"The Ghostwriter of Ginovesse" quest in Blackwood is comprehensively bugged

matterandstuff · June 2021

This quest cannot be completed because when the player is prompted to use the spirit lantern for the presumably final time, the option to use the spirit lantern never appears.

Relogging doesn't help, relogging after a while doesn't help, redoing the quest doesn't help.

I did wonder if the quest is breaking because the player is drawn into combat at precisely the moment the quest advances to this point, but every time I repeat the quest I'm almost instantly attacked at this point due to the placement of trash mobs.

I also do not have the ability to manually use the spirit lantern despite it being a quest item in my inventory.

DirkRavenclaw · June 2021

I managed to finish it yesterday. It isnt in the Cirle really its left from it, towards inside, there will suddenly be a Marker

matterandstuff · June 2021

Yeah, I eventually figured that out. It's the quest marker that's broken - there's nothing to indicate that you're looking for a specific point to activate the lantern and the circle on the map is completely unhelpful in finding said point since, as you say, it's right on the edge if in it at all, and the circle is quite large.

I really hope ZOS fixes the quest marker and points people directly instead of having the big map circle, because at best it's a problem that pulls people right out of what is otherwise a really cute quest, and many people will just assume the quest itself is bugged and give up.

smittybeb · June 2021

Same thing happened to me. Yeah I call it the Zeni Max she'll be right. Hell, I even reported a bit of floating cobblestone mesh in the same area.

Melilotta · August 2021

Still the same with the quest marker, and the floating cobblestone is still there.

Amarand · September 2021

Same problem. But as you get closer to the square slab on the ground to the left of the castle entryway, a diamond appears above it.