Skyrim:Fan Favorite

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Track down a fugitive Arena combatant. Quest Giver: Reading Arena Fan's Note Location(s): Camp south of Ivarstead, Ruins of Bthalft Reward: Set of Dwarven Mail armor ID: ccBGSSSE062_Quest, ccBGSSSE062_MiscQuest Added by: Alternative Armors - Dwarven Mail

A murderous Orc combatant has arrived in Skyrim

Quick Walkthrough

1. Find the body of an Arena Fan south of Ivarstead and read the Arena Fan's Note.
2. Find and kill Urgnok at the Ruins of Bthalft and take his armor.

Detailed Walkthrough

An Adoring Fan

Travel to the camp south of Ivarstead. It can be found just across the bridge south of Ivarstead, traveling southeast up the nearby hill. It is between Geirmund's Hall and Honeystrand Cave. Here you can find and loot the body of an Arena Fan to obtain the Arena Fan's Note, as well as a copy of The Crimson Dirks, v8. The book tells the tale of Urgnok, a former member of a gang of outlaws known as the Crimson Dirks, who left his life of crime and ascended to the rank of Bloodletter in the Imperial City Arena before being forced to flee north to Skyrim.

The quest will start upon reading the fan's note which reveals that the fan attempted to meet with this ex-combatant before his untimely death. Urgnok is apparently fighting in the local underground pits and didn't take kindly to being tracked down. The note states that he was recently spotted living at the Ruins of Bthalft, a bandit camp to the south.

Travel to Bthalft and you will find Urgnok living among the bandits. He will be easy to spot due to his full set of Dwarven Mail armor. Urgnok is hostile and will attack you on sight; kill him and take his armor to complete the quest. Once the quest is complete, Dwarven Mail items will begin to appear in leveled lists, meaning you will begin to find it as random loot or being worn by enemies.

Notes

• Dwarven Mail uses the same model as Dwarven armor in Blades.
• This is the heaviest Light Armor in the game.
• The Ruins of Bthalft are also known as the location of the Aetherium Forge.

Bugs

• The Arena Fan's corpse may despawn if you take too long to head to his camp. ^?
  • This can be remedied by typing help "Arena Fan" 0 into the console. The console will then have a line that looks like NPC_: (FExxx81C) 'Arena Fan', with xxx being dependent on which Creations you have loaded. (In Anniversary Edition, this number will usually be 02D.) Then, type prid FExxx81D, enable, and optionally moveto player to respawn the Arena Fan and move his corpse to your location.
• This quest may stop the Jarl of Falkreath from talking to you when you receive his letter. ^?

Quest Stages

(ccBGSSSE062_MiscQuest)
Stage	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
10		Objective 10: Investigate the camp south of Ivarstead
20		Objective 20: Read the Arena Fan's note
Fan Favorite (ccBGSSSE062_Quest)
10		At a camp to the south of Ivarstead, I found the body of an Arena fan. According to the note on his body, he was attempting to meet with an Orc he believed was a former combatant. I should head to the Ruins of Bthalft and see if I can find this Orc. Objective 10: Find the Orc at the Ruins of Bthalft
20		At a camp to the south of Ivarstead, I found the body of an Arena fan. According to the note on his body, he was attempting to meet with an Orc he believed was a former combatant. I encountered the Orc at the Ruins of Bthalft and defeated him. Objective 20: Retrieve the armor
100	Finishes quest	At a camp to the south of Ivarstead, I found the body of an Arena fan. According to the note on his body, he was attempting to meet with an Orc he believed was a former combatant. I defeated the Orc at the Ruins of Bthalft and claimed his armor.

• The following empty quest stages were omitted from the table: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90.

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 ccBGSSSE062_Quest, ccBGSSSE062_MiscQuest 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 ccBGSSSE062_Quest, ccBGSSSE062_MiscQuest.