How do I determine whether a quest belongs to the main story line?
I've heard that there is a main story line in Skyrim, and that you have the main quests and procedurally generated quests besides that. How can I identify whether a quest belongs to the main story line, or whether it is procedurally generated by someone.
I would somehow like to focus on finishing the main story line first...
Solution 1:
Quests can belong to one of several categories which give them unique "knotwork" in the journal. The main quest is one such category, and has knotwork depicting a dragon breathing fire:
Solution 2:
There are 19 individual quests making up Skyrim's main quest. They are as follows:
- Unbound
- Before the Storm
- Bleak Falls Barrow
- Dragon Rising
- The Way of the Voice
- The Horn of Jurgen Windcaller
- A Blade in the Dark
- Diplomatic Immunity
- A Cornered Rat
- Alduin's Wall
- The Throat of the World
- Elder Knowledge
- Alduin's Bane
- Season Unending
- Paarthurnax
- The Fallen
- The World-Eater's Eyrie
- Sovngarde
- Dragonslayer
The name of the quest is found in your journal. (Quest summaries redacted to avoid spoilers)
Solution 3:
Here is a list of the main story line quests.
Don't delve too far into this page if you don't like spoilers
http://au.ign.com/wikis/the-elder-scrolls-5-skyrim/Main_Quests
Solution 4:
The main quest line has a decoration in the shape of a dragon head, dark brotherhood quests have a skull, deadric quests have the oblivion symbol. The thieves guilds quests have a odd sort of design maybe a lockpick? But the other side quests have a plain decoration.