Skeletal Dragon (Skyrim)

Skeletal Dragons are the necrotic versions of the Dragons in. Skeletal Dragons are composed of skinless bones.

Characteristics
As Dragons are resurrected across Skyrim, the Dragonborn can interrupt the resurrection by attacking the rising dragon. This causes a dragon to form that is still bone with no skin or scales, cannot fly, and has weaker defenses.

Locations
A rather resilient Skeletal Dragon appears in the College of Winterhold quest, The Staff of Magnus, serving as the guardian of Labyrinthian. It appears in a large room with four to eight Skeletons and uses the Yol (Fire) and Fo (Frost) breath weapons. The Skeletal Dragon does not have a Dragon Soul or Dragon Scales (including Dragon Heartscales), but will drop up to 6 Dragon Bones; aside from Paarthurnax, this is the only dragon that drops this many bones at one time.

Bugs

 * On rare occasions, during a random dragon fight, the Dragon will suddenly lose its skin and become skeletal. The Dragonborn will even receive a Dragon Soul. The Dragon may become unkilllable after the transformation.
 * There is a possibility to turn any dragon into a skeletal one. To do so, player must kill a dragon from a distance, and before absorbing a Dragon Soul, player must resurrect the dead dragon using a cheat. When dragon will be brought back to life, player will approach him thus gaining Soul and the skin and scales will melt. Player must now fight the Skeletal Dragon.