Did you make Jyrik Gauldurson killable under Saarthal? He has one of the Gauldur Amulet Fragments and I don't want to join the College of Winterhold just because of that. Jyrik is invulnerable, and as far as I know, only Tolfdir can weaken Jyrik by casting a spell on the glowing orb. I know the console code for this object, but getting it like this is not very immersive.
The solution may be to move the fragment into a crate. I could pick it up and run out screaming. That way you wouldn't have to mess with the College of Winterhold quest.
I had placed the Galdur Amulet on the table near the Staff of Jyrik Gauldurson. On my tests, simply picking the Amulet did not started the quest, I don't know if it will help if you already have started the quest and have other fragments of the Amulet. It may need more tests.
I started a new game, after reading the Lost Legends book, I followed the quest to Saarthal, found the fragment, but the log is not updated. I had to use the Setstage dunGauldursonQST 33 command.
The quest marker also pointed to Jyrik Gauldurson, not to the amulet fragment.
I suspect the quest script checks if Jyrik is fully dead. In my test here (new game, doing the regular Under Saarthal quest), after killing Jyrik, collecting the Fragment doesn't trigger the quest: it only starts after reading the Writ of Sealing. Then I tried again another version of this mod with a Writ of Sealing on the table together with the Fragment, but reading it with Jyrik "half alive" didn't trigger the quest either.
I'll take a deeper look into the quest script but I don't know if this is something I can "fix".
I'd finally worked it out. I've made many tests. Along with the Amulet I had put the Writing of Seal. Reading it, will start the Forgotten Legend quest if player doesn't have this quest yet. The Amulet I had put on the table will update the objective ("find the Gauldur Amulet Fragment in Saarthal") as completed. There is a trick, though: if you aren't on the quest stage which tells you to find the Gauldur Amulet Fragment in Saarthal yet and you already collected it, when you get to this quest stage, it will not update automatically - you will need to drop and collect the Amulet again to update the quest and complete this objective.
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I had placed the Galdur Amulet on the table near the Staff of Jyrik Gauldurson. On my tests, simply picking the Amulet did not started the quest, I don't know if it will help if you already have started the quest and have other fragments of the Amulet. It may need more tests.
The quest marker also pointed to Jyrik Gauldurson, not to the amulet fragment.
I'll take a deeper look into the quest script but I don't know if this is something I can "fix".
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