Geting rid of a quest?

[SirFrank114]

I have one of those typical quests to kill a bandit at Nilheim. However my automatic map locator does not point toward the site or bandit. When I travel to the site there is no bandit leader to kill. I've done many of these quests before without problems. Any way I can dump this dud? I did not see a console control to do this.

[Ondrea]

Before crossing the bridge to Nilheim, talk to Telrav sitting on the ground. See if triggering the guards through his conversation gets your quest done. Or if you don't talk to Telrav there should be a non-aggressive leader in the tower itself that you can kill without the other guards attacking.

 

Or if none of that works, can try this in the console:

setstage bq01 100

 

You can find this in the wiki.