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There are alot of people who think they have gotten the IWHBYD skull, and in fact have not. The confusing part is that you do not get awarded the skull just for picking it up, you have to then defeat the 27 silver elites that follow in the arena battle that takes place. If you die during that battle, you do not get the skull. If you did defeat them, and the text appeared then you got granted the skull.
What the skull does is add dialogue to the game, and nothing else. The marines and the covenant say different (and often funny things) in the course of gameplay, and when you swap weapons with them. If you stand there and keep swapping weapons with someone they typically will go through all of their dialogue over the course of a few minutes. Some characters have more additional lines than others. There is no effect on Cortana or the Prophets, or any other "I cannot be killed by anything" character in the game (Johnson, HalfJaw etc..).
You also have to be playing on Legendary when you attempt to get the skull for it to be awarded to you. It does not give it to you on any other difficulty setting (just like the other skulls). If you have further difficulty, I have detailed out pretty thoroughly how to get to the skull, and how to get it after that, as have others. Feel free to give me a shout out.