Stones of Barenziah
Weight: 0.5	Base Value: 200
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Type: Quest Item
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The Stones of Barenziah are an initially-scattered collection of twenty-four gemstones found in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Prior to appraisal, each Stone of Barenziah is labeled as "Unusual Gem". Once the first stone is found, there will be a miscellaneous objective that activates and indicates that the next step is appraisal. The city of Riften has two people capable of handling this task: Maul (an associate of Maven Black-Briar), and Vex, a member of the Thieves Guild.

After the appraisal, it is learned that a total of twenty-four Stones of Barenziah exist, thus activates the quest "No Stone Unturned". Every stone is a Quest item of 0.5 weight and each is worth 200 gold, which cannot be removed from the inventory until the entire set is obtained. Many of these stones can be found while completing "small jobs" for Vex and Delvin of the Thieves Guild.

Contents 1 No Stone Unturned quest 2 Reward 3 Locations 4 Helpful tips 5 See also 6 Bugs

No Stone Unturned quest

Main article: No Stone Unturned (Skyrim)

After handing in all twenty-four Stones of Barenziah, the Dragonborn is asked to recover the Crown of Barenziah from Tolvald's Cave.

Vex reveals that the Crown of Barenziah is an item that enhances a thief's ability. With the stones and crown in her possession, Vex says she can restore the paragon to its full strength. Taking the stones while hidden avoids crime charges.

Reward

Upon completion of the quest "No Stone Unturned" (by turning in all twenty-four stones and recovering the crown), Vex rewards the player with the active effect and ability, "Prowler's Profit." Furthermore, the fully restored Crown of Barenziah sits on the mannequin in the cistern portion of the Thieves Guild.

Locations

#	Hold	Location	Description
1	Eastmarch	Ansilvund Burial Chambers	Enter the Ansilvund Excavation and complete objective in cave and it will be on the left part of the table in the back of the room of the Burial Chambers. Near the sword Ghostblade and Fjori's ghost.
2	Eastmarch	Stony Creek Cave	Off the main corridor follow a path on the right, inside the bandit wizard's cavern, on a table.
3	Eastmarch	Windhelm - House of Clan Shatter-Shield	Upstairs and in the first bedroom on the left. It's on the bookshelf.
4	Eastmarch	Windhelm - Palace of the Kings Upstairs	Accessible via the first door on the left upon entering the palace, it sits on a table in Wuunferth the Unliving's quarters at the end of the hall. It's on the table to the right.
5	Falkreath	Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary	On the dresser in Astrid's room. (During the quest With Friends Like These...) Does not move, even after the Sanctuary is burned.
6	Falkreath	Pinewatch Bandit's Sanctuary	Access the bandit sanctuary in Pinewatch by pressing the button downstairs, across from fireplace. Inside the sanctuary, to the right of a room containing a single bandit and several empty Draugr sarcophagi, there is another small room with a treasure chest. The stone is then found on a shelf directly across from the chest.
7	Falkreath	Sunderstone Gorge	On the altar in front of the Word Wall.
8	Haafingar	Aboard the Dainty Sload	On a table in the First Mate's quarters (the ship itself is docked between Solitude Lighthouse and the city).
9	Haafingar	Reeking Cave	Beside the dead conjurer. This was originally found in the thalmor embassy but was later moved to the reeking cave with the 1.4 patch.
10	Haafingar	Solitude - Blue Palace	On the bedside table in Jarl Elisif's quarters.
11	Haafingar	Solitude - Proudspire Manor	Sitting on a chest of drawers which itself sits on the left of the upstairs' master bedroom. Can access rear entrance of Proudspire Manor with Solitude Fletcher's Key, in order to bypass paying 25,000 to own home.
12	The Reach	Dead Crone Rock	On a makeshift altar in front of the Word Wall at the top of the final tower.
13	The Reach	Markarth - Treasury House	Next to the bed in the master bedroom.
14	The Reach	Markarth's Understone Keep - Dwemer Museum	Once inside the museum, it can be found through a door on left of the museum on a table in the right hand corner.
15	The Rift	Black Briar Lodge	In the upstairs' master bedroom.
16	The Rift	Riften - Mistveil Keep Jarl's Chambers	In the Jarl's chambers, on the end table located to the left of the bed.
17	Whiterun	Dragonsreach Jarl's Quarters	Found within the Jarl's bedroom, on the end table to the left of the bed.
18	Hjaalmarch	Rannveig's Fast	The stone can be found on a table just to the right of the prison's exit gate. The prison is accessed via a trapdoor in front of the chest that stands before the Word Wall.
19	Whiterun	Fellglow Keep	On a counter in the workshop at the top of the front foyer (between the arcane enchanter and the alchemy lab).
20	Whiterun	Jorrvaskr Living Quarters	Found within Kodlak Whitemane's bedroom. He demands 500 Septims should he detect the Dragonborn. Is obtainable for free after the Blood's Honor Quest for the Companions
21	Whiterun	Whiterun Hall of the Dead - Whiterun Catacombs	Found in a crypt (wall nook). To get there from the entrance, the player should make the first left, then right, down the ramp, and on your immediate left.
22	Winterhold	College of Winterhold - Arch-Mage's Quarters	On a shelf in the Arch-Mage's Quarters (becomes accessible during the Under Saarthal quest) to the left of the bed, under a wolf's head mounted on the wall.
23	Winterhold	Hob's Fall Cave	Just after crossing the bridge, before you get to an area with a sacrificial table and enchantment table, take the path to the left and down into an area with an alchemy bench. The stone is located here on a shelf.
24	Winterhold	Yngvild - Yngvild Throne Room	The stone can be found on the desk in this last room, next to the final journal of Arondil.

Helpful tips

• In recent patches the stones were made static, this way you dont have to worry about knocking them off somewhere inaccesible when using explosive magic or walking over them. You cannot even move them while pressing the interaction button. (PS3 Tested)
• It is also possible to get the gem via the console command 'tcl'.
• There is a simple way to obtain 2 or more gems from only one. Mash the interact button as fast as possible while highlighting the stone. If done correctly, you should obtain 2 or more stones instead of the single stone. Slow Time doesn't affect this since the item will dissappear in the same time as normally does after pressing the interact button. Save before trying this until you get a nice amount.

See also

• Crown of Barenziah
• List of No Stone Unturned Locations
• No Stone Unturned
• Prowler's Profit

Bugs

• There is a delay between when you click on the stone and when the stone is added to your inventory. If you click on a stone multiple times before it actually picks up, you will receive one stone but the quest will count it as two or more (works on the very first unusual gem you pick up, when the quest starts your counter will be more than 1 right away). This can be used to complete the quest faster as it does not affect the ability to move forward.
  • If there are Stones of Barenziah remaining after the above method is used, the ones not acquired will remain in their normal locations after the quest is completed. You will be able to pick them up and drop them, as they are not considered a quest item after completion. Dropping them will cause them to float in mid-air and they can not be moved unless picked up again. They can also be sold to any shopkeeper as a normal item.
• If the Stone of Barenziah in Reeking Cave cannot be found beside the dead mage after applying Patch 1.4, a glitch will need to be utilized to reaccess the Thalmor Embassy and pick it up from its original location. This bug has been found in all versions of the game, and videos to resolve the situation are available on YouTube.
• For some reason, the gem may not appear on the counter where it is supposed to sit in Fellglow Keep.
• The stone in Wuunferth the unliving's quarters may not be there after the quest Blood on the Ice. as of now, there is no known fix to this
•  360   PS3   Periodically, some stones apparently respawn at their initial place, such as the one in Jarl Elisif the Fair's quarters.
•  360  In Calixto's House of Curiosities, it may be possible to obtain a stone at Calixto's museum on one of the shelves if every other location has been exhausted without obtaining all twenty-four.
• Entering the Dwemer Museum after having completed Hard Answers will initiate that quest again.
  •  PC   To move the stone to your location without entering the museum, you can use the console command prid 7F909 followed by moveto player.
  • Alternatively, you can complete the Hard Answers quest again to score another Nightingale Blade. Subsequent Thieves Guild quests will not start again. Though untested, this is potentially a method to obtain unlimited Nightingale Blades. Note that Darkness Returns cannot be finished if Hard Answers is completed twice.
•  PC   PS3   [Xbox 360] Maul's dialogue may not show up, prohibiting the initiation of the quest, though you can still start it with Vex.
•  360    PS3   If all the gemstones are collected prior to their appraisal, the entire collection may be forcibly retained in one's inventory while a bug bars the quest from being completed.
• Occasionally, Stones of Barenziah (and other miscellaneous items) may not stack properly. This results in multiple stacks being formed of the same item.
• Sometimes when you take a Stone of Barenziah although it says Take, taking counts as stealing.
• If you speak to Vex before Maul, then speak to Maul after you have started the quest you get a miscellaneous objective to become a full member of the thieves guild. Because you have to be a full member to get it appraised you can't complete the objective.

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  stone of barenziah

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    Raven Giordano
    Happened to me once, ignored it, got the stones, no problems. Just ignore that objective and get the stones 2013-05-24T22:01:24Z
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    A Wikia contributor
    ok thank you, i check the quest page and saw that you CAN complete the quest with the objective from maul 2013-05-24T22:06:46Z
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  Unusual Gem quest problem, no Maul or Vex in Riften.

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    A Wikia contributor
    I suppose you could try joining the Thieves Guild and seeing if Vex appears, but no garuntees on it. 2013-05-02T03:58:31Z
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    Slim2681
    Hi all, Many thanks for everyones help/advice, I'll be honest and say that I think I was being a bit of a muppet and not really thinking thi... 2013-05-08T09:47:21Z

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