Skyrim:Missing Merchant

A powerful set of armor has come on the market. Quest Giver: The innkeeper of Candlehearth Hall (Elda Early-Dawn or Nils) Location(s): Windhelm, Traitor's Post Reward: Daedric mail set, optionally Ring of Masser ID: ccBGSSSE051_Quest Added by: Alternative Armors - Daedric Mail

An incriminating scene

Quick Walkthrough

1. Speak to an innkeeper or wait for a courier.
2. Kill Erwan at Traitor's Post and obtain Erwan's Journal and the Ring of Masser.
3. Obtain the set of Daedric mail armor from Ma'dran.

Detailed Walkthrough

Speak to an innkeeper and ask them for work. You will be handed a note titled Missing Merchant and the quest begins.

You learn that the jarl has put out a call for aid regarding the disappearance of a merchant, Gunther Frost-Foot, who was last seen in the area of Traitor's Post east of Windhelm. You will be tasked to go there and investigate.

Traitor's Post, a destroyed cabin, is currently home to a gang of bandits led by a Breton female named Erwan. Upon killing Erwan, you will be prompted to loot her body and read her journal. Erwan, it seems, is quite disturbed, and currently considers the corpse of Gunther to be her "best friend". She mentions in passing that she sold a suit of Daedric mail to a Khajiit caravaner named Ma'dran, but that he should be willing to trade the armor for a ring she currently possesses. This ring is the Ring of Masser, which you will find on Gunther's naked corpse within the cabin.

You will be prompted to track down Ma'dran, whose trade caravan travels between Windhelm and Solitude. You then have the choice of either trading the ring to him for a set of Daedric mail armor, or paying 5,000 gold for the armor. The ring has a base value of 5,211, so this is a fair trade if you don't wish to keep it. The quest will complete once you have obtained the set of armor, and you will subsequently begin to find Daedric mail items as random loot throughout the world.

Notes

• Regular Daedric armor starts appearing in leveled lists at level 48, but this Creation is not level-locked and can be completed by characters of any level.
  • Paired with the Bittercup creation and specifically choosing to fill the Altar of Power, you can get a full set of Daedric armor at level one, with both normal and mail gauntlets.

Quest Stages

Missing Merchant (ccBGSSSE051_Quest)
Stage	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
10		I received a notice from the Jarl's steward regarding a missing person. I should read it and see if I can be of help. Objective 10: Read the missing merchant note
20		I received a notice from the Jarl's steward regarding a missing person. I should head over to Traitor's Post and see what I can learn. Objective 20: Investigate Traitor's Post
24		Objective 24: Search the bandit corpse
25		I received a notice from the Jarl's steward regarding a missing person. At Traitor's Post I found the missing person was already killed by a bandit. Objective 25: Read Erwan's Journal
30		I received a notice from the Jarl's steward regarding a missing person. At Traitor's Post I found the missing person was already killed by a bandit. On her body was a journal that implied she sold a set of Daedric armor to a Khajiit merchant. She mentioned that if she ever wanted it back, the merchant would trade it for a valuable Khajiit ring. Objective 30: Retrieve the Ring of Masser
40		I received a notice from the Jarl's steward regarding a missing person. At Traitor's Post I found the missing person was already killed by a bandit. On her body was a journal that implied she sold a set of Daedric armor to a Khajiit merchant. She mentioned that if she ever wanted it back, the merchant would trade it for a valuable Khajiit ring. I picked up the ring and can now trade it for the armor set. Objective 40: Trade the ring for the Daedric armor set Objective 50: (Optional) Purchase the armor set with gold
80		I received a notice from the Jarl's steward regarding a missing person. At Traitor's Post I found the missing person was already killed by a bandit. On her body was a journal that implied she sold a set of Daedric armor to a Khajiit merchant. She mentioned that if she ever wanted it back, the merchant would trade it for a valuable Khajiit ring. I picked up the ring and traded it for the armor set.
90		I received a notice from the Jarl's steward regarding a missing person. At Traitor's Post I found the missing person was already killed by a bandit. On her body was a journal that implied she sold a set of Daedric armor to a Khajiit merchant. She mentioned that if she ever wanted it back, the merchant would trade it for a valuable Khajiit ring. Wanting to keep the ring, I purchased the set for gold instead.
100	Finishes quest

• The following empty quest stages were omitted from the table: 50.

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 ccBGSSSE051_Quest 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 ccBGSSSE051_Quest.