Family Heirloom

Family Heirloom

This quest can be fairly easy or really hard. One of the companions will give you this quest, telling you that a troll stole a family heirloom and the family wants it back. Aparently this is very unusual.

The troll camp isn't far from Whiterun and you can easily get there on horseback or on foot. Just make the quest active and follow the white arrow at the top of your screne till you get to the camp. I recommend saving before you actually enter the camp.

You have two choices here:

1. TO SNEAK

(This choice is recommended if you are a low level character)  Enter the camp after dark. Go over the rocks to the left of the camp, if you approached from Whiterun, sneaking as you do so. There will be a chest in the middle of the camp. You're going to need to pick the lock. It's expert level but fairly easy to open. Take everything inside the chestl; the heirloom is a type of weapon, but several of the other pieces in the chest are worth quite a bit. Sneak out of the camp in the same direction you came in along the rock wall. You may run into some of the trolls on your way out. If you get too close they will attack. Trolls are fairly hard to kill when at a low level and so are their mammoths. There should be two trolls in the camp and two mammoths. If you don't wish to fight, I reccomend starting from your save point. They will not give up chasing you after a time. You can literally run accross the map with one on your heels.

2. TO FIGHT

(If you are not a lover level, at least >15, and want to have some fun this is recommended for you) As said above, there should be two trolls and two mammoths in the camp. One of the trolls will have a key on him to get into a chest that is along the left side of the camp, near a rock wall. Try to kill one mammoth and one troll at a time. If a mammoth is attacked, it's troll will imediatly try and kill you. If a troll is attacked, it's mamoth will imediatly try and kill you. The mamoth is easier to kill first; a troll regenerates health as you attack it and may take longer to kill while in the mean time you have several large things tring to kill you. Trolls have a weakness for fire so equibing destruction fire spells or using the fire shout will really help. Once you have killed the right troll, collect the key off it's body and get the heirloom in the chest.

Once done with either of the rwo options, get far enough from the camp and use your map to fast travel back to Whiterun, go to the Companion base and talk to the companion that gave you the quest.