Help! Madesi was killed in some random vampire attack!

[cerebro]

Is it still possible for me to become a thane of Riften without completing his ♥♥♥♥♥♥ quest?

[Arthur]

Is her body still there? Use the console command "resurrect" on her.

[jancawa55]

Discuss it with Brynjolf

[cerebro]

Originally posted by Vecchio:

Is her body still there? Use the console command "resurrect" on her.

No, it happened weeks of game time ago, i assumed they would respawn.

[smr1957]

Originally posted by Vecchio:

Is her body still there? Use the console command "resurrect" on her.

Do not use resurrect command on a unique/named NPC! The reasons not to have been posted time after time in the forum!

One more time:
Resurrecting Named Characters
When an NPC dies, the game runs a death script - this cannot be undone. The only way to "revive" an NPC that the game has marked as dead is to load a previous save from before the NPC died. While resurrecting with the console may seem to work, the game still sees the NPC as dead, so dialogue, actions, and quests that depend upon that NPC will not run. Also, you should be extremely careful when using console commands, as they can break your game - and if you do use a command, always make a hard save before using the command.

(Note: These two mods help prevent NPCs being killed by Vampire or Dragon attacks:
When Vampires Attack by Arthmoor - http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/28235/?
Run For Your Lives by Arthmoor - http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/23906/? )

"You should never resurrect any named characters in Skryim. Game runs death scripts for each of them. Using resurrect command does not undo these scripts and there is no known way to reverse them.

Resurrecting character that has death script records in save file usually ends up badly. In best case scenario you get a useless NPC that is not tied to any quest and is cut out of the progress. In worse case scenario you get NPC that is comes constantly more and more bugged, tangling game scripts even further and ends up making a real mess out of your game.

Resurrect is among commands that has been classed as dangerous and should not be used in a game. It is a developer test command and should be treated as such. If you already made a mistake of using that command, then load a save before that." - Ilja

http://steamcommunity.com/app/72850/discussions/0/405692758710158199/#c405692758710646756

Ilja:
"Skyrim runs death scripts to all named characters. Resurrecting them through console does not undo the script. As far as game knows, -character- is dead and remains that way.

Effects for using Resurrect command vary. Some characters may act and talk as usual, but very often - especially with merchants and quest characters - game will get bugged, when it is no longer running scripts to dead characters, but those (as being "resurrected") are trying to cause scripts to run."
http://steamcommunity.com/app/72850/discussions/0/351660338700199057/#c351660338700216175

AND:

"Problems with resurrect have bee documented far and wide in this forum. You will notice the conflict sooner or later, especially if merchant character dies."
http://steamcommunity.com/app/72850/discussions/0/351660338700199057/#c351660338700279973

See also:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/72850/discussions/0/451848854987583992/#c451848855002328904

http://steamcommunity.com/app/72850/discussions/0/451848854985133583/

[Valden21]

Pay attention to what the post just above says. It's important.


Back on topic.

Becoming Thane of The Rift requires only that you help three residents of Riften and then do a small quest-chain. While Madesi is one of the possibilities for helping residents, he's not required, as you just need to help three people, and there's at least nine people in Riften who have a favor to ask of you.

[cerebro]

Originally posted by Valden21:

Pay attention to what the post just above says. It's important.


Back on topic.

Becoming Thane of The Rift requires only that you help three residents of Riften and then do a small quest-chain. While Madesi is one of the possibilities for helping residents, he's not required, as you just need to help three people, and there's at least nine people in Riften who have a favor to ask of you.

Thanks for listening, can you list them? I helped the mjoll person get grimsever

[Docsprock]

There are plenty of them. Do Shadr's little quest, get ice wraith teeth for the food merchant, get fire salts for Balimund, look on the wiki page and see them all.

[Rez Elwin]

There is also The guy who sells horses outside, Grelka, the argonian tavern owner(2 for 1 with that quest). Svana. Oh yes and donating to the beggars count. Riften has a LOT of people to help nearly every NPC has a quest for you.

[Mr. Monday]

Originally posted by pigfeed:

Originally posted by Valden21:

Pay attention to what the post just above says. It's important.


Back on topic.

Becoming Thane of The Rift requires only that you help three residents of Riften and then do a small quest-chain. While Madesi is one of the possibilities for helping residents, he's not required, as you just need to help three people, and there's at least nine people in Riften who have a favor to ask of you.

Thanks for listening, can you list them? I helped the mjoll person get grimsever

Just scroll down to the part where it lists quests.
http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:The_Rift