Skyrim talk:A Daedra's Best Friend

new comment; fixed missing barbas with console

Im bad at wiki stuff but i had a glitch where Barbas would NOT SPAWN after talking to Lod and having the 'Look for Dog' misc quest. I was able to solve it by using starquest DA03 and setstage DA03 10, even though 20 did not work, and theres no step 10 on this wiki. I was just trying stuff randomly. This worked, even completed the Misc quest properly and Barbas functioned normally instead of just standing there silently, as he did if I tried to just place him there through placeatme. So if someone could perhaps add the mention that stage 10 of DAO3 seems to complete the intro quest... thanks. Otherwise, this comment may still help another person someday.

Dog is unkillable

take the quest. get the dog. dog is unkillable. there are many ways to get rid of him (i.e. complete quest, tell him to gtfo, or simply attack him), but who will? may be especially useful for someone who tries to stay away from all those dumb and drunk nords with their rebellion, all those greedy and corrupted imperial dogs, as well as honorable, but naive companions, and even dragons, as far as possible. not that this pretend to be complete and detailed description of quest. just a hint what may be worth to write about. — Unsigned comment by 95.72.138.71 (talk) at 13:33 on 16 November 2011

New comment

When I first entered Falkreath, the quest was not initiated even though I roamed extensively and pursued every dialog path with the blacksmith. I think I was about level 6 or 7. When I returned, about level 9 or 10, a guard inside the town mentioned the missing dog, allowing me to initiate the quest. Oldmanleschi 05:08, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Other Wishes

When Clavicus Vile offers you a wish after "curing" his vampire followers, does anyone know what happens if you choose power or peace or whatever the other options are instead of helping Barbas?49.225.136.68 08:23, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

I decided I may as well answer my own question, if anyone else is interested, choosing Power makes him say that you are already more powerful than most people, about as powerful as him. Peace makes him say that he would do that, by killing everybody, but he isn't strong enough. Afterwards, the quest continues normally.49.224.154.234 12:14, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

And for the record, completing the quest with the other dialogue options selected will result in Clavicus Vile threatening either to let the dragons continue their work, thus killing everybody in Skyrim (Peace), or to bind your soul to the axe (Power). After a pause, he gives in and offers the Masque as usual.31.205.60.14 16:20, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Do I have to?

My quest journal says 'Retrieve the Rueful Axe with Barbas.' I, however, find Barbas to be the worst companion ever, and I really don't want to have him in my company one moment longer than necesary. Will the quest still work if I go on my own? 68.92.156.190 01:33, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

My opinion - Barbas was one of the best. By the time I finished looting the back-trails he had almost cleared the Statue room of mage-types. For me, as a Combat player, this was a real boon (I HATE Ice Spike). Regarding your question, try that approach after you start a new game and let us know. Han 19:20, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Oh - you mean when actually going to retrieve the axe. Yeah, then he IS kind of a pain - especially if you need to do other things first - because he's always nudging you and barking, and getting in your way. I just jump over him :) Han 21:43, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Funny as I had the same idea of leaving him behind when I was told to get the Rueful Axe. It's on the northern tip of Skyrim, so I am not too happy with the distance either, imagine having Barbas pushing me all the time. Alas, I chose to stick to him, as otherwise he might disappear on me and ruin the quest. -F. — Unsigned comment by 187.67.226.140 (talk) at 17:53 on 23 January 2013

Bug

I lost the axe and cannot complete the quest. No way of returnig the axe nor killing Barbas. 84.208.151.161 18:15, 16 January 2012 (UTC) Imwer

Barbas won't stop following

It seems that If you choose the "I've got things to do" dialogue option during your initial encounter with Barbas, he will instruct you to meet him near Haemar's Shame if you change your mind. Despite this, he continues to follow you and will not obey the "Wait here" command. —Vinifera7 07:37, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Bugged boss location in Haemar's Shame?

I initially decided not to follow Barbas to the first dungeon after the initial meeting. I returned to this quest a long time later by traveling there directly. When I arrived at the statute, Barbas was fighting the boss in the sealed area behind the statute (ie the back exit to the dungeon behind a gate controlled by the chain on the wall). Barbas had corned the boss in the very back of this area, so it actually wasn't possible to assist the battle with melee weapons: approaching the fight would force you to leave the dungeon to the outside world. Anyone else seen this before, and if so, perhaps it should be noted on the Bugs section of the page? Cappo 20:13, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

I don't think so, as I believe this situation is very rare. Wolok gro-Barok 13:07, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Sounds like Barbas somehow pushed the guy he was fighting through the gate.Sulhir (talk) 05:09, 23 September 2012 (GMT)

No Barbas...

Barbas wont show up, no matter how much I search for him. Have been looking for him where he should be, where he shouldn't be and everywhere else. Really frustrating, can't start the quest! — Unsigned comment by 87.93.64.75 (talk) at 11:03 on 21 May 2012

This happened to me too, although in my case, I probably had it coming. Since the game more or less forces this quest on you when you enter Falkreath, and Lod asks you about the dog before you can get to his sale menu, it's probably rather common to just tell Lod you'll search for the dog without going out and immediately talking to Barbas, simply because you had better things to do and only went into Falkreath in order to sell stuff to Lod.

To be specific, I didn't have time to do an entire Daedric quest just so I could sell something, so I just fast traveled away once I'd talked to Lod so I wouldn't have to deal with Barbas. And... lo and behold, when I finally decided to tackle the quest, Barbas was nowhere to be seen, and in fact, the quest marker pointing to him was gone... Not that I really regret taking the path that I did. My philosphy is, there's no shame in not immediately throwing yourself into a quest that the game forces you to take part in before you're ready.

That being said, anyone know a console command that will spawn Barbas in front of me so I can do the quest?

Vellup 10:10, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

A full list of console commands can be found here. Kitkat ^{•Talk•Contrib•E-mail} 10:41, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Spawning an additional copy of an NPC that already exists in the game is not recommended. Better that you player.moveto him than player.placeatme him. The placeatme commmand creates a copy, it does not move the original actor. A particular problem since Barbas is flagged as essential and you could create quite a few of them running around your world with this - causing who knows what kind of problems with the game and to poor Tamriel. Sulhir (talk) 05:11, 23 September 2012 (GMT)

Achievement

Do both the artifacts count towards the achievement for getting all artifacts — Unsigned comment by 68.231.197.3 (talk) at 21:20 on 27 May 2012

Check this page for a complete list. --Krusty 22:44, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Both the Rueful Axe and The Masque

YES IT IS POSSIBLE. New glitch found.

Upon entering Haemers shame with the axe you have to make the choice to kill Barbas or save him. Get to the end of Clavicus' dialog where you make the choice then click "No way, take Barbas back", quickly back out of the dialogue use slow time and exit Haemers shame out the back, fast travel to Whiterun and use slow time again whilst running to breeze home. When inside breeze home place the axe on the weapon rack and the quest will still finish like normal.

AFTER THIS Barbas will dissapear in the conjuration purple smoke. RETURN to Haemers shame and the quest will finish completely and you will receive the Masque of Clavicus Vile. — Unsigned comment by KingK (talk • contribs) at 17:47 on 6 July 2012

NICE. Verified on Xbox360. The first time I tried it, it acted a little buggy - when I returned after racking the Axe in Whiterun, Vile said the "have my boon" line, but then nothing happened. I Waited an hour, and then the Masque was added to my inventory and the quest completed. The weird thing was that Barbas remained in living dog form and the statue of Vile disappeared completely. That bothered me, so even though I had successfully acquired both artifacts, I reloaded and tried again. The second time through, I had no issues. Great find. username12345 02:00, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

There are a few others involving the same sort of process for the Wabbajack and Wuuthrad, Aslo found by me :) KingK^Talk 16:47, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Talking to Lod

To talk to Lod about Barbas you don't have to complete the quest. If you tell Barbas I have things to do and then talk to Lod he will also give you a reward. — Unsigned comment by 82.73.72.148 (talk) at 19:33 on 26 July 2012

Moved Note

The following note was recently placed on the page:

"* It´s possible to keep both artifacts:

1. At the end of the quest, decide not to kill Barbas, then instantly exit the dialogue and use the Slow Time shout.
2. Run out the cave and fast travel to any location with a weapon rack (e.g., Breezehome, or any home you own).
3. Use the shout again, run into the house and place the axe in the weapon rack.
4. Barbas will disappear; enter the cave again. The quest will finish and you will receive the mask."

While it seems reasonable in some ways, it seems to run counter to most of the item-removal scripts I've seen, which wouldn't give one nearly enough time to do all of this, as well as quite likely to cause bugs when the quest tries to remove an object you don't have, and, if it works at all, like it would require exquisite timing.

Since it also needs a fair bit of formatting, I've moved it here until it can be verified and rewritten, rather than simply adding a VN tag to it.--TheAlbinoOrc (talk) 09:42, 6 October 2012 (GMT)

It worked. Xbox 360. You clearly have enough time but you need the Slow Time shout. --SRX2 (talk) 12:19, 6 October 2012 (GMT)

Of course it works read my posts further up the page. I found this glitch myself (Sorry for not signing, im on a library comp. You get plenty of time to do this, the slow time just makes his dialogue slow down therefore increasing the time it takes for the quest to finish. KingK