I initiated the Forsworn Conspiracy quest and finished it. I then arrived at the shrine of Talos. When I did, I yielded to the guards and told them to take me to jail.

I then went through the entire quest, killing Madanach in the process, stealing his key, and simply sneaking through the exit. I got the ring at the end of the quest and everything seemed to be fine.

I went back to the shrine of Talos however, and the guards re-initiated the quest for escaping the mine.

The wiki says this will only happen if I tried to flee the guards the first time, but I didn't do that. I yielded the first time.


I didn't see any other guards on my way into the shrine, so I don't know if they're all still impacted or not, but this is a pretty serious little issue Bethesda has here.

that quest bugged out on me completely, when i went back to meet eltri(or what ever his name is), he was dead with 3 guards standing there.......

That's supposed to happen.

It's the next portion of this quest (which is technically a second quest) where everything goes to crap.

It gets worse I did that quest no problem and finished it and many more quests bought the house then spent another 20-30 hours playing and going in and out of Martarth without a problem. Then I did one one the thieves guild quests in Markarth and got caught now every time I try to get in to Markarth I am chased or killed by 10+ guards that won't talk to me. When I can get one of the guards I get stuck in that conversation loop.

This quest is bugged.

I completed the Forsworn escape quest, and now the Talos shrine still contains the guards. If I elect to go to jail again they simply attack me.

Is this bug going to be fixed anytime soon? My whole civil war and love book quest lines are stuck now because I cant get into Markarth! Please bethesda!!

Killing Mandanach (or any main quest character) is what triggered this quest problem. Unfortunatly you will have to revert to an older save before you killed him to get around this.

I met with the gaurds in the shrine of talos killed them all and escaped markarth. Now when Im in the reach they always try and arrest me. I dont know if the quest is bugged because i ahvent gone to cidna mine yet although im afraid that even if i do it wont reset. Maybe if your lucky you can just kill a ton of gaurds and hope that the person you need to talk to doesnt notice you just slaughtered everyone. F**K i don't believe a single person played this game before they printed 10 mil copies of it.

For me, the quest bugged when I went to the Shrine and the guards should arrest me. There were two regular guards and a legate of the Legion. The legate gives some speech about joining the Legion and that's it. There is a marker pointing to a column behind one of the guards and the guards do not initiate the dialogue to arrest me. If I attack them, they will respond and if I yield they arrest me and I'm taken to the mine but the new quest does not start. Bleh.

Is there any fix to this yet? I am having this problem. I haven't done the Mine yet. I think The issue is that I killed the relevant guard the first time around and I can't get him back. HELP!

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I'm also having a similar problem with Markarth. I did the quest and it is in the finished portion of my quest journal, but every time I go into Markarth the guards are all over me. They tell me I'm being charged with conspiracy and all that and they say I'm going to Cidhna Mine, so I say okay and they start looping the conversation over again.

Does anyone know of anything out there that might be able to fix this?
I've already tried joining the Thieves Guild so I can bribe the guards, but that didn't work. I also tried going to the shrine of Talos, but the guards in there do the same conversation loop and attack me.

I would really hate to have to start a new character because of this; though it looks like I may have to. Hopefully Bethesda will address this problem in a patch soon.

For some stupid reason i'm not allowed to post links. There is a fix posted on IGN which i've copied and posted.

A variation of this fix worked for me:

1. Go to the city of Markarth.
2. Immediately begin sneaking (press 'L3').
3. Sneak to the 'Shrine of Talos' in Markarth.
4. When inside the Shrine, talk to the guard, standing inside the Shrine.
5. During your conversation with the aforementioned guard, choose the option that sounds similar to "Madanach is behind the killings!" and then choose the option similar to "Take me to jail." The guard(s) should begin trying to attack you.
6. Run from the guards to the OUTSIDE of the Shrine of Talos, but stay in Markarth. You can stop sneaking if you want.
7. Kill the guard(s) that tried attacking you in the Shrine of Talos.
8. Once those guards are dead, wait 48 HOURS (choose to wait 24 hours twice in a row).
9. Let a guard confront you.
10. The guard will say the usual "zomg! u hurt markarths feelins n r a cunspirator! u go 2 jail nao!"
11. Choose the option--it should be highlighted--to go to jail (Cidhna Mine).
12. If you immediately see a loading screen, shout for glee because the fix is working, and you're gonna get off scott free!
13. Obviously, you can't take the exit out of the mine that you used the first time you were here because the door is locked to Madanach's cell, so pick up a pickaxe (they're everywhere on the floor of Cidhna Mine), and then go up to some ore to mine it. (Go up to the rock walls that look different that the other rock walls and choose to mine the ore.)
14. The game will ask you, "Are you sure you want to serve your time?" Choose "Yes, kind sir!"
15. Oddly enough, you don't have to serve a life sentence in Cidhna Mine, and after the loading screen disappears, you will have been transported outside of Cidhna Mine.
16. Go up to a Markarth Guard and t-bag for as long as desired because now they won't try to arrest you!


Also starting the quest "A Night To Remember" has been reported to fix this bug.

Well, I tried the fix, but it's just not working for me =/
I'm gonna try it a few more times, but it's not looking good, and unfortunately I already did the quest "A Night To Remember".
I think I'm just SOL.

~EDIT~
HA! I got it to work! =D
Thank you so much for the information.

Excellent!

The variation of that fix that worked for me involved killing the guard in the middle (the captain?) Maybe thats why it didn't work for you right away.

Some tips for others would be to lower the difficulty for the duration of the fix attempt and have an invisibility potion or two handy.

Most of all, have patience! I was lucky and got it to work first time but it might not be that way for you. I can't say it will work for everyone but i've not came across anyone (yet) that it hasn't worked for.