But I neither have charm spells from him nor does a conversation with Varon Vamori result in anything at all (charmed him up to 82) because no 'staff' subject is even in conversation.
I tried the solution listed in a walkthrough, i.e. to type in setstage number in Console. This does something but it starts with that I have received charm scrolls and must talk to Varon. But talking to Varon still has no results.
Talking to Kud-Ei brings nothing because he will not give recommendation until I have solved the Ardaline problem, but the idiot has not given me the quest.
So straight at beginning of playing this game, I am doomed with not even being able to join the mages guild because I will never get the recommendation from this guy.
btw I especially avoided quest Through a Nightmare Darkly as I had read in a walkthrough. but then after all the hassle mentioned, I thought maybe I should do that quest. So I did the whole quest but that did not yield any result either.
Then I went back a day to a save game and did a whole lot of stuff again and started fresh in Bravil but same happened as per above.
Can a mage live without being a member of the mages guild in this game?
Are there more lousy bugs like this in Oblivion?