Alduin's Wall bug -- how to proceed?

[Haldurson]

So I'm stuck at the part of the Alduin's Wall quest where I'm at the wall. There were a few issues to start, that I THOUGHT I got around.

First, (because it's been a very long time since I last played the game) I didn't realize that I needed both Delphine AND Esbern. When I First got to the wall, there was just Esbern.

After some missteps that only seemed to make matters worse, I read that I could wait and Delphine would appear. I did this, and she's now in the room. But she won't talk to Esbern and the quest won't proceed. She just stands in the middle of the room, while Esbern stays near the wall.

So I stood by Esbern and did a 'moveto player' on Delphine, and that actually DID move her next to Esbern. But they still won't interract and the quest thus won't proceed.

What do I need to do to get the quest to proceed to the next step?

[SpeedFreak1972]

try this from another thread

Originally posted by SpeedFreak1972:

won't help in this case alexander only the UESP solution works I had it several time so

It is scripted that Delphine and Esbern equip torches and light basins. If Delphine does not equip her torch, she may not follow Esbern up the stairs, and Esbern will not examine the wall when spoken to. Force Delphine to equip her torch by opening the command console, clicking Delphine to get her ID, and typing equipitem 0001D4EC 1 left. Delphine should then move to light a basin and the scripting will continue.

The problem is that Delphine has no torch equipped so the sequence halts

[Haldurson]

Thanks! That did the trick!

[Adacho]

Use this mod:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/100595