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Tags: <the-elder-scrolls-5-skyrim>
Title: Where are the bandits at Nilheim?
Question: I've got a quest to kill the Bandit leader at Nilheim. I found Nilheim, but all that's there are guards. Did I miss the quest opportunity? Or is the "at Nilheim" less than literal?

Answers:
sents: text: Tom is right.
text: A little ways off Nilheim there will be a man with a broken cart called Telrav.
text: You escort him back to his hideout and all the friendly "guards" reveal their bandit nature and ambush you.
text: The problem is that you can get the generic bounty quest before meeting Telrav and thus they'll all stay guards.
text: If you kill them all while they're just guards it bugs the Telrav encounter and it cannot be completed.
text: If you only kill the "bandit chief" it should be fine.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/17178/Bob
score: 15
sents: text: I... kind of shot the head guard off a cliff.
text: Quest completed!
text: I guess I missed something XD
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/14289/Yamikuronue
score: 9
sents: text: I had the same issue just guards in and around the tower
text: I killed the sleeping guard that the quest marker pointed to, he appears to be the only one in the tower he insisted that he was on my side and would not attack me, I then got the quest completed message when he died.
text: Strangely non of the guards would attack me but if I rode my horse up to them they would attack it if I got off they totally ignored me and just attacked the horse even when I attacked them.
text: I think the quest is a bit bugged hope it's the only one.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/14730/Farmer Mac
score: 3
sents: text: This is just a repeatable bounty quest.
text: If you want to just complete the quest to get it off your list then bring down your console by pressing the ~ key and type: setstage
text: BQ01 100 Source: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Kill_the_bandit_leader_located_at_Nilheim
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/16570/Nailholes
score: 3
sents: text: I randomly came across it and it seems a place the developers kind of brushed over rather quickly.
text: there is an orc battle ax and a coin purse that don't respond when "highlighted", they say nothing (nobody was hired to do voice work/interaction with you), and I can pretty much do whatever I want there
text: and they don't care.
text: Fitting that Nilheim means "home of nothing"
text: I figured there was a quest for this place that would make it more lively but seems not.
text: At least they had Nordic Barnacle there
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/15175/Syward look
score: 2
sents: text: So i found that if you have the bounty quest before you find telrav, it does indeed bug and he walks back to his original position.
text: However, if you kill him as he walks back, the guards turn in to bandits anyway and attack you.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/20760/Bill
score: 2
sents: text: There's a bounty letter given out to kill the bandit leader there at Nilheim.
text: It seems to get effed in multiple ways because of telrav, however.
text: For me, a dragon keeps attacking right when I am talking to Telrav.
text: One time he actually survived the attack, I found him up in the camp, "escorted" him two feet to the marker on the stairs an
text: he said he'd get my reward.
text: He then walked down to where he was originally sitting and waiting for help and keeps saying "hmm?".
text: As for the bounty to kill the dude there, he's never turned hostile for me yet.
text: Probably have to do this in an exact order (which is annoying in this case) to take care of the escorting and slaying of the leader.
text: It's small, but I can't stand these types of bugs...
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/15562/DaysAtPreamble
score: 1
sents: text: I helped telgrav and then got the bounty.
text: and there isn't a bandit leader her to kill.
text: I had to find this place because the quest marker would not work.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/37660/courtney
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
Close to Nilheim there is a man with a broken cart named Telrav. You escort him to his hideout and the guards ambush you.
It is suggested that the bandits are located just outside Nilheim posing as guards.