Everything works fine for me.
Granted on my last character I couldn't get Hjerm but its nothing to restart over.
Man up.

I've done Blood On The Ice around 8 seperate times and I've never had it bug whatsoever, I don't see what's broken with it now that they've even patched it. Only problem I have with it is the chets in Hjerim by my bed never shows up, but that's besides the point.

Use UESP and follow the directions precisely (it tells you how to avoid every possible bug) and you shouldn't have a problem, unless you're TRYING to go out of your way to break it. (Which would be silly)

That was a very entertaining post lol. I feel your pain. I can't play for 10 minutes without running into a bug, or glitch, or texture problem. Beware, though, the people who think Skyrim is the best game to "bless" this earth will jump all over you for insulting their god (Bethesda).

Well that would be all fine and dandy if I wanted to throw all of my hard-earned (it's [censored] pathetic I have to say hard-earned instead of fun) roleplaying out the window. The character that apparently just isn't meant to exist has a brother that owns Proudspire Manor already. Annnd all the other houses are spoken for as well. Regardless, I already have my house. Now I want my [censored] horse, but it looks like a simple SPAWNING TRIGGER was a little too damn difficult to code properly -.-

" Blood on the ice " wouldn't start for me in much the same manner as you OP, there where no NPC's beside the body in the graveyard. To solve this I tracked down the old woman who's posting the flyers every where and had a chat with her which in turn started the quest. Then the Thain guy wouldn't talk to me to push the quest forward to where you need to get into the house, to solve this all I did was break into the house my self hand followed the clues as normal, which forced the quest forward again.

Now on two attempts from the last 1/4 of the quest the damn thing would stick on me again at the part where you point out a certain someone to be arrested out of Ulfric's place. I had to reload the autosave from just before and instead of talking to the Thain guy I went to the wizard and then continued from there, there are two ways to end the quest but I wont spoil it but it did work from that point on and I have had it work ever since as long as I do it the same way as above.

As for shadowmere I don't really know what's happening there, it kind of seems like the script just didn't kick in which would lead me to think a reload would solve it. But you said you tried a reload, so, hmmmmmmm, you get nothing as an action option when standing in the pool ? As in you cannot see Shadowmere but you can activate him.

if you already have a horse it'll glitch shadowmere. In the even shadowmere does glitch, don't reset. Just do a fast travel to each of the stables then return to the sanctuary. Works for me every single time that Shadowmere glitches. wich so far is twice out of about 15 or more characters

Now i just need to know what i did wrong with my freaking paladin. >,> maxed out restoration before paying a visit to the colledge and that wench Collette won't gimme the quest for the Master spells. I want Bane of the Undead dangit! I wanna watch vampires running around screaming while engulfed in holy fire!

Collette won't offer the master restoration quest until after completing Good Intentions in the college questline.

You really had to buy this Hjerim really really bad aye?


And why are you having such bad luck with glitches and [censored]? One playthrough on my Xbox and I haven't ran into as much [censored] as you say you have..