Summary
- A Skyrim bug allows a player to claim a free dragon soul, allowing them quicker access to shouts.
- The cause of the dragon soul bug remains a mystery, leading to speculation from players about how it happened, with ideas ranging from NPCs killing a dragon to a delayed reward for the player killing a dragon earlier.
- Bizarre occurrences in Skyrim remain common, with bugs causing strange events like NPC swaps or this mysterious free dragon soul.
A Skyrim player online has shared a strange experience in which they're able to claim an unexpected dragon soul. Harvesting the souls of dragons is the main way to unlock shouts in Skyrim, so this would prove to be a welcome surprise for many gamers out there.
Strange happenings are simply part of the Skyrim experience. The game has plenty of mysteries that gamers are continuing to unravel, as well as a myriad of bugs that can cause events that are difficult to explain. For example, just recently, one Skyrim bug replaced all the NPCs in Riverwood with dogs, which, under any circumstances, is extremely strange. With the discovery of this bizarre dragon soul bug, it seems the game has a few odd occurrences left for gamers to find.
Redditor MajesticBread9147 shared the clip with the Skyrim community online, in which they fire an arrow at a Forsworn enemy. As it lands and kills the NPC, the effect for absorbing a dragon soul begins to play. Even as the player continues to look around, it isn't clear at all where the strange surprise is coming from, with no dragon corpse in the vicinity. It's clearly some sort of strange bug, but ultimately, MajesticBread9147 won't complain. Free dragon souls mean quicker ways to unlock shouts in Skyrim, making this quite a helpful bug after all.
What Causes the Skyrim Dragon Soul Bug?
In the thread itself, gamers had plenty of theories about what could be causing this odd yet helpful Skyrim glitch. One gamer suggested two possibilities: the player killed a dragon before traveling away with the game taking its time to give them the soul, or a dragon nearby being killed by NPCs and the game needing to assign the soul to someone. Both are plausible, but MajesticBread9147 refuted these ideas, claiming to have been in a cave for a while prior to the bug occurring. For now, this particular incident is destined to remain another of Skyrim's unsolved mysteries.
Gamers will have to wait and see if the shouts and dragon souls system makes a return for the upcoming sequel to Skyrim. Some feel that The Elder Scrolls 6 may not leave the concept of Dragonborn behind, which could certainly open the door to these types of powers coming back once again. No doubt, as a Bethesda game, it'll feature its own share of bizarre bugs and glitches. But with The Elder Scrolls 6 likely still a few years away, there's plenty of time for speculation before players find out what exactly the game will entail.
- Released
- November 11, 2011
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Use of Alcohol, Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes
- Developer(s)
- Bethesda
- Publisher(s)
- Bethesda
- Engine
- Creation
- Expansions
- Skyrim: Dragonborn, Skyrim: Hearthfire, Skyrim: Dawnguard
- Franchise
- The Elder Scrolls
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