Daggerfall:The Artifact

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Contents 1 Quick Walkthrough 2 Detailed Walkthrough 2.1 Quest Offer 2.2 Quest Acceptance 2.3 Quest Decline 2.4 Quest Object 2.5 Quest End 3 Notes

Embark on a quest for a legendary artifact.edit Location(s): Any Questgiver of your Knight Order Reward: Either Auriel's Bow, Auriel's Shield or the Lord's Mail Reputation Gain: +5 reputation with your Knight Order Required Reputation: 71 Reputation or more Difficulty: Hard

[edit] Quick Walkthrough

1. Talk to a questgiver of your Knight Order.
2. Head to the dungeon the questgiver points you to.
3. Find and talk to the witch.
4. Head to the town the witch points you to.
5. Kidnap her great granddaughter from the palace there.
6. Bring her back to the witch.
7. Head to the new dungeon the witch points you to.
8. Find and retrieve the artifact you came for.

[edit] Detailed Walkthrough

[edit] Quest Offer

Questgiver:

A rumor has surfaced as to the whereabouts of an ancient artifact of power. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Are you up to it, (Brother/Sister)?

[edit] Quest Acceptance

Questgiver goes on:

I thought I detected the gleam of ambition in your eyes (player's first name). Supposedly, a witch living deep in the bowels of (dungeon) has discovered a clue about where to find this thing. I'd start with her.

[edit] Quest Decline

Questgiver answers:

Not the ambitious type, eh? Some other lucky knight will be sure to snap this one up.

[edit] Quest Object

Head to dungeon the questgiver points you to and find the witch. Talk to her and she offers you informations where to find either Auriel's Bow, Auriel's Shield or the Lord's Mail. In return she wants you to kidnap her great granddaughter, because the child shall succeed the witch in the near future. The problem is, the child's parents don't know of her lineage and therefore won't hand their daughter over without a fight. Travel to the palace and enter it during the opening hours between 10:00 and 18:00. You don't need to lockpick the entrance or have an Open spell if you do so. Find the girl, who will be at the first floor of the palace grab her and make your escape. If you loiter to long at the palace the guards might try to stop you and take the girl back. You could hand her over, but that would blow the quest naturally. Travel back to the witch and be prepared for some knights and battlemages within the dungeon near the entrance. Again, they will try to get the girl back. After you handed the girl to the witch, she will tell you where to find the artifact. Head to that new dungeon and find the artifact within. It will look like some other rusty dungeon equipment lying on the floor, so you may use the "Info Mod" (by default the F3-key) when you come across such equipment to check it. It will say "You see a Auriel's Bow" etc. when you have the artifact at your feet. Just pick it up and your quest is completed successfully.

[edit] Quest End

Upon retrieving the artifact a message pops up saying:

Your quest is complete.

[edit] Notes

• The time limit of this quest is not currently known.
• The witch is a member of the Glenmorial Coven and can therefore summon Hircine for you. The costs of the summoning depend on your Reputation with the coven. However the witch does not offer you any quests.
• The artifact you can get at the end of the quest is determined already at the beginning of the quest, like all components in every single quest within Daggerfall. So it makes no sense to reload the game and talk to the witch again, if she promises an artifact you don't want. You will always get the same artifact at the end. You only can change the artifact if you get this quest again from a questgiver.
• You can embark on a quest for a specific artifact as often as you want, even if you have the artifact already. Therefore you could have three exemplars of the Lord's Mail at the same time, for example, unlike the artifacts in later Elder Scrolls games.