Mages guild bug?

[Roman_Guy_With_Cake]

I just completed "Secrets under sarthaal" i finished talking to the Arch-mage and it doesn't start the next quest in the questline. I don't know if this is a bug or a glitch but this has never happend to me.

[Roscaria]

Did he tell you to speak to Urag gro-Shub in the Arcanaeum? This is where the next quest begins. He should also have given you a Staff of Magelight as a reward.

[Roman_Guy_With_Cake]

Yes i got the staff and he told me to speak to the orc. But it didn't appear at all.

[Roscaria]

The staff or the orc?

[Roman_Guy_With_Cake]

The quest.

[Roman_Guy_With_Cake]

The quest didn't appear in my journal and even if i went to the orc and talked to him the option about the books is not there.

[Roscaria]

There is a book near the Arch-Mage which has some relevance to the quest for knowledge. Whether this is required reading before you speak to the orc I don't know but I did read it before speaking to the orc and got the quest. Do you get the choice of a question about the orb found in Sarthal?

[Roman_Guy_With_Cake]

No I didn't get a choice of questions, and the book near the Arch-mage is the Imperial report on Sarthal, I read that nothing happend.

[Roscaria]

So what dialogue options does he have?

[Roman_Guy_With_Cake]

Just the normal options.

[Roscaria]

If he does not mention any missing books then I can't help you. Sorry. Only other thing I can think of is reverting to a prior save before you entered the College to speak to the Arch-Mage and see if that makes any difference. Good luck.

[Roscaria]

Hitting the Books quest journal entry says Mirabell Ervine has asked me to speak to the orc. You could try her dialogue.

[Roman_Guy_With_Cake]

Thanks mate got it working again :)

[Tzurah]

I've finally managed to get this to work.

I quick saved in front the of the Arch-Mage, then quit to desktop.
Restarted Skyrim and disabled the data files of every mod except for the hi-re textures and Hearth (since they're both official, I belive, plus I didn't want to lose anything from Hearth. I have a lot of crap there).
Loaded up my quick save and completed Under Sarthaal, Hitting the Books successfully started.
Immediated quick saved again and quit back to desktop.
Restarted reenabling the various mods I had just turned off.

And so Bob's your uncle! Hopefully this will work for you too.

[tinyous]

Originally posted by Roman_Guy_With_Cake:

I just completed "Secrets under sarthaal" i finished talking to the Arch-mage and it doesn't start the next quest in the questline. I don't know if this is a bug or a glitch but this has never happend to me.

I ran into the same problem. I unloaded mods in groups, until the quest would advance properly. I found the mod VILSKRAG was preventing it from advancing. The dialog proceeded properly, and "Under Saarthal" completed properly, but "Hitting The Books" would not initiate. Disabling "Vilshrag" solved it for me. Now, to re-enable it and see what happens....
After re-enabling Vilshrag, i continued the quest ( Hitting The Books) and found I was locked out of the part of Fellglow Keep that is dependent on the quest, that being the door up the stairs from the flame atronoch was blocked by stone.

Summation: Vilshrag interferes with triggering and executing the quest Hitting The Books.

I assume the writer overlooked or was unable to test that particular quest line. I hope this can be fixed because it looks like the mod has potential.