Trial Cathar (internal journal)

At a glance#


Journal	`SW_TrialCathar`
Category	Systems & Internal Journals
Journal entries	1
Completion branches	No explicit Finished marker
Starts by	Speak with Cathar Witness in Manaan, Kogal’s Office and ask about trial.
Observed prerequisite journals	`SW_Trial`
Key locations	Manaan, Kogal’s Office
Key characters	Cathar Witness

Walkthrough#

1. Speak with Cathar Witness in Manaan, Kogal’s Office and ask about trial#

Speak with Cathar Witness in Manaan, Kogal’s Office and ask about trial.

Expected journal update — index 5: The Cathar did not see it happen, but works at the cantina as a server, and says that the Sith Soldier was earlier cut off from drinking due to having drank too much.

Characters & locations#

Characters directly tied to quest dialogue:

Cathar Witness (SW_CatharTrial) — Manaan, Kogal's Office

Locations implicated by actor/object placement or explicit travel:

Manaan, Kogal’s Office

Technical / QA reference

Journal ID: SW_TrialCathar Generated category: Systems & Internal Journals Journal entries: 1

Exact journal progression

Index	State	Journal text	Direct setters found
5	—	The Cathar did not see it happen, but works at the cantina as a server, and says that the Sith Soldier was earlier cut off from drinking due to having drank too much.	1

Record-level trigger map

Stage 5

The Cathar did not see it happen, but works at the cantina as a server, and says that the Sith Soldier was earlier cut off from drinking due to having drank too much.

How this stage is set:

Dialogue INFO 20538822097004153 under topic trial; speaker Cathar Witness (SW_CatharTrial). locations: Manaan, Kogal's Office. conditions: Journal SW_Trial Equal 10; Journal SW_TrialCathar Equal 0. response: “I didn’t actually see anything happen, but I was told by the Selkath to appear on the Cantina’s behalf. I work there as a server. Earlier before the fight even broke out that Sith soldier was cut off from drinking, he had already had too many and was getting aggressive with the bartender. That’s all I know.”.

Journal SW_TrialCathar 5

Dialogue speakers:

Cathar Witness (SW_CatharTrial) — Manaan, Kogal's Office

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

Manaan, Kogal's Office

Generated playtest checklist

Start/reach the quest naturally and verify journal index 5 is obtainable.
Reach index 5: The Cathar did not see it happen, but works at the cantina as a server, and says that the Sith Soldier was ear…
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_TrialCathar. Manually forcing journal indices is useful for diagnosis, but does not substitute for testing the scripts/dialogue that normally cause the transition.