Scarecrow bug, wont leave third location
I loaded an old ng+ save from 2020-ish that i completed in a weird order, to where i was in the salt alkymancy without a redshift brand.
Witch of the lake has not died, which according to wiki comments she can break scarecrow if killed too early.
I beat the unskinned and there was no scarecrow after, but i had forgotten he was supposed to be there
I then entered the still palace, and jaret was not there. After killing the nameless king and seeing the scarecrow had not appeared in the end room, i tracked him down to the ziggurat location where he simply says "..."
The wiki shows no explanation for why this is other than that sometimes he breaks.
It also says you can go back to talk with him to advance where he should appear, on another page. This clearly isn't working.
My last steam achievement is to get the dominion ending, has anyone had& solved this bug, or am i gonna be stucking doing an ng/ng+2 run in order to 100% the game?