That is very strange and this is pretty much the only instance where, after the full cache reset, that quest doesn't work. You can try sending me the character file for debugging but I don't think it will bear anything usefull if it really is a brand new Erol on a clean cache.tried deleting the bonfire folder in appdata, re-extracting the game, nothing works
Thank you for reporting and for trying out those solutions though. Sorry about the issues...