Skyrim:Rejoining the College

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Make amends for breaking the College of Winterhold rules. Quest Giver: Automatic after committing a serious crime against a College member Location(s): College of Winterhold Reward: Reentry into the College ID: MGRejoinQuest

"Ah, yes. There was an incident, wasn't there?"

Quick Walkthrough

1. Find Tolfdir.
2. Pay the fine.

Detailed Walkthrough

This quest will automatically begin after killing another College member. The quest description will inform you that you have been suspended from the College. It is a very short quest, requiring you to only find Tolfdir in the College and speak to him. Tolfdir lectures you about behaviors that the College finds inappropriate, and states that he will have your suspension lifted if you pay a fine. Paying the fine results in immediate reinstatement into the College's ranks and completion of the quest.

Notes

• This quest may begin even if you have completed the College of Winterhold questline and became Arch-Mage.
• Murder is the only crime that will trigger this quest; lesser crimes, such as pickpocketing and theft, will not.
• The fine for the first incident is 250 gold. If you commit another crime and receive the quest again, the fine climbs to 500 gold. It increases to 750 gold for the third incident, and 1,000 gold for each incident thereafter.
• Tolfdir increases the amount of the fine according to the number of past incidents, not their severity. Therefore, as long as it's your first such incident, you can murder a non-essential member of the College and only have to pay 250 gold, one quarter of the bounty that would be charged in any hold for murder.
• Tolfdir may instead be found in Saarthal if you are between starting Under Saarthal and finishing Hitting the Books.

Bugs

• J'zargo and Onmund will not trigger this quest if killed.
  • The Unofficial Skyrim Patch, version 2.1.1, fixes this bug. (details)
• J'zhar will incorrectly trigger this quest if raised and then killed again.
  • The Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch, version 3.0.6, fixes this bug. (details)
• Endrast will also trigger this quest if raised and killed.
  • The Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch, version 3.0.6, fixes this bug. (details)
• This quest will trigger if you raise one of the members of the college that triggers this quest if you kill them again ^?
• Sometimes killing yourself will trigger the quest "Rejoining the College". It can also be acomplished on PC by typing the following command into the console: player.placeatme 00000007 (Dovahkiin's base id), then killing the newly created NPC. ^?

Quest Stages

Rejoining the College (MGRejoinQuest)
Stage	Finishes Quest	Journal Entry
5		I've been suspended from the College for my actions. I should speak with Tolfdir about having it lifted. Objective 5: Speak with Tolfdir
10		I've been suspended from the College for my actions, and will need to pay Tolfdir 250 gold in order to have it lifted. Objective 10: Give Tolfdir 250 gold to lift your suspension
20		I've been suspended from the College for my actions, and will need to pay Tolfdir 500 gold in order to have it lifted. Objective 20: Pay Tolfdir 500 gold to lift your suspension
30		I've been suspended from the College for my actions, and will need to pay Tolfdir 1000 gold in order to have it lifted. Objective 30: Pay Tolfidr 1000 gold to lift your suspension
200	Finishes quest	I have paid Tolfdir and my suspension from the College has been lifted.

• The following empty quest stages were omitted from the table: 0.

Notes

• Any text displayed in angle brackets (e.g., <Alias=LocationHold>) is dynamically set by the Radiant Quest system, and will be filled in with the appropriate word(s) when seen in game.
• Not all Journal Entries may appear in your journal; which entries appear and which entries do not depends on the manner in which the quest is done.
• Stages are not always in order of progress. This is usually the case with quests that have multiple possible outcomes or quests where certain tasks may be done in any order. Some stages may therefore repeat objectives seen in other stages.
• If an entry is marked as "Finishes Quest" it means the quest disappears from the Active Quest list, but you may still receive new entries for that quest.
• On the PC, it is possible to use the console to advance through the quest by entering setstage MGRejoinQuest stage, where stage is the number of the stage you wish to complete. It is not possible to un-complete (i.e. go back) quest stages, but it is possible to clear all stages of the quest using resetquest MGRejoinQuest.

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