Cant help anyone in falkreath cause everyone is dead

[Lil Loaf]

I want to be the thane of Falkreath so I can buy a house. Only problem is that pretty much everyone in Falkreath died during a dragon attack. The only ones that survived are a lady that won’t give me a quest and the dude looking for Barbas, which didn’t count as assisting him. What do I do? Will bringing someone back to life work?

[Sairek Ceareste]

Bringing NPCs back to life via the console is not recommended. It screws up the game, its scripts, and can cause damage to your playthrough that may eventually cause corrupt saves.

I recommend instead to find the quest ID for becoming a thane of Falkreath via the console (use the help command and put the quest name in quotation marks, or look it up online), and then use the stage command to mark each step as complete one at a time. This should make you become thane.

[gregnewman2022]

About the thing you in that situation is go back ti a previous save before the dragon attack happened .

[oak]

The suggestion to progress manually through the quest objectives will do it.

If the following two things are true for you, you have an earlier save you'd be happy to go back to and you're modding your game, there's an option to protect against it happening:
reload earlier save and add the Run For Your Lives mod

Unless you're not using mods, are using incompatible mods, or (worst case, and I hope not, because I'm hankering for a new playthrough) a recent update somehow broke it, this useful QoL mod will get your NPC's to actually act with a sense of self preservation and run/hide when dragons or vampires attack.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/2272

If you're not modding, never mind. If you are - this is one of those mods I consider essential :)

[gFreak696]

Just use a house from the dead people. Not like they need it anymore.

[Basarab Laiota]

Dragons are the reason I played through the game without ever going to Riverwood/Whiterun/BleakFallsBarrow first. No dragons, no problem. I get to quest all I want.

Then after I do all the random quests I let the dragons start spawning and I laugh as they kill all the NPCs who I've already done all the quests for. And half the time I get inheritance money from their deaths because they liked me so much! Hah!

[Alex]

You earn the right to buy a plot of land by doing quests for the Jarl.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Build_Your_Own_Home
Being a thane is not neccessary. But if you still want to become thane, then walk up to any named NPC in Falkreath, open the console and enter:

setrelationshiprank player 1

Repeat this up to three times until thaneship is unlocked.

By the way, this command can also be used on the Jarl himself if he still doesn't want to sell that plot of land.