When A Quest-Giving NPC Dies....

[ShadowGryphon]

I'm curious if there's a console command that can respawn an NPC so that you can interact with them if they had a quest that you didn't get to do before they bought it and their body was moved to the Hall of the Dead.

In my case a famous example of this is Amren in Whiterun, who has the nasty habit of just randomly dying for no discernable reason that I can figure out. Sometimes I forget to do his quest to retrieve the family sword in order to get the skill-ups in one-handed weapons and block before he dies, but a prid#/moveto combo of commands doesn't return him with the quest he had intact, just his boring conversation options.

Is there a command to enter that will return an NPC to life with their quest available?

[Pickysaurus]

The dialogue is probably locked to his quest alias, or the dialogue is contained in a quest which stops when he dies. In the case of the forms, resurrecting his original formid would work. In the case of the later, restarting the quest in console may work.

 

In both cases, messing with console is not how the game is supposed to be played so be prepared for unexpected side-effects.

[ShadowGryphon]

The dialogue is probably locked to his quest alias, or the dialogue is contained in a quest which stops when he dies. In the case of the forms, resurrecting his original formid would work. In the case of the later, restarting the quest in console may work.

 

In both cases, messing with console is not how the game is supposed to be played so be prepared for unexpected side-effects.

Well the most I ever use the command console for is to move an NPC who gets stuck (i.e. Karliah after you go to kill Mercer and she just hangs out swimming in the water forever) but yeah in a case like Amren's it's just annoying when he dies randomly before I ever had the chance to get to his quest. Do you happen to know why NPC's will just die when you're away from the city they live in for a few days' worth of time in game?