Trevas Watch needs a better backstory.

[Mebantiza]

Trevas Watch and its quest 'Infiltration' has long bugged me. The (offical) story, is this.

 

 

You encounter a fellow named, Staello sitting in a camp just outside Treva's Watch along with 2 men-at-arms. He tells (you), that bandits have taken over his home, and he wants your help to clean them out, so he can retake his 'family's' home. He claims he is worried about his 'family' and hopes they made it out.

 

 

Well, there is a bit of problem with this, related to what dev intended, or presented, vs what actually ended up in the game. As we all know, after you clear out the fort\castle w/e, Staello, never reclaims he home, he sits outside, and the fort can is eventually re-occupied by bandits . It is as if the events you participate in, never really happensed Or if they did, Staello simply stands aside and lets it happen over and over again.

 

This all happens for several reasons. It is because TW is the target for multiple radiant quests, which itself was clearly a mistake on someones part. Bethesda, never set up anything like the conditions for that would resemble a logical chain of events afterwards. IoW, the 'quest', Infiltration. was never set up with any kind of logical conclusion or outcome, beyond clearing out the fort and acquiring some loot. IoW, it is a incomplete, and rather sloppily done quest. There is little to be done to make the entire chain of events, before and after, make any 'sense', again, mainly because the radiant quest system uses Trevas watch as a target. Dialogues, scripts and other changes that would setup the conditions afterwards, simply dont exist and were never made.

 

 

Since this incomplete, and poorly made quest cant be fixed, and by fixed I mean, the events afterwards actually jive with Staellos story in a coherent way, I propose a way out of the 'problem' at Trevas Watch.

 

Change Staellos backstory and identity.

 

 

Here is a backstory, that at least, would makes sense given what we what see in game.

 

 

Staello, is not, who, or what he says he is. He claims the fort is his 'home, yet his appearance, and that of his guards, do not suggest he could be the owner of such a large piece of property. Staello, is, in fact, a bandit himself. He was made aware of a rival gangs plans to take over the fort, and Staello, had a similar plan himself. But his rivals beat him to the punch. Staello may appear on the surface to want Trevas Watch for himself, but that is not his real goal. Rather than simply walk away, he decides to set up camp outside, and see if he can enlist someones (the players) help, to clear the fort of bandits. Given the conditions in Skyrim atm, the authorities, he reasons, are not likely to send anyone to investigate, so he feels fairly confident he can find someone to help achieve what he himself, and his small group of followers, cannot. Given that he never actually recovers his 'home', or takes anything from it, his real goal all along, was to use the dragonborn, to eliminate his larger, better organized, rivals. With his rivals out of the way, and their newly acquired base taken out, Staello and his gang, can become the dominate bandit gang in that part of the Rift.

 

The dead people inside? No relation to Staello. They could be the(former) legitimate owners, or possibly, workers? (The game never really settles that question either). In any event. Staello doesn't know them, or care. He just wants his more numerous, and stronger rivals eliminated. Afterwards. he helps himself to whatever the player leaves behind, and takes over the old gangs operations.

 

 

Thoughts?

Edited July 30, 2018 by Mebantiza