@ubi-baron I don't know if it is apropos for me to post the video but I am assuming its the same person.

@dbgager Because that is what the Danes did. They believed the Saxons were slightly better than cattle as a society and treated them that way. You are not thinking clearly through the eyes of history and inserting modern sensibilities into events that happened over 1000 years ago to a people so foreign from you you have no idea what they did and why but assume that if you believe one way is good then they believed it too. To them clearing villages of all the male population was necessary to maintain control over the land. They killed every male. Didn't matter if they had metal on them. They were there to settle and did not want pesky tryhards burning their crops.

@styxee I know. My first raid I ended up desynching because of the chaos. Plus it is not very Dane to not try to teach a Saxon a lesson.

@ranger_two14 I am getting this same issue.

@seanc-87 You really shouldn't have to wait. Women had been fighting in combat for well over a 1000 years before this game takes place. The first Romans to report back from that area reported that the women were as tall as trees and ran through them like the wind and drank the blood of their enemies. I think that was Pliny the Younger that wrote it in his encyclopedia. It is incredibly common knowledge. Because you think women belong being servile you brush over history like it means nothing because it doesn't fit your narrative. I suggest picking up some of those old tomes written by people of the era. Pretty good resources for this. Especially the northern people. You have to go off of only old Disney movies to think women did not fight along with the men and raided. Just had sexist/bigot religious people that tended to downplay significance of people they wanted to marginalise. The Danes in the old norse tongue had a specific class of warrior called the skjaldmær. The requirement was being female.

Mentioned in every saga. Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks and Gesta Danorum. Also, people tended to change the sex of some people due to sexism and bigotry and didn't bother to change their names. Like how the MC has a completely feminine name and surname but people play her as a male. The thing is female fighters were really well known. Enough to have operas written about them and being a main part of the old religion. A lot of the mythology and history survived christianity from that region and is really easy to come across information.

YEah. Having the same issue. The bloke just sits in the road and does nothing. Would like to add that it completely kills any progress in this game if it does not work. I am stuck with the Cauldron quest in Jotunhiem with a broken quest and now this. Almost have all the collectables and raids done.

@partobazyar You can use your bow. Also, you wouldn't be able to fight reliably on horseback then. You need things that were not brought to the west by then. If you swung a 2-H great sword from atop one of those horses and you would probably kill yourself. Maybe the Saxons would do that but Danes no. They had heads on their shoulders and thought logically. Saxons were the ones who didn't bathe to protect them from evil spirits.

I also wouldn't recommend using the bow to do anything besides hunt on horseback. You can't steady it and does like 1/2 the damage.

@zhenfeiniao6268 Blame your governments. OR try to comprehend that Ubisoft can't sell their products if they don't follow the rules.

@seanc-87 You really shouldn't have to wait. Women had been fighting in combat for well over a 1000 years before this game takes place. The first Romans to report back from that area reported that the women were as tall as trees and ran through them like the wind and drank the blood of their enemies. I think that was Pliny the Younger that wrote it in his encyclopedia. It is incredibly common knowledge. Because you think women belong being servile you brush over history like it means nothing because it doesn't fit your narrative. I suggest picking up some of those old tomes written by people of the era. Pretty good resources for this. Especially the northern people. You have to go off of only old Disney movies to think women did not fight along with the men and raided. Just had sexist/bigot religious people that tended to downplay significance of people they wanted to marginalise. The Danes in the old norse tongue had a specific class of warrior called the skjaldmær. The requirement was being female.

Mentioned in every saga. Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks and Gesta Danorum. Also, people tended to change the sex of some people due to sexism and bigotry and didn't bother to change their names. Like how the MC has a completely feminine name and surname but people play her as a male. The thing is female fighters were really well known. Enough to have operas written about them and being a main part of the old religion. A lot of the mythology and history survived christianity from that region and is really easy to come across information.

@vvrathh I am able to behead female combative NPCs. Don't know what you are doing wrong. Or you can't tell that you are attacking a female which is probably the case. With the armor and all. It is easy to just assume for some since women aren't able to fight according to them so you are not going to tell when you are killing one who is wearing armor.

Going to add what got it to work for me and the steps I went through. I did not get screenshots or a video and I really don't know how to do that. Anyways here is what I did to get it to eventually work. (It also wouldn't let me edit my previous post so sorry for double posting)

Things I did to try to fix this:
1- loaded a previous quick save (even ones not for that quest did not bring me there and I think the saves got corrupted).
2- Quick traveled to another region and back and he would stand there.
3- Logged out and logged back in. Same problem with the guy standing there.
4- Quit to desktop and tried again. Same problem
5- Verified game files and same problem.
***7- I bit the bullet and went to a physical save I did with the quest going to go hunting which it did not say it was for that quest it said "Mystery Quest" but I knew when I went back to the manual save from before the sword shower quest and instead of using my horse I ran through town and spoke with the person and he got on his horse and I kept running since it really isnt that far away and they go slow anyways. Worked for me that time. Hopefully that helps. I think something happens in the casting stones quest before that that broke it with the conclusion of the previous quest. I feel really bad if you didn't have a save to go back to and I have been in the habit of saving ever since I got stuck in Jotunheim saga at the cauldron quest and could not continue because I went to get the wealth inside it before I was on the quest and got locked out of that quest. ***

YEah. Having the same issue. The bloke just sits in the road and does nothing. Would like to add that it completely kills any progress in this game if it does not work. I am stuck with the Cauldron quest in Jotunhiem with a broken quest and now this. Almost have all the collectables and raids done.

@ubi-baron I don't know if it is apropos for me to post the video but I am assuming its the same person.

@partobazyar You can use your bow. Also, you wouldn't be able to fight reliably on horseback then. You need things that were not brought to the west by then. If you swung a 2-H great sword from atop one of those horses and you would probably kill yourself. Maybe the Saxons would do that but Danes no. They had heads on their shoulders and thought logically. Saxons were the ones who didn't bathe to protect them from evil spirits.

I also wouldn't recommend using the bow to do anything besides hunt on horseback. You can't steady it and does like 1/2 the damage.

@styxee I know. My first raid I ended up desynching because of the chaos. Plus it is not very Dane to not try to teach a Saxon a lesson.

@dbgager Because that is what the Danes did. They believed the Saxons were slightly better than cattle as a society and treated them that way. You are not thinking clearly through the eyes of history and inserting modern sensibilities into events that happened over 1000 years ago to a people so foreign from you you have no idea what they did and why but assume that if you believe one way is good then they believed it too. To them clearing villages of all the male population was necessary to maintain control over the land. They killed every male. Didn't matter if they had metal on them. They were there to settle and did not want pesky tryhards burning their crops.

@ranger_two14 I am getting this same issue.

@zhenfeiniao6268 Blame your governments. OR try to comprehend that Ubisoft can't sell their products if they don't follow the rules.