Viola, Calixto, the steward.The next body hasn't shown up yet either. The others whom I've questioned don't give me any options for speech as well. You will have to interrogate various NPCs to gather all clues or. 2 Side quests TES V: Skyrim Guide New main objective: Look for clues New main objective: Follow up on the clues from Hjerim New main. You have to conduct an investigation of a strange murder. This mission can be undertaken in Windhelm. I've followed the butcher.for hours.he doesn't go to kill the woman, he just FOLLOWS her. This page of our guide to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim contains a detailed walkthrough of the first part of the Blood on the Ice side quest. Go back to find that the Court Mage is held in the prison, and the only thing I can ask him about is training in Destruction magic. I can't get anything to activate the quest further! I find him stalking an Altmer woman around Windhelm, and I've got the 'Patrol the streets on the Stone Quarter' quest active, so it points to a spot on the map, but nothing happens. I pickpocket his key off him, find the first Butcher's journal. I lockpick my way in, he calls the guards on me and fights me.

Attempted this, his shop is constantly locked.

Read that the real murderer is needed to identify it, and must be sold to him.

Accuse him, he tells me I've found the Necromancer's Amulet, however, it does not come up as such in my inventory. If youre on pc you can use the console command setstage ms11 10. I turn to leave, the Court Mage is standing in the room, so I talk to him. So if you got to this point of Dark Brotherhood quest Blood on the Ice can not be started. Began the Civil War quests, and the Imperials took over Windhelm, thus the Jarl is dead. I must've thought I completed it, which is ridiculous on my part. If you got blood on the ice to fire off, and want to buy the house in windhelm later, or think you might, you should follow through the quest and complete it before doing other quests, as there are other things through out the game that will give you a 50/50 of it advancing or outright fail completely. Afterwards, ditched the quest for some reason. I went to the Jarl's steward to tell him my suspicions of the Court Mage. Went into the abandoned house, found all the clues including two of the journals and the Necromancer's Amulet. Started Blood on the Ice quest, and investigated the body found by the graveyard.

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