So, since I've started my character I've been having problems with this quest. It's not activating or starting, and until 1.5 hit on consoles people began mentioning the "Murders".

I rolled w/ the Imperials & currently almost level 70 and Ulfric has long been gone. Viola is no where to be found, and I occasionally check the graveyard and there's no murder scene whatsoever. I recently read up on the fact that entering Hjerm (Or Whatever the house is called) will activate the quest and lead to step #9 (Or w/e), but when I enter, and even picked up fliers for the "Beware" and even the butcher's journals, shit doesn't happen. Everytime I approach Jorleif about purchasing a house he repeats the same "Something's happend" crap, and I'm a thane currently for windhelm.

So, TL:DR the quest for blood on ice won't activate.

Any* suggestions/help? Much Obliged.

Weird, it bugged out for me too, but only in that the murder scene was removed as I completed the civil war quest line right in the middle of the Blood on the Ice quest, and for me buying and entering Hjerim got the quest working again. I couldn't complete all the quest objectives (as the lack of a crime scene made investigating it difficult), but the ones in the secret room were all that was needed to complete the quest for me. Apart from the journals you also need "A Strange Amulet".

@fisk0 said:

Weird, it bugged out for me too, but only in that the murder scene was removed as I completed the civil war quest line right in the middle of the Blood on the Ice quest, and for me buying and entering Hjerim got the quest working again. I couldn't complete all the quest objectives (as the lack of a crime scene made investigating it difficult), but the ones in the secret room were all that was needed to complete the quest for me. Apart from the journals you also need "A Strange Amulet".

Thanks for the feedback, however it still doesn't activate, even with the strange amulet. I give up. Thanks though.

@Praedos said:

@fisk0 said:

Weird, it bugged out for me too, but only in that the murder scene was removed as I completed the civil war quest line right in the middle of the Blood on the Ice quest, and for me buying and entering Hjerim got the quest working again. I couldn't complete all the quest objectives (as the lack of a crime scene made investigating it difficult), but the ones in the secret room were all that was needed to complete the quest for me. Apart from the journals you also need "A Strange Amulet".

Thanks for the feedback, however it still doesn't activate, even with the strange amulet. I give up. Thanks though.

Oh, by the way, did you talk to any of the city guards? I just remembered they got a new dialogue option about the amulet once you found it, iirc that updated the quest objectives and made the quest solvable.

@fisk0: Haven't tried this yet, I'll give it a shot. Thx