Killing Maerwald does not start the decision of what to do with his soul....

[permallama]

I have gotten to Maerwald and whenever I kill him it does not initiate the dialogue in which you choose what to do with his soul... So I cannot choose to let him free, keep him, or suck is power

 

Reloading from this point does nothing the choice still does not exist.

[fiiish]

I have gotten to Maerwald and whenever I kill him it does not initiate the dialogue in which you choose what to do with his soul... So I cannot choose to let him free, keep him, or suck is power

 

Reloading from this point does nothing the choice still does not exist.

 

I got the same issue. I did start a new game, since i had same problems with the last patch. But it seems new patch does not fix this specific bug, no dialogue after fight. Any ideas, anyone?

[pillarsofbugs]

That's a bug known for ages - apparently caused by quicksave if invoked right before fight with Maerwald:

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/77031-the-old-watcher-quest-bug/?hl=maerwald