Beirand won't sell me anything!

[Angry_Peanuts]

So, I was playing Skyrim, and I noticed Beirand, the Solitude blacksmith was missing. I didn't think anything of it, and went about my day. Hours later he still wasn't back. A couple of days (irl) after that, I logged on, and still no Beirand! I realized he must have died somehow, so I did the hole, get his corpse at my feet, and did the recycleactor command. But now when I interact with him, there is no "What have you got for sale?" option, just the you make weapons for the empire thing, and have you ever considered fighting. I can't revert back to a save when he was alive, because I didn't notice when he died, so I'll loose over 10 hours of progress. Is there a console command to get him to start vending again?

[Ravenheart]

This is an old post but I just ran into this exact same problem myself. It would be nice if someone would answer.

[smr1957]

Regarding use of console commands:

Ilja:
Console is a debug tool. It does not pass event and AI scripts, or undo scripts that have been already been ran. I have stressed several times that using resurrect is among those commands that you should never use in Skyrim.

If the character you resurrected was dead, then using the command does not undo death scripts that have already been ran. Game AI gets confused and in 99% of cases you will just have a no-good character wandering around. In worse cases, death scritps will have run other scripts and suddenly "alive" character starts to cause conflicts in the game.

If the character you "resurrected" is alive (and in this case a quest character), then scripts affecting to this character now has double targets, messing up the game AI royally.

Load a save from before using unsafe console command. Do not try to undo it in any other way, because Skyrim stores script data to save files and there is absolutely no way to clean them 100% from them. Even Bethesda didn't manage to do so.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/72850/discussions/0/451848854985133583/

When an NPC dies, the game runs a death script - this cannot be undone. The only way to "revive" an NPC that the game has marked as dead is to load a previous save from before the NPC died. While resurrecting with the console may seem to work, the game still sees the NPC as dead, so dialogue, actions, and quests that depend upon that NPC will not run. Also, you should be extremely careful when using console commands, as they can break your game - and if you do use a command, always make a hard save before using the command.

These two mods help prevent NPCs being killed by Vampire or Dragon attacks:

When Vampires Attack by Arthmoor - http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/28235/?
Run For Your Lives by Arthmoor - http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/23906/?

Sometimes it is okay to necro a post.

[Clever Monkey]

as an added measure

NPCs Protected Redux by Blattgeist
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/53602/?
and/or
Random Vampire Attacks in Towns Disabled by Quarn
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/31088/?
or
Timing is Everything - Quest Delay and Timing Control by kryptopyr
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/38151/?
can also disable vampire attacks.

there are other mods that can make important NPCs essential but essential NPCs are not always good either.