Morrowind:Arch-Mage

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Contents 1 Quick Walkthrough 2 Detail Walkthrough 2.1 Becoming Arch-Mage 2.2 Raising to Arch-Mage Peacefully 2.3 Duel With Trebonius 3 Bugs 4 Quest Stages

Your final quest to replace Trebonius as the guildmaster of the Mages Guild.edit Quest Giver: Skink-in-Tree's-Shade/Edwinna Elbert/Trebonius Artorius at the Mages Guild in Wolverine Hall/Ald'ruhn/Vivec Location(s): Wolverine Hall, Ald'ruhn, Vivec Prerequisite Quest: Galur Rithari's Papers/Bethamez/None Next Quest: None Reward: Promotion to Arch-Mage in the Mages Guild Faction Reputation Gain: +0/2 Reputation ID: MG_Guildmaster Required Rank: Wizard/Master Wizard

A duel with Trebonius is one way to become Arch-Mage.

[edit] Quick Walkthrough

• Peacefully:

1. Talk to Skink-in-Tree's-Shade in the Wolverine Hall Mages Guild for duties.
2. Travel to Vivec to deliver a letter to Trebonius Artorius.
3. Give the letter to Trebonius in the Foreign Quarter and be promoted to Arch-Mage.

• Duel to the death:

1. Either talk to Edwinna Elbert in the Ald'ruhn Mages Guild to be directed to Trebonius.
2. Or talk directly to Trebonius about becoming the Arch-Mage.
3. Trebonius will challenge you to a duel to the death in the Arena.
4. Defeat Trebonius to become Arch-Mage.

[edit] Detail Walkthrough

[edit] Becoming Arch-Mage

In order to achieve your last guild rank of Arch-Mage you must replace Trebonius Artorius in the Vivec hall as the guildmaster. This isn't much of a surprise if you're familiar with Trebonius, he seems a bit light headed to be head of the Guild. There are two ways of doing this: peacefully or by a duel to the death.

[edit] Raising to Arch-Mage Peacefully

Once you've finished the Galur Rithari's Papers quest for Skink-in-Tree's-Shade (in the Wolverine Hall Mages Guild), and reached the rank of Master Wizard, talk with Skink to be given a letter from Ocato (spelled correctly this time) that amounts to Trebonius's pink slip (he's being fired by the Empire). In it, Ocato asks Trebonius to promote you to Arch-Mage. Trebonius will, but he won't step down; you end up both being Arch-Mages, and you get +2 Reputation bonus. The downside is the only way you can get his equipment is by doing the Dwemer and Telvanni quests he sets for you.

[edit] Duel With Trebonius

Similarily, if you have finished the Bethamez quest for Edwinna Elbert (in the Ald'ruhn Mages Guild), and reached the rank of Master Wizard, talk to Edwina about duties and be directed to Trebonius in Vivec. He will greet you with a challenge to a duel to the death in the Vivec Arena.

Alternatively, if you have reached the rank of Wizard in the Guild, you can talk directly to Trebonius about becoming the Arch-Mage. He will again challenge you to a duel to the death in the Arena.

Either way, if you can manage to defeat him, you'll become the new Arch-Mage. You'll also get to keep his great equipment, but don't get any reputation points.

[edit] Bugs

• If you killed Trebonius some other way and did not rise to the rank of Arch-Mage, you can open the console in the PC version and enter the command:

PCRaiseRank "Mages Guild"

• • This bug is fixed by the Unofficial Morrowind Patch.
• If you kill Trebonius to become Arch-Mage and then are expelled from the Mages Guild for robbing or killing a guild member, you will still be told that you must talk to the Arch-Mage to regain your standings in the Guild. Unfortunately, Trebonius is now dead, and you can't settle the matter for yourself, so you will be permanently expelled from the Guild unless you use the following console commands to rejoin:

PCClearExpelled
Set ExpMagesGuild to 1

[edit] Quest Stages

These Codes can be used along with the Journal Console Command and Quest ID given above the chart(s) to update the quest to a certain point.

MG_Guildmaster

Index	Journal Entry
10	Edwinna Elbert asked me to talk to Arch-Mage Trebonius.
20	Skink-in-Tree's-Shade asked me to deliver a letter to Arch-Mage Trebonius.
50	Guildmaster Trebonius challenged me to a duel in the Arena in Vivec. The duel is to the death. Whoever wins will be the Guildmaster of the Mages Guild in Vvardenfell.
100	I am the new Arch-Mage of the Guild of Mages in Vvardenfell.