So a few weeks ago, I was looking through the Creation Kit and decided I'd see if I couldn't finish some of the unfinished College of Winterhold quests.

If you don't know, there are three: Research Thief (where you have to steal research notes from Faralda for Nirya), Missing Apprentices (where you have to find the bodies of the missing College apprentices for Phinis Gestor), and Rogue Wizard (where, as Arch-Mage, you track down and kill a rogue College wizard for Tolfdir). All three have voice-acted dialogue and much of the quest written out, so it only would require a bit of scripting and editing to make this happen.

Now, I'm pleased to announce I've released the first of these unfinished quests- Research Thief!

I intend to eventually release all three together as one mod, but for now I'm releasing this one independently- mainly because, depending on how you choose to complete the quest, either Faralda or Nirya become marriageable- so if you want a character to marry a female Altmer, you now have a bit more variety.

Research Thief v1.0:

It's available for download from the Workshop and from Nexus, see the links below:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=95221514
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/23971

Note: this mod will be affected by the dreaded dialogue glitch. What this means is that, after loading the mod and launching the game, you should save and then load that save from inside the game. If you don't do this, the dialogue option to start the quest won't appear when you talk to Nirya.