Dead Thrall



 is a Master-level Conjuration spell in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Casting it permanently raises the dead body of most humanoid beings under level 40 to fight alongside you. The thrall follows and defends its master until banished, killed, or turned. This spell does take a lot of magicka to cast so you will need a large magicka pool to cast it without the perk Master Conjuration, or several enchanted items reducing the magicka cost for Conjuration.

Spell Tome locations

 * Phinis Gestor sells this spell after the completion of the Conjuration Ritual Spell.

Bugs

 * While fast travelling, thralls may disapear from the game entirely. This can be fixed by loading a quick save and retrying.(Note:Sometimes if they dissappear they will reappear much later when fast traveling if they weren't freed)


 * Disappearing or slow moving thralls can be irritating to say the least. Another good trick to use when your thralls are missing or lagging is to simply wait an hour. More often than not, they'll reappear at your side.


 * Meridia's shrine can cause thralls to disapear unless you kill them before placing her beacon at the shrine. (most likely intentional since "Meridia despises undead of any kind")
 * Still can't find your NPC thrall? Try console commands to bring your NPC to you. For this to work, you must know the NPC RefID.
 * prid [RefID]
 * moveto player
 * If your thralls still show up in your Active Effects menu, but they are still nowhere to be found, just cast the Flame Cloak spell. Where ever they are, they will be released.
 * On some occassions thralls have spoken as if still alive, this often occurs when the player aims spells at the thrall. Some thralls will always speak as if still alive, this includes: Arcano, Arondil, Astrid, Cicero, Pyromaniac, Skjor, Velehk Sain, Dremora Lords.
 * If you have two Dead Thralls that are of the same type (i.e. two Bandit Chiefs) then you will lose one when traveling between areas.
 * Sometimes when the thralls disappear ther affects will still be active, the only real problem is that NPCs will say "That spell looks dangerous" or "Stay away from me" with that spell.