Pretty bad glitch with the dark brotherhood questline, after just the first quest. After Innocence Lost the courier is supposed to come and give you the letter and all that, but he wont show up no matter what. I've tried waiting for days, sleeping in inns, doing other quests but no luck. Really disappointing since I was greatly looking forward to that questline only to have it stopped after the first quest.


Anybody else having this problem? Please tell me I'm not the only one, I want this patched.

The only glitched quest i have encounted is Discerning the Transmundane. When i talk to Septimus the only chat option i have is "where is Blackreach". and i can not continue the quest which at the same time will not allow me to continue the main questline aswell

Okay so i wanted to add mine aswell.

I joined just to add this.

On the quest "Forbidden legend" the emerald claw puzzle door.
The Door, inner, middle, and outer, will not move. So I cannot proceed with the quest. This is also a rather long quest chain.
Just to add, I have the emerald claw, and all three pieces of the amulet.

I have multiple characters, 2 at 25+, and this one is at 14. This is the first MAJOR glitch I have encountered.

I have ran into a few minor glitches, but nothing that imeded my progress until now.

I have been enjoying the game thouroughly. I hope the problems can be resolved.


*EDIT* Resolved- reloaded a save from further back in the game. The pieces now moved and the door opened.

In the quest FORBIDDEN LEGEND, the emerald claw door in Reachwater Rock glitchs and wont except the proper puzzle solution ( i've checked the solution in the stradegy guide to be sure). At first it would not even let me adjust the symbols.

Main Quest Alduin's Wall




what happens is i have traveled to Sky Haven Temple and got up to the bit where u have to give your blood to enter the room with the wall. but the problem im having is once i do this Esbern and Delphine do not follow me into the room at all. i have watched the quest on youtube to see if im missing anything and have seen that the quest cannot progress with out them. i have tried everything from attacking them to pick pocketing them to try and get them to follow.

If anyone has any clue how to solve this or some how restart the quest please tell me as i really dont wanna have to start over as i have already completed most guilds and have got to level 18.

would be very grateful for any help thanks.

1) Thieves Guild armour - didn't start this questline until I had 100 enchanting so it looked like junk compared to my attire, promptly sold & now unable to complete questline. If I hear ''tough luck for you then, come back when you have at least one of the pieces'' once more I will decapitate this particular NPC.

2) Forbidden Legend - Emerald claw won't open the door for which it is intended. This, apparently, is quite a common glitch but is still irritating.

3) Weapon racks don't work - none of them, irrespective of the house and different purchasing combinations.

4) Armour mannequins - it's nice that you keep spawning master robes of illusion (in my case) but please, enough now.

5) Dead bodies at my wedding? - I admire your dedication, but please, rest in peace.

6) Dead spouse - Died whilst adventuring, am I to be forever alone now? My amulet of Mara is but a mere trinket now.

Please fix. This game is consuming my life but I am coming across (thankfully few) annoying quest-breaking bugs.

Edit: Menu lag - 360. It's appalling and sometimes completely unresponsive. Favourites or main. This is one area that has definitely gone backwards from Oblivion, which had a much less immersion-breaking hot key system.

I have a couple of fairly minor ones but they're still pretty irritating. Firstly I can't seem to trigger the start of 'Blood on the Ice', I can go to Windhelm as much as I like (and I'm waiting there until gone midnight, which I think it has to be) but I've never found a body, or seen people gathered around one. A couple of people have mentioned dead women to me but it's never started a proper quest (or any quest). I don't know if I'm doing something wrong but everyone says it should pop up after 4 visits and mine hasn't.

A much smaller one is that I can't seem to do the last of the people's favours to become Thane of Winterhold. I must have helped out a few of the people before I actually found the helm because once I gave it to the Jarl my favours status was 2/3, but from what I've looked up the only other quest involving his minuscule population involves an alcoholic called Ranmir. In my game Ranmir is currently lying very dead in the middle of town and has been since I turned up. My first visit to Winterhold coincided with a dragon turning up so all I can think of is that he got caught in the crossfire. I'm not aware of any other quests I can do to get that 3/3 (otherwise I probably wouldn't mind that much), but I was hoping to get myself a full sweep of Thane-ships.

I cannot progress in the College of Winterhold because of the quest "Revealing the Unseen" being glitched. I am at the part where I must use both fire/ice spells to move the reflective lenses. I have used my spells directly at the crystal and they just simply do not move. I can rotate the ceiling panels no problem, but the lenses just do not move at all. I have left and re-entered the area to no avail.

I searched for this glitch on google and it seems it's a very common one. Is this going to be fixed in the next update coming out?


Also, I have 5 miscellaneous quests that are finished but have stayed in my quest book.

I have two new glitched quests The first one is Lynns lute from the bards college. I was able to complete the quest but the lute is stuck in my inventory. The second is panteas flute. She gave me the quest after i found the flute and now wont speak to me about it and let me complete it. Also i have a miscellaneous quest that i finished that is stuck in my quest book. Skjord from Dawnstar sent me to kill the dragon at Shearpoint. I finished it and turned in the quest but now its stuck in my quest log and wont let me select it or go away.

Just for anyone having trouble with the purity of revenge quest not starting, it only occurs to you if you started or have done the "helm of winterhold"

So a warning to anyone who has not gone far enough into the campanion questline, make sure you do it BEFORE the "helm of winterhold" quest, which in itself I am now sure is broken if (MINOR SPOILERS) you take the legions side in the civil war quests and the yarl at winterhold is exiled, as you will not be able to recieve it or hand it in.

Hoping 4 is kept, honestly. I got 300 hours of genuine fun from oblvion because of the scroll dupes. This is the closest we found so far. I'd like to come back once my main, serious playthrough is finished and instead have my fun doing crazy things.

5 Im hoping stays too, that's the best thing I've found in the game so far.

One last post here, I promise.

This person has actually failed to notice that there is a second lever right behind them. Its not a glitch, its a dummy lever that causes spikes to come out. If you think you are having this problem just turn around.

The Horn Of Jurgen Windcaller Wulfgar wont teach me the last word to Unrelenting Force

So I was going through the College of winterhold quest line with ease, no bug, nothing. Then when I head back to the college and defeat Arcano. So it says go speak with Tolfdir. The quest marker is saying I go outside so I do and I notice I can't speak to tolfdir because he wasn't inside and got paralyzed outside because he shot a fireball at Arcano but it clearly didn't work because he was out side. Now he's stuck in a wall or somewhere I can't reach and now I can't finish the questline.

and on a side note now all the mages are going nuts and I can't speak with them which results in me not being able to talk to Enthir for the Thieves guild quest. He just keeps saying "BY OBLIVION SAVE YOURSELVES!!" or something like that.

This is really pissing me off.

Also I have no saves near that point in time I just blew it off thinking it would fix it's self but it hasn't.

Can't finish the thieves guild quest line due to selling the thieves guild armor.

Major Issues I've had so far:

-Can't get Blood on the Ice in Windhelm to spawn, which means I can't purchase property in the city because I chose to side with the Imperials.
-Can't cure Vilkas of being a werewolf because the second he gives me the "Purity" quest, it's immediately marked as complete, even though it isn't. Which means I'll stay a werewolf too, which I really don't like.

Minor glitches have included not being able to loot corpses that hold quest items in their inventory, NPCs vital to quests not showing up in quest areas, getting stuck in walls, the usual...
Classified them as minor because going back to a previous save usually resolves it.

I'm currently dealing with two really bad quest related glitches.

Number one, which is apparently very common, no matter what I do, I can't even start the Blood on the Ice quest because the quest start point, located in the cemetery, isn't there in my game.

Number two, which may or may not be common, I can't become a thane in Riften. I have done everything necessary for the Jarl there. I even have the quest marker that says speak to the Jarl of Riften. Yet, no matter how much I reload my save or talk to the Jarl, something is preventing me from becoming a Thane.

In the quest Take up arms when you have to fight Vilkas I killed him with magic now when ever I kill him with melee or anything he just re spawns and I can't do any quests or buy or sell anything.

Mine is the Thieves Guild quest also.

I completed the first quest of planting the ring and watched him be confronted about it. Then Brynjolf gave me the quest to meet him in the Ragged Flagon and all he does is stand at his stall with the crowd of people around him and he wont move from his spot.

Dragon @ Mount Anthor wont show up

I did the Red Eagle Sword quest and finished it, only to have it reappear when I read the book again, only when I activate it no quest marker appears on the world map

I went to the Bards College, investigated it like the quest told me too, it disappeared and then reappeared, or never went away not sure either way, even though the messages popped up that I finished it so its another dead quest ion my menu

I can't remember the NPC's name, but its a quest you get in riften I believe, steal the horse frost, for a certain NPC from Maven Black-Briar (cant get on my xbox 360 to check what his name is right now) , and when you steal it for him, he then later appears out in front of white run stables....only he is half stuck in the ground, then as the game progresses he multiplies WTF?!? There is like 4 of him right now!?!

Also I finished the quest for the reaming members of the Bards College, the ones that require you to find their intruments, I got them AFTER I accepted the quest, not before, gave them to the NPC's, yet the instruments are still in my inventory another WTF?!?

While this game is less glitchy than Oblivion, these are still WTF glitches, legacy issues, so much for the "new" engine.

Blood's honor. Everyone's sad about Kodlak's death, and were busy. I *tried* to solve the problem via transforming into a werewolf, scaring them into attacking me, the running off. Didn't work. Now they give me Radiant quests though.

Mahligros posted:

Just for anyone having trouble with the purity of revenge quest not starting, it only occurs to you if you started or have done the "helm of winterhold"

So a warning to anyone who has not gone far enough into the campanion questline, make sure you do it BEFORE the "helm of winterhold" quest, which in itself I am now sure is broken if (MINOR SPOILERS) you take the legions side in the civil war quests and the yarl at winterhold is exiled, as you will not be able to recieve it or hand it in.

This isn't necessarily the case, while the secondary 'helm of winterhold' quest probably doesn't help, the quest didn't work for me who didn't discover the location either.

It is the final quest when the Dark Brotherhood sanctuary is on fire, and I need to save the redguard man, and exit the burning sanctuary. I jump into the Night Mother's coffin, and the game freezes a few seconds after that. I can't bring up my menu, XboX Guide, or anything else. It just keeps playing that running water noise, and it eventually ends after 10 minutes. I try reloading every single time, and it just freezes once I am back in the coffin. Is anybody else experiencing this?

The Thevies Guild quest " The Pursuit"
I can not get it to trigger after i have completed the quest " Hard Answers". Has anyone one else had this problem. I have even gone back twice and redone the hard answers quest to try and get the pursuit to become active. Is it a time thing or have I hit a dead end and can not complete the theives guild story line?