I messed up with Faendal's quest and I'm unable to reset the quest?

[Lymark]

I was just doing the letter quest so I could get Faendal as my follower. However, I accidently ended up the quest by talking to Svan. Tried both ''reset quest''and ''setstage'' commands,but none of them work. Is there any other way I could redo this quest again:/ Really need Faendal to train up my bow skill for free.

[Ilja]

Attempting to set quest stages back is not worth the trouble.

Load a previous save and please don't say it was your only one. Skyrim engine is fragile and you should always have about 4-5 full saves to fall back to.

[Grathagis]

Reload an older save. Messing with console commands for quests should only be done under the direst cicumstances.

[Lymark]

The problem is that, I've noticed that I messed up after I've finished many quests. If there is no way I could go back now, are there other NPCs who I could find for bow tranning?

[Frog]

You can manually make him a follower.

[Lymark]

Originally posted by Golmore:

You can manually make him a follower.

manually ?

[Frog]

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/5563/?

[Uncle64]

you dont have one autosave?

[Clever Monkey]

if all you wanted was to train and then take the money back. Console yourself some gold
Player.additem f 10000
or
player.advskill marksmanship 1000
to give yourself 1000 xp at a time 10000, 100000, 1000000, I wouldnt go higher though, not at one time

[Ilja]

Faendal is only Adept level trainer. There are 1 Expert level trainer and 1 Master level trainers in Vanilla game + 1 Master level trainer from DLC.

- Aela, Expert; Companions
- Niruin, Master; Thieves Guild
- Sorine Jurard (DG), Master; Fort Dawnguard - After "A New Order" has been completed.

Extra: Angi, Master (kind of); Angi's Camp (Six free levels from her challenges)*

*Angi is the only one able to train your archry over 90. She does not actually train you like others do, but offer her challenges for for free levels. These levels can raise your skill over 90, even up to 100.

[chickenfeetsoup]

you can spawn him in by adding him through consle commands by typing help Faendal then find his number code thingy and then type player.placeatme his # 1

[Zefram Cochrane]

Its honestly not worth the bother, its a very minor quest indeed. The only reward is that you get one or other as a potential follower, and they're not much of a follower at that.