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[Adoris]

Hello everyone!
So i'm playing though Dawnguard, sided with the vampires. During the quest Chasing Echoes, i go up to Valerica's lab, do everything necessary to open the portal to the Soul Cairn. Serana bites her hand and pours her blood into the mixture. The portal opens all dramatic like and all. Then i get the quest stage "Enter the Soul Cairn". Great, i am a vampire lord, i can just waltz in, if i understand correctly, but sadly no. I saw in videos, that at the end of the staircase there appears a "To Soul Cairn" message, just like in any other door or portal. But it doesn't appear for me. I can't enter the SC. I tried messing with the quest stages, turning collision off and on and flying all around the castle, but the actual portal is missing. And i can't progress because of it.

I tried entering the Soul Cairn by an extremely roundabout way, i progressed my quest stages to the next step, ie "Beyond Death" and teleported to Juib with a "coc" command, but that didn't work. Serana didn't travel with me and Valerica didn't talk to me. So that attempt failed.

Do you have any ideas on how to fix this? I really don't want to just skip this part of the questline and add the scroll to my inventory, that'd be rather disappointing.
Any help will be appreciated!

[Praveen]

If you are not able to enter the Soul Cairn.
then Open the console and type set DLC1vq04SoulTrapped to 1.
now you can enter the soul cairn and carry your adventure further.

[Adoris]

If you are not able to enter the Soul Cairn.
then Open the console and type set DLC1vq04SoulTrapped to 1.
now you can enter the soul cairn and carry your adventure further.

Did it, didn't work. : (

[Praveen]

well the above solution worked for me, never-mind, here is another solution
if the quest marker is pointing to enter the soul cairn objective then
open console and type movetoqt dlc1vq04

[Adoris]

When i try this one it drops me through the map, back to the entrance of the castle, where i first entered with Serana.

[Praveen]

Does you see map marker pointing to the portal if it is then use console command

Edit You quest objective must be Enter the Soul Cairn.

Edited by Praveen, 10 August 2012 - 12:25 PM.

[Adoris]

It does point to the portal. When i use the consol command i just drop through the floor, and get teleported at the courtyard door. I don't go through the actual portal.

[SColla]

Only thing I can think of is to try and unload all your mods and see what happens. If that isn't it, then I suggest having Steam do a repair.

[Adoris]

Nothing seems to work so far. =/
I downloaded this from Nexus - Alternative way to enter the Soul Cairn by Bemme1233. It progresses my quest stages properly, i finish Chasing Echoes and start Beyond Death, but Serana doesn't follow me through the portal. And when i run up to Valerica, she just stands behind the magical barrier and doesn't initiate any dialogs.

P.s. I tried spawning a Serana copy in the Soul Cairn by clicking her when i was in Proudspire mannor then when i went through the portal i typed a "player.placeatme" with her code, but it didn't work.

Edited by Adoris, 10 August 2012 - 03:59 PM.

[Adoris]

Shameless bump : (