok's mask is the wooden one, but to complete a little bit this theory, I'm going to write some ideas that may be correct or may not, but to me they seem probable:

1. When Vahlok died, the mask was carried to Labyrinthian or some place near there by a member of the Dragon Cult or a citizen of Solstheim under Vahlok's orders to prevent it from being stolen by any of his enemies.

2. After years of abandonment without someone to use it, the mask lost a part of its powers. When Vahlok wore it, probably it could control the time somehow, maybe like the "Slow Time" shout or something like that, but now it can only reveal the dragon priests' shrine of Labyrinthian in the past, when it was undefiled and the dragon priests' busts were there.

3. Maybe Vahlok attacks the Dragonborn because he is still a servant of the dragons, or maybe it's just that the Dragonborn's powers are like Miraak's. Or maybe he is just crazy after years of "waiting" near the death. Who knows.