Trapping Odahviing

[fishingreg442]

I cannot trap Odahviing at the DragonReach porch. I shout him in, shout him down and he lands, back slowly as he follows me in, but no matter what the trap will NOT drop down on him. Does anyone have any advice as to what I can do to trap him, talk to him, and fly him? DESPERATE to move ahead in the game!!

[BoPacker]

did you defeat him?

[DeathClaw]

Use Dragonrend and back up. He should follow you in and then the traps comes down on him.

[fishingreg442]

I can pound him into submission, but CAN NOT trap him...............I call him, he lands, he follows me in, but the trap NEVER comes down. I cannot finish the story until this happens and I'm MORE than frustrated.

[tugtom1]

have you found a solution to this yet as i am stuck on this as well and need help

[Maloy20]

ask him nicely to submit? Just a suggestion because I have no other ideas.

When all else fails KINDNESS!

[CERBERUS]

Do you have any mods running. My guess is that you have mods running that have interfered with the normal dialog and movement of the NPC's. It is the whiterun gaurds that drop the trap. There are many things that can interfere with the normal NPC's. Almost all bugs and problems with the normal game operation are caused by a mod.

[Deaf Mad Hatter]

When you shout and he lands, you have to retreat toward the door (The door you enter into dragonreach) then the trap will fall onto him.

[tugtom1]

i got it. i had to empty my inventory due to having some item it believed i should not have..... you might want to try that if you havent gotten it to work for you.

[Old Ben]

What @Dakez said, I had same problem the first time until I backed all the way to the doors.

[Alliecienti]

Does he come all the way in under he trap? You have to back right to the door sometimes for him to do so... also make sure that the guard is up there on the ledge to spring the trap. If he is dead, then it wont spring (up on the side to your right as you face Odaving) That guard HAS to survive for the trap to work

if all the above criteria are correct as they should be, then you may have a mod/item issue to root out that is causing the bug,

I've had CTG bug in the quest to kill Potema on my last 2 characters I ran thru (first 3 times went without a hitch) and havent found the cause yet so I know they can be hard to root out. Will see if I can complete it this time thru but not too hopeful on that score.

[Trimnut]

This is probably too late for the original poster to benefit from this, but maybe someone in the future will come across this thread:

I had this exact same problem (after previously finding both "Alduin's Bane" and the first quest with Paarthunax glitched as well), where the trap simply wasn't triggering.

The only thing that ended up working was using the console, typing:
"setstage MQ301 180".
Even then it took a few seconds for the trap to fall, but after that the quest seems to have proceeded normally.

It's also possible that you should setstage to 150 or 200 if that doesn't work, or possibly stand under the trap, open the console, click on Alduin and type "moveto player", as I tried all those things shortly before the problem sorted itself out.