Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24902649-20141207225756/@comment-70.215.73.247-20150131062058

192.26.142.44 wrote: Well logically speaking, it would make a lot of sense for lighting candles/torches/sconces being on their list of things to do while tidying up (but then again why are some draugr tombs in ruins if they're always cleaning them up... that's a different discussion entirely though) but that'd bring up the question "how do torches/sconces/candles in other tombs that draugr /DON'T/ inhabit stay lit? Maybe it could be just magic because there's a pretty decent argument for both sides. I just think that the draugr light their own torches and such and some other force lights the other light sources throughout Skyrim. I guess they are in ruins because draugr didn't bring construction tools into the tombs :P

But to be fair that is just a hypothesis, but with stone construction like used in the tombs you'd need some heavy duty tools plus a supply of new stone to replace crumbling stones.