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ENERGIA ROKOT Oct 21, 2016 @ 8:03pm
Help With "Find The Thalmor Assasin" Glitch
Probably a month back I started the quest "Find The Thalmor Assasin." After talking to Malborn I decided to go do another quest insted. Today, I was looking back at my quests and decided to go and do it. I selected the quest but I got no quest marker on my compass. I looked online and found that the marker was supposed to be on Ri'saad's caravan, so I went there with no quest marker. I talked to Ri'saad but no useful conversation threads appeared. I looked in everyones invetories but didn't find the assassin's note. It seems the quest has not engaged, and I have no clue how to continue it. Going to a save before I started the quest would greatly damage my overall progression. Any help would be appreciated.
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voehringer_nitron Oct 21, 2016 @ 8:17pm 
From the wiki:

If you let the hidden 24 hour timer between arriving in Windhelm after Malborn getting there, and Ri'saad's caravan returning to their old route, run out, you will be unable to speak to the assassin, preventing the quest from progressing.

Killing J'datharr will advance the quest. If you don't want to just attack him in cold blood, cast Frenzy on him; even if his level is too high to be affected, he will turn hostile, allowing you to kill him and continue the quest.
You can circumvent this by opening the console and entering setstage MQ201Malborn 30. This will place a quest marker on the assassin and allow you to talk to him. After picking "Malborn has a message for you." he will turn hostile and you can kill him normally.


The Khajiit in Ma'dran's caravan may not tell you about J'datharr being the stranger in the group, meaning you can not talk to him to send him a message from Malborn. Reloading does not fix this, nor does pickpocketing the note from him.

Killing J'datharr will advance the quest.

EDIT: The reward is only 50-250 gold, depending on level. There are no follow-up quests that you will lose out on.
Last edited by voehringer_nitron; Oct 21, 2016 @ 8:18pm
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ENERGIA ROKOT Oct 21, 2016 @ 9:02pm 



Originally posted by voehringer_nitron:
From the wiki:

If you let the hidden 24 hour timer between arriving in Windhelm after Malborn getting there, and Ri'saad's caravan returning to their old route, run out, you will be unable to speak to the assassin, preventing the quest from progressing.

Killing J'datharr will advance the quest. If you don't want to just attack him in cold blood, cast Frenzy on him; even if his level is too high to be affected, he will turn hostile, allowing you to kill him and continue the quest.
You can circumvent this by opening the console and entering setstage MQ201Malborn 30. This will place a quest marker on the assassin and allow you to talk to him. After picking "Malborn has a message for you." he will turn hostile and you can kill him normally.


The Khajiit in Ma'dran's caravan may not tell you about J'datharr being the stranger in the group, meaning you can not talk to him to send him a message from Malborn. Reloading does not fix this, nor does pickpocketing the note from him.

Killing J'datharr will advance the quest.

EDIT: The reward is only 50-250 gold, depending on level. There are no follow-up quests that you will lose out on.
Hey, that worked great. Thanks for helping out.
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