Where is my Falkreath Housecarl?

[Bullwinkle]

I skipped the main qust line and became thane of Falkreath straight away. The Jarl said something about me getting a housecarl. I left and came back later and bought the property. I built the manor. I have not seen Rayya or whatever her name is. Where is she? Wiki says she is in Jarl's house, but she is not, as far as I can tell.

[Bullwinkle]

Not sure what you're talking about unless you skipped reading that I am thane already.

[jaderive]

Bull, your've done the 3 favour for people and made sure u have the title of thane,? I know you say your thane of falkreath, because what I found was, someone said just being able to build the house there, wont make you thane, have you also appointed a steward, as per your problem with house karl what i found on wiki was, It's a bug. To get Rayya show up just type prid 03005216 (or whatever is your load order) and enable inside the Jarl's house
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim_talk:Rayya

[Bullwinkle]

I guess I was mistaken. I thought you couldn't buy a house until you were thane. Thought maybe it was a bug because I got a letter offering to make me thane of Falkreath while I was out on the road doing a mission for the Jarl. It said to speak to the Jarl. I completed the mission, and then had 2 reasons to speak to the Jarl. After I spoke to him, it still said "speak to the Jarl."

Now, I have done 1/3 missions to help the people of Falkreath, and I still have the "speak to the Jarl" in my miscellaneous quest journal, but I guess I need to wait for him to have more work for me, cuz when I click on him, I don't get any useful choices.

[John Gromorg]

Go around and talk to folks, someone will ask a favor. Bounties for the Jarl don't count. Sometimes a Jarl means the people of his hold, not just his resident city, need to be helped.

[Grace1957]

Pick crops on the farm and sell them back to them.That counts as one.

[yrmama]

Yeah, you got to help the people who live there, not the "bounty" tasks. Can't remember what the tasks were.

[Bullwinkle]

Pretty silly. When I do a bounty, the Jarl says "You've done a great service for the people for Falkreath. But bounties don't count for the quest where you have to do 3 deeds for the people of Falkreath. :-/

Oh well. I got my housecarl. Thanks for the help!

[gnewna]

It's because he means individual people of Falkreath rather than the people as a whole. If there's someone who will buy firewood that you chop, that counts. You can also do a small delivery for Thadgeir, or a larger fetch quest for the priest of Arkay (Runil) provided you don't have a similar quest open for someone else. There's one other option if you can't find enough things that people ask you to do - find Dengeir's maid (I forget her name) and drop a piece of armour or jewellery in front of her, when she asks if she can have it, say yes. (Save first if it's something small in case she doesn't pick it up first time, and you can't find it.)

[Law Abiding Engineer]

For Falkwreath, i think there is minor quests like selling firewood or crops. Also, someone asks to take ashes to the Arkay cementary. Besides that, there is the quest about the werewolf guy who killed a kid, and another quest about someone trying to get info on another neighbor

[Malak]

Ironically, I became Thane and then could not buy a house because I had killed the only guy you can approach to buy a house from! lol No biggie since I already have over half a dozen places to crash.

[yrmama]

My housecarl was killed while helping me on a mission. :( But then I was able to get a new one when a mercenary I hired (the magic guy in the bar in Riften) followed me to my house & offering him tthe job became an option.

[SpeedFreak1972]

The werewolf quest does not count as helping people of Falkreath there's also a missing journal for the the priest of arkay that does count. However my housecarls are also regularly mia .... can't be bothered.