Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-85.165.222.20-20130428154332/@comment-13446185-20130921040406

I know exactly what your talking about and I've noticed it too.

It happens when you remove the Briarheart from their corpse, Bethesda made it so that when you take the briarheart out you can see the heart missing from their body where the briarheart used to be.

Unforunately Bethesda made the model for the heartless briarheart mismatched to the actual briarheart body. It seems to look bigger and more pale skinned then the actual briarheart model making it look like an armor.

Though it could literally be an unlootable armor added to the body after the heart is removed, as I have seen mods that adds armor that makes you look like a briarheart.