Beyond Skyrim:Cyrodiil/Blade of the Cutpurse

Help Ereia Snow-Fist or Garceus Avoci deal with a bandit gang. Quest Giver: Ereia Snow-Fist or Garceus Avoci Location(s): Bruma Eastern and Western Watchtowers; Dragonclaw Rock Reward: Leveled gold ID: CYRBrumaWatchtowersFF01

For morale, career advancement and glory!

Quick Walkthrough

1. Talk to Ereia Snow-Fist or Garceus Avoci
2. Kill the bandit leader at Dragonclaw Rock and loot his sword.
3. Return the sword to either Ereia or Garceus, or keep it for yourself.

Detailed Walkthrough

Watchtower Rivalries

You can receive this quest from either of the commanding officers of the Bruma Eastern and Western Watchtowers, who are having something of a feud. In the east, Ereia Snow-Fist dismisses Garceus as an old man stuck in his ways and chafes at her current posting out of the limelight. Tasking you with recovering a bandit leader's enchanted sword is her ticket to career advancement. In the west, Garceus Avoci thinks Ereia a brash upstart and wants you to bring back the cutpurse's sword to improve morale at the watchtower.

A Blade for my Tower... or my Career!

Travel to Dragonclaw Rock, where you will find a band of six bandits, including an archer, a mage and the bandit leader, carrying his enchanted sword. Once you've taken it off his corpse, you will be approached by a Bruma guard from the opposing garrison to the quest giver, who asks you to take the sword to their commander instead. You now have three options: delivering the sword to Ereia, to Garceus or keeping it for yourself. The first two options net you a sum of leveled gold, the latter lets you keep the sword. Threatening Ereia to keep the sword and then handing it over will net you a slightly higher sum of leveled gold.

Levels	Reward (Standard)	Reward (Threatening Ereia)
1–9	250	400
10–19	400	600
20–29	500	800
30–39	600	1,000
40+	750	1,200

Notes

• If Captain Adius is arrested by the Thalmor at the end of Service Rewarded, whomever you chose to give the sword to will be promoted to Bruma guard captain.
• If you kept the sword for yourself or left the quest unfinished before Adius is arrested, Garceus Avoci will nominally become the guard captain, though this is impacted by bugs.
• If you did not start this quest before Service Rewarded is completed, you can still do so as normal by speaking to either Ereia or Garceus.

Quest Stages

Blade of the Cutpurse (CYRBrumaWatchtowersFF01)
Stage	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
10		Objective 10: Kill the marauding bandits and return the blade to Ereia Snow-Fist Objective 15: Kill the marauding bandits and return the blade to Garceus Avoci
20		Objective 25: Bring the bandit's blade to Garceus Avoci OR Ereia Snow-Fist
30	Finishes quest
100	Fails quest	Took sword for yourself

• The following empty quest stages were omitted from the table: 0, 25, 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 CYRBrumaWatchtowersFF01 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 CYRBrumaWatchtowersFF01.