Skyrim talk:Dungeon Delving (Bandits)

Marrying Shahvee

For male Argonian players: receiving this quest from Amren appears to make it impossible to marry Shahvee (without using the console to improve your relationship rank with her). Have yet to see if turning Amren down allows you to get it from Shahvee instead. -Wordwyrm 14:41, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I tried a few times to get this quest from Shahvee, both before and after doing Amren's quest, without any luck. On each of those unsuccessful tries I talked to her outside at her tanning rack. However, when I ran to her inside the Argonian Assemblage (at 8am), she immediately gave me the quest. I suspect that being in the Assemblage building may be the main condition necessary before getting the quest. --Nephele^Talk 06:22, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Might be, but she also always gives me the quest when she's at the tanning rack. The one time she didn't do that was when Amren's quest was still in my quest log, leading me to the belief that you need to complete his task first (or at least not do them simultaneously). Wolok gro-Barok 17:01, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I don't see why this only concerns "male Argonian players"... just saying. --85.138.145.107 01:49, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Amren's quest only blocks Shahvee's when it is active. If you actually get him his sword and complete it, Shahvee is then able to give you hers. 174.119.164.171 03:59, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Yes, if stage 10 of the quest is set, the required dialogue doesn't appear. I had trouble getting the quest from her, after I completed it for Amren. Using "sqs Favor204" showed, that all stages of the quest were set. Speaking with her in the Assembly didn't do any good. After about two days of playing, only stage 1 and 200 were set and I had no problems getting the quest from Shahvee outside. The quest scripts do some things I don't fully understand with timeouts when changing locations. I did however enter the Assemblege briefly when picking that lock so all the Argonians would come outside, maybe that has something to do with it. --Alfwyn (talk) 20:52, 10 September 2012 (EDT)

Quest failed (Amren)

I received this quest from Amren, to retrieve his sword from White River Watch. I didn't attend to it straight away, as usual, and while I was in Jorrvaskr (a day or two after receiving the quest), watching the brawl that occurs the first time you visit, a message appeared saying the quest had failed. I've played a few characters before (I've just started a new one for Dawnguard) and never had any problem with it, but haven't previously had to retrieve the sword from White River Watch before, as far as I can recall. Peterguard 17:39, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

No matter, I found out why. Later on I found a dead guard, and then, nearby, a dead Amren in Whiterun. Then a master vampire attacked me! Peterguard 21:57, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Can't Get Shahvee's Quest

I don't have Amren's quest. This character hasn't even been inside Whiterun city yet. The only miscellaneous quests this character has are:

Visit the museum in Dawnstar

Join the Stormcloak rebellion

Assist the people of Falkreath

Join the Imperial Legion

I don't understand why any of those would conflict. And this is a male Argonian that I planned to have marry Shahvee. Valeria (talk) 03:56, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

I thought of something to test. I loaded an old save before Hesse had cleared out any of the potential locations to find out if the one location I had cleared in my later saves was the chosen location. Shahvee still won't give me the quest. So I simply cannot seem to get Shahvee to give me her favor quest, and I have no idea why this is happening, and apparently, not even going to Windhelm as soon as I unlocked a stable would have enabled this quest. And she won't marry me without it, and I did NOT want to do the civil war quest, especially considering there's no guarantee that such an unwieldy workaround will even work. At this point, I would not put it past Bethesda to have programmed the only marriageable female Argonian in the game to refuse to give her quest to male Argonians. Valeria (talk) 18:30, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

I don't think being sent to an already-cleared location would have anything to do with not being able to start this quest since that normally only prevents you from completing a radiant quest, not from starting one. At the moment, all we know for certain is that Shahvee doesn't give you the quest sometimes; the cause is still unknown. — Wolfborn^(Howl) 21:01, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

You are right about the cause being unknown. So far, my gameplay and testing have shown that it is NOT caused by conflict with Amren's quest and it is NOT caused by the potential target location being cleared. At least not for me. I'm about to go unlock Whiterun and see what that does. I hope I figure something out. Wish me luck? Valeria (talk) 23:20, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Edited to add: I had a thought. I read that with the Shalidor's Insights quest, you can get sent to collect a book on the Katariah, even if you destroyed the Dark Brotherhood. In other words, you can get sent to retrieve a book from a location that doesn't exist in your game. What if Shahvee isn't offering her favor quest because the game has selected Uttering Hills cave and wants to place her amulet on the boss, but until you go to wipe out the Summerset Shadows, there's no boss at the location? I'm on a console and have no way to check, but if I get to that quest and she suddenly offers her favor quest and sends me to Uttering Hills, that might be the reason she wouldn't offer it before. Valeria (talk) 17:32, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Uttering Hills cave does have a Bandit Chief boss prior to the Summerset Shadows quest being started. In fact, the cave is only clearable before the quest is started, since after the quest the "boss" will be Linwe's corpse (see Bugs section). — Wolfborn^(Howl) 19:53, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Well, that wasn't it. I got Summerset Shadows assigned and checked in with Shahvee before talking to Torsten, after talking to Torsten, after clearing the cave, after returning the locket, after returning to Delvin, and 31 days after completing the quest. Shahvee still won't offer her favor quest. And I had such high hopes it would work. Valeria (talk) 22:26, 8 September 2024 (UTC)