There was a book about a boy with very similar fate. The book told a name, altogether one couldn't be sure it was the real name of the present Hero.

Well, if your gamesaving starts to become rather long, it's better to start over. (Especially, if there are Hero saves involved.) It does mean that something might have gone wrong  (the experience of 25+ games says this).

Fable is rather childish if compared to Morrowind. Nice enouh, altogether childish. Not that I object, just a fact.I started Fable just because there was nothing new left for me in Morrowind.Not ever to mention the mods and modding.

The most powerful summon, AFAIK, is a minion.Then follows a White Balverine, no matter, if you've got it in the Arena or from Knothole Gladae quest. The strong Bandit (as one from Darkwood Lake East behind the bridge if you come from the Guild) comes third.

Well, in my case it seems like that one shouldn't visit the Knothole region before getting the quest. I loaded from the save just after finding Archeologist and before going to Knothole Glade without the quest - and saw s exposed in all shops; all merchants were there after completing the mission.

Oh, my! Previous game couldn't find the Blacksmith, started over... now it's general merchant (potions, gifts, ...). Several attempts to reload from World save didn't help. Confirmed just that if there aren't any s in particular shop while one's searching for hunter's wife, no merchant in further.Nobody of populace is killed. It'd only be possible ...

chupathingy:....and need ing bright will gear to get the dollmaster's mace... Bright Pate and Dark Will actually (also a Bandit gear, but you cannot procede without the last anyway)

Well, first of all i'd advise to start a new game. It happened to me not once, and if the game starts to crash this way, there's hardly a cure save starting a new line. Then, arent't there too much Hero Saves on one quest (with exception for Find Archeologist, where one had to make Hero Saves to get young again and it's obviously tolerated). I ...

Glacius:It's a common bug that happens randomly. Sometimes it's the tattoo guy that disappears sometimes it's the blacksmith.Most likely he's been killed.However normally an NPC will respawn after 3 game days.... One of the explainations given sometimes is that the White balverine has killed the NPC and that causes it not to reappear. There ...

Yeah, but those both swords (of Aeons and Avo's Tear) were promised to be most powerful weapon in the game - at least so it was said. In TLC they are not. Unless there are some hidden properties there (sometimes i suspect there are).