Hey there, want to keep it as spoiler free as possible but after getting pretty far in the quest-line (far enough to lose all the items I made/bought/found for the quest) the last dungeon I came out of on hard mode and it wasn't in my log anymore and when I went back to the quest-giver he acted like he'd never seen me before. There's a lot more steps I'm not mentioning here because it I don't want to spoil the questline for other new people.