The waking nightmare Quest

[Mulletguts]

I've run into a problem with the above quest and hope someone can help. Was on the way to nightcaller temple to take on vaermina when an Ancient dragon attacked our party. After a long protracted battle, where erandur was forced to flee, the forces of truth and light prevailed. However...the quest appears to be broken because erandur will not do anything but answer a question and refuses to move his ass. How do i fix the quest and get it moving.
Have entered nightcaller temple then gone back to him. Have saved and quit game; nothing works. HELP!

[alexander_dougherty]

Load a save from before the dragon attacked and don't try to fast travel to nightcaller temple.

[Mulletguts]

Time has passed since the attack. I don't think i have one.

[Turtleswatter]

Originally posted by Mulletgutz:

Time has passed since the attack. I don't think i have one.

Ah, the old quick save trap. Sadly, this isn't going to help you now, but moving forward, make sure that you make regular physical saves. Quick saves over-ride the existing save so you never have a backstop when things go wrong a bit later down the line.

Having done a quick google, several people have suggested using the Ice Form shout on him. Seems a bit far fetched to me but no harm in trying.

Also, I know people are wary of using console commands but you could try approaching the temple and the moveto player command.

[Mulletguts]

What is the moveto player command?

[258789553873]

Its a console command. If you press the ~ key, a transparent black window will pop up on the bottom edge of your screen. You can type stuff in here. Essentially, its what the developers used to debug the game. There's a myriad of things you can do with this.

In this case, the moveto player command teleports an npc to your location. Open the console, click Erandur (a bunch of numbers and letters should appear the top of the window). Then move to someplace else, open the console again and type:

moveto player

If it doesn't work, you may have selected some invisible object (such as a fog cloud) instead of him. This may take you multiple attempts, annoyingly enough.

If that's too complicated for you, you can also try using a shout on him. Fus ro dah, Ice Form, maybe a few others that force him to move or fall down or something. Altnertively, you could just run into him (this should make him shift backwards a bit). If that doesn't work, you can also attack him and force him to one knee (don't worry, you can't kill him). When he gets back up, he shouldn't be hostile to you, and hopefully he'll start behaving normally again.

Honestly though, I think the moveto player command is the most popular way to fix this. I'm just saying there's alternatives if you can't/don't want to do that.

[Melkolf]

I had a similar happen years back (not a dragon, just some wolves on the way up the slope completely made E forget his mission). I think I used Unrelenting Force 1 on him to knock his brain cell back into gear.

The only time I was really stuck I used the moveto player when standing in front of the door.

And it's never a wise move to fast travel E from Dawnstar to the temple. Just let him plod his world weary way up there while you plod obediently behind him. The old geezer just can't be rushed...

[Mulletguts]

Thanks Heaps Forum:)

[Mulletguts]

Tried out a triple-stacked unrelenting force on erandur. It sent him flying backwards but knocked him out of his reverie. About to start quest now. Cheers to all.

[Turtleswatter]

Just for anyone with the same issue and the shout doesn't work the move to command works like this. Assuming Erandur is out of screenshot.

Open console (tilde key)
Type prid 24280 and press enter
then type moveto player and press enter
Close console (tilde key)

Should be there.

[258789553873]

Originally posted by Turtleswatter:

Just for anyone with the same issue and the shout doesn't work the move to command works like this. Assuming Erandur is out of screenshot.

Open console (tilde key)
Type prid 24280 and press enter
then type moveto player and press enter
Close console (tilde key)

Should be there.

The RefID is different for each player character. There's no way to predict what RefID any npc will have. The only way to find it, is to find the npc in-game and select them through the console. Their RefID is the hexadecimal number that appears at the top of the console window when you select them.

[Turtleswatter]

Originally posted by IXBlackWolfXI:

Originally posted by Turtleswatter:

Just for anyone with the same issue and the shout doesn't work the move to command works like this. Assuming Erandur is out of screenshot.

Open console (tilde key)
Type prid 24280 and press enter
then type moveto player and press enter
Close console (tilde key)

Should be there.

The RefID is different for each player character. There's no way to predict what RefID any npc will have. The only way to find it, is to find the npc in-game and select them through the console. Their RefID is the hexadecimal number that appears at the top of the console window when you select them.

Actually if you look at the UESP wiki and the ESO Wiki the ref id for Erandur is constant. You find this with most items and people. For example Lydia is always A2C94. The only time I have found character ref id's differ is if you've messed about with the console and made a copy rather than resurrected the original.