Skyrim:Alteration Ritual Spell

Acquire Kahvozein's Fang and use it to get heartscales from a dragon for Tolfdir. Quest Giver: Tolfdir Location(s): College of Winterhold, Reward: Dragonhide spell tome, master-level Alteration spells available for purchase ID: MGRitual05 Prerequisites: Level 90 Alteration, Dragon Rising

A dragon skeleton, ideal for harvesting heartscales

Quick Walkthrough

1. Talk to Tolfdir in the College of Winterhold when your Alteration skill is 90 or higher.
2. Find Kahvozein's Fang.
3. Harvest dragon heartscales.
4. Return to Tolfdir.

Detailed Walkthrough

Kahvozein's Fang

To start this quest, you must have an Alteration skill of 90 or higher. Speak with Tolfdir, and ask if there is anything new he can teach you. He tells you he has been working on a new spell, but to complete his research, he needs heartscales cut from a dragon's skeleton, which can only be done using a dagger called Kahvozein's Fang. He tasks you with retrieving the blade, which can be found in a radiant dragon priest dungeon.

Possible dungeons include Forelhost, High Gate Ruins, Lost Valkygg, Ragnvald, Valthume, and Volskygge.

The Heartscales

Once you have the dagger, you must locate a dragon's corpse, either by killing one or finding the remains of a previously-deceased dragon. It is not necessary to slay a dragon using Kahvozein's Fang; you need only equip the dagger in your right hand (it won't work with your left hand) and loot the creature's corpse. The heartscales will automatically be added to your inventory.

Once you have the scales, bring them back to Tolfdir. He will reward you with the Dragonhide spell tome, and will now sell the Mass Paralysis spell tome.

Notes

• It is possible to find Kahvozein's Fang in a dungeon and collect heartscales from a dragon's corpse before the quest is given.
• Once the quest is complete, you can continue to use the Fang to collect a heartscale from each dragon corpse, in addition to the standard dragon loot. These scales can't be used for crafting, but are no longer quest items and can be sold to vendors.
• It is necessary to complete Dragon Rising in order to find a dragon suitable for heartscale harvesting. Although the Skeletal Dragon and Durnehviir can be found and defeated beforehand, neither yield scales of any kind.

Bugs

• In your quest log, this quest is mistakenly decorated with the Side Quests knotwork (as displayed in the quest header), instead of the correct College of Winterhold knotwork that is shown on all other college quests. This does not have any known effect on gameplay. In particular, this quest is not considered to be a Side Quest for the purpose of the Sideways achievement.
  Mod Notes: The quest Type is "None" instead of "Mages Guild"
  • This bug is fixed by version 1.2.1 of the Unofficial Skyrim Patch.
• After retrieving the heart scales, it is possible that you will not be able to talk to Tolfdir and you will be unable to finish the quest. ^?

Quest Stages

Alteration Ritual Spell (MGRitual05)
Stage	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
10		Tolfdir is working on a new Master Alteration spell, and has asked for my help. He wants to study dragon heartscales, but in order to collect them I'll first need to obtain a special dagger known as Kahvozein's Fang. (Objective is assigned): Use Kavohzein's Fang to collect Heartscales
20		At Tolfdir's request, I've used Kahvozein's Fang to collect dragon heartscales. Hopefully this will help him to create the new Alteration spell he's been working on. (Objective is assigned): Bring Dragon Heartscales to Tolfdir
200		I've assisted Tolfdir in his research by collecting dragon heartscales, which he needed to figure out a new Alteration spell. As a reward for helping him, he's given me the first copy of the tome.

• The following empty quest stages were omitted from the table: 30, 40.

 

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 MGRitual05 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 MGRitual05.