He's stuck in jail perma and never leaves, did they forget to put a script to let him out after awhile? maybe even a thieves guild guest to let him go?! they should update this in the next dlc!

Hes a leveled merchant in riften, he makes riften worth stopping by if you want to sell your wares seeing as hes a broad leveled vendor. But if he never leaves his jail cell you never get to see his inventory. He also has a unique quest, it would be nice to see him outside of jail.
I think jail makes him messed up.

Having him as a vendor again or be free is what you believe is going to happen but it never does! nothing you can do to free him even if you become a master of the guild thane of riften etc. ... except all powerful console commands which can mess your game up.


Please put a script in for him to leave jail in the next update!

Please support this if you agree.

reporting my own thread meant to post in a different area. could a mod please move this? sorry had multiple forums open to read.

No need for this to be in a DLC. A simple patch would work (I do believe the PC version has this fixed in he unofficial patch).

Just came back to Skyrim after a 4 month break and after looking through patch notes on what came while I was gone, I was surprised this was not one of the things listed. Though to be honest I expected a ton of other minor glitches to be fixed by now considering how often complaints of them pop up. In related good news it seems apparently the Louis Letrush clone bug has been seen to. That makes me very happy.

It is possible not to have him end up in jail at all.
What you do is put the ring back in the box or drop it as soon as you steal it, and never slip it into Brand-Shei's pocket.
The quest will fail but that means absolutely nothing, as the questline proceeds on as normal with Brynjolf wanting you to go through the Ratway.
Brand-Shei need never know how close he was to being framed and Riften doesnt lose a merchant