Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-60.230.35.86-20140512044045/@comment-9028463-20150329115857

The Dragon priests actually have a special kind of ritual that you can find out about in a journal in-game, from what I know, some Draugr awaken from a death like slumber moving to the Dragon priests coffin passing on a bit of its life force and returning to its resting place and other Draugr do the same thing one by one in a certain order thus keeping the dragon priest alive and sustained while sleeping the deathly slumber, that's pretty much what I know, it's been a while since I went back to playing this kickass game.