Helgi"s Ghost

[Ceiwan [FR]]

I started the Quest of Laid To Rest, but the Ghost of this poor little girl didn't spawn in the burnt house
I tried to use command consol to spawn here but nothing, i tried to reload the game 3 times but no ghost so i can't do this quest in order to be Thane

[Mephitic]

According to uesp[en.uesp.net], the quest can be buggy but there are several workarounds.

Did you activate the coffin? Sometimes there is no quest marker there.

[drwatson1873]

What parts of the quest have been done thus far?

Normally, they run something like this:

A. Learn about the house fire from someone in Morthal.
B. Talk to the Jarl about the fire.
C. Visit the house (any time of day) and find Helgi's ghost,
D. Follow up her request (after dark)(graveyard, etc.)

If the Jarl has already asked you to investigate, you might try leaving Morthal for a time and returning. On the other hand, the console commands may have borked the quest for good.

Best bet is to reload a save from before speaking to the Jarl and walk through the quest again.

[Ceiwan [FR]]

The Coffin is next to the stones ? If yes, there is no coffin
No problem until C. : i must explore the bunrt house but, day or night, no ghost

I have a save before talking to the Jarl, i talked with Jonna, the Guards etc.
With my save, i don't know that the quest exist

With consol i succeed to spawn Helgi but she doesn't want to talk or with "setobjectivecompleted"i just completed the part "investigate the house" but nothing more

[smr1957]

Now you've really broken it by using the console - all you did is spawn a copy which does not have the dialogue - the dialogue is tied to the original, which has a specific form ID (the copy you spawnd has a different Form ID, so the game will not recognize it). Using console commands can break things if you are not ABSOLUTELY sure of what yuu are doing. Anyway, you will have to go back to a save made prior to using that command

There is this from the Bugs section of http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Laid_to_Rest :
"Speaking to Thonnir after killing the vampire Laelette, but before examining Helgi's coffin, prevents you from doing so afterwards and prevents the ghost of Helgi from appearing. Seemingly though, the quest can still be completed once all other stages are done, and you will still receive your reward from the jarl."

Might be a good idea to check that page to make sure you are doing things right - but it does, of course, contain spoilers

[Ceiwan [FR]]

I loaded an old save before trying to use command console
The problem is Helgi don't spawn in the house so Laelette can't spawn since she must attack you when you go to the coffin
I can't pass the objective "Investigate the house"

[Ceiwan [FR]]

Maybe i found an alternative solution, i just gave me the Alva's Journal fort testing and i managed to finish the quest but it pissed me off so i'm working to find another solution

[Antichrist]

hey. did you manage to find her ghost ? i have same problem as you

[Melkolf]

When quests screw up like this spawning the NPC won't work, and like others warn will seriously further screw up the playthrough.

The best way to console out of a quest problem is to setstage to shift beyond the screwed stage to the next stage of the quest. But even then you can seriously screw up other aspects.

In short, don't screw with the console because it often screws back.

But then, what goes around comes around and the name of the game is reciprocity...

[Antichrist]

So I found a solution for this bug, not sure if it will work for you. I had a "RS children" mod and after uninstalling it, all quests began to work perfectly. I had the same problem with Aventus Aretino who didn't appear in the house, which helped me to find a cause. So perhaps if you have any children mods, you better to delete them

[Sabaxsis]

Originally posted by Antichrist:

So I found a solution for this bug, not sure if it will work for you. I had a "RS children" mod and after uninstalling it, all quests began to work perfectly. I had the same problem with Aventus Aretino who didn't appear in the house, which helped me to find a cause. So perhaps if you have any children mods, you better to delete them

Worked for me too

[jreese46]

It's been a while, but if I recall correctly, you have to talk to the innkeeper, then the Jarl, then find the ghost in the house, then wait til dark and find her at the coffin.

[76561199625305938]

My life is synchronicity. I was rudely divorced from my Viking Queen who was a BETRAYER, a JUTLANDER! She had sent a host of hornets to sting me hundreds of times, and as I ran to her begging to be seen by doctors, she laughed, and said "You, you? Hornets bother you? Those welts upon your skin are just your fear showing as pain. You are a Jarl, and your bloodline is long... you will survive this. Plus, our 20% co-pay on medical insurance prevents me from taking you to the hospital for immediate attention, because if we pay the 20%, it will not go into one of my 20 secret CD bank accounts in my name only. So you live, you die, but I control our nestegg. Off she ran, with my dog to another state. I was taken in by a benefactor of the Beaumont Estate, abandoned and betrayed, and suffering from an overload of Hymen Opera Vespus venom, of which I slowly disintegrated from the hornet venom. I had to leave my gaming behind, my Varangian Clan, wishing well, and to get the Game of Skyrim, which I had not yet obtained. Incredibly, at the Estate, I was introduced to the GREAT HALL, and actual library of 1000s of English Literature, as my benefactor was a Professor of such. In the middle of the Great Hall, was an xbox, sitting on the TV table, with two easy chairs 10 feet away facing a 50" flatscreen. I turned the xbox on, and this is the truth. I am Viking, I do not lie. I do not betray. When the xbox turned on, it only had one game one it.... SKYRIM. Let me repeat this... I lost my nice home and acres from a betraying beautiful Wæl, ended up in a Viking Great Hall, only miles away, and I'm sitting now in an easy chair with Skyrim starting up on an xbox that wasn't mine. My benefactor was 90 years old. Alone in a 7000 sq ft mansion, she wanted a big Viking to protect her from the Vandals, like Rurik Bloodaxe in Novgorod, 863AD, creating the Rus Dynasty, which became RUSSIA.

One scene took away my internal punctured heart for my earlier loss, and it was the empathy I felt when I met a poor little ghost girl, burned to death with her mother, and somehow my problems disappeared while she told me of a quest. However, I was now in real life being studied as the only survivor of Vespa mass envenomation, so the medication I was on make me forget what happened exactly 10 years ago as of this writing. All I remember was it was the first Skyrim, on an xBox One, and it was Helgi. I always wanted to go back and see her and hope to make a mod, to give her a great life, castle with all she ever could want. Now I hear it's hard to find her.

Isn't this the world? Why does living get in the way of Life?