The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Fix for Miraak not Talking to You

Miraak not Talking to You at The End of The Quest The Temple Of Miraak

It’s Actually Really Simple

I’ve seen one or two other people experience this bug never found an solution online. You pick up Waking Dreams, you’re teleported to Miraak and… nothing. Nothing happens. He remains with his back to you forever and his dragon never shows up. I just flies around in the sky like the equally broken dragons from Dragon’s Dogma (why is this a pattern?). I started an entire new character and worked my way back to Solstheim only to encounter the bug again. Here is the solution:

• Bring up the console
• Type “enableplayercontrols”
• (Optional) Activate Miraak just in case that triggers something important behind the scenes.
• Read Waking Dreams.

You’ll find yourself back in the temple and the quest will move forward as it should. And in this version of Skyrim, at least, it won’t even disable achievements (the achievement The Temple of Miraak popped for me right after talking to Frea).

Note that Frea, in my experience, won’t talk to you after you leave the temple. You won’t even get a “this person is busy” message. Just wait an hour to let her make her way home and she’ll talk again. She may have to go to bed first, however. I woke her up in her bed and she worked fine from then, on.

To get Storn to talk to you, you need to do a few things. First, go northwest from the village. You’ll have to walk for a bit. Look for a dragon wall and learn the first word of the Bend Will shout from it. Then, find the Wind Stone. It’s to the west-northwest of the village. Use the shout you just learned on the Wind Stone. This will clean it. After you’ve done this, go back to the village. Now Storn will be able to talk to you.

There may be other issues to deal with but these are all that I’ve encountered thus far. Definitely keep a save from prior to reading the book just in case.