I am making this thread on behalf of a friend who does not have forum access. They have provided me with screenshots of the issue preventing progression in this zone's story content.
They have also informed me that a number of people were discussing the same issue in the zone chat here.
This is occurring on the PC EU server.
As the title suggests, there is a map marker for the quest, but there is no NPC where they should be, and he appears to be nowhere in the world. As a result it is impossible to begin the dialogue needed to progress the quest. This also renders some achievements as unattainable.
Here are the screenshots:
Someone has found a workaround as described here but it means running the quests in a completely different order as opposed to before the Harrowstorm update:
https://old.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/ffc12x/pceu_betnikh_main_quest_not_starting/@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_SarahHecker this appears to be a fairly serious issue so wanted to point out the matter. Many thanks for reading.
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