Odahviing Bug

[Greggs]

Hey, so I seem to have a bug which as far as I can see no one else has had. Basically when I call Odahviing to trap him in dragonsreach he doesn't come. Not as in the one which everyone has where he just flies around for abit and doesn't do anything he literarlly just doesn't show up. The quest markers move around abit and that's about it. i started chasing the quest markers but when I get there it's just a floating quest marker and nothing can be seen of the dragon. When I go to dragonsreach I can just about see a dragon in the distance when I summon him which flies on top of a tower and just lands there and never moves, or sometimes gets stuck behind a tree in a flying animation, I'm guessing that could be Odahviing, any advice?

[Clever Monkey]

actaually it has happened. I left the area and came back after waiting elsewhere for 10+ days. shouted and he did show up. hoopefully he works for you. possibly saving before shouting and reloading or saving inside and reloading on his fail to arrive might work the next time.
it has happened though.

[Greggs]

Cheers will try this and see how it works. PS when I said it's never happened I mean't that after searching on the internet I couldnt see anyone who'd had a similar problem. Will try this out! :D

[Clever Monkey]

Originally posted by Tuvey EU:

Cheers will try this and see how it works. PS when I said it's never happened I mean't that after searching on the internet I couldnt see anyone who'd had a similar problem. Will try this out! :D

it isn't listed on uesp either but the #1 fix for me for any reason is to go elsewhere wait for 10 or even 30 days and return. alot of times things work themselves out. greatest debugging tool ever is the wait function.

[Greggs]

thanks, when you say elsewhere do you mean out of whiterun or literally just out of dragonsreach?

[Clever Monkey]

I always go as far away as possible. inside any interior structure preferrablly. say riften beeand barb would do nicely.

[Greggs]

thanks for the help :) will try it out now and see if anything happens

[Eternie]

These sort of errors / glitches can also happen more so if you part start a quest and go to do something else first and leave a quest half running.

Another player who had similar problems a while ago had started the quest got to talk to odahviing remembered he wanted to finish several other quests ... and when he eventually came back Odahviing didn't respond. Thus he caused a glitch to happen.

So I would recommend reloading a save from just before you started this quest, so before you talked to the Jarl of whiterun to trap Odahviing.

[Greggs]

Thanks for telling me. This would make sense as I was also tasked to kill paarthunax at the same time, that was probably the quest that caused the glitch. Thanks for telling me Eternie and thanks clever monkey for telling me how to fix the glitch :). I likely wouldntve been able to fix it myself :D