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The Jagged Crown

Quest Giver	Galmar Stone-Fist or Legate Rikke
Location	Korvanjund
Prerequisite	Joining the Stormcloaks or Joining the Legion
Next Quest	Message to Whiterun
Reward	Random enchanted weapon (depending on level)
Faction	Stormcloaks or Imperials
Type	Quest

OverviewEdit

The Jagged Crown is a quest for both the Stormcloaks and Imperial Legion questlines. The quest is given to the Dragonborn as their first task after joining their chosen faction. The player returns to Windhelm or Solitude, where they are told they must go to Korvanjund to retrieve The Jagged Crown.

WalkthroughEdit

Stormcloaks quest lineEdit

Upon returning from the previous quest, Ulfric and Galmar will be in conversation.

Ulfric: "Tell me again why we're wasting time and dwindling resources chasing a legend. We don't even know it exists!"
Galmar: "The Jarls are upset. They don't all support you."
Ulfric: "Damn the Jarls."
Galmar: "They demand the Moot."
Ulfric: "And damn the Moot! We should risk letting those milkdrinkers put Torygg's woman on the throne? She'll hand Skyrim over to the elves on a silver plate."
Galmar: "All the more reason then. The crown would legitimize your claim."
Ulfric: "A crown doesn't make a king."
Galmar: "No, but this one..."
Ulfric: "If it even exists."
Galmar: "It exists. And it'll be the symbol of the righteousness of our cause. Think about it. The Jagged Crown! It heralds back to a time before jarls and moots. Back to the time when a king was a king because his enemies fell before him, and his people rose because they loved him. Skyrim needs that king. You will be that king, Ulfric. You must be."
Ulfric: "You're certain you've found it?"
Galmar: "When have I ever been false with you?"
Ulfric: "Fine. I'll send the Unblooded here with you. Fancy a crawl through a moldering dungeon to see if you can't stir up Galmar's Jagged Crown?"
Galmar: "It'll be there. You'll see."

Galmar will next instruct the Dragonborn to head to Korvanjund to retrieve the crown. Upon arrival at Korvanjund, you meet up with a small group of Stormcloak soldiers led by Galmar Stone-Fist and Ralof. Go inside and defeat the awaiting Imperial Legion.

Imperial quest lineEdit

Upon returning from the previous quest, Legate Rikke and General Tullius will be in conversation.

Tullius: "Tell me again, why I'm wasting men chasing after a fairy tale."
Rikke: "If Ulfric gets his hand on that crown, it won't be a fairy tale. It'll be a problem."
Tullius: "Don't you Nords put any stock in your own traditions? I thought the Moot chose the king. We're backing Elisif. When the Moot meets, they'll do the sensible thing."
Rikke: "Not everyone's agreed to the Moot. You've been here long enough to know that Nords aren't always sensible. We follow our hearts."
Tullius: "So what - Ulfric gets this crown and then suddenly he's High King?"
Rikke: "No, it's not as simple as that, but the Jagged Crown would be a potent symbol for his cause to rally around. But, if we found it first..."
Tullius: "And we gave it to Elisif?"
Rikke: "In the absence of the Moot, it would further legitimize her claim."
Tullius: "Perhaps... I'm entrusting you with what resources I can spare. But I'm warning you, if this turns out to be a waste of time and men..."
Rikke: "It won't be a waste."
Tullius: "Make sure you take the Auxiliary here. You can send him/her back when you get there and find nothing but old bones and cobwebs."
Rikke: "The Stonefist's no fool. He's found the Crown. But we'll get to it first."

Legate Rikke will then instruct the dragonborn to head to Korvanjund and retrieve the crown. Upon arrival at Korvanjund, meet up with a small group of Imperial soldiers led by Legate Rikke and Hadvar. Go inside and defeat the Stormcloaks.

WalkthroughEdit

The quest includes a stone door with concentric, rotatable rings, similar to the one in Bleak Falls Barrow. The door requires the use of the Ebony Claw, found right in front of it. The code for the door is on the palm of the Ebony claw (this applies to all dragon claws). The code for the Korvanjund door is fox, moth, dragon (from outer ring to inner).

Through the door, there is a barred doorway, where the Dragonborn must find a lever. It can be found through taking a passageway to the right of the room (when facing towards the barred door) and continuing across two walkways to a chest. Right after stepping off the wooden walkway, face left, there will be a handle in the wall (located by a burial urn). Pull this to open the doorway.

Note: On the way to open the barred door, there is an altar on the second level that has a dagger on it (leveled), if removed, a passageway opens up that leads to another secret entrance that is opened by a lever on the left. Inside is a chest with leveled loot. The chest is booby-trapped.

In the next room, there is a leveled Draugr sitting on a chair. Interacting with it will wake it, turning it hostile. It is advised to sneak and then attack this Draugr for the initial contact. This Draugr will raise three other leveled Draugr. After defeating them, loot the Jagged Crown from the dethroned Draugr.

This item isn't obtainable after quest is finished. After retrieving the crown, farther down in the cave, the Word Wall for the "Slow Time" shout will be obtainable.

Optional betrayal - switching sidesEdit

While the Jagged Crown is in the possession of the Dragonborn, the player can also decide to travel to the capital city of the opposition to hand over the crown to either General Tullius in Solitude, or Jarl Ulfric Stormcloak in Windhelm. The leader of the opposing faction will accept the crown and unceremoniously recognizes the Dragonborn as a member of their faction. From there on, you will fight the war on the side of your new allies. This way the Dragonborn can have Stormcloak Armor or Imperial Armor for free.

BugsEdit

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PS3 When entering the dungeon, the player can go down the left side of the first fork (the right is sealed off by a cave-in). About halfway down the hallway, turn left and go up the stairs to a barred door. This door would normally let the player exit the dungeon quickly. If the player goes to the right side of the door and walks towards the left while repeatedly pressing the "X" button, the door bar will glitch through, letting you skip the main part of the dungeon. Upon killing the Draugr Scourge, it is possible that the crown will not be retrievable. The quest icon does not update, and still points to the body of the Draugr. Looting the body will not allow to obtain the crown, and the quest cannot continue. If this happens, re-load the most recent save and it should be on the body once killed again. Sometimes when the Draugr Scourge is killed, the crown will drop on the floor. By looking around, the player may find it on the ground. Sometimes upon entering Korvanjund while following the legion, the player will find that they can not proceed any further than the first small area of the dungeon as the rock fall is still blocking the archway into the dungeon, although all NPCs will be spawned behind the blockage if you exit and re-enter. 360 Sometimes, the Ebony Claw by the claw door will not be able to be picked up. This bug is fixable by saving and re-loading. Sometimes, upon approaching the claw door, the rings will not move when activating them. Save and reload or leave the local area (i.e. go back to Korvanjund Temple then re-enter Korvanjund Halls) and the rings will appear differently than before. This is because the game registered the rings moving but didn't show them as moving. If the player has started this quest for the Stormcloaks and doesn't complete it before trying to convince Ulfric Stormcloak to join negotiations over a truce, neither quest can be completed, as neither NPC will start a neccessary conversation to advance any quest, but rather talk about the other one 360 Fix: Complete the peace talks quest, wait for Ulfric to return to Windhelm, and speak to him, he'll reply. PC However, entering Korvanjund and typing the commands "tcl" into the console ("~" key), will allow the player to go through the walls. Typing tcl into the console again will disable noclip. From here the player may explore the dungeon as normal and have the quest updates upon retrieval of the crown and continue the quest so. This is a Dungeon Lock Out, for the non-PC player, they will have to start the quest. NOTE: One problem found with this method is that (in some, if not all cases) all Draugr in the dungeon are dead until the player reach a certain room within which approximately 5-8 will attack the player at once. All enemies past that point are living. It is possible to wear the Crown at the same time as any mask or circlet. PC Upon meeting Galmar near the ruins, he and Ralof may not appear. To fix this, return to an earlier save before had go to the ruins or use the console (~ key) to advance through the quest. Type into the console setstage CW02B 20. This will skip the part of the quest where Galmar is needed, otherwise it is possible to enter the ruins without Galmar as he is not needed to complete the quest. Upon meeting Legate Rikke outside of the ruins, she will sometimes not appear initially. Loading and retrying or waiting for an hour or so should fix the problem. Sometimes the Draugr Scourge will be wearing both the Jagged Crown and an unobtainable Ancient Nord Helmet, giving it's head a somewhat strange appearance. The Crown may be on the floor when you enter the room. Upon meeting Galmar and Ralof near the ruins a dragon may spawn. After killing it, the game may freeze. Realoding a previous game save may not be sufficient and the player may have to kill the dragon before Galmar and Ralof come. If the player chooses to betray the Imperials by giving the crown to Ulfric instead, Legate Rikke may show up at the Palace of Kings while the player is in the middle of the conversation with Ulfric. Ulfric and his men will all become hostile towards Rikke, and since both characters are essential, the fight lasts indefinitely. PC It is possible that approximately 3 seconds after the sequence where the friendly guard watches the Crown wearing Draugr awake, the game crashes to Desktop. This may be caused by the installation of too many mods. PC Solution: Use the "killall" console command shortly before the game crashes. 360 When first arriving at Korvanjund, Hadvar may refer to the player as "Dragonborn", despite the fact that no one even knows who the Dragonborn is yet. When first being given the quest for the Stormcloaks, after Galmar give the player the stormcloak armor he will say "Get yourself kitted out with whatever you need, brother", even if the player is female. PC If you enter the crypt before starting the quest (via bugs or console commands), the quest cannot be completed. PC Solution: `setstage CW02B 180` may help if you can't find the crown. Change "B" to "A" if you are with the Imperials.

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  screw general tullius, the crown is mine 2013-04-13T21:38:10Z
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  This is actually a good dungeon, and there are some chests inside. You can reverse-pickpocket the crown into Rev's pockets, hand in the que... 2013-04-28T05:26:18Z

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The Jagged Crown (Quest)

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OverviewEdit

WalkthroughEdit

Stormcloaks quest lineEdit

Imperial quest lineEdit

WalkthroughEdit

Optional betrayal - switching sidesEdit

BugsEdit

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