How to start the Blood on the Snow quest in Skyrim
This task does not relate to the main storyline, but you can get a generous reward for it. The mission is activated by a kind of counter, which is triggered when the game starts and counts progress until the start of the quest every time your character enters Windhelm or its environs. It is enough to do this 4 times. The task will become available if the following conditions are met:
- Tova Shattershield and Arivana are still alive;
- The player fast travels between 7:00 pm and 7 am in-game time, or enters through the Main Gate or the Dock Gate.
The easiest way to start the mission is to wander between the Windhelm stables and the Brandy Mug farm, then enter the city at the appropriate time.
Serial killer
When you first visit the city, you can hear remarks from some NPCs about the maniac who is terrorizing Windhelm. If the conditions listed above are met, then the body of another victim named Susanna will be found in the city cemetery.
The guards who can be found nearby will tell you that they are too busy with military operations, so they will not refuse any help. The first thing to do is question the three witnesses who gathered near Susanna's body. Here's what you can find out:
- Helgrid noticed that the victim's wallet was untouched. This suggests that the murder was not carried out for the purpose of robbery.
- Calicto, who saw the killer, claims that he is a young guy.
- Silda, a blind beggar, saw nothing and knows nothing.
The next step is to go to the castle to chat with Yorleif. He will allow you to examine in detail the body, which has already been delivered to the Hall of the Dead, without unnecessary fuss. Helgrid, who works there, will tell you that the wound the victim received looks unusual - as if it was inflicted with a curved embalming tool.
The only clue in the cemetery where the body was found is a trail of blood. If you move along it and turn right around the corner, the character will come across the entrance to Hjorim. The front door is locked and requires a master level lockpicking skill. To fall inside, you can ask any guard for help.
This house previously belonged to the murdered Frige Shattershield. To find out the details, you need to find her mother, Tova, who is usually at the market between 11 am and 3 pm, and in the afternoon in the Hall of the Dead. From what we heard, Friga is also one of the killer's victims. Tova will give you the key, thanks to which you can get to Hyorim.
Search for evidence
Inside, in one of the chests you can find 11 leaflets telling that the Butcher is on the loose, as well as the diary of a serial killer. There is also a closet in which the killer's lair is hidden behind a false panel. This way you can find instruments of torture, human bones and the second part of the diary.
On the shelf in the next room lies a strange-looking amulet - the last piece of evidence. If you show it to Yorlef, he will mention Calixto and advise you to contact the flyer poster Viola Giordano. First of all, it is recommended to talk to Calixto.
The owner of the museum, which he opened with his late sister, is familiar with all sorts of wonders. He recognizes the amulet you found as an artifact used by necromancers and will offer to sell it for 500 coins.
Viola Giordano wanders around the city all day and spends her evenings in a tavern. If you show her the diary found in the killer's lair, the marker will point to the court magician Wunferth, who is fond of non-romanticism.
Wunferth the Unliving can be found in the Palace of the Kings. Throughout the day he is busy in the laboratory. The amulet you find will immediately identify it as being directly related to necromancy. Since that character has been investigating a series of mysterious murders for a long time, he will advise you to go patrol the city at night.
The true killer
If we return to Iorlef, it will be possible to tell that it is Wunfert who is the main suspect in this complicated case. The ruler will send a guard to arrest the magician. The quest will be completed, but you will not receive any reward for completing it.
If you leave Windhelm and do not appear there for three in-game days, upon your return it will turn out that another victim has fallen at the hands of the maniac - an Altmer woman named Arivana, who works at the stables. The guard will tell you that a mistake was made in the investigation, and the completed quest will appear again. One of the magicians, who can be found in the barracks, will tell you that he has figured out a pattern in the murders being committed and will advise you to go to the stone quarter.
The killer can be found by going up to the market square from the cemetery - the character will see that Calixto with a knife in his hand is creeping up on the next victim. If you can’t quickly kill the maniac, he will hide in his lair in Hjorim. After the murder, you can take the restored amulet, the key to his home and other valuable belongings from the body.
By searching Calixto's house, you can find many clues that shed light on this dark story. It turns out that after the death of his sister, Calxto simply went crazy and began collecting parts of human bodies in order to bring her back to life using a necromancy ritual.
As a reward for correctly completing the quest, your hero will receive the Necromancer's Amulet - an artifact that increases the supply of mana by 50 units and reduces its consumption by 25% when using spells from the school of witchcraft. This is only possible if you agree to sell Calixto a strange amulet.
Your character will also be given the title of Thane, which also means the opportunity to buy a house in Windhelm.
Known bugs
As in many other quests in, several bugs were discovered during the passage of “Blood on the Snow”. It is better to sell the necromancer's amulet that you show to Calixto immediately after the offer is received. The item is “stuck” to your inventory, so it is impossible to get rid of it in any other way.
After questioning three witnesses at the scene of Susanna’s murder, the guard may not continue the task, but begin to say that he has already seen the main character somewhere. The only way to solve the problem is to load an earlier save and go through the beginning of the mission again.
When the graphics quality is set to low in the settings, traces of blood on the snow are not displayed. The only way to solve the problem is to improve quality.
Did you want to play the role of Sherlock Holmes and solve complicated crimes? If yes, then you will like the task “Blood on the Snow”. The main feature of this quest is that you can imprison an innocent person. And in order to imprison the murderer, read this description. And one more feature that baffles everyone is that the markers in this task are more confusing than helpful. Read the quest and conversations with NPCs.
To start the task, go to Windhelm, and at night, walking through the cemetery, you will see a scene where a murder has just occurred. The guard nearby will start a dialogue with you.
- ask three onlookers who are standing near the corpse;
- talk to the guard;
- turn to Yorleif (Helgird) for authority to investigate a series of crimes;
- return to the murder scene and talk to the guard again, he will offer to talk to the old woman in the Hall of the Dead;
- enter the Hall of the Dead (the door is nearby), talk to the old woman, she will tell you about strange wounds;
- Leave the Hall of the Dead and follow the trail of blood to find the killer's house.
Traces of blood look like this:
The house is located here:
- To get into the house you need to either pick the lock (master level) or talk to the manager, he will say that this is the house of the deceased, and if you need to get there, contact her mother Tova. We go to the Shattered Shield clan house, talk to Tova, get the key. We go into the house, we find the first diary (in the chest) and the necromancer's amulet (in the far corner of the room under a mountain of sheets), then we find cabinets, a secret room behind them, and there is a second diary;
Addition in comments:
“After you entered the house where the Butcher is hiding, found a secret room there, diaries and an amulet, do not forget to pick up at least one of the advertisements about the Butcher, signed by Viola Giordano. Then you can just ask any guard about this and he will already give a tip to her whereabouts.”
Amulet under the sheets:
Secret door behind the closet:
- go to the palace to Helgird;
- go to the beggar woman, she will say that the killer is a magician;
- go to the magician (don’t talk to the manager!) in the main building, the magician will say that he is not a murderer, then he will cast a spell and say that there will be another murder today;
- wait until nightfall, go to the market, witness another crime;
- kill Cagliosto, remove the key from his corpse;
- go to the museum, on the second floor you find the third diary;
- return to Helgird and talk about all the evidence found, the quest is over.
There's no special reward, just an interesting twisted crime. If you imprisoned the magician, it is possible to continue the task, but how is unknown.
problem with completing the quest “Blood on the Snow” SKYRIM I can’t find the evidence
- To start the task, go to Windhelm, and at night, while walking through the cemetery, you will see the scene of a murder that has just occurred. The guard nearby will start a dialogue with you. But keep in mind that if you miss this kill, this quest will never appear again. You can also get this quest by taking the key from a corpse or stealing it from Towa. Then go into the house and click “look at the evidence.” Another way is to buy a house in Windhelm, completing the quest to visit your house and receive a task (more on this below).
It is believed that the killings occur from Loredas of the Last Seed to Middas of the Hearth of Fire. It seems that this is the time period when it is possible to activate this quest.To activate the quest, you must visit Windhelm 3 times;
Ask the three onlookers who are standing near the corpse - these are Silda the Invisible, Helgird and Calixto Corrium;
Talk to the guard;
Apply to the castle's steward, Yorleif, for authority to investigate a series of crimes;
Return to the scene of the murder and talk to the guard again, he will offer to talk to the priestess Helgird in the Hall of the Dead;
Enter the Hall of the Dead (door nearby), talk to Helgird, she will tell you about the strange wounds;
Leave the Hall of the Dead and follow the trail of blood to find the murderer’s house - Kjerim;
To get into the house, you need to either pick the lock (master level), or talk to the manager, he will say that this is the house of the deceased, and if you need to get there, contact her mother Tova;
We go to the house of the Shattered Shield clan, talk to Tova (if you completed the Dark Brotherhood quest “Farewell to Love”, you will find her dead), we get the key. We go into the house, we find the first diary (in the chest) and a strange amulet (in the far corner of the room under a mountain of sheets), which can (and even should) be sold to Calixto Corrium (if the amulet is not shown to Calixto, it will hang in the inventory as a quest amulet). further we find cabinets, a secret room behind them, and there is a second diary;
Go to the palace to Yorleif;
Go to Viola Giordano (there must be at least one leaflet about the return of the butcher. There are plenty of them in the house of the deceased), she will say that the killer is a court magician (Wunfert the Undead);
Before visiting the magician, it is advisable to visit Calixto and sell him an amulet to avoid bugs (leaves the locked house at 5 pm).
Go to the magician (don't talk to the manager!) on the second floor of the palace. The magician will say that he is not the murderer, then he will do a little magic and declare that there will be another murder tonight;
(if you nevertheless talked to the manager, he, with the assistance of the guards, will arrest the magician and he will go to prison. A message will come about the completed quest. But that’s not all, dear Dovahkiins! If you leave the city and return there later, and talk to Yorleif again, You will find out that another murder has occurred. Go to prison, talk to the magician, the quest “Blood on the Snow” appears in the journal again.) Next:
Wait for night, go to the market, become a witness to another crime;
(you can prevent the murder of a girl if you manage to kill the Butcher before he kills the victim)
Kill the Butcher, remove the key from his corpse;
Go to his house, on the second floor you will find the third diary;
Return to Yorleif, the quest is completed.
Note: If you imprisoned a magician, you have the opportunity to continue the task: after a while, the killings will continue, then wait for the night and go to the market, where something new is done... further according to the scenario described above.
An alternative way to start the quest is to buy a house in Windhelm. (If you chose the side of the Stormcloaks, then this opportunity will appear after the liberation of Falkreath.) . In this case, the quest begins upon arrival at the purchased house. After you find the amulet, both parts of the diary and take the leaflet, contact one of the guards and talk about the amulet and the Butcher. You will be sent to Calixto and Viola Giordano, after which the quest will be completed in the same way as above.
1.1 How to get it?
Unfortunately, at the moment I have found only one way to take this quest. You need to wait for a random comment from the npc in Vinhelm, after hearing which you can immediately run to the cemetery of this town. This topic will only appear if you have a note about the killer in your inventory. You can add it with the command player.additem 21683 1. This quest can also be obtained by purchasing a house. Go into the house, and everything there is covered in blood, from this moment this quest starts.
1.2 Having run to the cemetery, we will find several guards and onlookers next to one tombstone, generously covered in blood. After a short dialogue with the guards, we will be asked to interrogate witnesses. At the end of the interrogation, you will need to speak with the guard again, he will ask us to obtain official permission.
1.2
Approaching the guard once again, we learn that the body was transferred to the hall of the dead to prepare the body for burial... Having gone down there, we talk with Bertha and learn that the wounds on the body of the deceased could not have been inflicted by ordinary weapons, according to Bertha’s assumption this can be could only be done with the tools used for embalming.
1.3
After which, leaving the tomb, we follow the bloody trail to Hjorim (by the way, after completing the quest we will be able to buy this house), here it would be nice to have a pumped-up hacking skill or at least a sufficient number of master keys (because the door is locked at the level " master") upon entering the house, we discover at first glance a completely empty house.
But this is only at first glance.... A trail of blood stretches to the chest, there you can find the killer's diary and a bunch of leaflets about the butcher... To the right of the chest there will be several cabinets and a coffee table, in which, under a pile of waste paper, lies a mysterious amulet ... Having taken it, we turn our attention to the cabinets, behind one of which there is a secret room... Yes, and I almost forgot, you should go there on an empty stomach.... there you will find the second part of the butcher's diary. Now we run to the manager again, he, in turn, will send us to a certain collector who, for a modest fee, will agree to buy the amulet from you... after which you will have to find Viola Giordano, the main agitator of the anti-butcher movement... After a short conversation, she will say that he knows one comrade who is actually a butcher. We run to the undead wumpert and reproach him for using necromancy, dashingly denying it, the old man will tell us that he knows how to find the real killer. After conducting a short aholay-mahalay, the magician will tell us that the killer will go out on another case that night. So we wait for night and go look for him... I found him in the market square, we kill him and go get a well-deserved reward...
1.4. In case of failure. If you nevertheless made a mistake and put Wumfert behind bars, then do not despair - there is a way to correct your mistake. Find the barracks in the royal palace of Winhelm (the door to the right of the entrance). Proceed deeper. There you will see prison bars, in one of which a magician will sit. Open the grate with a master key (you'll have to work hard - the lock level is expert) and start a conversation with Wumpert. New lines will appear in the dialogue, allowing you to continue the task and capture the real killer.
You need to inspect the crime scene in the game Skyrim in the quest “Blood on the Snow”. To start this task, you need to go to Windhelm, if you walk through the cemetery there at night, you will see a murder scene.
There will be a guard nearby who will take the initiative and begin a dialogue with you. If you miss this kill, you will not get to start the quest - keep this in mind. You can get it by picking up the key from a corpse or by stealing it from Tova.
Then enter the house and click “Look at the evidence.” As an option, you can purchase a house in Windhelm during the “Visit Your Home” quest, and then receive the task. To do this, you need to visit Windhelm three times, but this condition becomes irrelevant for the latest versions of the official patch.
Afterwards, you need to ask three onlooker characters who are hanging around the body - Silda the Invisible, Helgird and Calixto Corrium. The next step is a dialogue with the guard who is standing nearby.
Afterwards, you need to go to the manager of the castle, Yorleif, to receive authority to investigate a whole series of crimes. Return to the murder scene to talk to the guard for the umpteenth time.
He will offer to go talk to the priestess Helgird, who is in the Hall of the Dead, and she, in turn, will tell about the bloody trail coming from the body and about the strange wounds that were left by embalming tools.
After leaving the Hall of the Dead, follow the trail of blood to find the house of the murderer's victim - Kjerim. You can’t just get into the house - it’s locked, the lock can be picked, but to do this, your hacking skill level must be at least “Master”.
An alternative is to talk to the manager, who will advise you to contact the mother of the deceased Tova for permission to enter the home.
Proceed to the house of the Split Shield clan, there you will find Tova, get the key to the desired house. If you managed to complete the Dark Brotherhood quest "Farewell Love", then you will find Tova already dead.
Upon entering the house, look for the first diary - it is in the chest, and also look for a strange amulet at the far end of the room under a mountain of leaves - it will still be useful outside of this quest as you progress through the story campaign.
Not far from the amulet you will find a cabinet with a secret room behind a false panel, there is a second diary on the cutting table. The next step is to go to Viola Giordano, to do this you must have at least one leaflet in your inventory about the return of the butcher - this goodness is in bulk in the house of the deceased.
Viola will tell you about her suspicions about the court magician Wunfert the Unliving. What to do next is up to you to decide.
There are two options available, after completing which the ending of the quest will be identical. So, there is only one option.
You can go to Yorleif's palace, where you can hand over the magician as a murderer. After such an action, Wunfert will be sent to prison, and the quest will be marked completed, but it will be too early to consider your task completed.
Show the amulet to the manager, he will send it to Calixto in the museum, when you come to the latter, you will receive from him an offer to sell the amulet for 500 septims, and if you have an early, unpatched version of the game Skyrim, then you should agree, because you will then suffer greatly from various bugs degrees of scale.
Leave the city, return in a few days, learn about the incident of another murder, after which the quest “Blood on the Snow” will be activated again in the journal - the wrong one was put in prison, as you can see.
Follow to the prison, where you need to talk with the magician - he will tell you that the next murder will happen soon and that it can still be prevented.
Now option two, it is relevant for versions of the game updated with patches. Go to the magician on the second floor of the palace, share Viola’s suspicions with him, and in return you will receive a refutation of the words of the half-mad old woman. You shouldn't talk to the manager about murders.
Having shown the amulet to the magician, you will see that he recognizes it as the Necromancer's Amulet and makes an exchange. You will hear from him that another murder will happen in the market soon - you need to prevent it.
Whichever option you choose, the final part of the quest will be identical in both cases.
Wait until the beginning of the next day (if you used the second option, then act immediately, don’t hesitate), go to the market. There you will see another crime, but you can still save the Butcher’s victim if you kill him before he kills the girl.
If Calixto managed to escape from the scene of the crime, follow to Kjerim, where you need to put an end to his activities once and for all. Search his corpse (no matter where, in the market or already in Kjerim), remove the key from the body and go to Calixto’s house, on the second floor you will see the third part of the diary.
If you previously managed to sell Calixto’s amulet, take it back for yourself - double the benefit, as you can see. You have the goods with you, and you have received money for them.
Once done, return to Yorleif to complete the quest.
