I kill Malkoran in the Break of Dawn quest, but the game is not recognizing him as dead. The white quest arrow is still over his head and there is a red enemy dot on my compass where he is. Because the game doesn't think he's dead, I can't grab the sword and finish the quest.

I've reloaded at a couple of different areas in the temple, but I end up with the same problem. Do you think that I should reload before the start of the quest? Anyone else had this problem? I'm on Xbox, so I can't use a console command.

Have you also killed the "Shade of Malkoran"?

Yes I have.

Find this I thnk this is what happening to you,

• If Meridia does not speak after you have killed Malkoran's Wraith and the quest arrow remains over his body, the quest is bugged and cannot be finished. Try reloading from outside the Crypt and reentering the final room.

di you hav a save outside the Crypt?

Yes. I have Gobs of Saves. Reloading outside the crypt doesn't solve the bug, so I'm going to reload from before I gave the beacon to Meridia and see if that will do it.

Good luck, mithria....

Let us know how it works out, Mithria... or should I call you Nalia de'Arnise instead?

Hope that works.

I finally got around to trying this quest again last night. I took the beacon back to Meridia and went into the temple. I killed Malkoran and his shade and this time the game recognized that he was dead, so good news there. However, when Meridia transported me out of the temple, Farkas didn't come with me. I don't think that I can get back to him inside the temple. I've read about this before that sometimes your companion doesn't get teleported out with you. I'm going to try to fast travel and see if he shows up. If not, I'll have to reload and have him wait outside the temple while I do it for the 3rd time

Hmm. Mith, are you on pc? If so, you can try the moveto stuff - I'm not sure what it really is, but uesp.net has a page on console commands, it should be in there.