Shivering Isles: End of Main Quest Bug

[ElizabethLestrad]

At the end of the main quest for Shivering Isles there are two corpses on the ground by each crystal formation from the Order Priests. Ive tried Disable, Ive tried resurrecting them and THEN disabling them but for some reason I cant get rid of the bodies. I have the same problem with trying to disable the crystal formations to restore the palace grounds, but to no avail.

 

I tried looking in the toolset for a clue but thus far havnt found anything. Has anyone found a patch or workaround for this?

[tyreil829]

hmm i never had this problem before you could try useing a spell that removes bodies from the world altogther i am not sure what effect that will have on the game if it works its worth a try, Midas Magic should have one ( in fact i am sure) or maybe Decompose Corpse its quicker to get then midas magic

 

my idea may not be the way to get rid of the bodies but its worth a go if its annoying you hehe

 

Sword Devil

[ElizabethLestrad]

Nope, Decompose Corpse had no effect on the either of the bodies. Im wondering though since Decompose said it didnt work on essential characters if for some reason the game is marking them as such. Im going to have to hunt down a way to remove their essential tags (if they exist) to see if thats true. And yes....its EXTREMELY annoying.

 

This is one problem Ive always had with SI, even with a clean install and no mods every single time with every single character its always the same two corpses that just wont go away. Ive tried even waiting for 3 weeks (of ingame time of course) and the bodies dont go away.

 

On a side note, I have the same problem with the two monoliths so Im thinking theyre related but in the end, I can live with giant crystals, but two persistant corpses in my nice palace grounds...thats just irritating.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-----Update

 

 

I think I might be on to something. I found the references to the two problem Order priests.

 

00046ECD and 00046ECE

 

I looked up the palace in the toolset and found that the corpses are bound to the crystal formations. When I tried to delete the Crystals it gave a warning that it was related to a quest and listed everything that was connected to it including the priests.

 

I then went through and deleted every single reference/item to the order crystals in the entire castle cell. When I loaded the game, they were STILL there dispite my addon patch being active and knowing that I had completely removed them from the cell in the toolset. But now when I selected the body and hit disable, it removed not only the body, but the connected "ghost crystal" as well.

 

Now I just need to figure out if theres a way to leave them alone in the toolset but find out what exactly is causing them to be impossible to remove even when theyve been deleted in the toolset. I think if that can be found, it will solve the problem.

[darkjaffar]

This problem is mentioned on the uesp.net page for "The End of Order" quest, so you don't appear to be the only one having it. Are you running the unofficial patches? It doesn't say that the problem is fixed in that, but you may be lucky.

 

If all else fails, I have an idea for how you can fix it: simply teleport the priests to a dummy cell. You could even do this in a script or something triggered at the end of the quest, or just do it manually if you don't want a general fix for it. There's no need to delete the references as that may break something. Moving them out of the way is very unlikely to do anything harmful.

 

As far as the crystals, they are in my game too, but the priests are not. I didn't even know they were supposed to disappear (I don't think they are, as they contain items after you destroy them during the main quest. It would suck to have those disappear on you before you collect your loot from them.)