Skyrim:Erik the Slayer (quest)

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Help Erik become an adventurer. Quest Giver: Erik Location(s): Rorikstead Reward: A potential follower ID: RoriksteadFreeform

Erik lamenting over his situation

Quick Walkthrough

1. Talk to Erik in Rorikstead.
2. Convince Mralki to allow Erik to become an adventurer.
3. Return to Erik

Detailed Walkthrough

Erik the Farmer

Erik can be found staying in the Frostfruit Inn in the evening or working as a farmer for Lemkil in the small settlement of Rorikstead. He will be glad to see you, another adventurer: "You look like you've seen your share of adventure. I envy you that." In fact, he wants to be an adventurer like you, but his father, Mralki doesn't agree. Not only the farm needs him, but also his family couldn't afford to buy armor. He hopes you can talk to his father and change his mind.

Mralki is the innkeeper of Frostfruit Inn and you can find him there. Obviously, he worries about his son a lot. "My son? Erik? What about him? Did something happen? Is he alright?" You may talk to him in two ways:

Option	Dialogue
You should let your son choose the life he wants.	But the world is a dangerous place. Erik has no idea what he's getting himself into. What's more, he's got no armor. I'll have to save up the money for it.
Your days of exploiting your son are over.	Exploiting? What's that supposed to mean? Erik works the farm because he's a good lad! I'm not forcing him to stay here. I know that he wants a life of adventure, but I've told him before that I can't afford to buy him armor.

Then you may choose to persuade or intimidate him with you Speech skills. You can also give him some gold for the cost of armor.

Option	Dialogue				Reaction
Here, use this to buy some armor. (Bribe)	Passed: You would give your own coin to help my son? I'm moved by your compassion. Your kind deed will not go unrewarded, my friend. Tell Erik I've changed my mind, and we'll visit Whiterun soon to fit him for armor. Failed: I appreciate the gesture, but I'd rather not be in debt to a stranger.				Passed: Return to Erik Failed: Nothing
You'd prefer your son to grow bitter and resent you? (Persuade)	Passed: I... I cannot deny the truth of what you say. Erik is all the family that I have left, but it's wrong to hold him back as I have. Go and tell Erik that I've changed my mind. I'll see about borrowing some money in Whiterun for his armor. Failed: Perhaps you should let a father decide what is best for his own son.				Passed: Return to Erik Failed: Nothing
Find the money, or you'll have me to deal with. (Intimidate)	Passed: Ah, I see. I've just remembered that I saved a few septims in case of an emergency. This is starting to feel like one. Tell Erik that I've changed my mind, and we'll visit Whiterun soon to fit him for armor. And please don't hurt me! Failed: Go ahead, hit me as often as you want. It's not going to change anything, other than to make me and the town guard angry.				Passed: Return to Erik Failed: Nothing
On second thought, let's talk about this another time.	Another time, or not at all. It's really none of your business, after all.				Nothing

Erik the Slayer

Bring the good news to Erik and he will be very excited. "I'll hope you'll come back to Rorikstead soon and pay me a visit. Maybe we can swap stories about our adventures over a mug of ale at the inn!" The next you see him, he will be equipped with a set of Iron Armor and you can also ask him to be your follower.

Notes

• Giving gold for the armor counts as a bribe towards the "Snake Tongue" achievement.

Quest Stages

Erik the Slayer (RoriksteadFreeform)
Stage	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
10		(Objective is assigned): Talk to Mralki about Erik
20		(Objective is assigned): Return to Erik
30

• The following empty stages were omitted from the table: 0, 5 and 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 RoriksteadFreeform 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 RoriksteadFreeform.