Hey!

First of all, I don't think I posted this thread right but I don't know how to delete or move it!

I've got some problem in Skyrim!

I'm suppose to talk to Captain Aldis but he is probably dead after the battle of Solitude.
Is there anything I can do to make him appear? (on Xbox 360)

And I'm suppose to give Esbern some Dragon Scales and Bones but I have given him that but the Misc Quest didn't disappear?!
What should I do?

And after the Dragonslayer quest when I returned to Throat of the World all the dragons were gathered there and I thought that I could come back later and do whatever I was suppose to do!
But when I went back later all the dragons where gone!
Is there anything I can do to make them appear again? (on Xbox 360)
+ I was supposed to talk to Paarthurnax when I got back but I killed him a long time ago!
How can I solve this?

And I still have alot of quests left but my Quest List is almost empty..
There is only some Miscellaneous Quest (the one with Captain Aldis and Esbern, mentioned above) and 2 small side quests (The Dark Brotherhood Forever and some Thieves Guild side quest).
How can I start a "line" again?
So direct a quest is completed I get a new?

Can Bethesda fix this??

Thanks in advance!
//Markus

Once you finish a quest line, it is over and the events are done. If you need to activate a quest, you must select it in the journal. To get a new quest, that is not given upon completion of a stage, then you need to talk to someone in the game.

You can't kill Paarth until you are supposed to, so if you killed him, then you are done with him. The other dragons fly off after this quest is over. You meet up with them again out in the wilderness, they are called Dragon Attacks.

If a quest giver is dead, unlikely as I think he is marked Essential, then the game should have an alternative if the major quest line would be broken. Note, the game does not protect misc and side quests.

The Esbern quest stays in your journal. Unless you are friendly to the Blades, and killng Parrth does that, then there is no reason to talk to him again.

Yea but the thing is that I wanted to follow one single quest line so I stopped talking to quest givers! I just did a quest den I returned to the giver to finish the quest but I didn't talk so I got a new one!
So I thought that if I just have to go back to the quest giver and continue the lines?!
I have a [censored] lot of quests left! I've done like 120-130!

I killed Paarthurnax when I were supposed to! In the quest Paarthurnax (The Blades Quest).
And I did that quest a long time ago!
So now I can't talk to him!

I'm suppose to talk to Aldis about Angelina's Daughter.
And if I have to talk to him to continue the quest it will be pretty diffucult!

If you've completed Dragonslayer, then you've completed the main quest. If you want to play it again you'll have to start with a new character.

All you can do is finish any remaining questlines for other factions that you have active, and do their Radiant fetch quests. And it kind of goes without saying that if you kill a quest giver, he or she can't give you the quest. It'll probably be stuck in your journal forever. Unfortunately, miscellaneous and side quests tend to get stuck in your journal quite a lot. It doesn't hurt anything, but it is annoying.

Maybe it's time to start over again with a new character.

You're screwed when it comes to Captain Aldis. The game shouldn't offer that quest, or mark it as failed, after the Battle for Solitude, but it does. Yet another misc objective that won't get cleared - I have a few of them on almost every character.

Yes I know but I haven't done Epilogue!..

Yes ofc! But that's why I asked if there is anyway to solve that!
Haha yea it's pretty annoying!!

Well, just as you said, it's annoying but it doesn't really matter if some quests are stuck in the journal and if I've missed 3-4 side or misc quest!
Like you said, finish remaining quest and then Dawnguard!

Yea that's true!
On PC you can cheatcode so he appears but on Xbox 360 there is no way to finish that quest!..

If you have a quest that requires you to talk to Captain Aldis and do not complete it before fighting the battle of Solitude for the Stormcloaks, you will not be able to complete it. Aldis disappears from the game during/after the battle - he's a soldier in the Legion, and by fighting and winning the battle you are either killing all the Legion soldiers or forcing them to withdraw from the city permanently. They don't hang around after you've handed their HQ over to the enemy, lol.

There may be a quest marker pointing to the spot where he would have been before, but Aldis is gone and will not return. The only way to complete quests involving Aldis is to reload a save from before you started the battle of Solitude. If you can't or don't want to do that, you will have to live with the fact that you can't complete that quest.

If you've already killed Paarth before finishing the MQ, he won't be there when you leave Sovngarde and get beamed back to the mountaintop. It's not a bug or glitch, he's not supposed to be there and you forfeited your chance to talk to him again when you killed him. The MQ is over, you don't need to talk to him for anything, the only thing left you can do with him is meditate on Words of Power but that's something you have to give up if you choose to kill him. (You're not "supposed: to kill Paarthurnax just because the Blades demand it. You can leave him alive and he will still be there when you go back, but the Blades won't give you any more of their quests after that. You have to choose between Paarth/Greybeards and the Blades, you can't have it both ways.)

Now, if you left before Odahviing came down and talked to you, that could be a problem. Can you summon him to fight for you by shouting his name? If so, then it's not a problem. If not, and you didn't talk to him either upon completion of the MQ, and he's not there to talk to when you go back, then you may have glitched out that part of it.

Either way, once you return to the Throat from Sovngarde, the main quest is over. You don't get another objective related to it because there aren't more objectives to give you. It's done, to keep playing you need to go finish other quests still active in your journal or explore around and talk to different people and pick up new quests to work on.

The quest "Dragon Research" - where you give Esbern some dragon scales and bones and he gives you a potion in return - is bugged, and the jury seems to be out on whether or not any of the patches so far have fixed it. It is possible for the quest to be advanced or completed without the journal updating, which could result in the objective remaining in your journal indefinitely. There are several possible workarounds for this using console commands on PC but on nothing that I know of for Xbox.

As of v1.5 on PC, that quest does get marked "Failed" and dropped into the bottom of the journal if you don't complete it before getting the Battle of Solitude quest. I know because I forgot I had it and got the order from Galmar to meet Ulfric in front of the city and immediately got a Failed message on it. Had to reload, change clothes, run up to Soiltude, talk to Aldis, talk to Angeline, then run back to the camp and change back into my uniform and talk to Galmar again...

What can you say, it's a bug. The quest should have been marked as failed once Aldis leaves the game, but it wasn't (is your game fully patched up?). And on the XBox, there's no way to fix that.

WRT to the epilogue, this is from UESP -


Except in your case, Parthy's not waiting. My only suggestion is to reload a save from prior to fighting Alduin, defeating him again and then seeing if that forces the game to try and reload the scripts mentioned above.

So there is Words of Power that I can't learn now when he is dead?

I don't know!
Will try it tomorrow!

Yea 'cause I didn't get any potion!..

Thanks everyone!

No, you wouldn't learn any new words by keeping him alive, but you would be able to ask him to help you meditate on one of three shouts that you already know. He can help you "meditate" on the Fire shout, Unrelenting Force, or... I think the other one is Become Ethereal. Doing this only gives you a bump in the effectiveness of those shouts.


If you want to talk to him at the end of the main quest, you'd have to reload a save from before you killed him and do the rest of the main quest over again. But you don't glitch out the main quest by killing him, if you kill him that just means he won't be there when it's over. If the only thing "wrong" when you get back to the Throat of the World is that Paarthurnax isn't there, and you already killed him, that isn't a glitch. However if you didn't talk to Odahviing and can't summon him and he's not available to talk to you when you go back, you will probably have to reload the last save you made before you got to that scene and redo it... just make sure you wait around for Odie to land and talk to you.


That's another possible glitch with that quest from Esbern - you don't get the potion, or the potion doesn't work, or the quest doesn't update, or some combination of the three. Supposedly fixed by patch 1.6 but UESP says it may still be glitched for the Xbox.

Haha I'm a little bit drunk, swedish (ain't that good at english), and I don't know what meditate is!.. (in the game)

But I don't think I've killed Odie?!?

I haven't played Skyrim that long! (or I haven't been a true gamer that long!)
So I don't know that much about Skyrim but I think I have patch 1.7!
Or honestly I don't know what patch is!..

Is it like "version" or "update"?