


My conjurer who short circuited all of this stuff at the beginning never got the Necromancer's Amulet you're supposed to be able to obtain, and with Claxito dead, there's no chance of that happening either, though he somehow tripped the quest while playing in 1.4 and it's known to still be quite broken there.There's an answer to this question: Why can't I buy the Windhelm house (Hjerim)?. We may not have this code since the CK update didn't ship with updated scripts.

There is no indication of what else needs to be done to get one of these other objectives to clear, and I can't even figure out how stage 50 gets called, or if it does. Thus, I am stuck if I am following the clue trail as strictly given to me. The steward has no further dialogue options. Investigate the crime scene points me back to where the body was, but nothing triggers to complete the objective. Talking to the old woman is the only objective I can complete at this point. One to speak to the steward (wtf, I just did!) and one to talk to the old woman who runs the Hall of the Dead. My freshly created guy was able to talk to the guard, interrogate the 3 witnesses, then went to see the steward to get permission to investigate. He's completed the civil war on the Stormcloak side if that matters, which I have to assume it somehow does. Classic case of alias fill failure - which despite the flag, never logs a warning when this happens. Trying this with my Argonian results in the quest simply never starting, with all aliases on MS11 listing "NONE" as a value. Checking SQV output shows all aliases for MS11 have filled. Make sure the game hour is between 7pm and 7am. On a freshly started character landed in Windhelm, the kicker quest counts up the 4 needed visits immediately. So I think this is well and truly broken. Because when I entered the house, nothing happened, even though I read the journals. I had read somewhere that the other way to get the Blood on the Ice quest to trigger was to enter Hjerim, but I think that's only if you buy Hjerim, not enter it this way.
