Hearthfire Lakefiew steward won't function

[wild1219]

I built Lakeview Manor in Falkreath and made Rayya my steward. Stewards in both the other manors will function normally and I can ask them to acquire livestock, horses, and such. But Rayya gives no such service. Can't seem to get her to purchase horse, chickens, cows, etc or hire bard or carriage. Cannot understand why there is no conversation that opens this function.

[★ Nova ★]

just hire someone else, Rayya is not that special. Otherwise you can dismiss her and the re-hire her again, yet I would still recommend hiring someone else. There are just better stewards out there which are powerful enough not to die and kill bandit invadors.......

[wild1219]

Does that work if I've already appointed her my steward? I know you can dismiss companions, but can you remove the steward job? Every time I "dismiss" her, she says she's going back to Lakeview

[★ Nova ★]

Originally posted by wild1219:

Does that work if I've already appointed her my steward? I know you can dismiss companions, but can you remove the steward job? Every time I "dismiss" her, she says she's going back to Lakeview

im afraid you'll have to kill her. If you really like her then after you killed her, open the console and type in "resurrect" <(not entirely sure if thats the right command, just google for cheat codes in case that doesnt work) Otherwise your only option is to load a save where she was not your steward...

[wild1219]

Not sure you can resurrect the Hearthfire housecarls via the console; all three of them have those "xx" as the first two digits of their ID. Can always save a game and give it a try tho.

[SpeedFreak1972]

I use a mod that makes them essential ....

[Trigger]

Go back in your saves to a point where Rayya is still your housecarl and not your steward. And Rayya's home is Lakeveiw Manor no matter her title.

[Trigger]

I always use Lydia as my Steward for Lakeveiw and leave Rayya as my Housecarl to patrol Lakeveiw Manor grounds.

[wild1219]

Think I will try and kill her and rez her. Did it once and the option to hire her as steward came up again. Will pick someone else. (On the other hand I made most of the interior myself; possibly a bug that doesn't let you give steward orders to get stuff later..will try it out.)

[gnewna]

Originally posted by wild1219:

Not sure you can resurrect the Hearthfire housecarls via the console; all three of them have those "xx" as the first two digits of their ID. Can always save a game and give it a try tho.

That's only on UESP/the official wiki/etc - in-game the xx are replaced by the DLC's .esm file's position in your load order. Probably 05 if you have all the DLC and all the Unofficial Patches, lower if not.

AFAIK you *can* resurrect pretty much any NPC via the console, however it's best to avoid it, because it can bug out their AI. This tends to be a bit less of an issue with followers, although they'll often lose any non-default gear they were carrying, but it's especially not advised for quest-giving NPCs (who will flat-out not be recognised by the game as resurrected for the purposes of the quest, the game sees them as dead) merchants, etc. Generally speaking, the console isn't really a good idea, as it's not really intended as a gameplay thing, more of a debugging tool for game/mod devs who are playtesting and so on. Some of its functions are relatively safe, most are a bit of a pot luck situation - you might use the console to advance a broken quest and be able to complete the rest of the game with no further issues or you might find that other quests start breaking, and other things start bugging out.