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Didn't do the trick in my case. Had to extract the soundfiles. well, eldercrollswikia has got a bunch of solutions for this case, I took the least intrusive - and voila! - it worked.

Remove both files, then launch the game via SkyrimLauncher.exe, the game will again detect your graphics and set appropriate settings and new unmodified Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini will be automatically created. And this really fixes the issue with Esbern.

When exploring draugr-infested areas (like barrows, crypts e t.c.) there are lots of "sleeping" draugrs (the ones that lie in the niches and "wake up" once you passed them (or hit them)) - always kill them in the stealth mod. Firstly, it allows you to level-up sneak fast, secondly, a bigger chance you kill it in one hit. An interesting thing, especially for vampire-style characters: at Silent Moons Camp (northwest from Whiterun, one of the places where you need to kill bandits for the jarl of Whiterun for bounty) there's a Lunar forge. Iron and steel weapons that are crafted there automatically get a Lunar enchantment - additional damage when moons are out. Also useful to earn money if your character is poor enchanter. Visit Halted Stream camp north of Whiterun (you get there if you take quest from redguard Amren to retrieve his sword). There are 15 iron ore veins and a Spell tome: Transmutation to convert iron ore into gold ore.

As I said, Solitude has got both altars at the temple of divines, Markarth has also got Dibella altar at the Temple of Dibella. The other shrines, I'm afraid, are located out of the cities and I don't remember for the exact locations, I don't care much for getting all possible bonuses when selling the loot. I use Dibella's amulet and gift of charity mostly. And a potion of haggling (also gives better prices) if I have any.

I can't really say how the alchemy is the best (I mean fastest) way to get rich since I haven't met any merchant with more than 1100 gold, but it's for sure the best in the ratio of item weight and value. But personally I earned money in another way: I collected all the daggers i was finding in the loot, enchanted it with petty, lesser and common soulgems (also had plenty of them and since I used a bound sword they were always full). Thus I reached two goals - level-up enchanting and earn enough money to buy all the houses in the game I wanted. You can also try crafting jewellery. It's also pretty easy to find components - gold ore can be transmuted from iron ore using transmute spell. And there are many gems in the loot or found as products of ore-mining. But this can get pretty boring if you don't have a lot of magicka. Also a good way in the beginning of the way is to earn money chopping the firewood. I spent something like 20 real-life minutes chopping the wood to earn 3000 i was lacking to buy the first house in the game. This is also a pretty boring process, but you can have a cup of tea whilst doing so ;) And a useful tip - since the prices are affected by speechcraft - don't forget to go get blessing of Zenithar (10% better prices) or Dibella (+15 speechcraft), also get a blessing if there's an altar near (for example, if you're in Solitude, there are altars of 8 divines) and find a local beggar and give him/her a coin) - Gift of charity - another +10 speechcraft temporarily. Of course, you don't need all these if you are selling porions worth something like 5k gold, since the merchants don't have sufficient funds anyway.

Yes, instead of speaking to Brynolf you can just speak to argonian female bartener of the Bee and barb, or even skip that and go straight into the ratways and beat Esbern's location out of the Ragged Flagon's guard. For those, who find Esbern voiceless: for me deleting Skyrim.ini and Skyrimprefs.ini did the trick

I may be wrong, but I think Mjoll shares voice with some of the female guards. so there are two possibilities - either she was mistakenly included in the same group as the female guards, or this phrase was just said by some female guard with the same voice and you thought it was Mjoll.

Normally, legate shouldn't be there. Instead, there should be only the guards who will arrest you. Here's a description of solving this bug from elderscrolls.wikia.com

First try removing Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini. This is what helped me.

You got that part of my advice about armor wrong. I wasn't referring to just any armor. I was referring to specific fire-resistance enchanted armor, if you have any. If you don't... well, only potions then.

I disagree, there are better ways to raise smithing and earn at the same time. All you need to do is collect all the pelts you find in your travels (there are plenty of animals and plenty of pelts found in loot) - wolf pelts, bear pelts, sabre cat pelts e t.c. you need to make leather and leather strips of them at the tanning rack. Try to make equal number of leather and leather strips . For example, you have 10 leather, you make 8 leather strips out of 2 leather and you've got 8 leather left. Then start making leather bracers until you're out of leather strips. with 4 leather and 8 leather strips you can make 4 bracers. Then upgrade all the bracers with th 4 leathers you've got left. Allright, you get the principle. Why i recommend not only crafting, but also upgrading - because it seems to me that upgrading improves your skill more.

Halted stream camp's cave north of Whiterun has got a lot of iron ore veins. You can easily find that place if you take a quest in Whiterun from a redguard called Amren to retrieve his sword from that camp. If you have troubles finding ore veins, install glowing ore veins mod from nexus, you'll start finding veins even outside of mines and caves occasionally. You also can install a mod called Vals crafting meltdown - It will allow you smelt all kind weapons and armor into ingots at the smelter. As for defeating hagraven itself - well, it was kinda easier for me as I'm a breton mage. I used their ability to absorb hagraven's spells avoiding damage and transforming it into mana for myself, hagraven almost stood no chance. If you're playing a warrior - try wearing some armor and drink potions with fire resistance effect - it will protect you against fireballs. Or you can try shoot-and-hide tactic with the bow. And bring a follower with you.

If you meant putting them out of the misery by slaughtering the entire city - sure, it's the way, but if you really want to help the city out - it's not the way. After all, forsworn are some sort of maniacs. I found that they make some creepy experiments (I met several their Briarhearts - the guys with cut-out heart replaced with briar and brought to life with some sort of necromancy). Maybe you can. After becoming a thane there's an option to tell guards "I'm a Thane" and they reply "ok, I'll look the other way". Not sure if this will work when i try to murder 3 thalmor ambassadors. --- Updated - Yes, you definately can! I went into the understone keep at night, found the thalmor in the back room and slayed them right there. The guards tried to arrest me. When I said I'm the Jarls Thane, they let me go, though warned that next time even being a Thane might not save me (in other words, but they ment so).

That's not what I was saying. I know you can get the quest at any time. The question is, does the ring bug work if the quest is taken when you're already not a werewolf? This article claims there's a glitch that allows to transform into werewolf even if lycanthropy is cured after the ring is obtained. The thing is, I don't know if it allows to do the same if lycanthropy is cured before the ring is obtained. Also note that it's probably a glitch, so after one of Bethesda's patches it might stop working.

There's a possibility (or a bug?), but I haven't tested it so I can't guarantee it to work. Complete Hircine's quest to get Ring of Hircine as reward. This ring allows you to transform into werewolf as many times as you want. It is also said to let you transform into werewolf after lycanthropy has been cured. But I'm not sure if it's ok for you to get the ring now or you had to get it before lycanthropy is cured. If this works, perhaps it's even better to cure lycanthropy and get the ring - you'll be able to transform and still get the sleeping bonus. To start the quest to obtain Ring of Hircine, go to Falkreath and speak to Mathies Caerellia.

happens sometimes. Just reload your save and you'll get your face back

I must disagree, the best profit source for mage is enchanting. and the best items to enchant are daggers as they're much lighter than swords and not that much cheaper. Even an iron dagger enchanted with a petty soul gem gives you somewhat around 150 gold. Note that different enchantments influence the price differently. Amongst the enchantments I've got the most expensive items are made with Absorb Health enchantment. You only need to replenish your filled soul gems supply regularly - my advice is using bound sword with a soul trap perk. use it instead of offensive magic against weak monsters and as last hit against strong monsters. As for ingredients - it's best not to sell them, but use to level-up alchemy as it levels up much slower than smithing or enchanting. As for my character - I got myself mana regen of nearly 300% - (Morokei mask 100%, Archmage's robes 100%, ring I enchanted for 58% and Akatosh amulet 25% - that's 293% total), but didn't use all my level-ups on mana - I used half of them on health instead. Such a high mana regen value allows me to use Firebolts and Ice spikes almost infinitely in the battle, if the timing of spell casting is right (I use dual-casting, so it staggers opponents on hit, allowing me to wait 2-3 seconds for mana to regenerate or to attack another opponent). What I'm aiming to achieve - is getting a destruction+conjuration -100% mana cost set of armor when I get enchanting skill of 100 (and that's soon enough) so that's why I don't need all that points in mana and health will be useful.

As good explanation as any. But I surely know that the prisoners that Thalmors escort are also considered witnesses. At least, when I attacked the Thalmor patrol without setting him free first, I had the bounty until I killed that prisoner as well. Like he would turn to the guards the guy who has just saved him. I tried to set the prisoner free first - but then he's killed very quickly.

The problem is when you don't see this message. As a Thalmor hater, I kill every single Thalmor I can without getting a bounty. usually I kill their patrols on the roads. But recently I killed another their patrol and was left with a bounty. There was noone around except for my follower, Mjoll. Can she be considered a witness? I think that'd be odd.

Reloading the game should help. I had a similar problem when I couldn't pick up broken Azura's star in a quest to retrieve it. Reloading worked. If it doesn't, try loading save before the fight

This article provides full info on how to get married, where to find the priest and a list of characters you can marry.

I figured out, where Treasure Map X leads to. It's near Lady stone (that picture on the map means Lady stone) and near Ilinalta's deep (a dungeon involved in Azura's quest), right to the west from Riverwood. You'd want to take the northern bank of the river if you go there from Riverwood. The chest is deep in the water near the end of a long sand spit (compare your minimap and the treasure map to find the spot). Beware the slaughterfish!

Though I haven't taken any side yet, I'm going to side with the empire. First of all, I don't like Ulfric's racism as well. The second reason is Empire is pretty stable and working mechanism. Civil war will reflect badly on the civilians. I'm not against Skyrim being a sovereign kingdom, but Ulfric is not the leader Skyrim needs. When I want to make this decision, I imagine all skyrim being like Winterhold - and I don't like winterhold. Don't like the atmosphere there, the nords' attitude to elves. Also civil war isn't the way to achieve this goal. Perhaps, it's not time for Skyrim yet to be independent. If more people in Skyrim were for its independence, I may have chosen another side, but it's not like that. Favoring the Empire doesn't make me like the Thalmor, I'm thinking of killing every single one of them if I get a chance.

And a picture of a lady statue on the map? That's Treasure map X, I'm also having problems with it. If you find where it is first, post it here please.

I'd like to hear the results of your tests here. I haven't tried any of these methods on my followers and before I try, I'd like to be sure this will work.