Skyrim:Kill Narfi

Kill a hapless beggar in Ivarstead. Quest Giver: Nazir Location(s): Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary, Ivarstead Prerequisite Quest: Sanctuary Next Quest: Mourning Never Comes Concurrent Quest: Kill Beitild, Kill Ennodius Papius Reward: Leveled gold ID: DBSideContract01

Kill Narfi

Quick Walkthrough

1. Get the contract from Nazir.
2. Travel to Ivarstead.
3. Assassinate Narfi.
4. Report back to Nazir to collect your reward.

Detailed Walkthrough

Get the Contract

Right after your initiation into the Dark Brotherhood, guild leader Astrid will confess that no "real" jobs are available at the moment and that you should talk to Nazir for smaller contract work. Nazir will give three targets to you at the same time, so you are free to pick what order you do them in. On Narfi, he will comment that "He's a hapless beggar living in some ruins just outside the village of Ivarstead. Easy even for you."

Kill a Beggar

Make your way to Ivarstead, the small settlement at the foot of the Throat of the World, and locate Narfi. Due to the roaming creek separating Narfi's worn-out house from the rest of Ivarstead, there are no watchful eyes from the Ivarstead guards, and as such, you can kill him in any manner you want. The easiest method is to kill him in his sleep; he goes to bed at 4am, so take advantage of the darkness and sneak into the cabin right after that time and dispose of the beggar. Note that the sawmill across the lake gets busy right after 7am, so don't wait too long.

If you speak to Narfi before you kill him, you are given three dialogue options; you may only pick one as the conversation ends and you can't speak to him again.

Topic	Dialogue
(Remain silent)	"Do... do you want something? Look, if you ain't gonna talk, or spare no coin, just go away..."
"Your pathetic existence has come to an end, Narfi."	"Oh... Oh no... Please, please... I ain't never harmed no one... Old Narfi just wants to be left alone..."
"Beg! Beg for your miserable life!"	"No! Oh, by the gods, please no!"

Narfi won't defend himself as a result of any of these dialogue options, so if you are seen killing him, you cannot avoid a bounty.

Reward

Once Narfi is dead, travel back to the sanctuary and receive your reward of leveled gold from Nazir, who will also comment, "Congratulations. You slaughtered an emaciated beggar in cold blood. You are truly an opponent to be feared."

Levels	Reward
1-9	250
10-19	400
20-29	500
30-39	600
40+	750

Notes

• As soon as you accept the contract from Nazir, you will be unable to complete the miscellaneous Ivarstead quest The Straw that Broke.
  • This can be circumvented by using the console command "resetquest DBSideContract01", but then the Kill Narfi quest will disappear. Further attempts to affect the quest using the console seem to fail, breaking Nazir's questline. However, it seems that you can still talk to Astrid to continue the Dark Brotherhood story after some time has passed.

Quest Stages

Contract: Kill Narfi (DBSideContract01)
Stage	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
10		I must travel to the town of Ivarstead and kill the beggar Narfi. I may use any means at my disposal. When I am done, I am to return to Nazir at the Sanctuary and collect my reward. Objective 10: Kill Narfi
20		Objective 20: Report back to Nazir
200	Finishes quest	Narfi is dead, and I have collected my reward from Nazir at the Sanctuary.

• The following empty quest stages were omitted from the table: 0, 255.

 

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 DBSideContract01 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 DBSideContract01.

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