HoTU Wastes of Cania and guardian

[ponchorole]

After finding myself caught in the battlefield in the Deeper Wastes of Cania, I go to the jail zone, where I fight some devils. Then, I'm supposed to fight the Guardian of the Path, but he don't show up! So I try to use the catapult as an Earth Elemental anyways, but a message appears "the fight isn't finished on the other side", so I can't use it!

Has someone encountered this bug before, or have I missed something?

Thanks!!

[Lobo13]

You missed a lot judging from your post.
Do you have the grappling hand? Use it.
Trying going to the fight and kick some butt. You have to fight the guardian before tossing the catapult.(highlight to read, contains spoilers)
There are a lot of demons to fight before the guardian shows up.
And the fight is not just in one spot.

[ponchorole]

Well, actually i've killed every foe in the battlefield... then using the grappling hand, i've jumped to the jail zone, and dealt with all the waves of demons... so as far as i know, there's no ennemy left on the map. Save the guardian, which doesn't appear. But when i head for the catapult, it still says that the battle isn't finished and that i cannot use it.

Frankly, i don't want to go over the whole HoTU again... And i don't think there's any other way (even by using debug commands) to skip directly to the scene where you talk to the guardian of names.

[Lobo13]

Sometimes you have to walk around the prison to trigger the next wave of demons.
Here is a short question and check list... Highlight to read.

Do you have the sleeping man's ring?
Do you have the sensei's amulet?
Did you locate the cell of the Keeper of Names? Or at least identify the ring of cells? If you try to open a cell, there should be a dialog suggesting using the catapult to open them.
Did you get the ring in the center of the abandoned prison (through the tunnel of fire, after the Frost Giant's fort)?
Do you have the belt of searing? The ring of cold immunity?
Did you do the Mimic's cave earlier and loot it thoroughly?
Did you fight in the blood war, and kill them off? South east corner.
Do you have at a minimum, 500,000 gold pieces? Needed to buy the true names from the Keeper. I had over 2,000,000 and spent it all to get a few extra names, which opened up some interesting dialog and scenes later, plus made it possible to go to certain places.


And if you have all this, then it is time to reload from an earlier save.
If it is a bug, then it is not a normal bug, at least not one I have heard of, but it could be a missed trigger, which reloading an earlier save could help, or even walking and talking around looking for the trigger.
There are supposed to be several waves of demon warriors, so maybe one did not spawn, which would not set the final trigger for the guardian.
Is it possible you killed off someone you were supposed to talk to first?
Hope something here will help.