User blog comment:Blood Reaper/Skyrim Dragon Armor/@comment-4043978-20111105182046/@comment-99.72.141.10-20111105182957

That's logical, yes. It would be silly to throw pieces of dragons in caves when the objective of the game is to kill the dragons... you need to kill a dragon to get the good stuff. The scales can probably be used in alchemy as well, considering how silly it would be, in retrospect, to have the most terrifying and awesome creature in the game only have loot specific to one skill--smithing. I dont think you will randomly find dragon bones and scales, but i think it is possible a high-level boss will have some, or the armor itself, as i said. of course this boss would need to be impossible to kill and be tied to an extravagent and long quest, so that only characters comprable in skill to those who would have smithing at level 100 would be able to defeat him. or it.