Help! I’m being attacked on sight in Dragonsreach!

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So I came came back to Breezehome after a hard few days on the road ridding the world of several bandits, a bunch of necromancers, two dragons and a cave troll. I stored all that I wanted to, took a well deserved rest and then went out to pawn the remainder.

On my way out of my home, which I bought with my own hard earned cash, I was accosted by a balding gentleman who insisted on dueling to the death with magic. His ass was promptly kicked, but my overeager companion, Lydia, may have leapt to my defense a bit robustly and a Whiterun guard may have ended up slightly more dead than he was before he met her.

I went to talk to the guards to offer reparations but all they did was make cracks about my sweetroll. But no matter. Off to sell my wares!

After some very fruitful bartering I went to disenchant a couple of rings at Dragonsreach and, to my surprise, I was attacked on sight upon entering. At first I thought this might be part of a quest (the hearty wench at the local tavern recently informed me that the Jarl's kids might be a little cuckoo). But I ended up dead.

I tried fighting back … and ended up dead, just with a significantly higher body count. I reloaded an autosave … changed nothing. I restarted my PS3 and reloaded a save. Nothing, still attacked. Tried talking to the guards about any crimes I may or may not committed – just more cracks about my sweetroll.

How do I stop from being attacked on sight in Dragonsreach? Is my game toast? Is this fixable? If so, how?

Edit

Fixed! After manually reloading an autosave, I headed back into town a stole some cheese. A guard caught me, I paid off my bounty, was relived of my stolen loot and was no longer attacked on sight upon entering Dragonsreach. I don't know why I was attacked inside the reach and not outside but I know that's how it got fixed.

Best Answer

From http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Dragonsreach

Bugs:

  • Possible random attacking of player after becoming "Thane"
    • Solution: Commit another crime and pay off the bounty.
  • Sometimes when the player enters Dragonsreach, all NPCs become hostile for no reason.
    • Solution: Commit a crime and pay it off

Of course, as seems to be you can't do this. You have a recovery saved version? In addition, when you fight on the duel, did you kill or hit or damage someone?

Do you know what is your bounty in all cities? Because every city has a different bounty But, if you have a lot of bounty in another city, guards will attack you anyway.

On the PC you can fix it with the console, but not on the Xbox 360 or PS3.

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