Skyrim:Double-Edged

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Determine the fate of a Thalmor agent. Quest Giver: Added by asking an innkeeper for work or by simply finding the note at Cliffside Retreat. Location(s): Cliffside Retreat, Lost Echo Cave Reward: Full set of enchanted leather scout armor. ID: ccBGSSSE053_Quest Added by: Alternative Armors - Leather

The dossier and note

Quick Walkthrough

1. Go to the Cliffside Retreat and read Zaharia's note.
2. (Optional) Disrupt Zaharia's plan and remove the Note to Ehlhiel in Temple of the Divines.
3. Go to Lost Echo Cave and defeat the person there.

Detailed Walkthrough

The note sitting on the dresser

Zaharia waiting for Ehlhiel

This quest starts at Cliffside Retreat, with a barrel that has Zaharia's Note on top of it alongside Guard's Dossier: Ehlhiel. Read the note to start the quest, you can either help Zaharia, a Crimson Dirk, and kill the traitor Ehlhiel, or you can help save Ehlhiel's life.
If you decide to save Ehlhiel, head to the Temple of the Divines in Solitude, read and take the note on the dresser upstairs on the right.
Either way go to Lost Echo Cave, where you will have to defeat Zaharia if you took the note from the Temple of the Divines or Ehlhiel if you didn't. Afterwards loot your reward from Zaharia.

Notes

• Although the quest entries read that a Thalmor double agent betrayed a member of the Blades, Guard's Dossier: Ehlhiel and Zaharia's Note reads that Ehlhiel betrayed the Crimson Dirks for the city guard captains and the East Empire Company. This suggests that the storyline of the quest was changed at some point, but the quest objectives were not updated to match.

Quest Stages

Double-Edged (ccBGSSSE053_Quest)
Stage	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
10		Hunters in Skyrim are known to have retreats in the mountains with supplies and food. If I'm ever in the area near Solitude, I should stop by Cliffside Retreat. Objective 10: Look for a note at Cliffside Retreat
20		At Cliffside Retreat, I found a dossier that implies a bandit has become an asset of the Thalmor. The accompanying note says that another agent, Zaharia, intends to enact revenge by arranging a meeting at Lost Echo Cave. I can save the Thalmor agent by intercepting her note, or try to help Zaharia by going to the cave. Objective 20: Go to Lost Echo Cave Objective 30: (Optional) Disrupt Zaharia's plan and remove the letter
30		At Cliffside Retreat, I found a dossier that implies a bandit has become an asset of the Thalmor. The accompanying note says that another agent, Zaharia, intends to enact revenge by arranging a meeting at Lost Echo Cave. I decided to save the Thalmor agent by intercepting the note at the Temple of Divines.
40		At Cliffside Retreat, I found a dossier that implies a bandit has become an asset of the Thalmor. The accompanying note says that another agent, Zaharia, intends to enact revenge by arranging a meeting at Lost Echo Cave. I traveled to the cave and was attacked by a hostile agent. Objective 50: Defeat Ehlhiel Objective 60: Defeat Zaharia
50	Finishes quest	At Cliffside Retreat, I found a dossier that implies a bandit has become an asset of the Thalmor. The accompanying note said that another agent, Zaharia, intended to enact revenge by arranging a meeting at Lost Echo Cave. I traveled to the cave and was attacked by a hostile agent. Objective 70: Inspect the body
1000		At Cliffside Retreat, I found a dossier that implies a bandit has become an asset of the Thalmor. The accompanying note said that another agent, Zaharia, intended to enact revenge by arranging a meeting at Lost Echo Cave. I traveled to the cave and was attacked by a hostile agent.
2000	Finishes quest	At Cliffside Retreat, I found a dossier that implies a bandit has become an asset of the Thalmor. The accompanying note said that another agent, Zaharia, intended to enact revenge by arranging a meeting at Lost Echo Cave. I traveled to the cave and was attacked by a hostile agent, whom I defeated.

• The following empty quest stages were omitted from the table: 1, 5, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500.

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