Kill the bandit leader at Nilheim? : V

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:14 am

I got this guest at the tavern in Riften. From the start it had no map mark as other quest have. I didnt locate the area yet so there shouldnt be anything wrong. I went out there to check it out but found only guards hanging around the tower and inside the tower. Is it bugged? Ive readed some post but couldnt find any answers from that. Hopefully someone can give me a golden tip to compleet this quest :-D

oh btw I play it on my xbox360. Thanks for reading or answering this!

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:27 am

What guards do you mean?Bandit guards?Their leader is probably somewhere inside the tower..

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 6:01 pm

What guards do you mean?Bandit guards?Their leader is probably somewhere inside the tower..

It just says guards..

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:37 pm

Are they hostile?

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 8:11 pm

I got this guest at the tavern in Riften. From the start it had no map mark as other quest have. I didnt locate the area yet so there shouldnt be anything wrong. I went out there to check it out but found only guards hanging around the tower and inside the tower. Is it bugged? Ive readed some post but couldnt find any answers from that. Hopefully someone can give me a golden tip to compleet this quest :-D

oh btw I play it on my xbox360. Thanks for reading or answering this!

no map marker? have you made sure you made it the active quest? if so, the map marker should lead you right to him, hold your hand the whole way there.

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:59 am

no map marker? have you made sure you made it the active quest? if so, the map marker should lead you right to him, hold your hand the whole way there.

yeah I made it active in the quest panel. And the Guards aren't hostile! Might be a bug?

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 8:52 pm

It's a bug. I got the same quest and all the bandits in the tower were tagged as guards. You can finish the quest by killing the guard with the quest icon over her head. And no, you won't get accused of murder.

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:24 am

Go to the road in front of the Tower. There you should see a men in the ground. Speak with him and him will lure you inside the Bandits trap at Nilheim.

If he isn't there try to wait some game-days and use the road going up (From the underside (Eastmarch), not from the Rift side)

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:21 am

Ill check it tonight. Hopefully I can finish it^^ ( btw I dont remember seeing a guard with a quest mark above his head)

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:38 am

hmmm I did find the guy at the bridge ( trevor or something) he wanted me to escort him to his camp. only to find out I was trapped. Killed everything there inside the tower but the quest is still active! and not completed! Still no quest mark while Nilheim is now cleaned out! ? Anyone fixed this quest?

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:45 am

darn thing is if I dont finish this quest I cant get new quests from the tavern ( the jarl) from Riften.. :-(

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:12 pm

Some say that waiting a couple days might do the trick? but I fear I screw it even more up if I dont reload back the auto save before talking to Trevor. Anyone have a clue what to do? or done this before with success or without success?

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:26 am

For what it's worth, I somehow got this quest again, and again the bandits were tagged as guards. I killed the one with the arrow over her head (she didn't bother to try to fight back, she just kept telling me to stop) and then I got my reward from the Jarl.

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:19 am

Same thing happened to me. They are guards, not bandits. They even let you take the stuff like weapons laying around with no "Steal" warning. It's probably a bug.

The bandit leader had the quest marker on him, but he was also just a regular guard.

None of them aggro, unless you attack first.

I wish Bethesda had a bug report system.

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:52 am

For what it's worth, I somehow got this quest again, and again the bandits were tagged as guards. I killed the one with the arrow over her head (she didn't bother to try to fight back, she just kept telling me to stop) and then I got my reward from the Jarl.

done that part. its part of a ambush. close to the bridge there is a person laying on the ground. Trevor is his name I tihnk. He asks you to escort him to his camp! It seems its a ambush so the guards turn into bandits. but but but.... that doesnt finish the quest kill the bandit leader at Nilheim. There wasnt a quest marker on one of the guard/bandits as well! not even a quest pointer! Its still in my quest panel ( btw Im playing this on a xbox360)

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:25 pm

done that part. its part of a ambush. close to the bridge there is a person laying on the ground. Trevor is his name I tihnk. He asks you to escort him to his camp! It seems its a ambush so the guards turn into bandits. but but but.... that doesnt finish the quest kill the bandit leader at Nilheim. There wasnt a quest marker on one of the guard/bandits as well! not even a quest pointer! Its still in my quest panel ( btw Im playing this on a xbox360)

I think the bandit leader is Trevor.. or whatever.. the guy who actually lead you into the ambush... I killed him... but no luck for me.. since I have already finished the civil war and hence the former steward has been replaced together with her former Jarl...

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 6:03 pm

I'm having this bugged quest... patch 1.4

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:52 pm

it was always the peson at the very top of the tower napping. Know u can kill him before the ambush, havent gotten the quest yet since ive done it.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 6:57 pm

I just did this quest today. No problems with it at all. I talked to Telrav, escorted him to the camp, got attacked, wiped the floor with them, got the quest completion.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:11 pm

i reload previous save, don't go into that area. you need to trigger Telrav outside the tower (east of it), only then you can complete it properly.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:40 pm

I did this quest also. Although none of the guards were hostile, one of them had a quest marker on him. It was funny how I ended up takeing out all of them without one of them turning hostile.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:18 pm

They are not true guards.....

Spoiler

they are bandits in disguise. You can kill them all for no penalty. The one with the marker over his/her head is your main target though.