Reluctant steward bug

[Wobb the Great and Terrible!!!!!]

Ok, so I need to find Varona, but the quest marker is way off the map in the water over towards Skyrim.

How do I fix this? Surely a console command or something?
I don't usually do console commands, mods or stuff, but this is annoying, so any help would be appreciated.

[Wobb the Great and Terrible!!!!!]

Ok, went to Skyrim, there is no map marker for this quest there.
So I went back to solstheim, and the map marker still displays way down the bottom left of the map.
Tried swimming out to the marker, but invisible wall stops me before I get even halfway there.

[Docsprock]

It is just a bug with the arrow.

Follow this: http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Reluctant_Steward

[Wobb the Great and Terrible!!!!!]

No it's not a bug with the arrow, I went all around that area and killed everything.
Even found some reavers and killed those, looked around their camp. No body,.
Went through every walkthrough I can find, every possible position I can find in youtube walkthroughs, some of which even guarantee she is dead right outside her house and that's not true at all.

She isn't there, not anywhere. Have been searching for over an hour, all around that area west of the sunstone, and most of the way to the town she was heading to, looking for her corpse. It's not there.

Not a bug with the quest arrow, the quest is there.

[Wobb the Great and Terrible!!!!!]

So getting the ID for her from the original game, and putting it into console and the game doesn't recognise it. Probably because of how it was DLC in the original but not in this.

According to what I can see, I need to finish this quest in order to get the key to obtain the book in that laboratory. He doesn't have the key in his pocket so I can't steal it, the lock can't be picked, and he doesn't give you the key until you complete the quest by finding the body and then getting him a new steward.

[Docsprock]

Her body is supposed to be just north of the Silt strider. It is possible that some event flung it off the map.

[Wobb the Great and Terrible!!!!!]

Yea I figured that, but how to get it back?
Isn't there some console command to teleport NPC and corpses to the player?

I found her ID, and managed to use console to spawn her to me, but that didn't work. The quest marker still pointed off the map and when I spoke to her it just was the usual "what's it like living here?" type of conversation.
Tried going back to him to see if I can tell him I found her but no, it is still the same.

So I killed her, hoping that might trigger it. Nope. All that did was put my bounty up by 40, which I have been good at avoiding so far.

[Wobb the Great and Terrible!!!!!]

Someone? Anyone? Please help

[Ecklcakes]

I had the same issue. Turns out she's somehow spawned out in the ocean but off the map (as a dead body).

Use the console command: movetoqt DLC2TT1
(the latter part is the quest ID)

This should teleport you out to her body in the ocean (you get a nice view of Solstheim and the Red Mountain from there).

Then fast travel back!
Or if that doesn't work for some reason use the console command again and this time it will take you to Neloth!

Enjoy :)

[Wobb the Great and Terrible!!!!!]

Originally posted by Ecklcakes:

I had the same issue. Turns out she's somehow spawned out in the ocean but off the map (as a dead body).

Use the console command: movetoqt DLC2TT1
(the latter part is the quest ID)

This should teleport you out to her body in the ocean (you get a nice view of Solstheim and the Red Mountain from there).

Then fast travel back!
Or if that doesn't work for some reason use the console command again and this time it will take you to Neloth!

Enjoy :)

When it went to the loading screen after I typed that in I really thought it was going to work.
Then it took a long time loading, and when it finished it just put me back where I was before it started loading.

The problem is you see, that she is OFF the map. So it can't spawn me there, because the place is unreachable even if you were to fly and use noclip commands. I tried swimming there, but the invisible wall stops me.

Thanks anyway, good effort :)

[Wobb the Great and Terrible!!!!!]

Bump


Can't anyone help me with this? Let me know a helpful console command or something?

[White Rabbit]

does "player.placeatme <NPCID> 1" work?
Not sure if it's Ref ID or Base ID you need though check the wikia

[Wobb the Great and Terrible!!!!!]

Is that the one to spawn the character at you? Or teleport the character to you?
I did spawn her at me, but that didn't work. The marker still pointed off the map and talking to her it was just as if I didn't have the quest, just asking her how it was living there.
Killed her, and all that happened was raised bounty, no chance to end the quest after finding her corpse

[Wobb the Great and Terrible!!!!!]

Just tried it, and yes that's the one that spawns a new version of the character at your location.

This one doesn't help but thanks for the info anyway.

What I need is to teleport the character to me, not make a new version of character.
Problem is that I think teleporting doesn't work because the character can't be found, as she is not anywhere on the map. She is beyond the invisible wall at the edge of the playable area, so the game can't seem to find her when I try to locate her.
Otherwise I think I would be able to teleport to her. When I tried that it just said it couldn't find target or something like that.

I ended up using console to unlock the door to get the black book and be able to use the staff enchanter, so the end result is the same.
I just have this annoying quest stuck in my log now that I will never be able to finish.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

She sometimes is spawned underneath the map, try using these console commands.

prid xx0177dd

xx = the place dragonborn is in your load order. Most likely 02 or 03.

While her ID is loaded in console use this command.

moveto player

If it doesn't work, you may have to resurrect her first and then kill her again.

prid xx0177dd
resurrect
moveto player
kill

For future reference it is always best to save your game before speaking to Neloth about any topic about Varona, so you can always reload that save if necessary, because sometimes she doesn't appear correctly.

[Wobb the Great and Terrible!!!!!]

Isn't that ID the one for her in the original?
It's changed for the special edition. Each time I tried to use console with that ID it wouldn't recognise it.

I have an ID for her, which I have been able to use to spawn a new version of her. Problem is now that it will probably resurrect that version if I try this solution, as I killed her to see if it would trigger the quest for finding her corpse (it didn't work, obv.)