How do you start the Cerwiden questline?

[Black Album]

I've had this follower since game start and I'm over lvl 45 now but I can't seem to get anywhere with her.
I've fed her, thanked her, taken her on missions, left her at home ... just about everything to no avail.
I've even used that new fangled google thing and reread the mod description on nexus ... radical actions very rarely used on this forum.
And so I thought I'd go to the last resort ... and get IIja, Nazenn, cfs111 or one of the many other skyrim gods to help me out.

[cfs111]

I've never done her quests either. I do not think the mod author ever finished them. She is still one my favorite followers though.

[Bomb Bloke]

The documentation reckons you have to get a "favour" counter to 5 and a "friendship" counter to 20. Apparently there's some sort of timer system that prevents you from raising these too quickly, but thanking her for healing and giving her clam chowder are otherwise supposed to be surefire ways to do this.

Apparently on later versions you should be able to get some sort of debug menu when talking to her, which should allow you to mess with the counters directly (presumably you can at least see what they're currently set to, anyway). Older versions have it hidden by default, but you can enable it in console with:

set kcfDebugMode to 1

[runestyr]

I've played hundreds of hours with Cerwiden as a follower and never started her quest until this week. Her healing is very nice to have in a party, unless you have a mod that gives over-powereed healing like the Nereva player home. The problem with her quest is that she's only hungry (for clam chowder) every 3 or 4 days to build her friendship, and after that long I'd forget to check if she wanted any. Vilja at least reminds me of what I should be doing to move the quests along.

Anyway, in my current playthrough I've got 9 clam chowders in my inventory and she doesn't want them. So I used the debug console (using the optional files at https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/20787) to be able to start her quest...which was cool at first. The first part is to learn about her enemies, which is probably obvious. Then you have to find Elric (32 years after I first read the Michael Moorcock stories on which her quest is based). For me at least the drawing she made from her vision was instantly recognizable, but if it isn't for you, you can ask her to lead the way or check the spoilers at the link above. Now I'm on the staff quest with Elric and Rackhir following us and she's supposed to take us to the staff's location, but she is leading me in circles near Kinesgrove. The spoiler file (in the Nexus downloads) does mention this as a potential bug. The location for the staff quest is directly east of Greenwall Cave, not that the path is direct, just follow whatever roads to up the mountains in that general direction.

[voehringer_nitron]

Originally posted by runestyr:

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