Skyrim:Pantea's Flute

This article is about the quest. For the item, see Pantea's Flute (item).

Find a missing flute for Pantea. Quest Giver: Pantea Ateia Location(s): Bards College, Hob's Fall Cave Prerequisite Quest: Tending the Flames Reward: +1 to all Magic skills Disposition: =1 (Pantea Ateia) ID: BardsCollegeFlute Suggested Level: 8

Pantea's Flute

Quick Walkthrough

1. Talk to Pantea at the Bards College.
2. Travel to Hob's Fall Cave and find her missing flute.
3. Return to Pantea for your reward.

Detailed Walkthrough

Talking to Pantea

When the Fire Festival marks the end of the Tending the Flames quest, talking to Pantea will bring up the topic of a flute: "That damn fool! I should ring [sic] her neck!" When asked to elaborate she will explain about a foolish student, Larina, who stole Pantea's flute and sold it to a necromancer, who believed in Larina's story about the flute being able to make the dead dance. Pantea is understandably upset as the flute has been passed down through seventeen generations, so she asks you to retrieve it for her – right away.

Hob's Fall Cave

A map marker will now point you towards Hob's Fall Cave, a necromancer den northeast of Frostflow Lighthouse in the Winterhold region. While the cave itself seems straightforward, it has quite a few secrets worth exploring, so enter and take a look around. The ledge overlooking the first room is where you will return after a successful trek, so locate the icy path to the left and make your way through the tunnels and fight the hostile necromancers guarding the desk with a soul gem and a treasure chest. Proceed forward until you reach a suspension bridge. Look over the edge and notice the necromancer camp deep down below, with an alchemy lab and several bedrolls. Use the ledges to jump down for a surprise attack, then loot the camp for a rare unusual gem and a copy of the Restoration skill book The Exodus.

Finding the Flute

Head back up, using the path to get back on track, and then fight the necromancers guarding the next room. Examine the arcane enchanter for a copy of the Enchanting skill book Enchanter's Primer, then activate the pull chain and either dodge or destroy the spellcaster traps. The final room is guarded by three necromancers and contains the chest with the flute, a black soul gem, and a locked cage containing a dead body. After taking the flute, jump down from the ledge and exit the cave the way you came in.

Back in the Bards College, Pantea will be overwhelmed with joy and will teach you a few tricks she learned while playing for the Winterhold wizards, specifically a one-point boost to all your Magic skills, including Alteration, Conjuration, Destruction, Enchanting, Illusion, and Restoration.

Notes

• Isabelle Rolaine's corpse is found at the entrance of the cave if you have started the quest Drowned Sorrows.
• Hob's Fall Cave might be selected as the location for the Helm of Winterhold from the quest Dungeon Delving. If this is the case, then it will be in the same chest as the flute.

Bugs

• The flute can be found before the quest is given, meaning the marker to turn the quest in never appears, nor will Pantea even offer the quest.
  • The Official Skyrim Patch, version 1.4, fixes this bug.
  • PC players can use this console command to advance the quest: setstage bardscollegeflute 40
• After you turn in the quest, the flute will remain in your inventory, still marked as a quest item.
  • The Official Skyrim Patch, version 1.9.26.0.8, fixes this bug.
  • PC players can remove the quest item using the following console code: Player.removeitem 000DABA7 1
• It's possible that you can turn in the flute to Pantea but the quest won't complete.
  • The Unofficial Skyrim Patch, version 1.2, fixes this bug.

Quest Stages

Pantea's Flute (BardsCollegeFlute)
Stage	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
20		Objective 20: Find Pantea's Flute
40		Objective 40: Return Pantea's Flute
200	Finishes quest

• The following empty quest stages were omitted from the table: 0, 15.

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 BardsCollegeFlute 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 BardsCollegeFlute.