Has The DC Zone Quest March of the Ra Gada Been Removed?

KyleTheYounger

What the title said. The NPC Throne Keeper Farvad is either missing or invisible where he should be standing at Hooding's Watch

Completed chatting with the insane Priestess Sermenh to end Sirri's Research quest and begin March of the Ra Gada. Favad should be standing on the other side of the stairs where you speak to the Priestess NPC. But he isn't there. The only other NPC in the vicinity with a zone quest marker above their head is Captain Rawad. But talking to this NPC will trigger another zone quest called "The Search for Sirri"

Which I don't want to start because it bypasses two important story zone quests: The March of the Ra Gada and Trials of The Hero as shown here

http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Daggerfall_Covenant

As shown in Alikir Desert section in the above link, Rawad's quest can be started once Alasan's Plot quest is complete. Problem is the branching for the zone story was poorly done and somewhat illogical at this point. Because Rawan's quest (The Search for Shiri) can also be started after Trials of the Hero. Doing Rawan's quest will probably block the ability to complete the quests it skips.

I'm trying to do the zone quest close to linear order as possible. Order of progression after Alsan's Plot should be Shiri's Research, then March or the Ra Gada, then Trials of the Hero, then The Search for Shiri. But again this linear quest line appears broken because Farvad is either invisible or completely missing from where he should be standing.

jle30303

Are you sure you didn't complete the quest earlier, out of sequence, at some occasion when visiting HoonDing's Watch, at a time when completing it didn't point you to "The Search for Shiri" because you hadn't completed the previous quests in the zone?

The Dragonguard prologue quest "The Dragonguard's Legacy" is a possible culprit here, if Sai Sahan sent you to the Windscour Temple, whose entrance is at the top of HoonDing's Watch, and you talked to Farvad and fought your way through the castle and completed the quest en route instead of riding around it over the rising sands to reach the top that way...

KyleTheYounger

No haven't done Sai's quest. If I had completed this earlier for Farvad (and this would've been a LONG time ago like 2yrs or so) then would the Nedes NPCs still be hostile to the Redgaurds (an associated quest if you go up those long stairs)? Because it's as though I didn't do that quest.

Typically if you complete a series of quests like that for a given NPC, the hostile NPCs you had to deal with are either neutral and/or invisible in the area. If still visible, they only spawn when a player who hasn't done that particular quest enters the area.

jle30303

I think these NPCs stay hostile. May be wrong.

[EDIT] Just went there, and ALL the NPCs remain hostile. The Nedes, the Goblins, the Orsinium Orcs, the Daggerfall Bretons, all of them.

How to tell whether you've finished the quest on this character or not: If you have finished it, there is a portal at the top of the highest tower (the entrance to Wind Scour Temple can be found by dropping off the edge, you will land literally on the trapdoor), which will take you back down to the start of HoonDing's Watch. The portal will not be there if the quest has not been finished.

The quest has a "Main Quest" arrow, rather than a "Sidequest" type of arrow - but is technically not necessary to complete the Alikr Desert's actual main quest, because it's kind of a red-herring chase that you're sent on by Shiri, to ensure that

you are *not* where she actually is headed, and that you arrive there late...

And in fact, your "typical" comment is, I believe, the minority rather than the majority of areas. Most hostiles stay hostile even after you've finished a quest.

KyleTheYounger

sorry for the late follow up. This addressed the issue. Thank you!