Unable to complete main quest 'Shadows of the Past' Seemingly hardlocked

[BungoClapton]

So as the title suggests I'm kinda completely stuck now. The quest objective is stuck on 'Complete the trials of the Tebaru Sanakis with Yatzli' 'Proceed to the second trial'. I've gone through the whole area all the way to the end and making the choice at the end of the quest as depicted in the screenshot. But when I speak to the archmage for them to do their thing it cuts to them, I see (sharp breath) and then it cuts back to me. 

And because the game auto saves every 5 minutes the last save I have before this bug was a manual save from yesterday, which by now is about 5 hours of gameplay.

So is my save just completely bricked? Because my enthusiasm for the game is dead atm and I don't have the energy to redo everything up to and including this quest when I could potentially get the bug again.

[zach_1]

I'm also having this problem. I've spoken to the main guard. (Tried the latest patch too.)

[zonestrike]

Same problem here, the only mission objective lead to a door, and does nothing so i thought progressing would snap the quest into place, that's not the case. Completely bugged, talked with the mage and Lodwyn and still doesn't do anything.

[Urmumisfun xxx]

Having same issue I have tried everything and latest save is not going to help me, hopefully they can fix this as if not I will be done with game as not starting again  

[ComediXbox]

In case anyone is having this issue or is keeping up with this thread, I had this issue and found a solution.

I reloaded a previous save. Mine was directly after entering the third trial before jumping into the water and fighting the ghosts. After the cutscene with Sapadal, and the elevator rising to the top, I ran out of the ruins. Once out of the ruins I killed everything in the area before heading up to the quest. This included everything under the walkway heading up to the quest. Once done, i let the two finish their bickering and spoke to them. Everything played out as it should have including the scene with Looders which didnt happen before.

I am not sure if killing everyone and letting them bicker is necessary, but I figured eliminating all possible issues would be best and it seemed to have worked. But entirely possible that just loading the closest save works too.

Hope this works for others.

[Carpish]

On 2/24/2025 at 7:02 AM, ComediXbox said:

In case anyone is having this issue or is keeping up with this thread, I had this issue and found a solution.

I reloaded a previous save. Mine was directly after entering the third trial before jumping into the water and fighting the ghosts. After the cutscene with Sapadal, and the elevator rising to the top, I ran out of the ruins. Once out of the ruins I killed everything in the area before heading up to the quest. This included everything under the walkway heading up to the quest. Once done, i let the two finish their bickering and spoke to them. Everything played out as it should have including the scene with Looders which didnt happen before.

I am not sure if killing everyone and letting them bicker is necessary, but I figured eliminating all possible issues would be best and it seemed to have worked. But entirely possible that just loading the closest save works too.

Hope this works for others.

Thank you. I do not know what was the trigger, but luckily I had a save and replicated your steps exactly. 

As of 8th of march this bug is still in play and ComediXbox's suggestion fixed it for me.