The immortal matthias draconis

[princelusto]

Basically hes essential and i need to kill him.

i've gone into the construction set and removed his tag. hes still essential on my save game

i switched off pretty much all mods that could possibly effect him except OOO hes still imortal i've even tried console commands and they say his ID does'nt exist and fail to work.

im at the end of my tether. someone please save me i need to kill this guy in order to see my brothers and sisters of the brotherhood once more

[Nickelz]

Basically hes essential and i need to kill him.

i've gone into the construction set and removed his tag. hes still essential on my save game

i switched off pretty much all mods that could possibly effect him except OOO hes still imortal i've even tried console commands and they say his ID does'nt exist and fail to work.

im at the end of my tether. someone please save me i need to kill this guy in order to see my brothers and sisters of the brotherhood once more

This is strange. Matthias Draconis is not an essential NPC in Vanilla Oblivion. Perhaps you have a mod that affects to this NPC (perhaps a dirty mod?) and makes Matthias flagged as Essential. Then the Essential-flag is saved to your game data.

 

Try deactivating every mod of yours (except Oblivion.esm, of course) and start a new game. Just give the character some name and press 'Done'

After this open the console and type

player.moveto 00031000

and see is he flagged as 'Essential'

 

If he is non-Essential now, I'm pretty sure that you have a mod affecting this character.

 

To jump the killing stage of the quest, open the console and type

setstage Dark11Kin 30

 

This immediately jumps you to stage 30 in this quest. It's the stage when everyone needed to complete this quest are dead and you need to go to specific place for next quest and reward. I suggest you 'disable' every target of assassination required for this quest before doing this to prevent conflicts. Although 'disabling' may crash your game.

 

To disable an NPC, open the console, click on that NPC and type

disable

Your game might crash when you disable something

 

More about quest stages HERE WARNING! May contain spoilers!

[princelusto]

my thanks things seem to be working now. the quest stage thingy seemed to do the trick. and god knows i've played the dark brotherhood quest line enough. i've poisoned, beheaded, cut in half, shot, burnt, shocked and brained the poor man enough times lol

[SkullKnight]

When you change an NPC in the construction set, you should use Wrye Bash to update your save file to reflect the changes you made (otherwise as Nickelz said, this information is already stored into your save file). Im pretty sure this applies to both NPC levels and essential flags (although the feature is called "Update NPC Levels").