Prerequisites: Complete Main Quest: The Throat of the World, Complete Side Quest: The White Phial, Passage of time: Three days (72 hours) after both quests finish

Intersecting Quests: Main Quest: The Throat of the World, Side Quest: The White Phial

Locations: Red Eagle Redoubt, Red Eagle Ascent, Stonehill Bluff, Sundered Towers, Throat of the World, Windhelm, The White Phial

Characters: Nurelion, Quintus Navale

Enemies: Forsworn, Forsworn Briarheart, Giant

Objectives: Speak to Quintus Navale , Retrieve the Unmelting Snow, Find some Mammoth Tusk Powder, Take a Forsworn Heart, Return to Quintus Navale

A Query from Quintus

This quest has several prerequisites: You must have completed Main Quest: Throat of the World and Side Quest: The White Phial. Then you must have progressed your adventure by three days (72 hours) from the time you finished the Side Quest. Finally, you must be in a city for a courier to appear and find you.

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Time passes. You may forget about old Nurelion and the cracked phial you found for him—that is, until a courier appears in a town that you’re visiting (providing you’ve done all the prerequisites for starting this quest). He has an urgent letter from Quintus Navale in Windhelm that must be delivered. Open the letter and read it to begin this quest. It seems that Quintus has been researching methods of repairing the Phial, and he may now be able to...with your help.

Items gained:
Letter from Quintus Navale

Objective: Speak to Quintus Navale
Target: Quintus, in the White Phial, in Windhelm

Once inside the Alchemist’s shop, inform Quintus that you’ve read his letter. He tells you that he’s found three materials that, when mixed together, may be able to mend the crack in the White Phial. Naturally, these materials are a little hard to come by. He requires a scoop of Unmelting Snow from the summit of the Throat of the World; a tusk of a Mammoth, ground to a fine powder as only giants know how; and the briar heart from a Forsworn of the Reach. Ask Quintus about each material so you learn a little more about each one.

Objective: Retrieve the Unmelting Snow
Target: Summit, the Throat of the World

Objective: Find some Mammoth Tusk Powder
Target: Grinding receptacle, Stonehill Bluff

Objective: Take a Forsworn Heart
Target: Forsworn Briarheart, Red Eagle Redoubt

A Cracked Concoction

Material 1: The Summit of Skyrim

Head to the Throat of the World, either by the precarious trek to High Hrothgar and through the deep mist, up to Paarthurnax’s meditation place, or by Fast-Traveling, as you’ll already have visited this perch during the Main Quest. Climb past Paarthurnax to a steep sloped area and an unmelting snowbank. Activate it to remove some snow...