Ancient Dragon (Skyrim)

The Ancient Dragons in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim are incredibly resilient. They have a massive health pool and forceful hits that can crush unsuspecting foes. Ancient Dragons can also breathe Yol (fire) or Fo (frost) at their whim. Encountered after hitting level 30.

Their appearance is an orangish-red skin with black markings and spikes. Ancient dragons eyes are green with "cat" pupils.

The Ancient Dragon has a level of 50 and has about 3071 hp and does around 300 damage.

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 it's 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.
 * This IS a bug, as the dragon encountered does not match the description of an Ancient Dragon. It is not orangish-red, does not have black markings, and has spaded tail, similiar to a Frost Dragon. In addition, on all three of my current playthroughs, I have encountered this bug, but it has never once breathed fire at me, confirming the FACT that it IS a Frost Dragon, not an Ancient Dragon.