Skyrim:Harsh Master

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Take care of a runaway crew member. Quest Giver: Kjar Location(s): Windhelm, Radiant Reward: Leveled gold Disposition: =1 (Kjar) ID: FreeformShipsWindhelm

Kjar wants you to teach someone a lesson

Radiant Options

This is a radiant quest which will send you to one of the following bandit camps: Cragslane Cavern, Gallows Rock, Lost Knife Hideout, Stony Creek Cave, Traitor's Post, Uttering Hills Camp.

Quick Walkthrough

1. Speak to Kjar onboard his ship at the Windhelm docks.
2. Travel to the random location and kill the bandit leader.
3. Return to Kjar for your reward.

Detailed Walkthrough

Kjar, ship master of The North Wind currently anchored at the docks in Windhelm, will ask you to hunt down and kill a runaway crew member. The sailor had formed a group of bandits, who are currently hiding out in one of five random locations. Travel to the location and kill the bandit leader there. Return to Kjar, who will give you a year's salary (a leveled gold reward).

Reward

Levels	Reward
1–9	500
10–19	750
20–29	1,000
30–39	1,250
40+	1,500

Notes

• The quest Kill the Bandit Leader can have identical quest objectives.

Bugs

• If you have completed the mission and levels later reenter the same location once it is repopulated, it can give you the completion again, allowing you to collect a bounty for re-killing the rogue crewman.
  • The Unofficial Skyrim Patch, version 2.0.1, fixes this bug.
• The bandit boss is prematurely made available to kill before Kjar actually offers the quest.
  • The Unofficial Skyrim Patch, version 2.1.0, fixes this bug.
• If you are sent to Uttering Hills Cave, and have already completed Summerset Shadows for the Thieves Guild, you will be unable to complete this quest, as the bandit leader is replaced by Linwe and the former is nowhere to be seen.
  • The Unofficial Skyrim Patch, version 2.0.4, fixes this bug.
  • You can return the cave to its previous occupants by typing prid c5675 in the console, followed by disable.
  • You can still progress through the quest by typing "c5688".kill in the console.
  • You can progress through the quest by typing SetStage FreeFormShipsWindhelm 15 in the console.

Quest Stages

Harsh Master (FreeformShipsWindhelm)
Stage	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
10		Objective 10: Kill the leader of <Alias=BanditCamp>
15		Objective 15: Return to Kjar
20	Finishes quest

• The following empty quest stages were omitted from the table: 200.

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 FreeformShipsWindhelm 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 FreeformShipsWindhelm.