UGH! Another bug that I came across that prevents me from completing the quest! The first major bug that I came across was thehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BmI9VbKbf4 I manage to find the solution from another youtube video. Now I'm stuck with the Kill the bandit leader located at Nilheim, which I've already done before the quest was given to me. I went to the scene and found the dead bandit bodies that I've killed before.

Now I went to http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Nilheim and scroll down

If you clear Nilheim prior to receiving quest. The quest may remain in the quest log as unfinished, and cannot be completed.

• PC http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Console_Commands_%28Skyrim%29#Resurrect every bandit with console commands and kill them again, this will allow you to complete the quest

You mean to tell me that I have to resurrect every damn bandit that I've killed just to complete this quest? Whats the fun when you have to heavily rely on the console commands for bugs that bethesda failed to fix on the latest patch?

If this is the only solution why can't the script writing staffs at bethesda create an automatic resurrect script so we the players don't have do this crap? Or even better why can't it be marked as completed?

If the quest consists in killing a bandit chief, just resurrect the bandit chief and the quest will update after you've killed him again. I had to do this once and it worked perfectly.

Yes, the Nilheim orc bandit is glitched. Its also a repeating quest but once he's dead the second iteration of it can never be completed.

Many of the quest bugs were fixed in the last patch. Hopefully they will add little ones like this and those annoying ones "Collect Bounty from Scald" one which never close in the next patch.
Another strange one I had pop up was "Return to Esbern" after killing some dragon. Although he didn't have anything to say about it so I don't know what that was about.

I'm unable to find the bandit chief. Is their a location code that I can enter to find his corpse?

I got that Esbern one too.

I shook my head and went into the shed to do something that didn't have epic derps at every turn.

He, his body, is indicated by a quest marker.

I believe he is supposed to give you you something after you kill a dragon, at a certain point in the main quest - got this from the Wiki:



and this:

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Research

Ah, that must be it. The "Return to Esbern" thing appeared when I took some bones and scales from a dragon I killed guarding a dragon wall.
Very strange though since I never recruited any companions for the Blades and they won't have anything to do with me after events from the MQ.