Bravil Mages Guild Recommendation Bug

[Myon]

Can't progress, Kud-Ei keeps saying I should find the dark elf, but he has nothing to say, nor does anyone.
I even went to Imperial city and stole the staff, brought it back to Bravil without the quest marks, nothing happens.
Is there any way to fix this without the console?

[wesley2205]

I had the same issues, loaded an earlier save then reloaded the newest safe and got the quest

[Ungermaxx]

Heyo Myon, got a fix for you bro.
So by default the setstage command is disabled (used for setting quests to certain states)
Just so you know this might break achievments for you

open console;
Altar.Cheat.AllowSetStage 1
setstage 0002D936 10

Should activate the beginning of the quest for you, cheers

[Ungermaxx]

Update
I just ended up using the setstage command to finish the quest because it was still bugged
setstage 0002D936 100

[Shinespark]

Originally posted by Ungermaxx:

Update
I just ended up using the setstage command to finish the quest because it was still bugged
setstage 0002D936 100

I can confirm, going through the same issue. :V Quest just doesn't function at all, no wonder only 0.8% of players have the second achievement for the Mage's Guild.

[Seeeb]

Had the same issue but found a solution. Wait until around 1-2 am (Press T). Kud-Ei will walk upstairs to her room on the top floor. Talk to her there and she will offer you some more dialogue-options about the magic staff, which she didn't offer, when she was downstairs in the academy. Exhaust every dialog. This should start the questline for Bravil! :)

[Sparkski]

This worked for me. The only save I had was right before leaving the sewers, but it still let me progress after reloading the original.

[Chief Romanji]

You'd think they'd test the mainline quests like fighters guild, main quest, mage guild, thieves' guild, etc

[The Infamous Cloaker]

Haven't personally had the issue but I would assume you didn't try to do her other quest first, which can sometimes fix issues with the recommendation quest.

[Han #Yolo]

Originally posted by Seeeb:

Had the same issue but found a solution. Wait until around 1-2 am (Press T). Kud-Ei will walk upstairs to her room on the top floor. Talk to her there and she will offer you some more dialogue-options about the magic staff, which she didn't offer, when she was downstairs in the academy. Exhaust every dialog. This should start the questline for Bravil! :)

This worked for me. I just talked to her right before she got into bed and the staff dialogue was there.

[Zingzamboom]

I may be dumb, but I noticed you can scroll down on the dialogue for more options which I was not seeing at the time I thought this was a bug. Varon Vamori option was at the bottom. Hope this helps others.

[Seferoth]

Originally posted by Chief Romanji:

You'd think they'd test the mainline quests like fighters guild, main quest, mage guild, thieves' guild, etc

These bugs were fixed decades ago by unofficial patches. Bethesda decided to not add any fixes and instead wanted to release a bugged game.

[wired420]

Not bugged at all. After you talk to her about your recommendation and say yes I'm ready, A new option appears at the bottom of the list for the guys name involved in the quest. But it appears off screen. Just scroll one past the bottom of your options and it shows up.

[Jango]

Originally posted by Ungermaxx:

Heyo Myon, got a fix for you bro.
So by default the setstage command is disabled (used for setting quests to certain states)
Just so you know this might break achievments for you

open console;
Altar.Cheat.AllowSetStage 1
setstage 0002D936 10

Should activate the beginning of the quest for you, cheers

Saved my save king, thank the Divine and the Nexus for console command w/ achievements mods

[luke_coughlan]

I had this same issue, and it wasn't the scrolling down thing. For whatever reason, an additional quest (Through a nightmare, darkly) was accessible through dialogue with Dagail, but not the Mage Staff dialogue. Tried everything. So, I started and finished "Through a nightmare, darkly", and once complete I was able to get the Mage Staff dialogue as an option when talking to Dagail.
Worth noting that there's an UE5 crash bug at the end of "Through a nightmare, darkly" as well. Fun times.

[Ostara]

Originally posted by Ungermaxx:

Heyo Myon, got a fix for you bro.
So by default the setstage command is disabled (used for setting quests to certain states)
Just so you know this might break achievments for you

open console;
Altar.Cheat.AllowSetStage 1
setstage 0002D936 10

Should activate the beginning of the quest for you, cheers

it worked, thanks, but then when I go to talk to the dark elf, he won't tell me anything more, even with the use of the charm scroll.