Online:Korvynn

Korvynn
Location	At the stables outside of Solitude
Race	Nord	Gender	Female
Health	25,974
Reaction	Friendly

Korvynn

Korvynn is a Nord who can be found in the barn just outside of Solitude.

Related Quests

• The Gathering Storm: Investigate a threat to Solitude and its king.

Quest-Related Events

After reading the papers Brondold gave you before he died, one of the notes is from a frightened contact who is waiting for him. As this is one of the only leads you have, you will need to look for them.

Once you enter the barn, a frightened voice will yell at you.

Korvynn: "Stay back! I'll do it! I'll stab you!"

Korvynn is standing behind some crates in a corner of the barn, brandishing a knife. When you talk with her, she will keep that knife trained on you until she is convinced of your trustworthiness.

"I mean it! One step closer and I'll stick you like a horker!"

I'm not here to hurt you. I need to talk to you about Brondold.

"I don't know any Brondold. That is what I told the guards and that is what I'm telling you. I don't want any more trouble. You make me stab you and it's my word against yours!"

Brondold's dead. He left me with a handful of papers and a lot of questions.

"Dead? Stuhn's mercy! And I'm next, aren't I?
I promise, I don't know anything! I won't make any trouble. I'll disappear. I don't even like it here. You'll never see me again!"

I didn't kill Brondold. Just tell me what this is all about.

"He—he did not tell me a lot. Said he was tracking some bad people. Asked me to keep an eye out for any unusual comings and goings. He'd come by now and then with a sweetroll and a few coins for my trouble.
He was … nice."

And did you see anything out of the ordinary?

"The last time we spoke. It was about the men with the job postings. A pair of wolves in sheep's clothing. Trying to blend in, but still rough around the edges. Same with their horses. Sheared mountain mares.
Come from the Reach, I wager."

You can then question her further about the fliers, the reachmen and how she met Brondold.

Job postings? / What else can you tell me about the job postings?

"Fliers. They were hanging them at the inn and around the city. Something about a lucrative opportunity in the Druadach Mountains.
I really did not pay them a lot of attention. I was more interested in the men distributing them."

So what are you going to do now?

"Take Brondold's horse and run before someone less friendly comes to find me.
Bron was going to take me back east after he finished here. I want to live where strangers are welcomed with a smile instead of a scowl. I hear Windhelm is like that.""

Are the people here that suspicious of strangers?

"We're stuck between the Despot of Markarth and the Skald-King of the east. Both sniff around like wolves, waiting for a moment of weakness to strike. Not a day goes by without a threat of war.
It is exhausting living this way."

You think they were trying to hide where they came from?

"They'd be wise to. The only time Reachmen and Nords meet is to kill each other. I always heard they were raiders and barbarians. No interest in honest labor. Or writing, for that matter.
Not the sort to post job notices."

What do you think they really want?

Who knows? Maybe they really do need laborers. Can't imagine Reachmen would hire Nords, though.
It doesn't make a lot of sense."

What's the Reach? / Tell me about the Reach.

"A wild land full of wild folk, located south and west of here. It's changed hands between Reachmen and Nords more times than I can count, but they control the territory now.
Seeing Reachmen wandering the streets of Solitude, it makes me nervous."

Why does that make you nervous?

"You'd feel the same if you knew the tales of the fall of Markarth. What the witchmen do to folk they capture … better to slice your own throat than let those barbarians take you alive!
If they raid our hold, just run and don't look back."