"The Tharn Speaks" bug has been in the game over three years, still not fixed.

RicAlmighty · July 2023

In case you don't know, the main questline step "The Tharn Speaks" where you are supposed to talk to Abner Tharn in the Mage's guild gets blocked if you have the prologue quest "The Demon Weapon" in your inventory. You need to abandon that quest before you can proceed with the main quest. And then after abandoning it, if you choose the wrong Abner Tharn to speak to (Yes, he appears twice inside the Mage's guild. At the same time)

There is no way any new player would ever know this. This has been in the game for over three years now and has never been fixed. That's simply flabbergasting to me. Something that can actually block main quest progression has not been fixed in years...

freespirit · July 2023

It appears it's not consistent.... I recently had both quests in my log on my baby Arcanist and had no issues with Abnur for either quest.

For The Tharn Speaks quest he was where he should be, in mages guild gear, just under the stairs nr the bookcases, this was in Daggerfall Mages Guild, maybe that makes a difference?

RicAlmighty · July 2023

He'll be where he should be, but then he will also be in another location in the same guild. And if you speak to the "wrong" Tharn, you get locked out of the main quest until you abandon and start over. This could have been easily corrected if anyone cared.

ZOS_Hadeostry · July 2023

Greetings,

After further review we have decided to move this thread to a category we think is more appropriate for this topic, as it's about a quest.

Thank you for your understanding

RicAlmighty · July 2023

This should have been moved to Bug Reports, not Quests. This is not a question about a quest this is a bug.

wilykcat · July 2023

The original post is about a quest that is bugged. It technically fits into both the bug reports and quests categories.

vsrs_au · July 2023

I agree with @RicAlmighty , it should have been moved to the Bug Reports section, otherwise the thread will have less visibility as (another) bug report about this long-standing bug.