perhaps a bug

[Indinera]

sent back to you

there was one group of hirelings (top/right of the room) in my version, are you sure you redownloaded the correct version?

[Nyx]

yes

edit*** Got your file , TYVM

[kalbun]

sent back to you

there was one group of hirelings (top/right of the room) in my version, are you sure you redownloaded the correct version?

It was the same for me... I was sure that all the hirelings were dead and buried, but after installing the new version, one group was resurrected in the top-right room.
I suppose this was a "trick" to retrigger some game event.

[littlebro]

As far as I can work out - and of course I may be wrong - it might have been so that if you left the Palace and went back to the basement/sewer, the enemies respawned. Because I did it in one go, I never had that problem and so was able to go up the stairs without a problem. I am assuming that there was a glitch in that mechanism, and that's what's been fixed.