Went to Merhjold, got to the point of questioning what happened to the village and went through the dialogue; when I go to talk to Matthias, he was t posing in the air and was labelled dead (carry body, loot) I reloaded a previous save before entering the town, and did the dialogue with a towns person and again went to the stables to see Matthias just standing around, but still being labelled dying; as the only option to interact with him is Mercy Kill.
On PC, 1.7.2; how the hell do I fix this mess, unless Pestilence is still a hopeless mess that wont be touched by the developers after releasing 3 dlcs without the base games main quests being playable still.