The Wedding Ring · Game Guide

At a glance#


Journal	`SW_Ring`
Category	Side Quests
Journal entries	3
Completion branches	1
Starts by	Speak with Gil Vonden in Dantooine, Ballast and ask about wife.
Key locations	Dantooine, Ballast
Key characters	Gil Vonden

Walkthrough#

1. Speak with Gil Vonden in Dantooine, Ballast and ask about wife#

Speak with Gil Vonden in Dantooine, Ballast and ask about wife.

Expected journal update — index 5: I met a man named Gil Vonden who says his wife is one of the missing persons in the town of Ballast. If I find any evidence of her being alive or dead I should bring it to him.

2. Speak with Gil Vonden in Dantooine, Ballast and ask about wife — Finished#

Speak with Gil Vonden in Dantooine, Ballast and ask about wife.

Expected journal update — index 10: I have returned to Gil Vonden with his dead wife’s wedding ring, he is devastated by the news and has given me 200 credits.

Known item transfer: 200 × Credits (Gold_001).

Outcome: this journal entry is marked as a finished branch.

Endings & branches#

The journal has one explicit finished state at index 10:

I have returned to Gil Vonden with his dead wife’s wedding ring, he is devastated by the news and has given me 200 credits.

Known rewards & item transfers#

The following player-directed item transfers are visible in the parsed quest scripts/dialogue results. Playtest may reveal additional indirect rewards.

200 × Credits (Gold_001)

Characters & locations#

Characters directly tied to quest dialogue:

Gil Vonden (SW_RingAlive) — Dantooine, Ballast

Locations implicated by actor/object placement or explicit travel:

Dantooine, Ballast

Technical / QA reference

Journal ID: SW_Ring Generated category: Side Quests Journal entries: 3

Exact journal progression

Index	State	Journal text	Direct setters found
5	—	I met a man named Gil Vonden who says his wife is one of the missing persons in the town of Ballast. If I find any evidence of her being alive or dead I should bring it to him.	1
10	Finished	I have returned to Gil Vonden with his dead wife’s wedding ring, he is devastated by the news and has given me 200 credits.	1

Record-level trigger map

Stage 5

I met a man named Gil Vonden who says his wife is one of the missing persons in the town of Ballast. If I find any evidence of her being alive or dead I should bring it to him.

How this stage is set:

Dialogue INFO 16852466631541667 under topic wife; speaker Gil Vonden (SW_RingAlive). locations: Dantooine, Ballast. conditions: Journal SW_Ring Equal 0. response: “My wife is missing, here one minute and gone another. I’ve looked everywhere and talked to everyone but there’s just no trace of her. Please, if you find any clues let me know.”.

Journal SW_Ring 5

Stage 10 — Finished

I have returned to Gil Vonden with his dead wife’s wedding ring, he is devastated by the news and has given me 200 credits.

How this stage is set:

Dialogue INFO 299191448479008979 under topic wife; speaker Gil Vonden (SW_RingAlive). locations: Dantooine, Ballast. conditions: Journal SW_Ring Equal 5; Item/ItemType SW_WeddingRing GreaterEqual 1. response: “Her ring? That means.. oh no, why? Why would anyone do this? Here, for everything you must have gone through to get this. I just, I’m done.”.

Journal SW_Ring 10
player->additem "Gold_001", 200

Dialogue speakers:

Gil Vonden (SW_RingAlive) — Dantooine, Ballast

Items referenced by related script/result code:

Credits (Gold_001)

Cells implicated by actor/object placement or explicit travel code:

Dantooine, Ballast

Generated playtest checklist

Start/reach the quest naturally and verify journal index 5 is obtainable.
Reach index 5: I met a man named Gil Vonden who says his wife is one of the missing persons in the town of Ballast. If I find…
Reach index 10 (Finished): I have returned to Gil Vonden with his dead wife’s wedding ring, he is devastated by the news and has given me…
Verify any scripted reward/item transfer shown above actually occurs.
Verify involved NPCs/objects remain present and usable after the stage transition.
Verify no unrelated vanilla Morrowind dialogue/quest state appears during the flow.

QA console reference

Current journal state can be inspected with the OpenMW/Morrowind journal tooling for SW_Ring. Manually forcing journal indices is useful for diagnosis, but does not substitute for testing the scripts/dialogue that normally cause the transition.