Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-124.181.69.125-20140108055731/@comment-24384528-20140108061330

Console or PC? Have you tried:

Loading a previous save?

Fast-traveling to another hold then going back to Markarth?

Re-entering the shrine while the guards are still there and before initiating any dialogue?

Comitting a crime in markarth and going to jail,serving you sentence and then entering the shrine?

This quest is one of the most bugged of Skyrim. No One Escapes This Bugged Quest.