Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch

In the quest Season Unending (MQ302) there are scenes when loosing side demands concession. In proImperial variant there are three options. 1) Get paid for the massacre done by Stormcloaks 2) Get Pale 3) Get Winterhold. In the second variant, Stormcloaks can only demand one of two holds. No massacre mentioned. To replicate the issue you need to play Season Unending quest and choose options that would make Stormcloak position weaker in negotiations (like removing Elenwen from debate or giving them lesser holds)

The reason for it is that MQ302, Alias #42, SonsTownRaided is set to be DarkwaterCrossingLocation. And the scene with Stormcloak turn to demand stuff, that is MQ302CouncilScene5_S (precisely, DIAL:0004BA21), doesn't have a dialogue for DarkwaterCrossing. It does for 18 other locations, but no DarkwaterCrossing. Dialogues check if one of them has a location that matches Alias#42, but since none of them matches it, Stormcloaks go straight to demanding land.


There is still slight risk, that putting DarkwaterCrossingLocation as an alias was conscious decision to lock this part of dialogue, but i doubt that's the case as in that case it would be more likely to see something totally odd placed in it, not an actual village that is prone to being massacred, and have actual lore stuff that would back placing massacre there (Ulfric's capture). It is more likely, that when they scrapped dynamic civil war and decided that they need to replace dynamic marker with a static one, they haven't checked if the marker is actually supported by the scene and it's dialogues.