During The Staff of Mangus quest I reached the room where the Dragon Priest Morokei is found.

Apparently, Morokei should be surrounded by a bubble which is made by two enthralled mages. He should stay in there, invincible, until the two mages have been killed. At that point he would come out of the bubble and attack the player.

In my game, the mages weren't doing anything and Morokei wasn't in his bubble. At this point:

• The mages would still attack you if you assaulted them.
• Morokei would automatically start to follow you as if doing his normal attacks but wouldn't damage you.
• Morokei can't be hit at this point. It's as if he's not there. Normally when you hit something it makes the "whack" noise. If you slice your sword in mid air it makes a "whooshing" noise because nothing but the air is touched. The "whooshing" noise is made because your sword goes through him.
• Arrows don't make contact with him. Spells go through him like arrows. Because of this it is hard to even get his name to appear at the top of the screen with his health.
• He is a blue-ish color and not the usual "Dragon Priest" texture. However, if you leave the room and re-enter he will be his normal color/texture but still invincible.

Unless I kill him I can't complete the College of Winterhold quests or get the dragon priest mask "Konahrik."

I can't go back a save because this was a long time ago and I wasn't as bothered about it as I am now and I am playing using a PS3 so I can't use console commands.

Is there any way of getting around this problem without starting the game again?

If not, is there any way to complete the quest and get the mask without having to kill Morokei?

Thanks in advance.

One possible explanation what have triggered the glitch can be: (PS3)

• "I went to fight Morokei today and instead of attacking the wizards right away to release him, I left the room to the exit and triggered the final scene with ghost Savos."
• Casting Illusion spells like Mayhem.

Beside that after the quest have been glitched, actually you can't do anything about that.

You must restart the whole quest. !!!!

So let us...improvise !!!! - What you can do now is this:

1) Leave the entire dungeon, wait a month in game and see if it resets.

2) Do other quest's and then try to do it again.

3) Re-install the entire game with and without patch !!!!

4) If you don't have touched any of the DLC's you can install only the main game intead.