So, I'm standing here next to raminus, and i'm waiting for bothiel to come out so i can continue the mages guild questline and also turn in the orrery quest i completed. But she never comes out of the little locked room. i play on 360, but i've never had this problem before. is there any way to fix it so she comes out? i don't want to start a new character...the guy i'm playing right now is my favorite yet, but he'll be very incomplete without the title archmage.

It's a fairly well known glitch, on the xbox your only hope is to uninstall the orrery plugin, she should come out within 24 hours game time, letting you complete the mages guild quest, before reinstalling the orrery plugin

you will have to start again with the orrery quest though

good news. deleting the orrery off my harddrive worked. she came out of the closet.