Skeleton (Oblivion)

Skeletons are animated by necromancy, a practice of magic that manipulates the dead. The skeleton has the same abilities and equipment as when the original owner was alive. Skeletons wield various equipment from claymores to axes to bows, and may carry enchanted weapons.

One type of skeleton, Skeleton Champion, has an ability to summon another weaker skeleton minion, such as the Skeleton Warrior. The Champion only appears to be able to summon once though, so once his minion skeleton is defeated the Champion won't summon another minion.

Skeletons make excellent targets for Marksman due to their lack of fleshy parts; all arrows fired at them will still do normal damage, but will ricochet off of the skeleton's bones, falling to the the ground. Once the skeleton is defeated, you can pick up every arrow that you fired (off of the ground, not the skeleton's body). The only chance of losing an arrow is if it falls to an unreachable place or fades out normally. They are immune to paralysis.

Skeletons and other undead such as zombies are all human-like in appearance although there are ten playable races in the game. It may be that because of time restraints or a simple oversight by Bethesda that more race variations are not seen in the undead. An example would be the lack of the features present in Argonians, Orcs, and Khajiit, namely a tail and different form of skull. If Bethesda decided to work this into production, it would make a good addition to the undead in TES V: Skyrim and add to the overall detail and lore within the game.

Drops

 * Bonemeal
 * Leveled Weapons and shields

Strengths

 * Resist Frost
 * Immune to Paralysis
 * Immune to Poison

Weaknesses

 * Fire

Damage types

 * Physical

Soul level
Depends on subtype

Quests

 * Lifting the Vale
 * Blood of the Divines

Subtypes

 * Skeleton
 * Skeleton Hero
 * Skeleton Warrior
 * Skeleton Champion
 * Skeleton Guardian

Special subtypes

 * Dark Guardian
 * Red Sabre Skeleton
 * Undead Akaviri Soldier

Unique

 * Lord Kain – Introduced in the Fighter's Stronghold official plug-in