Help don't know what to do A Blade In The Dark

[liammagnisium]

So I'm doing the greybeard quest and after Delphine gave me the horn of yurgen windcaller I went and completed the greybeard quest then went back to Riverwood. Delphine talked and I fast travelled to windhelm. I walked to kynsgrove the innkeeper told me about the dragon and Delphine appeared and had me follow her the burial site. I stayed in sneak mode behind the rock with Delphine then fought the dragon. after we killed Delphine walked over and said "by the gods we really did it" then said "so you really are the dragonborn" I walked over to her clicked on her dialogue option but she just "what do you need" and gave me the two dialogue options of "what does it mean to be the dragonborn" and "who are the thalmor" there was no quest completing dialogue at all even after killing the dragon and absorbing the soul. I tried relaoding and retrying the mission but this time I walked with Delphine same thing. I tried this one fix to put these two commands to force end the quest but I couldn't continue with the next main story quest because Delphine would just stand there and keep repeating those two dialogue options. I tried everything. I do have SKSE and The Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch. I've had both before even starting this playthrough and none of my other mods should be affecting this area of the game. I don't know what to do does anyone have a solution.

[Stardustfire]

none of my other mods should be affecting this area

THIS is THE STANDARD FRACE of ppl who build there own game problems and dont admit it....

[xybolt]

Do you have a quest objective named "Talk to Delphine"? If not then you've probably a mod that interferes with this quest, it can be either area, NPC AI, dragon scripts ect

You can try this command here below to advance the quest stage after killing Sahloknir. If it does not help, please reload your game save.

setstage MQ106 150

You can use "sqs MQ106" to have a list of stages and which stage is active (the last "1").

[Docsprock]

What does your quest log say is your next mission?

You could also fast travel away to Windhelm and wait a day, then travel back.

[liammagnisium]

My quest log says talk to Delphine and the marker is over her head. I did try to go away wait and come back and she's still just standing there not using the right dialogue. reloading the same thing just happens. do you think disabling all my mods before doing the quest will fix it.

[xybolt]

Just wondering, did you have gotten a dialogue with Alduin himself after he revived Sahloknir? This dialogue has its own hidden stage.

Do you have USSEP installed? It has a lot fixes involving Delphine.

[liammagnisium]

I do have USSEP installed and while Alduin was reviving the dragon he looked at me said some stuff about me not knowing there tongue I wasn't able to respond to him though. If there isn't a solution than is there a way to just skip it and start the quest to find Esbern.

[Valden21]

UESP has the answer. According to that wiki, you need to do the following:
1) Reload a save from before Kynesgrove.
2) Learn the "Become Etheral" shout, and have it unlocked.
3) Return the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller back to the Greybeards.
4) THEN, you can proceed with "A Blade in the Dark".

[liammagnisium]

I already tried doing that fix but thanks I think I just cant continue with the main questline anymore on that character.

[xybolt]

You can use this command to enlist (you can use PgUp and PgDown to scroll through it) the stages;

sqs MQ106

Do the quest again, kill Sahloknir, absorb his soul and then open the console. Check the sqs. Ensure that all these stages have 1. If not use, "setstage MQ106 102" to set 1 at stage 102 ect

• format; <stage number> (<meaning>)
  
• 102 (journal - kill Sahloknir)
  
• 105 (alduin dialogue)
  
• 110 (kill)
  
• 120 (soul absorb)
  
• 150 (journal - talk with Delphine)
  
• 160 (dialogue flag)

All of 'm needs to be 1. Then approach Delphine. If the dialogue is not available, use "disable" (to stop AI processing), "resetai" then "enable".

Or force to complete the quest. But I am in doubt with this one because I cannot guarantee Delphine's state is being restored after using the commands to complete the quest and start the next one.

[liammagnisium]

so after killing Sahloknir I did the command "sqs mq106" and checked all of the stages 102-160 all of them had 1. I tried to disable reset and then enable Delphine but that didn't do anything. I force ended the quest and Delphine walked back to Riverwood but still had the same two dialogue options. So the stages are at 1 Delphine just wont give me the right dialogue even after resetting her AI. is there a way to continue the main quest line after force ending the quest.

[Docsprock]

Check here for possible solutions/explanations:

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:A_Blade_in_the_Dark

[liammagnisium]

Yeah I'm out of options nothings working and force completing the quest doesn't start the next one I just cant do the main questline. thanks for the help.

[xybolt]

Postat inițial de liammagnisium:

Yeah I'm out of options nothings working and force completing the quest doesn't start the next one I just cant do the main questline. thanks for the help.

You need to set the first stage manually. Since you have the quest stages right, then the quest itself is working. It is just a problem at Delphine.

First step is to complete the quest. Verify with sqs that all stages I mentioned and 200 is set to 1 (170 must be 0). If you have done that, start the next quest by

setstage MQ201 30

But here, you need Delphine again. Give it time to see if she travels back to Riverwood (the quest journal instructs you to go there + places a marker there). If not, you can use moveto command (to that inn) and wait 24h somewhere else (eg in whiterun itself)

[liammagnisium]

After killing the dragon I checked the stages and then set 200 to 1. stage 170 was 0 but when I put in the command nothing happened. when I set stage 200 to 1 Delphine started walking away and did go to Riverwood but still just uses the two dialogue lines and the next quest didn't start.

[Senor Cinco]

Are we certain that we're reloading a save 'before' Kynesgrove?

Reloading a previous save is probably the only option. Otherwise, it's a mod issue.

Using SetStage on the MQ is generally a bad idea. Yes, there are exceptions to that but for the most part... the MQ doesn't work well that command. There's too many moving parts, so to speak.