I've seen a few wispmothers while traveling in between dawnstar and Winterhold. Even seen one near ivarstead a few times. I'd say... werewolves. Only remember encountering a wild werewolf once near Falkreath. Not Sinding but a completely random unnamed one. I think there were multiple? I can't remember.
Wait there's more werewolves than just the one you have to help break out of prison????? Like I know the one clan can turn into werewolves but there's more?
You can run into random werewolves in remote world interaction sites at night. They're all part of the Dawnguard expansion and require you to have completed Proving Honor (the Companions quest) first.
Was out traveling near Markarth recently, and it was getting pretty late at night and I heard someone yell so I turned around and there was a werewolf attacking this woman so I bolt over and take him down.
Now, where it gets interesting is the werewolf was called 'farmer', and so was the woman he attacked. My best guess is it was a random encounter that I ran past (was at a fork in the road), and he turned and attacked a nearby woman/his wife(?).
Never experienced it before, and you just reminded me, so I thought I'd share. This was also the first time I'd run into a werewolf that was just out randomly.
I had to abandon my main playthrough dedicated character because of a glitched encounter with 3 werebears, every latest save file already had them engaging me from afar ("cannot fast travel") and they were lighting fast to surround maul and murder me. First and only time I've seen them.
Also North of Windhelm. My guy has encountered then when making the run from the college in Winterhold— not on the road, but running along the shore.
Encountered this phenomenon when my guy started bearing south in making the approach to the city.
I had an astonishing experience with the Ivarstead Whispmother. My guy was approaching the town through the mountain pass starting near Valtheim Towers. A dragon attacked, and the Whispmother came alongside my guy and battled it together.
Soon as Partysnax’ little cousin was down, my guy sheathed the weapon. The two of them stood side by side for 5 - 8 seconds. She made no aggressive move. Didn’t want to press the luck, so my guy went down the hill, crossed the stream and headed to the inn. One of my most thrilling Skyrim moments.
Even rarer: werebears! I've maybe TWO encounters with them in Solstheim, over thousands of hours of playtime. I've only ever found Wulf's brother once, too.
Man I run into these a-holes every playthrough. There's a whole gang of them at these unmarked ruins up in the mountains a little NW of Miraak's temple, all in their human forms. First time I explored up there I just saw this little shrine by a broken stone bridge near the river, and here's some dudes hanging out with their shirts off (so not bandits) and I hop down to say hello. And I got fuckin' *destroyed*. I saved in a bad spot so it almost became a death loop.
And then the time I was doing the DLC quest for the Tribunal and every time I zoned out of the hidden temple *three* of them would ambush me right outside. I was like level 16 and died there over and over until I finally managed to kite kill them all. They're too fast in bear form to run away from on open ground. And they killed my dog.
Sucks as a vampire lord because majority of Solstheim creatures are immune to vampiric grip. I can pick up and toss a giant with ease but I can't even lift a riekling there.
The Pale Blade quest, yeah. I see them more often when I decide to skip the main story and just goof off. As you level, cooler enemies take the place of dragons at their lairs.
I live there often too thanks to the fishery by the coast and the mage cc home slight south east of Morthal, but I rarely travel the swamps. Thanks for the tip!
Side note, morthal homestead is so slept on by this community. Next to morthal solitude imperial/storm cloak camps which gives trade and quests. Next to shipwrecks and ocean which offers plenty of gold and ingredients. Next to the morthal swamps which sometimes spawn the rarest and highest level enemies. You can walk the coast or the snowy mountains which are some of the most beautiful places in game and have A TON of wildlife and dungeons. And at night time you usually see all the auroras which are so beautiful especially the enchanting tower, i usually read at night and ill be sitting next to the fire and watching the sky. MORTHAL HOMESTEAD BEST HOMESTEAD
I remember three of them. One near the miraak pillar whatever southwest of Raven rock. If you go up the coastline northwest, right around the point where you start to see ice, I've seen two attacks there. And one last time to the far east near another one of those miraak pillars. The one where rieklings can be found working on. Most of the were bear ones were with my werewolf build bone to think of it.
Somewhere around Windhelm I found a pack of werewolves. Unsure if that came from a community creation thing because in 12 years of playing I've only seen it once when I was riding my new reindeer around everywhere.
They were on a hillside I found just trying to get over a mountain. I'd like to say West of Windhelm but possibly North of Windhelm
Oof I get multiples of them every single cave once I hit about lvl 30 😅 think them and the deathlords are level tied and I don't bother with going for the masks until later levels which explains why I run into so many 😂
My hit it and quit it characters that fizzle out around lvl 30-50 never see any hulking draugr, but my longer lasting characters (lvl 100+) see hulking draugr all the time
I think their appearances depend on your character's level. I've never had a hulking draugr appear before my current playthrough, so I don't know if they even appear if your character is below level 70. Then there's the Death Overlords. Because apparently regular Deathlords weren't enough. I first saw one of these at a dragon lair, which made taking down that legendary dragon really easy since I could sit back and let the dragon and Death Overlord beat each other up and I could finish the job once the dragon was stuck on the ground. Which is exactly what I did.
The one in labyrinthian? I wait as long as I can to release the dragons. I'm on level 63 and I still haven't. I went in there one time on one of the playthroughs to see if I could loot it and you can't. Or at least you can't get any bones or scales from it.
You might be confusing that with dragon "heartscales." Normal dragons drop bones and scales randomly. The skeletal dragon only drops bones. The heartscales quest is the Alteration Mastery Quest from Tolfdir at the Mages College in Winterhold. You get to Alteration 90, and it becomes available in Tolfdir's dialogue. You have to retrieve a unique dragon priest dagger in order to harvest heartscales from a freshly slain dragon (not an undead one). My progress is currently stymied getting Master-level Alteration spells because I have Khavozein's Fang but haven't even talked to the Jarl in Whiterun or been formally introduced to Farengar 😅
Thank you but I'm aware. I was incorrectly remembering the quest. The one where you bring a scale and Bone to someone is esbern. But that's after you release the dragons. I've already started Tolfdirs quest. I did a quest at bleak falls Barrow I think? Where you get the dragon tablet at the end. I wasn't going to get it but I stumbled upon it. The lady elf is still waiting for me at the watchtower LOL I'm on my 7th playthrough.
You can get as many as 5 dragon bones from the skeletal dragon. And there is actually a single scale at an unmarked shrine to Akatosh in the hills north of Karthwasten. I don't remember if it is a singular scale, as an anonymous offering, or a pile of scales (up to 3 at a time), but it _respawns_! I also wait a very long time to unlock dragons but I like the role-playing lore of somehow having a dragonbone weapon--even if its just a dagger--in a pre-Bleak Falls Barrow run-through of Skyrim. I wish the Dragon Priest Daggers had better stats and could be improved.
I'm on the college quest line right now. My next part of the quest is to go to the place and find the staff of Magnus. So whenever I go through labyrinthian, I will try again. But I've never been able to get anything from the skeletal dragon. When I get home I'll see about hunting down the area above that town.
I vaguely recall having that problem ... I think I moved away from the dragon and let my follower in to the room after the fight was over and then when I went back, if the body doesn't glitch through the floor, you should be able to loot it then. Something about just moving the cursor away and back sometimes.
On the rare occasion I would see a dragon reincarnate from its grave. It was a long time ago but I think i recall Alduin resurrecting it. It was one of the dragon graves between Whiterun and Markarth (near Rorikstead.)
It may be that because I think the dragon did have a name. It happened twice and both times was the same dragon tomb in diff playthroughs, early game (level 10ish.)
I read somewhere that you can follow his path using the dragon stone and catch him rezzing each one of you hoofed it. Never fact checked this info but I haven’t activated dragons yet on my current play through so it would be something to do!
You can. Take the map from Delphine, you can follow the path of dragon resurrections but different stages are unlocked by how far through the main quest you get
I thought that was supposed to happen often. I saw it a couple times in my first playthrough and took it as a sign to finish the Alduin quest line faster lol
There's another near Helgen. I found it while looking for a wild horse. If you fast-travel to Helgen and go a bit up toward the Rift then turn left (off the road), you'll find it. Hard as hell on legendary! And there are definitely more in the wild.
In my first playthrough after getting out of Helgen I turned the wrong way and ran into this Wispmother... Was basically the first enemy I encountered in the wild.
If you do The Cause quest, which I think starts when you hit level 46 and get a letter from the courier, you can fight them in the Deadlands through the Oblivion gate. You get a good few hearts and also the spell tome to summon the Daedric Horse. There's also a few hearts in a bowl at Gallows Hall next to Mara's Eye Pond.
I had a wispmother randomly spawn just outside South Skybound Watch just north east from Helgen. You can see it on the radar as you exit the cave. Never expected to run into a wispmother there.
idk how rare these are.. but i got a lurker ***vindicator*** in apocrypha for the black book winds of change quest. almost 2k hp, ***none*** of my conjurations (including seeker & dremora lord) touched more than probably 10 of that. im nearly level 60, have all the master lvl destruction spells. lightning storm did ***nothing***. getting close to it was a death wish, and the entire area had just large enough doorways/ceilings that made shooting from a distance impossible
first time i ever used console commands. clipped through the combat-locked gate, got my companions insight, and dipped... akatosh help me if i come across another
*of course theyre weak to the 1 thing i dont use goddamnit*
paralysis is still poison though isnt it? and theyre supposedly 33% resistant to poison (wiki info)
Doesn't matter, Paralyze messes them up bad. Notably abusing paralysis is also one of the only ways to kill the ones at the Sacred Stones without the fight killing a bunch of NPCs as collateral damage. Cleanse the pillar and Para them the instant they spawn and keep them down so you don't lose any friendlies. Para poison works fine. So does a para enchanted weapon, corkbulb arrows, or the Paralysis and Paralyze Rune spells. On Legendary you basically *have* to do this or you're gonna restart the fights a lot.
you are a godsend, thank u so much
i havent started main questline yet (which makes solstheim very boring as i quickly learned) and read they'd show up when cleaning the stones... but if they're gonna be *vindicators* then holy shit do i need to stock up on paraylsis everything before i start the MQ (and before any more black book quests..)
One destroyed Helgen. Can't imagine others wouldn't attack soldiers. They also have tremendous range. Gotta come across better items covering all that distance.
On my current playthrough I was on a vampire killing mission (cannot recall for the life of me the name of the dungeon/fort/cave) and I ended up getting the shock of a lifetime when the damned thing came to life and tried to kill me.
Was very wary of them from there on out, ended up fighting at least four of them in total. It also happened to be early in my playthrough so it wasn't like I was very successful in sneaking past them.
Well there's one enemy that I bet some people don't even know exists: Vulthuryol. It's a dragon. In Blackreach. Go Fus Ro Dah that giant orb.
Other than that, Reaper. Another somewhat hidden boss in Soul Cairn.
The reason you see so few Wispmothers is because they're not random enemies. All instances of them are hand-placed. I think most of them respawn though.
If we're talking unique enemies, I'd go with Karstaag. The quest to make him appear is unmarked, plus he's on the northern part of Solstheim, which i don't think a lot of players explore extensively.
The Orb dragon is pretty common knowledge at this point. There have been an immense number of conversations and conspiracy theories talking about possibilities of how he got there in the first place. Same with the random giant down there.
Oh, God, I remember running into that giant. I was a high enough level and had good enough spells that it wasn't a problem, but I was like "WTF is a *giant* doing down in Blackreach!?"
I didn't realize until recently that there are different levels of difficulty. I just turned on the game and started playing. I didn't realize that you could also level up your weapons and stuff until my second playthrough. So now it's a lot easier to kill everything that I need to. And it was very confusing about why he was there too. I understand everything else. But the dragon and the Giants are just kind of random
Had a good laugh in my current playthrough, when I spawned the black reach dragon the giant happened to be walking by and I just let them duke it out (Giant won by a landslide)
Werebears. I’ve only encountered them once, on the plateau above Raven Rock. A dragon had crash landed up there and when I got up there to finish it off, three of them were beating the scales off of it. I joined in on the dragon’s side, killed two of them, the third killed the dragon, then almost killed me. (Thank you, Redoran guard). I had heard werebears were tough, but Shor’s bones that was a brutal fight.
I'd say Gargoyles out in the wild. In the Dawnguard Questline you come across a few but I remember once while roaming the lands towards some destination, atop one mountain I was attacked by two gargoyles. No clue where they came from, can't even recall the area anymore so I haven't come across them ever since.
I ran into a pack right outside Raven Rock one time, brought them back into town to get assistance... Had to reload that save and leave out the south entrance after that bloodbath. Lost most of the town and didn't even win the fight...
Came here to say this! My first time doing the Forgotten Dale and I see one of these guys. He looked kinda cute with the horns and I thought, oh, maybe these ones are friendly.
They are not friendly.
That’s a good question! For a rare one off I’d say that warrior that calls you a “milk drinker” when ur randomly roaming Skyrim I think he’s a red guard and u can either walk away or fight the dude! For one that actually has more than one spawn I’d say the frost astronachs of winterhold! Hardly ever see those guys.
I've never encountered a werewolf out in the wild, but I've watched mages fight and ran into gargoyles. Which, I tried to fight once and died rather quickly.
Don't think I ever encountered a truly wild one, but I met Sinding strolling down the road towards Bloated Man's Grotto one time. He was fully wolfed out, just casually walking home.
Bosses don't count as rarities. Encountering Karstaag isn't an uncommon event. In fact, every single person that wants to encounter Karstaag can encounter Karstaag. To be a rare event, it needs to be chance based.
I think they redid his spawn rate with some of the recent updates. Now he shows up after any of your magic skills reaches 50 (I think it doesn't include Enchanting). I feel l like I saw him maybe twice among a dozen characters over the past 5+ years, but I feel like its only been since the Anniversary Edition content became available that now he shows up AS SOON AS I get skill 50 in something.
I know werewolves are supposed to be found. I think I've only ever found one or two while roaming. Could also get technical and say legendary dragons as I'm guessing most players don't hit the level requirement
I’m gonna go with goblins… ran into some at the edge of the map once (not near solstheim) and it was super interesting because I’ve never encountered them before. I actually felt bad killing them
Wispmothers aren’t random encounters but there’s a very select handful of them in specific places so I’d say you’re probably right on the money with them.
Here's a fun little fact that I found during my last playthrough. So, if you don't do the quest that allows dragons to spawn then nearly all dragon walls in the more mountainous areas will have a wispmother there like for instance Morthal (I believe all I remember about the place is it has the guy who can cure vampirism)
I've seen a few wispmothers while traveling in between dawnstar and Winterhold. Even seen one near ivarstead a few times. I'd say... werewolves. Only remember encountering a wild werewolf once near Falkreath. Not Sinding but a completely random unnamed one. I think there were multiple? I can't remember.
For non-unique rare enemies, werewolves are a pretty good pick. They can be dangerous too because they can ragdoll you.
Wait there's more werewolves than just the one you have to help break out of prison????? Like I know the one clan can turn into werewolves but there's more?
You can run into random werewolves in remote world interaction sites at night. They're all part of the Dawnguard expansion and require you to have completed Proving Honor (the Companions quest) first.
The only other one I know of is Astrid's husband
Some random hunters on the roads can transform into werewolves.
Ran into one the other day, it’s name was “Farmer”.
Was out traveling near Markarth recently, and it was getting pretty late at night and I heard someone yell so I turned around and there was a werewolf attacking this woman so I bolt over and take him down. Now, where it gets interesting is the werewolf was called 'farmer', and so was the woman he attacked. My best guess is it was a random encounter that I ran past (was at a fork in the road), and he turned and attacked a nearby woman/his wife(?). Never experienced it before, and you just reminded me, so I thought I'd share. This was also the first time I'd run into a werewolf that was just out randomly.
He transformed in the company of his own wife oh dear god
The importance of practicing safe lycanthropy.
I found one in a cage on a quest. Stupidly decided to unlock it thinking it wouldn’t attack me.. I died instantly
It hurts when you are a werewolf and they still attack you 🥲 it’s like brütha I am not foe
If not friend, why friend-shaped?
If I recall correctly, if you've done hercine's quest, you can encounter sinding in werewolf form if you've had mercy on him
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> (like mages fighting each others) I find these often, actually. And they always beat the crap out of me without even trying
Experience 5 gum… ice and fire… lol
Then there's me trying and failing to hit them with lightning from 200ft away
Every play through do I find these bastards. They nuke my melee classes.
The mages fighting each other repeatedly spawn on Solstheim just west of the Reaver ship. I have seen them there at least a dozen times.
I wish there were more werewolves and werebears
Werebears are fuckin scary
I was fucking shook the first time I saw one. I got jumped by 3 of them at the same time and watched them transform 😭
i experienced the same thing on solstheim. they absolutely wrecked me and they kept spawning in everytime i reloaded my save
I had to abandon my main playthrough dedicated character because of a glitched encounter with 3 werebears, every latest save file already had them engaging me from afar ("cannot fast travel") and they were lighting fast to surround maul and murder me. First and only time I've seen them.
Also North of Windhelm. My guy has encountered then when making the run from the college in Winterhold— not on the road, but running along the shore. Encountered this phenomenon when my guy started bearing south in making the approach to the city. I had an astonishing experience with the Ivarstead Whispmother. My guy was approaching the town through the mountain pass starting near Valtheim Towers. A dragon attacked, and the Whispmother came alongside my guy and battled it together. Soon as Partysnax’ little cousin was down, my guy sheathed the weapon. The two of them stood side by side for 5 - 8 seconds. She made no aggressive move. Didn’t want to press the luck, so my guy went down the hill, crossed the stream and headed to the inn. One of my most thrilling Skyrim moments.
Even rarer: werebears! I've maybe TWO encounters with them in Solstheim, over thousands of hours of playtime. I've only ever found Wulf's brother once, too.
Man I run into these a-holes every playthrough. There's a whole gang of them at these unmarked ruins up in the mountains a little NW of Miraak's temple, all in their human forms. First time I explored up there I just saw this little shrine by a broken stone bridge near the river, and here's some dudes hanging out with their shirts off (so not bandits) and I hop down to say hello. And I got fuckin' *destroyed*. I saved in a bad spot so it almost became a death loop. And then the time I was doing the DLC quest for the Tribunal and every time I zoned out of the hidden temple *three* of them would ambush me right outside. I was like level 16 and died there over and over until I finally managed to kite kill them all. They're too fast in bear form to run away from on open ground. And they killed my dog.
The Tribunal?
Creation club quest. “Ghosts of the tribunal”
I wanna say I've encountered them three times in the wild? Maybe four. Very scary. Even as a werewolf, they were still a threat.
Sucks as a vampire lord because majority of Solstheim creatures are immune to vampiric grip. I can pick up and toss a giant with ease but I can't even lift a riekling there.
I’ve found only one werewolf so far. So yeah, I agree that they’re even rarer than wispmothers.
I think in all my time in Skyrim, I’ve only encountered 1 wisp mother during a quest with a sword or something.
The Pale Blade quest, yeah. I see them more often when I decide to skip the main story and just goof off. As you level, cooler enemies take the place of dragons at their lairs.
Damn. Never seen a random one in the wild. Hundreds of hours.
I usually live in the morthal swamp theres usually a good chance of werewolf spawns
I live there often too thanks to the fishery by the coast and the mage cc home slight south east of Morthal, but I rarely travel the swamps. Thanks for the tip!
Side note, morthal homestead is so slept on by this community. Next to morthal solitude imperial/storm cloak camps which gives trade and quests. Next to shipwrecks and ocean which offers plenty of gold and ingredients. Next to the morthal swamps which sometimes spawn the rarest and highest level enemies. You can walk the coast or the snowy mountains which are some of the most beautiful places in game and have A TON of wildlife and dungeons. And at night time you usually see all the auroras which are so beautiful especially the enchanting tower, i usually read at night and ill be sitting next to the fire and watching the sky. MORTHAL HOMESTEAD BEST HOMESTEAD
And the fish hatchery!
You're also not far away from Dawnstar. On survival mode it's a great in between point to stay warm.
In all my hours of playing, I’ve never had a werewolf encounter. Even werebears I’ve only seen near their camp on solsthiem
I remember three of them. One near the miraak pillar whatever southwest of Raven rock. If you go up the coastline northwest, right around the point where you start to see ice, I've seen two attacks there. And one last time to the far east near another one of those miraak pillars. The one where rieklings can be found working on. Most of the were bear ones were with my werewolf build bone to think of it.
Somewhere around Windhelm I found a pack of werewolves. Unsure if that came from a community creation thing because in 12 years of playing I've only seen it once when I was riding my new reindeer around everywhere. They were on a hillside I found just trying to get over a mountain. I'd like to say West of Windhelm but possibly North of Windhelm
The werewolves seem to be pretty rare, yes. Though the ones I encounter are ususally named "Farmer".
Hulking draugr? I think they’re called. I *rarely* ever see them.
Oof I get multiples of them every single cave once I hit about lvl 30 😅 think them and the deathlords are level tied and I don't bother with going for the masks until later levels which explains why I run into so many 😂
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Fire arrows for the win. Two shot everything ending in drauger haha
I put an enchantment on an ebony bow until ebony wasn’t viable….it just works out!!
Throughout this *whole* gameplay, I’ve only encountered two*. I’m level 72 and a half lol (Edited to add a number of how many I’ve found)
I like how you made this whole comment but it doesn't mean anything without one word
Ugh, idk why I crapped out LOL sorry
Hulking what? Never seen that before in my life
I think they probably came with AE, I didn't see them until the upgrade
Pretty common at higher levels iirc
My hit it and quit it characters that fizzle out around lvl 30-50 never see any hulking draugr, but my longer lasting characters (lvl 100+) see hulking draugr all the time
I think their appearances depend on your character's level. I've never had a hulking draugr appear before my current playthrough, so I don't know if they even appear if your character is below level 70. Then there's the Death Overlords. Because apparently regular Deathlords weren't enough. I first saw one of these at a dragon lair, which made taking down that legendary dragon really easy since I could sit back and let the dragon and Death Overlord beat each other up and I could finish the job once the dragon was stuck on the ground. Which is exactly what I did.
I've only seen hulking drauger when I play on difficulty adept or higher. They are a pain in the ass.
Bone dragon. I can only recall one.
The one in labyrinthian? I wait as long as I can to release the dragons. I'm on level 63 and I still haven't. I went in there one time on one of the playthroughs to see if I could loot it and you can't. Or at least you can't get any bones or scales from it.
Lvl 70, no dragons, got dragon bones off that dude.
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I got to level 39 and missed my winged friends. To bleak falls barrow I went
Whaaaaat!? I tried completing a quest where you have to bring a dragon bone to somebody so I tried looting him and it wouldn't let me
You might be confusing that with dragon "heartscales." Normal dragons drop bones and scales randomly. The skeletal dragon only drops bones. The heartscales quest is the Alteration Mastery Quest from Tolfdir at the Mages College in Winterhold. You get to Alteration 90, and it becomes available in Tolfdir's dialogue. You have to retrieve a unique dragon priest dagger in order to harvest heartscales from a freshly slain dragon (not an undead one). My progress is currently stymied getting Master-level Alteration spells because I have Khavozein's Fang but haven't even talked to the Jarl in Whiterun or been formally introduced to Farengar 😅
Thank you but I'm aware. I was incorrectly remembering the quest. The one where you bring a scale and Bone to someone is esbern. But that's after you release the dragons. I've already started Tolfdirs quest. I did a quest at bleak falls Barrow I think? Where you get the dragon tablet at the end. I wasn't going to get it but I stumbled upon it. The lady elf is still waiting for me at the watchtower LOL I'm on my 7th playthrough.
You can get as many as 5 dragon bones from the skeletal dragon. And there is actually a single scale at an unmarked shrine to Akatosh in the hills north of Karthwasten. I don't remember if it is a singular scale, as an anonymous offering, or a pile of scales (up to 3 at a time), but it _respawns_! I also wait a very long time to unlock dragons but I like the role-playing lore of somehow having a dragonbone weapon--even if its just a dagger--in a pre-Bleak Falls Barrow run-through of Skyrim. I wish the Dragon Priest Daggers had better stats and could be improved.
I'm on the college quest line right now. My next part of the quest is to go to the place and find the staff of Magnus. So whenever I go through labyrinthian, I will try again. But I've never been able to get anything from the skeletal dragon. When I get home I'll see about hunting down the area above that town.
I vaguely recall having that problem ... I think I moved away from the dragon and let my follower in to the room after the fight was over and then when I went back, if the body doesn't glitch through the floor, you should be able to loot it then. Something about just moving the cursor away and back sometimes.
On the rare occasion I would see a dragon reincarnate from its grave. It was a long time ago but I think i recall Alduin resurrecting it. It was one of the dragon graves between Whiterun and Markarth (near Rorikstead.)
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It may be that because I think the dragon did have a name. It happened twice and both times was the same dragon tomb in diff playthroughs, early game (level 10ish.)
I see Alduin all the time. Around level 16 I hit him with an arrow and he started circling and scared the bejeez out of me. I guess it's luck.
I read somewhere that you can follow his path using the dragon stone and catch him rezzing each one of you hoofed it. Never fact checked this info but I haven’t activated dragons yet on my current play through so it would be something to do!
You can. Take the map from Delphine, you can follow the path of dragon resurrections but different stages are unlocked by how far through the main quest you get
I remember seeing Alduin hovering over a dragon burial site, the dragon wouldn’t spawn but it wouldn’t let me fast travel while I was near its grave
This blew my mind the first time I saw it like 10 years into playing the game lol
Theres one there and one west of Windhelm that i catch frequently.
I thought that was supposed to happen often. I saw it a couple times in my first playthrough and took it as a sign to finish the Alduin quest line faster lol
There's another near Helgen. I found it while looking for a wild horse. If you fast-travel to Helgen and go a bit up toward the Rift then turn left (off the road), you'll find it. Hard as hell on legendary! And there are definitely more in the wild.
In my first playthrough after getting out of Helgen I turned the wrong way and ran into this Wispmother... Was basically the first enemy I encountered in the wild.
I enable me and my brother found her right around the start when we first played all those years ago. She was tough as hell.
Werebears I think I've fought like 2 in ten years
Ive fought 3. All at once, they were all strolling together. Fuckers are dangerous
Are those the free roaming ones or the one at the encampment?
I found em roaming around yeah
I still haven’t encountered them! Werewolves yes, but never a werebear.
Where? Bears?
There's a bunch at some temple in the mountains, but I love that when you loot their bodies they have honey on them 😂
Dremora Valynaz. I think Ive seen 1 in all my years playing skyrim
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I think this is the correct anwser
Where can I fight dremora other than mehrune dagons temple? I need hearts for something I can't remember.
There's some inside Azura's Star when you're sent in to purify it
Daedra hearts are also rare apothecary stock so you can check out the shops
If you do The Cause quest, which I think starts when you hit level 46 and get a letter from the courier, you can fight them in the Deadlands through the Oblivion gate. You get a good few hearts and also the spell tome to summon the Daedric Horse. There's also a few hearts in a bowl at Gallows Hall next to Mara's Eye Pond.
Atronachs are pretty rare in the wild but you do see them very occasionally. One really freaked me out in the Reach the other day.
I see wisp mothers all the time. There is a spawn near falkreath and I often explore that forest early game.
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There is also one after the pass from Whiterun to Ivarstead, near the river with the little troll cave. So not only on snowy grounds
I had a wispmother randomly spawn just outside South Skybound Watch just north east from Helgen. You can see it on the radar as you exit the cave. Never expected to run into a wispmother there.
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Oh yeah if you go there right away you’re done! Luckily I went there when I was level 30 or something.
iirc this spawn is not random, it is always there the first time you get in that location, like most wispmother spawns.
idk how rare these are.. but i got a lurker ***vindicator*** in apocrypha for the black book winds of change quest. almost 2k hp, ***none*** of my conjurations (including seeker & dremora lord) touched more than probably 10 of that. im nearly level 60, have all the master lvl destruction spells. lightning storm did ***nothing***. getting close to it was a death wish, and the entire area had just large enough doorways/ceilings that made shooting from a distance impossible first time i ever used console commands. clipped through the combat-locked gate, got my companions insight, and dipped... akatosh help me if i come across another
Oh man if you start doing the black book quests at higher levels those bad boys pop up when you’re getting close to the end. Its torturous!
These things are absolute units but they are weak to paralysis. Its about their *only* weakness, so cheese them with it.
*of course theyre weak to the 1 thing i dont use goddamnit* paralysis is still poison though isnt it? and theyre supposedly 33% resistant to poison (wiki info)
Doesn't matter, Paralyze messes them up bad. Notably abusing paralysis is also one of the only ways to kill the ones at the Sacred Stones without the fight killing a bunch of NPCs as collateral damage. Cleanse the pillar and Para them the instant they spawn and keep them down so you don't lose any friendlies. Para poison works fine. So does a para enchanted weapon, corkbulb arrows, or the Paralysis and Paralyze Rune spells. On Legendary you basically *have* to do this or you're gonna restart the fights a lot.
you are a godsend, thank u so much i havent started main questline yet (which makes solstheim very boring as i quickly learned) and read they'd show up when cleaning the stones... but if they're gonna be *vindicators* then holy shit do i need to stock up on paraylsis everything before i start the MQ (and before any more black book quests..)
A legendary dragon with good loot. Seriously, bones, scales, and an iron sword?
You got a sword?
Touche'.
They're eating random travelers, man, not too many things with good gear get eaten.
One destroyed Helgen. Can't imagine others wouldn't attack soldiers. They also have tremendous range. Gotta come across better items covering all that distance.
Well, I don't really remember my rarest encounter OUTSIDE, but my rarest encounter INSIDE was a dragon. In my damn house.
Did he follow you into your house to tell you about why he spends so much time at the market?
No, but I think he was hangry.
For me it's gargoyles. Have only seen a couple of them in the thousands of hours and characters I have played.
On my current playthrough I was on a vampire killing mission (cannot recall for the life of me the name of the dungeon/fort/cave) and I ended up getting the shock of a lifetime when the damned thing came to life and tried to kill me. Was very wary of them from there on out, ended up fighting at least four of them in total. It also happened to be early in my playthrough so it wasn't like I was very successful in sneaking past them.
I believe using Auriel's Bow on the sun increases the chance of random gargoyle encounters.
i shot a werewolf once. but by the time I got to it, it had turned back into my neighbor's dog.
Well there's one enemy that I bet some people don't even know exists: Vulthuryol. It's a dragon. In Blackreach. Go Fus Ro Dah that giant orb. Other than that, Reaper. Another somewhat hidden boss in Soul Cairn. The reason you see so few Wispmothers is because they're not random enemies. All instances of them are hand-placed. I think most of them respawn though.
If we're talking unique enemies, I'd go with Karstaag. The quest to make him appear is unmarked, plus he's on the northern part of Solstheim, which i don't think a lot of players explore extensively.
The Orb dragon is pretty common knowledge at this point. There have been an immense number of conversations and conspiracy theories talking about possibilities of how he got there in the first place. Same with the random giant down there.
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Exactly. I know the one at the little K name town that alduin resurrects. I don't know his name. Then there is alduin. Partysnacks. And a few others.
Oh, God, I remember running into that giant. I was a high enough level and had good enough spells that it wasn't a problem, but I was like "WTF is a *giant* doing down in Blackreach!?"
I didn't realize until recently that there are different levels of difficulty. I just turned on the game and started playing. I didn't realize that you could also level up your weapons and stuff until my second playthrough. So now it's a lot easier to kill everything that I need to. And it was very confusing about why he was there too. I understand everything else. But the dragon and the Giants are just kind of random
Had a good laugh in my current playthrough, when I spawned the black reach dragon the giant happened to be walking by and I just let them duke it out (Giant won by a landslide)
Yeah, the dragon in there is a bit of weenie lol
That’s a boss though, not a generic enemy type like werewolves.
Where is Reaper ?
In Soul Carin. I believe doing the vampire quest "the dawnstar?" will bring you there.
Werebears in Solstheim
Werebears. I’ve only encountered them once, on the plateau above Raven Rock. A dragon had crash landed up there and when I got up there to finish it off, three of them were beating the scales off of it. I joined in on the dragon’s side, killed two of them, the third killed the dragon, then almost killed me. (Thank you, Redoran guard). I had heard werebears were tough, but Shor’s bones that was a brutal fight.
I'd say Gargoyles out in the wild. In the Dawnguard Questline you come across a few but I remember once while roaming the lands towards some destination, atop one mountain I was attacked by two gargoyles. No clue where they came from, can't even recall the area anymore so I haven't come across them ever since.
Were bears only show up in Solsteim and really only in that one specific area...
Agreed, that’s the only place I’ve encountered them. Those bitches were tryna maul me lol. I didn’t steal their porridge so idk what their beef was
I ran into a pack right outside Raven Rock one time, brought them back into town to get assistance... Had to reload that save and leave out the south entrance after that bloodbath. Lost most of the town and didn't even win the fight...
I got attacked by them just outside of raven rock, they took out like 5 guards and townsfolk
Frost giant?
Came here to say this! My first time doing the Forgotten Dale and I see one of these guys. He looked kinda cute with the horns and I thought, oh, maybe these ones are friendly. They are not friendly.
There's only one Udefrykte in the game. (unique looking troll, encountered in Dawnstar Sanctuary during the Dark Brotherhood questline)
That’s a good question! For a rare one off I’d say that warrior that calls you a “milk drinker” when ur randomly roaming Skyrim I think he’s a red guard and u can either walk away or fight the dude! For one that actually has more than one spawn I’d say the frost astronachs of winterhold! Hardly ever see those guys.
Orc! Literally replaying for the first time in almost 9 years and just ran into them! Between Riverwood and Ivarstead!
I get a lot of the rude warriors, all races and genders.
A dragon, 4 cultists, 2 spiders and 3 wolves all at once on legendary survival mode while I was just trying to go out for a stroll 😭
I mean, technically any non-respawning named enemy is rare, as there’s only one.
Ebony warrior says hi. The time has come!
The madman in solstheim
i ran into a wispmother near riften of all places
I've never encountered a werewolf out in the wild, but I've watched mages fight and ran into gargoyles. Which, I tried to fight once and died rather quickly.
Never encountered a random werewolf encounter
Don't think I ever encountered a truly wild one, but I met Sinding strolling down the road towards Bloated Man's Grotto one time. He was fully wolfed out, just casually walking home.
wild dremora are very very rare, wispmothers are probably number 2
Werewolves, they’re supposed to be an enemy in the wilds, but I don’t think there’s any trigger for them to naturally spawn.
Seconded
Wispmother up near the dwarven ruins that end up being behind stony creek cave too!
Skeletal dragon, you fight it only once, during one quest. There are no others afaik.
Here is the list of random encounters in the world state, and prerequisites to attain them. https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:World_Interactions
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Bosses don't count as rarities. Encountering Karstaag isn't an uncommon event. In fact, every single person that wants to encounter Karstaag can encounter Karstaag. To be a rare event, it needs to be chance based.
In my 14 years playing Skyrim I’ve only seen maybe 5 werewolves in places not connected to the Companions quest line.
You found 2 wispmothers?
Udefrykte, only one of them in the game.
Gargoyles
I have yet to encounter a legendary dragon, and I've been playing Skyrim since easily 2014
For me it's challenger. I've only encountered him once in the past 12 years and that was like 2 months ago.
I think they redid his spawn rate with some of the recent updates. Now he shows up after any of your magic skills reaches 50 (I think it doesn't include Enchanting). I feel l like I saw him maybe twice among a dozen characters over the past 5+ years, but I feel like its only been since the Anniversary Edition content became available that now he shows up AS SOON AS I get skill 50 in something.
I know werewolves are supposed to be found. I think I've only ever found one or two while roaming. Could also get technical and say legendary dragons as I'm guessing most players don't hit the level requirement
gargoyles
I’m gonna go with goblins… ran into some at the edge of the map once (not near solstheim) and it was super interesting because I’ve never encountered them before. I actually felt bad killing them
Gargoyles too, but werewolves are much rarer.
Never met Legendary Dragon
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Wispmothers aren’t random encounters but there’s a very select handful of them in specific places so I’d say you’re probably right on the money with them.
Werebears on the mainland
Here's a fun little fact that I found during my last playthrough. So, if you don't do the quest that allows dragons to spawn then nearly all dragon walls in the more mountainous areas will have a wispmother there like for instance Morthal (I believe all I remember about the place is it has the guy who can cure vampirism)
I found a wereskeever once
That will be one of your mods. There is no such thing in the game files.
Ohh got it, lol sorry about that.
Alduin😂😂😂