I completed the quest entitled,"The Forsworn Conspiracy." When I was doing that quest I helped the prisoners in Cidna Mine escape and helped slaughter the guards upon leaving. I didn't think that it would cause the guards to permanently hate me. Because now whenever I try to enter the city a guard approaches and says,"Halt! You've been charger with murder and conspiracy blah blah blah." And my three options are,"I was framed!", "Fine, I submit. Take me to jail," and "You'll never take me alive!" Obviously the last one doesn't get me anywhere, and the first also makes the guard attack me. If I say," Fine, I submit. Take me to jail." He won't let me go to jail. The whole speech starts over with the, "Halt!" It's obviously a glitch because I can't fix it, and I have had to put like 4 quests on Standby because of it. It's a real pain in the neck having to limit my quests because of my banishment from one of the major cities. Is anyone else having a problem like this? If so tell me, and maybe a moderator will see this and give us a solution.

I'm not sure - I'm not playing a criminal character - but I think if your bounty gets high enough they just try to whack you.

No, I didn't just start killing people, it was part of the quest.

What did you think would happen by helping terrorists? Killing them would've solved your problems and given you a sweet ring, plus being able to kill Thonar.

I've had the same problem since release and I don't think theres any way to fix it on consoles

In my opinion, this is one of the quests that Skyrim does right. If you help the other side, you're screwed! It's always funny how when I'm in the Imperial Legion and slaughter hundreds of stormcloak soldiers in countless battles, I can just mosey on in the Royal Palace in Windhelm.

It's true!! I played this, and I liked it, but then this "guard" Tried to take me to jail I submit, but it still goes on!!!!!! Moderators Hear ME!!! BETHASOFT WORKS wear are you!!!!!

I killed that guy but it starts all over again he kept getting down and getting up again!!

Do you even know what is going on? Or are you just making assumptions here? This is clearly a glitch, not a design choice.

I'm having the same problem. The quest is complete, but my character got put back into the take you to jail step when she returned to Markarth. Even worse, the guards respond to every choice by killing her. It happened when she went into the Temple of Talos, those two guards were back waiting for her. I'm on the PS3.

Revert to a last save? =( Wish you luck man.

Skyrim's Abomb, The Forsworn Conspiracy quest. Only way to get rid of the bounty is to reload a save before you got too far in the quest, avoid Markarth, or wait until Beth patches it but I have no idea if it's going to get patched.

Xbox 360 here, same thing happening. WIsh i would've completed other quests in the city before i had essentially banished myself..

Yeah, the thing is that the quest starts out with being the good guy. Then you find out that it's just not that black and white after all. So again you do the "right thing" and help free the guy. Then the guards glitch and have the same script as they did in an earlier stage of the quest line.

There is one solution that I was able to do. You may not be able to do it without being stealthy but....I ghosted all the guards. All of them in the city and in the castle and anywhere else that may have them within the hold. The idea is that if you can kill them one by one without anyone witnessing it, you won't get a bounty. Even if the body is found. Once they are all gone, all the other npc's function normaly.

that quest is really glitched, also, my Mage got off scot free.

It's a glitch. I had the same problem during my first playthrough and since I completed that questline fairly early into that game, it caused me a lot of trouble whenever I had to go into The Reach for another quest. If you are on PC, you can easily fix it by lowering your bounty in the console. If you are on the PS3 or 360 however,
I'm surprised this hasn't been patched yet, since this can be game-breaking if you encounter it early on. Hopefully it can be patched soon.

That is a bug. Sometimes a less serious bug occurs involving the guard constantly approaching you askign if you had anythign to do with the murdered remains.

I tried to kill the annoying beggar at the main gate and got the glitch. I was willing to go to jail just to be rid of him but when the guard said go to jail he simply started attacking again. Eventually I had to follow this guy all the way to the warrens to kill him where he sleeps.

I got that permanent kill-on-sight bounty on me in the Reach on my first play through the game. I had killed literally every guard in the city, in the region, and even in the palace just to get some peace and quiet.

Just continue with the Main Quest. I don't want to give you any spoilers, but there will be a way to deal with your Markarth bounty.

The thing is, when you try to take Markarth for the Stormcloaks, you are asked to speak to the Jarl of Markarth. And guess what. He despises me too. So I can't talk to him, it's like the most annoying glitch in history. What the Hell Bethesda.

What I did was not killing the guards that was arresting Eltrys. And after escaping Cidhna Mine I just let the forsworn kill everyone while I hide in the bushes. No glitch happened.

But in my case I finished the MQ and gave Markarth to the Stormcloaks.

This is what I did. I do still get a variant of the glitch. When I enter the shrine of Talos the guards are standing over the guy and I get the dialogue about going to Cidna mine again. Rather than send me, they just try and kill me. Killing them gets me a bounty which did get me sent back there with no way whatsover to escape the now nearly-empty prison.

When i did i got no bounty...

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Use the Spoilers Section if you have to post quest details or other spoilers or a thread about the same. I will move this now.

First of all, when someone goes to the "Skyrim Cheats, hints, and Spoilers" section, that is what they are looking for. Cheats, hints and spoilers. And guess what, nobody actually looks for spoiler, I mean seriously use your head. Secondly, this topic is not for Hints or cheats, it may contain spoilers, but that's why you shouldn't click on it unless you already know what the spoiler is. Anyway, if someone goes the "Skyrim Cheats, hints, and Spoilers" section, they won't click on this, because again, this isn't a hint , cheat or spoiler. So how about you be a good moderator and tell an Administrator about this glitch that plagues most copies of the game. THIS IS A GENERAL DISCUSSION OF THE GAME, THAT'S WHY I POSTED IT THERE