Weylin too far gone?

[MysteryX95]

I enter Markarth as part of the questline for the Temple of Mara in Riften, and Weylin is stabbing Margret. I've read about how it's possible to save her, but the problem is, he's already stabbing her when the town loads in. I've reloaded the save many times as I saved outside the door to the town, and tried many things to stop this murder. My arrows don't seem to hit him even when I aimed right at him for sure. Additionally, my shouts don't seem to change anyting either. I even attempted to cheat using tcl and he was still able to kill her, I guess because the act was already in play. Is there anything I can do differently or is this all she wrote for Margret in this playthrough?

[Shirome Artiste]

As long as Margret isn't dead and Weylin isn't mid-combat animation when your game finishes loading you into Markarth, you can use the command "tai" to forcibly stop all non-player characters from acting in any way, shape or form.

Or you can just open up the console and use the kill(Or disable, but that can break the quest so only do that when you don't give a hoot about the questline) command on Weylin to stop him that way.


Normally though, if you know what's going to happen, when the game loads you into markarth you can snipe Weylin from the gate with a bow&slowtime zoom effect to oneshot him(As he's a civilian that doesn't scale with level).

Minor spoiler, saving Margret mildly influences the involved questline and nets you a few extra rewards, but it isn't anything that truly changes the plot of the quest.

[Eternie]

I'd suggest it doesn't matter at all. You have more reason to search her Body and apartment of someone who has been killed ... than someone who is still alive.

I have saved her from the point of view of saving an Innocent? But is she?

[Docsprock]

I always enter Markarth the first time with my sword drawn. Take a step toward Weylin and backstab him.

Margaret being alive has a few more lines of dialog a bit later in the quest, along with a bit of a surprise.

[MysteryX95]

Publicado originalmente por Shirome Artiste:

Publicado originalmente por Docsprock:

I've tried these things, even set Margaret to essential before entering the town, and he still stabs her, and she just stands there. I set her to non-essential and she falls over dead. This playthrough is just borked so I'll just have to go on without her.

[MistySun]

Have your sword drawn before entering...you have 5 seconds to run at him and kill him even if he took a swipe at Margeret.

[MysteryX95]

Publicado originalmente por MistySun:

Have your sword drawn before entering...you have 5 seconds to run at him and kill him even if he took a swipe at Margeret.

I've done that. He wouldn't take damage. And he was already stabbing her the moment I loaded in.