I'm doing "Elder Knowledge" just gotta retrieve the elder scroll now, and cleared about half of the dungeon out, left to store some stuff and sell a few things. not a single merchant in any of the towns anywhere work at all. gives me the option to see what they have for sale, but once i press that option. nothing. period. ill back out of it, re-try, same problem again. I'll wait, leave town, same thing. No idea what to do. Dragons not absorbing still. sigh. Im hoping that its just bugs that are going to be fixed in future patches...and not my file being totally corrupted.

Btw, the Dragons when I kill them, won't absorb ...at all, as in, They still have all their skin on them, won't turn into bones or anything. just another dead body laying there. Does this with about half of the dragons in the game.