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Hi, so I'm up to the Telvanni Hortator part of the main quest, and I've obtained the votes of all of the mainland Telvanni councilors except for Master Vaerin. First time I talked to him he disapproved, and the player journal recorded that, however when I talked to him a second time and he attacked me, there was no journal entry of that or his subsequent death. Going back to Master Aryon back on Vvardenfell doesn't help, since the game doesn't seem to recognise that Master Vaerin is dead. I'm playing a Vvardenfell-focused playthrough and aligned with House Redoran, so the TR Telvanni content is otherwise untouched, but I'm basically at a dead-end. I'm hoping that it might just be an issue on my end that I can fix myself, since some googling doesn't turn up any relevant posts. Thanks in advance!
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As far as I am aware, not
As far as I am aware, not getting a journal entry for killing one of the Telvanni councilors is consistent with Vanilla. On the other hand, killing Vaerin should work as an alternative to getting his approval. I am not at the Construction Set at the moment, but I know the Telvanni Hortator quest is handled through a counter that counts the combined number of approvals and dead councilors. So either it is as you say, that it somehow fails to detect Vaerin's death, or that you have missed the approval of another councilor (Vanilla or TR).
I checked the scripts, and
I checked the scripts, and can confirm they are set up correctly. What you can do, is to speak to Aryon, open the console and type "show HortatorVotes". If it is less than 12, which I expect, you are missing the vote of at least one councilor. Further debugging the issue, try typing "show TelvanniDead", which should be 2 if you have only killed Vaerin and Gothren. If it is lower, then I suspect you have left the tower of either of them before the death animation has finished, so in that case you would need to revisit them. If you are really stuck after this, you can try opening the console while talking to Aryon (it would not work at another instance) and type "Set HortatorVotes to 12". This should unlock the necessary topic, but I consider it cheating.
Couldn't reproduce. All
Couldn't reproduce. All dialogue entries and scripts are set up correctly for Vaerin, no different from other councilors. Killing him increments TelvanniDead as intended and, as Jonado said, shouldn't update journal.