So yeah... heres the full story

I have a house set up nearest to solitude, wife, kid, bard, housecarl is Ria from the companions.
I left one day and started building a new house at Falkreach.
I entered my new house, and to my suprise there was a imperial courier, he ran out, i followed him down the street and killed him.

So i decided to return to my family, and to my surprise bandits are attacking my house, But there's one issue..
Ria, my cow, my horse are my enemy's and my ally's are the bandits.



I have tried a few things like sneaking into my house, waiting, killing bandits before I return, attacking the bandits, nothing fixes it....
Every time I turn around a new bug pops up.

I have never run across that bug myself, but I know that one is an old bug that has been around for ages, did you try going back to a previous save and trying something else rather than going straight back to the house. The couriers run past Lakeview Manor as a random event, I have killed the the Stormcloak ones that go by on my Imperial characters game and never had a problem. It is probably unrelated to the bug, but you could try not killing him.

If you look through the old threads in the Skyrim hardware and software support forums you might find an answer. Or contact Bethesda Support directly and they could probably tell you how to avoid it.

Issue is the last save previous to killing him is like.. my first house being built, and im on my third now, so like hours of gameplay.

Idk if they are related, I dubt it but its like every event that happend between her being allied and attacking me

Figured out why it happened, it is indeed a Bug.

Issue: Apparently "Well-Established Home" Was invaded by Bandits, turns out they kidnapped my wife, And as a result the system bugged up, made the Bandit With the Ransom Letter friendly to me while it made my Steward Hostile to me, turns out the horse was just attacking the bandit.

Workaround: Wait until your steward is in the house, Kill the friendly bandit, take the letter, read it, go save your wife, and then your steward will be friendly with you again.

Issues this Bug Will Cause: Unintended loss of potentially important characters in the game and confusion.


Bethesda, Please fix this bug no later than patch 1.8