Oblivion:Bravil Recommendation

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Contents 1 Quick Walkthrough 2 Detailed Walkthrough 2.1 Bravil Mages Guild 2.2 Varon Vamori 2.3 The Imperial City 3 Notes 4 Bugs 5 Journal Entries

Recover a fellow mage's staff to obtain a recommendation from Bravil. edit Quest Giver: Kud-Ei at Bravil Location(s): Bravil Mages Guild and the Imperial City Reward: Bravil Recommendation and Captivate spell Fame/Infamy: Fame +1 ID: MG03Illusion

The Mages Guild on a normal Bravil evening

[edit] Quick Walkthrough

1. Speak with Kud-Ei, she will ask for help recovering a guild member's stolen mage's staff.
2. Find the suspect and get him to admit to taking the staff and selling it.
3. Deliver the news about the staff being stolen to Kud-Ei.
4. Travel to the Imperial City and find the buyer of the staff.
5. Purchase back the staff or persuade the buyer's wife to help you.
6. Return to Kud-Ei with the staff for her recommendation and a new spell, Captivate.

[edit] Detailed Walkthrough

[edit] Bravil Mages Guild

Speak with Kud-Ei in the Bravil Mages Guild about her recommendation for you. She wants you to go talk with Varon Vamori concerning the theft of Ardaline's Mage's Staff. In order to get the quest, make sure you talk to Kud-Ei about: Ardaline, Varon Vamori, and Mage's Staff. She'll give you a Beguile scroll (providing a Charm effect) in case Varon is not cooperative.

[edit] Varon Vamori

Varon is either in the guild, at home north of the Mages Guild, in the chapel, or in the Silverhome on the Water inn. Confront him about Ardaline; he'll not readily admit anything unless his disposition towards you is at least 65 (using the charm scroll or any other means available to you). Once his disposition is high enough, he'll admit that he took her staff and sold it to Soris Arenim in the Talos Plaza District of the Imperial City. Return to Kud-Ei, and inform her about Varon selling the staff. She'll give you three more Beguile scrolls and order you to retrieve the staff, discretely of course.

[edit] The Imperial City

Find Soris' house in the Talos Plaza and confront him about the staff. If his disposition is low he will refuse to give up the staff. Raise his disposition (up to 70 or so), possibly using the charm scrolls, and he'll hand over the staff for a little cash (200 gold). Alternatively, you can talk to Soris' wife, Erissare Arenim: with a sufficiently high disposition she'll reveal that the staff is in a chest (although it is actually kept in a set of drawers) in the basement, and the key is in his desk (upstairs), although the chest can simply be lockpicked or opened by spell. Return with the staff to Kud-Ei to earn her recommendation as well as giving you a spell, Captivate. (This spell is not much of a reward, as a comparable Charm spell would normally cost 1/6th the magicka to cast. Indeed, Delphine Jend, also in Bravil Mages Guild, sells a more effective, lower cost Charm spell if you want it.)

[edit] Notes

• Kud-Ei generally has a large number of conversation choices, so you will need to scroll down to see the options for "Varon Vamori" and "Mages Staff". Both of these must be selected to further the recommendation quest.
• For an interesting variation, pay the 200 gold for the staff and then turn around and pick pocket your 200 gold plus some extra back.
• It is not necessary to use the provided Beguile scrolls to complete the quest. Any method of increasing disposition, whether it be bribery, persuasion or charm, is appropriate.

[edit] Bugs

Kud-Ei is the quest-giver for both this quest and Through A Nightmare, Darkly. Trying to do both of these quests at the same time can be problematic. In particular, if you have started "Through a Nightmare, Darkly", the recommendation quest may not even appear in your journal, and the recommendation dialogues will probably not be available. If the recommendation quest disappears, possible solutions include:

• Complete the quest "Through a Nightmare, Darkly", then return to Kud-Ei after the quest is done. The recommendation quest should now be available.
• On the PC, you can use the Console command setstage 0002D936 10 to set the recommendation quest back to the starting stage. This is best if you have not yet told Kud-Ei that you are ready to follow her to Henantier's house. Kud-Ei will then stop talking about "Through a Nightmare, Darkly", until you finish the recommendation quest, at which point you can proceed with that quest as normal.

[edit] Journal Entries

Stage	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
Bravil Recommendation (MG03Illusion)
10		I've been given a charm scroll, and need to use it to help persuade Varon Varmori in Bravil to return Ardaline's staff.
20		Varon Vamori admitted to taking Ardaline's staff, but has sold it to a friend in the Imperial City. I need to deliver this news to Kud-Ei.
30		Kud-Ei has given me several more scrolls, and asked me to get the staff back. I need to find Soris Arenim in the Imperial City.
40		I've spoken with Erissare Arenim. She told me that Soris has the staff in the basement of their house.
50		I've spoken with Soris Arenim. He will not give back the staff, but will sell it for 200 gold. If I choose to buy it back, I need to pay him the money.
60		I've paid Soris Arenim, and he has given me Ardaline's staff. I need to deliver the staff to Kud-Ei in Bravil.
90		I've stolen the staff from Soris Arenim's house. I need to deliver it to Kud-Ei in Bravil.
100	0	I have delivered Ardaline's staff to Kud-Ei, and have earned a recommendation for it.

Notes

• 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 random order.
• 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 quest stage. Where quest is the internal name of the quest, and stage is the number of the stage you wish to complete. It is not possible to un-complete (i.e. go back) quest stages. See SetStage for more information.

Next: There are seven Mages Guild recommendation quests that can be completed in any order: Anvil Recommendation Bravil Recommendation Bruma Recommendation Cheydinhal Recommendation Chorrol Recommendation Leyawiin Recommendation Skingrad Recommendation Once all seven are completed, your induction into the Mages Guild is completed by: A Mage's Staff