Continuing Civil War Quest without starting the Main Quest? : V

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:06 pm

I have sided with the imperium und just delivered the message to Jarl Balgruf....now i have to help him with the dragon problem. I actually don't want to start the main quest with this character. Is there a way to continue the civil war quests without killing the dragon at the tower?

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:08 pm

Just avoid that tower if you can. That's my suggestion.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:14 pm

It's impossible. One of the few things that pissed me off in Skyrim. What if I want to roleplay a normal Legion soldier that's not dragonborn? Too bad, only those with the soul of a dragon can fight the rebels/ Oppressors.

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» Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:26 pm

I have sided with the imperium und just delivered the message to Jarl Balgruf....now i have to help him with the dragon problem. I actually don't want to start the main quest with this character. Is there a way to continue the civil war quests without killing the dragon at the tower?

Just dont kill the dragon and give the message directly to Balgruf, i think that should do it.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:02 pm

Balgruuf will not accept the message until you kill that dragon for him. So you have to complete Dragon Rising before you can advance the civil war quest line.

My advice is kill the dragon, and ignore all the dialogue about dragonborns and shouts and greybeards. You were just some ordinary Joenar who got lucky, and got the last blow in on the dragon is all. As far as the fancy lightshow after it died, well who knows what dragons do when they die, it is not like anyone has seen it happen in thousands of years.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:54 pm

Balgruuf will not accept the message until you kill that dragon for him. So you have to complete Dragon Rising before you can advance the civil war quest line.

My advice is kill the dragon, and ignore all the dialogue about dragonborns and shouts and greybeards. You were just some ordinary Joenar who got lucky, and got the last blow in on the dragon is all. As far as the fancy lightshow after it died, well who knows what dragons do when they die, it is not like anyone has seen it happen in thousands of years.

Won't killing the first dragon at the tower start random dragon appearances? Or does finishing the quest activate that?

I also just recently ran into this problem without realizing it was there. Decided not to do either for the time being.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:21 am

Won't killing the first dragon at the tower start random dragon appearances? Or does finishing the quest activate that?

I also just recently ran into this problem without realizing it was there. Decided not to do either for the time being.

The wiki says finishing Dragon Rising will kick off random dragons. But I have not seen anything in the quest script that does so. Either I am missing it, or the wiki is wrong (or it got changed in a patch). I know for certain that A Blade In the Dark will start random dragon appearances, as the code in there to do so.

If you are on PC, you can prevent random dragon spawns just by opening the console and entering this: set MQ106TurnOffRandomDragons to 1. There will still be dragons at word walls, and the named ones that are part of the main quest. But there won't be the other ones randomly popping up everywhere you go.