Ancient Dragon (Skyrim)

The Ancient Dragons in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim are incredibly resilient, and are the most powerful randomly spawning dragons that a player can encounter. They have a massive health pool and forceful hits that can crush unsuspecting foes. Ancient Dragons can also breathe Yol (fire) or Fo (frost), both variants look the same. Encountered after hitting level 35, and become much more common around level 50.

Their appearance is an orangish-red skin with black markings and spikes. An Ancient Dragon has green eyes with a cat like shape.

The Ancient Dragon has a level of 50 and has about 3071 hp and does 361 damage.

Locations

 * Word Walls

Bugs

 * Sometimes one may encounter a dragon that the game labels as an Ancient Dragon, but in reality is a Frost Dragon, as it has massive spikes on its back and almost always uses Fo (Frost) attacks. This is probably a scripting error, meaning the game didn't expect you to reach an area at such a low level, ergo it summons a dragon that you can encounter. Basically, the dragon is scripted to be an Ancient Dragon, but the player has not reached level 30, so it replaces it with a Frost Dragon, but due to the script it is still labeled as a Ancient Dragon.
 * There are also Texture problems where the Ancient Dragon is not textured properly while you are fighting with, it only fully texturizes after it has been killed.(Seen on 360 version). Also noticed on PS3 version while fighting the ancient dragon in Solitude. (Game also became very laggy in Solitude, fixed by saving and restarting the PS3).
 * They might crash land backwards and kill you.