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OK, so it turned out it wasn't that bad as I skipped all dialogs and reading and it only took me 20 minutes or so to get to the same point. It seems that the issue starts with the locked door that leads to the forbidden study. If my party unlocks it and tries to enter it while in stealth mode, all's well and no one gets hostile (until I come back to the library or reload a saved game inside it). But if I simply try to enter the room in normal (ie. not stealthy) mode, the priest outside the room immediately attacks us. So that's another side effect of the bug, it's not only related to actually stealing the book. Guess I'll stay away from that door until a fix is deployed.

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Exactly. I'd quicksaved immediately after entering the forbidden room and stealing the book. Obviously no one was hostile at that time. I THEN got the Parable quest. As soon as I loaded my quicksave, they attacked me on sight. The workaround mentioned here does not work. If this reputation cost really affects the Eder storyline, then the bug is nearly game breaking. Now I have to roll back and play from the temple of Woedica. 2+ hour lost, nice work Obsidian, nice work. Next time please add a kindly notification at the loading screens, to remind us to save (not quicksave) the game every 2 minutes because you never know what'll break the next time.

Huge bug and extremely annoying. 1) I stole the said book without anyone seeing me. 2) I THEN talked to Gilda (or whatever her name is) and got the Parable of Wael quest. Obviously no one was hostile to me. 3) I exited the temple, then came back (for whatever reason). They started attacking me. 4) I loaded my latest quicksave which was when I'd just stolen the book and they attacked me still! This is a HUGE setback as both my latest quicksave and autosave practically throw me in the middle of the battle. I don't even know if I can finish the quest now (I doubt it). My previous normal save was 2 hours ago, even before entering the temple of woedica so there's no way I'm rolling back that much. Not to mention the whole thing spoiled my local reputation. It's very disappointing... Hopefully a future patch will rectify this but it'll probably be too late for those who've already experienced the bug.