Prerequisites: Complete the Companions Quest: The Silver Hand, Complete two Companions Radiant Quests

Intersecting Quests: The Companions Quest: The Silver Hand, The Companions Quest: Purity of Revenge, The Companions Radiant Quests

Locations: Glenmoril Coven, Whiterun, Jorrvaskr, Jorrvaskr Living Quarters

Characters: Aela the Huntress, Kodlak Whitemane, Vilkas

Enemies: Frostbite Spider, Glenmoril Witch, Silver Hand, Skeever

Objectives: Collect a Glenmoril Witch’s head, (Optional) Wipe out the Glenmoril Witches, Return to Kodlak

Hircine’s Curse

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After completing the Companions Quest: Proving Honor and then tending to other business, visit Kodlak, who is usually down in his Living Quarters in Jorrvaskr. Sit next to him and begin to talk.

After telling him what you’ve been up to, Kodlak asks if you’ve heard the story of how the Companions became werewolves. The Order of the Companions is almost 5,000 years old, but the beastblood has only “troubled” them for a few hundred.

One of Kodlak’s predecessors made a bargain with the witches of Glenmoril Coven; if the Companions were to hunt in the name of their lord, Hircine, they would be granted great power. But there was deception...