Finn's Lute (Item)



Finn's Lute is an item that can be found in Stony Creek Cave, which is south-east of Windhelm.

In Darkwater Crossing, Anekke Crag-Jumper will give you a small side quest to Kill the Bandit leader in Stony Creek Cave.

After you Kill the Bandit leader, you'll find a chest in the room that will give you Finn's Lute, along with a few other goodies.

Finn's Lute can be given to Inge Six-Fingers at Solitude's Bard's College in exchange for +1 to all stealth skills and thus is a highly valuable item. This is not a quest; rather a unique dialogue option which appears when talking to this NPC while in possession of the lute.

Bugs
The Lute may get stuck in your inventory, not allowing you to sell the item or drop it. (PC, Xbox 360 & Playstation 3 Confirmed). PC players can use the console command player.removeitem 000DABAB 1 to remove it.

On PC/Xbox 360/PS3 not only a lute gets stuck in inventory, but the quest itself in not marked as completed, and one can report the lute being found many times. Reward is given only a first time though. (May depend on a lute being already found before a quest is taken - Confirmed). The fix (PC) is to use the console command setstage bardscollegelute 40

Pickpocketing the lute after completing the quest will still see the lute at(as) a quest item and will stay in your inventory for the remainder of the game unless the command console is used.