Autumnwatch Tower

Autumnwatch Tower is a location in Skyrim, located south of Ivarstead. On top of the tower is a word wall containing a word for the "Marked For Death" shout. A dragon guards the Word Wall. The area will be inhabited by a bandit chief and several other bandits if approached before Dragon Rising is completed.

Higher level players can encounter two Dragons, including blood and frost dragons. Both must be slain to complete the quest.



Notable Loot

 * Jornibret's Last Dance skill book on top of the smaller tower. (light armor)
 * An Ebony sword may be found in the chest if your level is around 30.

Strategies

 * When you first fight the dragon, you can stand on top of one of the towers hide inside to dodge its breath attacks; then use your own shout, shoot arrows at it, or shoot spells at it until it crashes. You should be able to take care of it from there.
 * If there are two dragons to fight, avoid fighting both at once. Wait until only one will be nearby and then dispatch it. If necessary, hide and heal, hide and heal, and then engage the other dragon.
 * You can also sneak into the watchtower if you have a high sneaking skill, and use Dragonrend ,if you have it, at the top of the watchtower.

Bugs

 * Sometimes, the word on the Word Wall will not appear. Loading a previous save will fix this.
 * Sometimes the dragon will not be sleeping on the word wall but on the top of the tower instead. This will cause his head to go through the floor. If you kill him in 1 hit he might still take flight with no health left and do a loop before dying. If you have a high enough sneak skill, you will be able to approach the dragon undetected and attack it before it can take off.
 * You can conceivably fall behind the tower with no way to get out other than to load a previous save or fast traveling.
 * If you visit this location before starting the Miscellaneous quest, the quest will become glitched and will not leave your quest log.
 * If the quest to "Kill the Dragon at Autumnwatch Tower" is given by The Blades but you already killed the dragon and he won't respawn you can advance the quest on the PC by entering the console (~ key) and typing "setstage freeformskyhaventempleb 20" without quotes.
 * Sometimes, you may not access your magic menu after killing the dragon. The only way to fix it is to start a new game.
 * This area is extremely bugged and many weird things may occur while fighting the dragon roosted here. One of which is that upon using the ' Dragonrend ' shout, the dragon will crash to the ground as usual but continue to slide into the tower, subsequenty merging itself with the tower. The parts of the dragon not indulged in the tower may still be attacked and the dragon itself, Killed. When trapped in the tower the dragon appeared to just sit there and take a beating till it died.

Appearances

 * The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim