Hey guys,

A few days ago Arngeir from High Hrothgar sent me to the Arcwind Point to learn the Word of Power.

I think, this bug is already known and there is the Unofficial Dawnguard Patch, which fixes this bug – according to the Version History / Changelog (I can't post links, so just search for the UDP on nexusmods and you'll find a link to the version history).

(For those, who don’t know this bug – search for "Arwind Point Skyrim" in google and you'll find it)

Since I’m new in modding and want to know, how the things work, I first tried, to fix the bug by myself. I looked at the objects, the scripts, the scripts-properties … But first I didn’t find the bug. So I read the changelog, that says (under the heading “v1.1 – (2012-09-27)” and “Quest Fixes”):

“Getting sent to Arcwind Point will no longer cause the word wall quest to stick in the journal. The location marker property had not been set on the trigger.”

Additionally I compared the scripts and objects from the whole WordWall with the WordWall in “Valthume – Catacombs”, where Arngeir sent me before and which works fine. The only differences were the scriptnames (the WordWall-Scripts in Arcwind Point are prefixed with “DLC1”) and the value of the “WordWallTriggerScript”-property “myLocRefMarker”. In Valthume, this property had the xMarker in front of the Wall and in Arcwind Point it didn’t have a value, like mentioned before.

So I opened up the properties-window of the “DLC1WordWallTriggerScript”, which is attached to the object “DLC1WordWallTrigger” in Arcwind Point. And as the Version History of the UDP says, the script-property “myLocRefMarker” from the type “Object Reference” wasn’t set, it didn’t have a value. I set the xMarker in front of the WordWall as the value of the property “myLocRefMarker”.

I loaded an old savegame, so I don’t stand already in front of or in High Hrothgar, because I figured out, that the Aliases of the WordWall-Quest “FreeformHighHrothgarA”get filled, if the player stands before the monastery (I also would like to know, why they get filled there – I can’t find a triggerbox or else at this point??)

I then checked, if the bug still exists and unfortunately it did. So I downloaded the Unofficial Skyrim and Unofficial Dawnguard Patch. With the Load Order Optimization Tool (LOOT), I set the load order in the following way and started the game with SKSE via Nexus Mod Manager:

Skyrim.esp
Update.esp
Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp
Dawnguard.esm
Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp
HearthFires.esm
Dragonborn.esm
[other PlugIns, none changes things in the Arcwind Point Area]

But this annoying bug still exists. I read the scripts again and figured out, that the script “DLC1WordWallTriggerScript” attached to the object “DLC1WordWallTrigger” calls a function from the script “WordWallListenerQuestScript”, attached to the quest “FreeformHighHrothgarA”. This function compares two references of an xMarker-object. If the references are the same xMarker-object, the quest should be updated. But that never happens …

Now I don’t know, what to do anymore and I hope someone of you can help me. I’ve been trying to fix it for 3 days now.
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Greetings