I had the same problem, probably because i played the game a while ago on my current system and there was something still there from my previous playthrough. In the inn is a "revert game" option that fixed it for me.

it did'nt work for me.

Btw. only one character get main quest or all? When I look in to first character in the Quest section, there is Garreth quest, but only one character.

Maybe animation is not showed when I get out from Inn?

Sorry to hear that your problem persists. The animation starts immediately when you leave the inn with your new party in a fresh game (this is probably what the "revert game" option in the inn fixed for me).

I'm not sure if only the main character or all characters get the main-quest, because I am playing a solo character. But how did you get the quest if Gareth never appeared?

What i did precisely was: go to the inn (before loading a game), press the blue "revert game" symbol there on the left, create a new character and then leave the inn.

When I suffered the glitch the quests (main and one from the tavern) were posted in the log. The problem was that the elder animation did not trigger, and the tavern one should trigger after a paying/rumors in tavern, but apparently the quests should work.

That´s it. I did mean reset adventures, not revert game.


Ok. With a lot of hours in game I can say that fixing the avi movies, and trying to fix the sensiility of the mouse, the game can be enjoyed, it is a gem of old school dungeon crawler. One of the last complex difficult puzzle fest wizardry stye kind of game published. It is worth but the gog version should have been better, and the original interface is not the best.

this fixed that for me too. Found that button by accident. Funny thing is I didn't even knew I missed that. The game seems just impossible hard and I wasted hours trying to make progress until I watched a playthrough on youtube and saw that I am supposed to enter buildings I can't enter. Well I saw that in the manual as well, but I thought I am missing something, like an item.

Now I need to find a patch that fixes eeeeeeeeeeeeeverything

Thanks, this fix my problem. This button can be easily overlooked.

Maybe i'am wrong, but i think the story works without the initiall dialogue with the elder. In my playthrough i forgot about that and now i'am on my way to ishad na. Every story related content triggered like it should, even if the gareth didn't appear in the beginning. The rumors in the tavern also work properly.