When this happened to me, i wasn't paying attention and actually got the quest twice, then proceeded to take the child to the wrong estate, not realizing there were two children and two estates until later, and even then i didn't know which was which. oops. is it possible this is happening to you? i have always assumed it would show up twice in the quest log, but never checked.

is the destination in a rival kingdoms area of influence? i have had quest locations refuse to activate until after i conquered the enemy and claimed the turf for my own.

you can always try moving the child onto the estate and leaving him there, then move a champion onto it and see if that activates it.(i'm assuming you are moving them as a group.)

hope you find it helpful

i'm afraid i'm going to be of little help. i have done the quest several times since patching and it has worked fine for me. it has always behaved the same for me too, (by that i mean no changes from the patches), just to be clear, the champion which enters the inn, spawning the quest, should have a party member added to their team, this results in the champions movement being slowed to a painful 1 tile. are you atleast seeing the slow down?

its possible to get the kid killed in combat, but this should have told you the mission was failed. its also possible to seperate the kid from your party,  if you passed through a town on your way to the estate it could be fairly easy to leave him behind sitting in town, but that should also be fairly obvious, and easy to check.

my only other guess is a bad patch/install... but i'd wait for someone else to chime in before acting on that one.

sorry i'm no help.

Okay, my chanpion may not have been teamed up but I can't remember.  Sp I'll re-install the pathc and try a new game.  If it still happens then I'll post and send the savegame into drop.io.  Thanks.

and I didn't see a child spawn or have my speed slowed to 1 either.

Im having the same problem. I never get the kid to spawn either, by being shown or by having the party  slowed, and it remains open all game. happens in multiple games now.

Playing 1.09, child fails to spawn.

Also the dragon fails to spawn when I complete the egg quest (quest performed from beginning to end by custom sovreign, the only "special" thing that I have done was to enter the items menu and select and then immediately deselect the egg, wondering why that item could be selected. It makes no sense.

I have never had problems with this. Maybe she would join you if you stopped touching her all the time

That's great. But I payed for Elemental. I'd like to be able to get it to work:). I'm currently using patch 1.4. Maybe if I reinstalled the patch?