Ivarstead's Mysteries rival Rorikstead's own mysteries more than meets the eye.

[woodsman30]

Ivarstead has many mysteries and I would like to air a few out here.... We all know about Narfi's sister gone "missing" most believe she was attacked by a bandit or perhaps Wilhelm was involved some way. It deepens more when Narfi becomes a target of the Dark-brotherhood where did that contract come from?

 

There is more though that most have missed.... Ivarstead has secrets to rival even Rorikstead. A radiant quest to find some equipment sends you to Ivarstead given from Wylandriah the court wizard of Riften... what is there is a Dwemer spoon at Fellstar Farm seems innocent enough right?  I've done a complete check of the place and what is interresting is a blackrobes and a book called Aedra and Daedra can be found there "Ivarstead is "vanilla in my game" that makes little sense right? That book is very rare in Skyrim and why is it here with blackrobes in Fellstar farm? Why does Bolti say to you "You better not be here to stir up any trouble.", or "Pilgrim or not, if I were you, I'd move right through our backwards little town." why the threats from a farmer?

How is it Bolti is "good friends" with a Bosmer wizard from Riften? We will also look at that "backwards" line soon.

 

Lets look at Nafri's sister Reyda she went missing when she went to gather plants and herbs often by and Island says Wilhelm. In the river one finds two floating iron arrows below lies a skeleton that is supposedly Reyda with her satchel. In the satchel you'll find Reyda's necklace nothing but a basic silver necklace why was in her satchel not on her? We know the current is flowing good there as it pushes you pretty good when you try to open the satchel.. The arrows if you leave them float away they do not stay there. Besides Reyda has been missing for a year those arrows could not stay there for a year based on that. So I believe there is no way those arrows are the culprit for the demise of that skeleton in anyway.

Why was Reyda gathering ...plants to sell? or to use herself ...was she an alchemist? 

Will Continue... have to check a few in game things...

So where does this lead... there is no evidence Reyda has been killed.. only a skeleton with her necklace in a pouch and that is hardly evidence.. Reyda would be familiar with the water way as she has travel it often as per game discussions. She would even be-aware of the "backwards" current present there as the river flows opposite the waterfalls by her house and also be-aware of a long left skeleton there. Reyda being smart as most alchemist would be knew there was some strange things going on in town.. like Black-brier mead sold on the black market the ill doings of Wilhelm and trying to loot the Nordic barrow near by... Reyda would also be-aware of weird things going on at the Fellstar farm not to mention the strange relationship going on with Klimmek and Bassianus. so where this going?

I believe the evidence points to Reyda leaving and faking her own death as she wanted to leave the whole mess behind her... including her brother who she took care of. Sound to strange?... not really because we seen the same thing happen at Mistwatch where a woman became a bandit chief who just wanted out and ran away..

So what about Narfi's contract you ask?.. simple really..... Astrid has no clue about who is requesting contracts she gets lucky some times by hearing about them in towns she travels but I believe she makes some up to make it look like she has "connections". Narfi is one of these he just is targeted as was the poor guy by the saw mill in Windhelm she seen them and figures they would be easy targets that nobody cared about. So Astrid fakes the contracts and she pays the gold to keep her status as leader of the Dark-Brotherhood. After looking at everything and doing many play through's this is what I believe happened... but of course we will never know for certain...

That's my theory  

[Guest]

I avoid ivarstead like the plague.

It's a lot like that town "Karthwasten" which I just googled to be able to type here.

Anyway,

A fop and a fisherman want the same girl, who gets nagged by her parents.

The mother is so bored she gets mad if you try to leave, ..........

The fisherman has to climb the 7000 steps to drop off some dried fish.

So anyway, I run very-very fast through that town, or teleport past it.

 There are stories in my head of adventurers lying dead in caves, or being sacrificed by heart-stealing necromancers,

or even of local kids standing by gates when it gets especially cold, so they can look very lonely and cold as they sell stuff.

  Sadistic game designers.

 

Anyway thanks for that.

 And I hope someone will see your post and come up with their own theories

(I'm guessing *I* was supposed to,

but I'm too busy delivering stuff to people or killing their enemies)

 

 

 

[woodsman30]

13 hours ago, 2dk2c said:

Anyway thanks for that.

 And I hope someone will see your post and come up with their own theories

(I'm guessing *I* was supposed to,

but I'm too busy delivering stuff to people or killing their enemies)

 

Been doing a play-through where I don't do the whole dragon thing..Kinda nice not having dragons spawn every 5 minutes but it freed up some time and found things I never knew existed in game there is a whole but I might post in this thread that are just oddities.