Skyrim:Kill the Bandit Leader

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Do a favor by slaying a bandit leader. Quest Giver: Radiant Location(s): Radiant Disposition: min 1 (quest giver) ID: Favor104

Radiant Options

This is a radiant quest which you can receive from any of the following four people. The dungeon is randomly determined based on the quest-giver's hold.

QuestGiver	QuestGiverHome	Dungeon(s)	Rewards
Ahtar	Jala's House (Solitude)	Broken Oar Grotto	500-1500 Gold and he'll follow
Annekke Crag-Jumper	Verner and Annekke's House (Eastmarch)	Cragslane Cavern, Gallows Rock, Lost Knife Hideout, Stony Creek Cave, Uttering Hills Camp	+1 to Light Armor skill and she'll follow
Brunwulf Free-Winter	Brunwulf Free-Winter's House (Windhelm)	Cragslane Cavern, Gallows Rock, Lost Knife Hideout, Stony Creek Cave, Uttering Hills Camp	+1 to Heavy Armor skill and 750 Gold
Fanari Strong-VoiceDB	Greathall (Skaal Village)	Bloodskal Barrow, Brodir Grove, Damphall Mine, Hrodulf's House, Wreck of the Strident Squall[verification needed]	Leveled gold[verification needed]

Notes

• Important: If you kill Captain Hargar by finishing the quest Lights Out! or by cleaning out that cave without the quest then Ahtar won't give you his quest and never becomes your follower.
• The quest Harsh Master can have identical quest objectives.
• The potential quest givers are identified based on membership in the Favor104QuestGiverFaction faction.

Bugs

• (Brunwulf Free-Winter/Uttering Hills camp version) If you have already completed Summerset Shadows for the Thieves Guild, you will be unable to complete this quest, as the bandit leader Linwe will already be dead, but there will be an objective arrow pointing to him as if he still needs to be killed.
  • Selecting Linwe's body in the console then typing resurrect will bring him back to life as soon as you resume the game. Killing him again will then count for the quest completion. (Doesn't work if you have already received the favor quest, as resurrecting Linwe -- before or after entering the cave -- doesn't put the quest arrow back on him and killing him again doesn't complete the quest)
  • If Linwe's body has already disappeared, typing setstage Favor104 15 in the console will advance the quest.
  • If setstage Favor104 15 doesn't help you, type the following commands: prid C5688 and then kill. This should select the original quest target and kill him for you, advancing the quest to the next stage.
• (Brunwulf Free-Winter/Gallows Rock version) Gallows Rock is where The Silver Hand quest takes place for the Companions. Upon re-entering the area, the enemies had respawned and Krev the Skinner had respawned and doubles as the bandit leader that Brunwulf Free-Winter is referring to.
  • This bug is fixed by version 1.3.1 of the Unofficial Skyrim Patch.
• Annekke Crag-Jumper may not give this radiant quest, even if the player has no other active quests that could possibly conflict with it. This renders it impossible to recruit her as a follower. ^?

Quest Stages

Kill the Bandit Leader (Favor104)
Stage	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
10		(Objective is assigned): Kill the leader of <Alias=Dungeon>
15		(Objective is assigned): Tell <Alias.ShortName=Questgiver> the bandit is dead
20

• The following empty quest stages were omitted from the table: 0, 200.

 

Notes

• Any text displayed in angle brackets (e.g., <Alias=LocationHold>) is dynamically set by the Radiant Quest system, and will be filled in with the appropriate word(s) when seen in game.
• Not all Journal Entries may appear in your journal; which entries appear and which entries do not depends on the manner in which the quest is done.
• Stages are not always in order of progress. This is usually the case with quests that have multiple possible outcomes or quests where certain tasks may be done in any order. Some stages may therefore repeat objectives seen in other stages.
• If an entry is marked as "Finishes Quest" it means the quest disappears from the Active Quest list, but you may still receive new entries for that quest.
• On the PC, it is possible to use the console to advance through the quest by entering setstage Favor104 stage, where stage is the number of the stage you wish to complete. It is not possible to un-complete (i.e. go back) quest stages, but it is possible to clear all stages of the quest using resetquest Favor104.

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