At the western approach to Andothren the player meets a grumpy old Dunmer named Bols Ulven. He struggles to uplift a chest that fell from his pack guar and blames his illness. You have an option to either help him lift the chest (strength check =>50), or heal him by casting a Restore Strength spell (until his Strength equals or exceeds 40 pts). He will reward you with 25 septims if you lift the chest, or 100 septims if healed.
If the player does look inside the chest, a secondary quest will occur, in which they may decide whether or not to report the merchant for smuggling ash statues (this is counted as a separate quest in the CS). The guard will reward the player with 100 septims for reporting this.
The following Journal ID and Index codes can be used with the Journalconsole command to manually update the quest to a certain point.
The Malignant Merchant (TR_m4_And_TMM)
Index
Finishes Quest
Journal Entry
5
I came across a merchant named Bols Ulven just outside Andothren who seemed to be having a great deal of trouble lifting a chest that had fallen off his pack guar.
10
Finishes quest
Bols Ulven refused my help, so I decided to leave him alone.
13
Bols Ulven attempted to refuse my help, but I insisted. Since he has mentioned that he has a "withering disease", I will try to heal him.
15
A cure disease spell did not work to cure Bols Ulven's condition.
17
Finishes quest
I failed to lift Bols Ulven's chest. He said that he didn't need any more help from me.
18
Finishes quest
Bols Ulven attempted to refuse my help, but I insisted. After I lifted the crate and put it on his guar, he begrudgingly gave me 25 gold coins and told me to go away.
25
Finishes quest
I did not have anything to cure Bols Ulven's disease. He said that he didn't need any more help from me.
35
After Bols Ulven's strength got restored, his condition seems to have improved.
40
Finishes quest
Bols Ulven seemed grateful to me for healing him, and gave me 100 gold pieces in return.
45
Finishes quest
The merchant Bols Ulven is dead.
The Malignant Merchant (TR_m4_And_TMM_ash)
5
I found some suspicious-looking statues inside Bols Ulven's chest.
6
Finishes quest
Bols Ulven was enraged that I had looked inside his chest. When I said I was going to report him to the guards, he attacked me.
7
Finishes quest
Bols Ulven was enraged that I had looked inside his chest. I extorted him for 100 gold, which further enraged him.
8
Finishes quest
Bols Ulven was enraged that I had looked inside his chest. After calming down somewhat, he told me to tell nobody. I told him I would comply.
10
I told a guard about the suspicious statues I found in Bols Ulven's chest. They said that they needed one of the statues as proof of the crime to punish him.
20
Finishes quest
A guard thanked me for reporting that Bols Ulven had been smuggling ash statues, and rewarded me with 100 gold.
