Quest Bug: The Fallen (Odahviing takes no damage)

[Mad Season]

Hi there,

I stuck at the main quest "the fallen". Odahviing takes no damage at all after l shout for him. Sometimes the HP bar even disappears completely (mostly when he lands). Restarts are useless.

I had quite the same problem just one quest before, as l had my first fight against Alduin. But after a few tries it was working then. But now nothing seems to help. It's quite ridiculous how they never really finished the game...

[Savick]

There are a couple of things to try.

Install the unofficial Patch for vanilla Skyrim. It is supposed to fix problems like this.

Wait three game days. Go exploring or do another quest then come back and try again.

Lower the difficulty temporarily to novice so you can bring Odahviing in more quickly without dying. I found that this glitch happens mostly when my character dies and the game restarts from last auto save. Hope some of this helps you.

[Mad Season]

l already tried all these things, but it's not working in my chase. Is there any console command which let me skip this quest? Otherwise l probably won't be able to play the game through.

[Ilja]

Try the following:
- Start the combat
- Open console
- Target Odahviing.
- disable [ENTER] (make sure he disappears from the screen and do not close the console)
- enbale [ENTER] (He should reappear with this command.)
- Close console

This should reset Odahviing and remove his immortal state. Same fix applies to Alduin.

[Opera]

Do you have already tried the command kill in the console targetting the dragon?

[Ilja]

Originally posted by Methwell:

Do you have already tried the command kill in the console targetting the dragon?

Eh... you are not supposed to kill him.