Just for fun... and to give me and idea if my game is still all screwed up, here are two pictures from my new incarnation of Nora. There is something unusual about both pictures, and you get a beautifully gift-wrapped fishy stick to be delivered on the second Tuesday of last week if you get it right.
Also, I'd appreciate it if you would tell me if this these things have EVER happened in your games.
http://imgur.com/m0zXhiw
http://imgur.com/GfcGuhq
Spoiler
In Picture One, the box that should have been holding the Stormcloak's head is missing... which left the head rolling around on the bricks right in front of Nora.
In Picture Two, the bear is missing. Hedvar did NOT go fight with it, he just didn't stop and mention the bear or give Nora a bow and continued on until he realized Nora wasn't right behind him.
In Picture Three, we see the bear, but... the bear was apparently killed one or more wolves who ran away when Hedvar approached. Yes, I saw them as they turned tail and ran right after I took Picture Two. Then too, the bear itself is different. In my experience, the bear has always been black and labeled plain old "Bear" but this one is brown, and was labeled "Cave Bear".
Have any of these things ever been this way in your game? I only ask because with 6,500 hours in Skyrim, I never saw a game start like this.