How do you capture solitude in skyrim

When you first start the quest, you will be in Windhelm so the fastest way would be to Fast Travel to the city. Once you get to Solitude , the only guards you should focus on are the ones at the main gate.

In the city, Ulfric and his soldiers will take care of most of them. Do not go up the first set of stairs you see because those gates to the Castle Dour will be locked down.

Rather you should keep going until you see the huge gate to the Castle Dour , where you will have to take out a few barricades. Once you get into the castle you should kill any guards attacking you, then wait for Ulfric and the other guy.

You will then follow them to General Tullius , and will end up killing his right-hand-man first then before you kill Tullius. He leaves Windhelm for the camp near Falkreath and is no longer in the Palace of Kings, but when you travel to the Falkreath Stormcloak Camp only the default commander is there and the quest tracking icon is centered a few feet off the ground in the middle of camp.

Obviously without Galmar there you can't report in to him. The solution is simple. Just wait some time or fast travel to a location and back, and he should be back, at least on Xbox There is another bug in which there is no marker, and at the location of the camp, there is nothing. Xbox 1st Note: To methods above, simply knocking him to his knees one time will make the "repoting in" option available. After talking to him, you'll get your reward and a new quest. If you negotiate the truce while you are undergoing the "Liberation of Hjaalmarch" step, or any later step, and you give the Rift to the Empire, a bug may occur after completing the main quest where the step shows as completed and no further options appear.

To fix this, go to Windhelm and talk to Ulfric, who will give you new orders to liberate the Rift. Before fast traveling from Windhelm to be greated by and angry Galmar.

I payed a small bounty to the Gaurd in the Palace of the Kings in Windhelm and talked to Ulfric a little. When I returned to the storm cloak Reach camp I was able to report in with no problems.

During the Liberate Skyrim Mission for Falkreath, I went to the Stormcloak camp with Galmar Stone-Fist missing from the tent, with the quest arrow pointing to a tiny snow pile outside of the tent. I need help fixing this bug please, or else I cannot finish the Civil War.

Xbox confirmed Posted by BigmanAriel on 28 Mar 12 at Markath and Riften have now switched sides so to speak. This means i will not be able to finish the civil war questline and hence the achievements? That would be pretty stupid imho, since you have to negotiate the peace treaty no matter what.

Who cares when you choose a specific side Posted by Koning86 on 23 Oct 12 at Thumbs up! Posted by LadyKillerina on 01 Sep 13 at Leave a comment. Sign in and add a guide. Gamer has been removed. The player can join the college and start a small questline that involves becoming a licensed bard. Unfortunately though, there is not much that can be done as a bard without modding.

It is pretty obvious from when the player first enters Solitude that the city has close ties to the Empire. It is their headquarters during the Civil War questline. But this can also be noted in the appearance of the city's buildings. The buildings bear more of a resemblance to the cities of Cyrodiil, the setting of Oblivion and where the Empire's capital city can be found, than that of Skyrim's other cities.

It is a nice breath of familiarity for veterans of that game. A number of sewer manholes can be found on the ground throughout Solitude though the player cannot enter the city's sewer this way.

Despite this though, NPCs such as the guards can though. It makes sense that guards would go down here on patrol but it does not make any sense that the player cannot though. There are mods that enable the manholes to be opened though. Solitude is where the final battle in the Stormcloak side of the Civil War questline is set. It is also where the player can assassinate the emperor in the Dark Brotherhood questline.

This would obviously create problems should both quests go on at the same time and the developers saw this as well. To fix the issue should the player accept the quest, "To Kill An Emperor", while not launching the assault on Solitude, Ulfric Stormcloak will tell the player to wait.

He will say he fears attacking Solitude while the emperor is around will anger the rest of the empire and draw them into the Imperial forces outside of Skyrim.

On the flip side, the Dark Brotherhood members will urge them to finish their Stormcloak business before assassinating the emperor.