Skyrim talk:The White Phial (quest)

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Bug - Briar Heart Already In Inventory[edit]

Not sure how to represent this in the article so I'll defer to someone with more experience, but this quest is bugged, at least on PC. If you already have a briar heart in your inventory when you get to the "collect 3 things" part of the quest, it will never allow you to proceed naturally, even if you collect another briar heart. The only way to do this seems to be to 'cheat' and manually advance the quest via the console. here's some more information. Fw190a8 11:21, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Got double the coin reward[edit]

I'm pretty sure that every one is familiar with the recurring bug in which dialogues repeat when starting and finishing the conversation quickly the second time. Was anyone else able to exploit this bug to this quest? I accidently triggered this bug and Quintis actually gave me 1000 septims (because the dialogue repeated twice)

Bug[edit]

I really need some help on figuring out why this quest doesn't want to work for me. After slaying all the Draugrs and making my way to Curalmil's tomb I discover that he won't come out. The 3 Draugrs behind bars were never released from their cells either. I continue to the bowl that you're supposed to pour Nurelion's Mixture into and I find myself mashing X (PS3) to activate the bowl and pour in the mixture to no avail. Nothing happens. I backtracked and discovered little things like the trap which incorporates a raising platform that slams people into spikes on the ceiling doesn't work either. This is very confusing to me and after much searching on the web I was unable to find anybody who had the same problem as me. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you. 67.166.40.162 00:10, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

It seems that I have the same problem. Raising platform didn't work, and I can't poor Nurelion's potion into the cauldron : activating the later does nothing. Note however that I have 2 Nurelion's potions in my inventory:
  • I met the White Phial people and got the potion before the quest "Blood on the Ice", but stopped the White Phial quest at that point and moved on with the completion of "Blood on the Ice" quest.
  • After I've finished "Blood on the Ice" quest, I got back to the White Phial boutique and received another Nurelion's mixture... Actually I don't exactly remember how this took place, but I have 2 mixtures in my inventory
  • After clearing the cavern I can't activate the cauldron, nothing happens as if it was a static with an in-game label.
--HawkFest 15:20, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey, I had the same issue bud. I had more than one of Nurelion's Mixtures, so I punched these keys into my keyboard player.removeitem 000C4F2E [X] X being the number of extra Nurelion's Mixtures you have. Then I poured the one, and only one I had in my inventory of that gak stuff into the bowl. If that does not work, and you don't have extra mixtures in your mixture pouch... Then I'm sorry I wasted your time. Good Luck, and down with Ulfric.
- Wanderer — Unsigned comment by 104.228.162.161 (talk) at 22:44 on 26 March 2015 (GMT)
Had a similar issue in my PC copy, where all triggers were correct up to that point but I wasn't able to activate the ancient bowl. I simply opened the console, clicked on the door (it's pretty easy to spot) and typed "disable". While I'm sure there's more elegant ways to go around it, that did the trick.
Ottomic.

bug (2)[edit]

I did not get the quest to fix the Phial. There is no trigger to start or continue dialogue. He took the broken Phial and he is still in bed, the end. — Unsigned comment by 50.171.148.59 (talk) at 22:15 on 25 March 2014 (GMT)

I'm having the same problem, I've traveled from town to town, fast travel, on foot, slept, waited it's been about 10 in-game days since I returned the thing and still no letter. I doubt I can be helped since I'm on Xbox but if someone knows a way to help others on PC who may have this problem, perhaps the console codes to advance the quest or something similar?--76.6.141.217 00:09, 20 July 2014 (GMT)
Have you been to the Throat of the World yet? The quest won't start until you go there as part of the main quest. Zul se onikaanLaan tinvaak 12:25, 20 July 2014 (GMT)
....D'oh! No I haven't sorry about that. Somehow I totally missed the quest page for actually repairing the phial. --76.6.141.217 01:47, 22 July 2014 (GMT)

>GET YE FLASK[edit]

Did anyone else think that this might have been inspired by - or at least a reference to - the Strong Bad joke, ">Get ye flask"? — Unsigned comment by 71.30.48.205 (talk) at 04:43 on 23 October 2017

No, because there are no similarities, not even in the name. Silence is GoldenBreak the Silence 09:21, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

bug (3)[edit]

I went through Forsaken Cave before getting the quest. I didn't figure it would matter as I didn't take the phial. But something got messed up. First, when I first entered the White Phial, the door was open. Nurelion and Quintus played out their scene as they're supposed to. But when I tried to interact with them, both became hostle, yelling that I wasn't supposed to be in there. I didn't know what was wrong, but I left the shop and the city. I checked the time--it was 8:49 p.m. when I left the shop. I eventually returned, finihed the Blood on the Ice quest, and walked into the White Phial. Same response. This time the door had been wide open at 12:29 a.m.

Finally I tried to return ten hours later at 10:29 a.m. the next day. Nope. They both still insisted that I wasn't supposed to be there. I used SETSTAGE MS12 10 to start the quest. I got the phial. I returned during the day. Nope. Nurelion would not take the phial and kept screeching about how I wasn't supposed to be in his shop. So did Quintus when I tried interacting wit him.

I don't know what's wrong and I don't know how to fix it, but I think I'll drop the damned phial in the ocean. Gehayi (talk) 12:14, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Possible Conflict with the Companions Guild Quest, 'Trouble in Skyrim'[edit]

In my last playthrough (Xbox360), killing Curamil during The White Phial stopped me from completing the Companions Questline later down the line because it randomly chose this dungeon as a target for the Companion's quest, Trouble in Skyrim. As per the UESP page on that quest, this can be worked around on PC via console commands, but doesn't seem to be a thoroughly tested solution yet. — Unsigned comment by 86.151.67.206 (talk) at 14:00 on 21 October 2023 (UTC)