Skyrim:Alteration Ritual Spell

Acquire Kahvozein's Fang and use it to get heartscales from a dragon for Tolfdir. Quest Giver: Tolfdir Location(s): College of Winterhold, random dungeon Prerequisite Quest: Good Intentions Reward: Dragonhide spell tome, ability to purchase Master level Alteration Spells ID: MGRitual05 Prerequisites: Level 90 Alteration

A dragon skeleton, ideal for harvesting heartscales

Quick Walkthrough

1. Talk to Tolfdir in the College of Winterhold when your Alteration skill is 90 or higher.
2. Find Kahvozein's Fang.
3. Harvest dragon heartscales.
4. Return to Tolfdir.

Detailed Walkthrough

Kahvozein's Fang

To initiate this quest, you must have an Alteration skill of 90 or higher. Speak with Tolfdir and ask if there is anything new that he can teach you. He tells you that he has been working on a new spell but, to complete his research, he needs heartscales. These must be cut from a dragon's skeleton and can only be done using a dagger called Kahvozein's Fang. He asks you to retrieve the blade, which can be found in a radiant dragon priest dungeon.

Possible dungeons are listed below:

Dungeon	Category	Region
Forelhost	Nordic Ruins	The Rift
High Gate Ruins	Nordic Ruins	The Pale
Lost Valkygg	Ruins	Hjaalmarch
Ragnvald	Nordic Ruins	The Reach
Valthume	Nordic Ruins	The Reach
Volskygge	Nordic Ruins	Haafingar

The Heartscales

Once you have the dagger, you must either slay a dragon or locate a dragon corpse in order to retrieve the heartscales. If you intend on hunting down a live dragon, it is not necessary to slay it using Kahvozein's Fang. You need only equip the dagger in your right hand (it won't work with your left hand) and loot the creature's corpse. The heartscales will automatically be added to your inventory.

Once you have the scales, bring them back to Tolfdir. He will reward you with the Dragonhide spell tome, and will now sell the Mass Paralysis spell tome.

Notes

• It is possible to find Kahvozein's Fang in a dungeon and collect heartscales from a dragon's corpse before the quest is given.
• You can harvest heartscales even if the dragon disintegrates.
• Once the quest is complete, you can continue to use the Fang to collect a heartscale from each dragon corpse, in addition to the standard dragon loot. These scales can't be used for crafting, but are no longer quest items and can be sold to vendors.
• While it is not required to complete Dragon Rising to start this quest, completing it is necessary in order to find a dragon suitable for heartscale harvesting. Although the Skeletal Dragon can be found and defeated beforehand, it does not yield scales of any kind. Heartscales cannot be harvested from Krosulhah^DB either, nor can they be collected from Mirmulnir. An exception to the last point can happen if a Draugr Overlord is lured near one of the Blackreach lifts, using Dread Zombie to get it inside. Once inside, it can be attacked and its Unrelenting Force Shout will release Vulthuryol, whose soul will be absorbed and its heartscales looted.
• Resetting your Alteration skill level after accepting the quest will prevent you from turning in the heartscales until you reach Alteration level 90 again.

Bugs

• In your quest log, this quest is mistakenly decorated with the Side Quests knotwork (as displayed in the quest header), instead of the correct College of Winterhold knotwork that is shown on all other college quests. This does not have any known effect on gameplay. In particular, this quest is not considered to be a Side Quest for the purpose of the Sideways achievement.
  Mod Notes: The quest Type is "None" instead of "Mages Guild"
  • The Unofficial Skyrim Patch, version 1.2.1, fixes this bug.
• After retrieving the heart scales, it is possible that you will not be able to talk to Tolfdir and you will be unable to finish the quest.
  • You can complete the quest by using the console command player.setstage 000D0755 200.
• The dagger's name is misspelled "Kavohzein's Fang" in both the Quest List objective and the map objective text.

Quest Stages

Alteration Ritual Spell (MGRitual05)
Stage	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
10		Tolfdir is working on a new Master Alteration spell, and has asked for my help. He wants to study dragon heartscales, but in order to collect them I'll first need to obtain a special dagger known as Kahvozein's Fang. Objective 10: Use Kavohzein [sic]'s Fang to collect Heartscales
20		At Tolfdir's request, I've used Kahvozein's Fang to collect dragon heartscales. Hopefully this will help him to create the new Alteration spell he's been working on. Objective 20: Bring Dragon Heartscales to Tolfdir
200	Finishes quest	I've assisted Tolfdir in his research by collecting dragon heartscales, which he needed to figure out a new Alteration spell. As a reward for helping him, he's given me the first copy of the tome.

• The following empty quest stages were omitted from the table: 30, 40.

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 MGRitual05 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 MGRitual05.