Dragon Soul



A  is the soul of a Dragon in. They are used to unlock and upgrade various Dragon shouts.

Although words of the Dragon language can be learned from Word Walls without Dragon Souls, Dragon Souls are required to unlock and then upgrade them.

Dragon Souls are absorbed by the Dragonborn immediately upon slaying a Dragon.

At The Elder Scrolls V:Dragonborn Miraak can steal soul of dragon wich means we can't gain dragon soul

Use
The number of Dragon Souls you have can be found in the Magic tab of the Character Menu (in the bottom-right-hand corner). They are kept until they are spent unlocking or upgrading a Thu'um. All new Shouts other than the ones given to you need to be unlocked before they can be used. To do so, acquire a Dragon Soul, then select the Shout in the Magic tab and press the respective unlock key. This same method is used to upgrade the strength of a Thu'um.

If the Dragonborn DLC is installed, once finished its main story they can be used to clear a skill tree of perks and recover the perks.

Trivia

 * The souls of Durnevhiir, Odahviing, Alduin and dragons at Apocrypha are imposible to be absorbed by the Dragonborn.

Bugs

 * Prior to patch 1.2 Dragons would not always burn away after dying, thus allowing no Dragon Souls to be absorbed.
 * It is still possible that killing Dragons doesn't always yield a soul, usually with Blood Dragons. In the rare case this happens fast travelling away and waiting indoors for any period of time, then returning to the place the dragon was encountered can sometimes trigger the absorb animation. This will add a soul to your inventory even if the Dragon's body has disappeared.
 * These issues are still prevalent as of the patch that was released across all platforms alongside the Hearthfire DLC.
 * Although unknown as to the cause, a dead Dragon may appear outdoors when the Dragonborn fast-travels to random locations. This Dragon will be lootable but no soul will be acquired and the Dragon will not burn away after dying. It appears this bugged dead Dragon will follow the Dragonborn when fast-traveling to certain areas outdoors. Locations noted are inside Solitude and a Stormcloak camp off the road heading North-East to Solitude. There is no known fix as of yet.
 * If Disintegrate perk is unlocked  using lighting spell to Dragon  may result with dragon's turn into ash and never give dragonsoul.
 * At Dragonborn DLC if dragon corpse fall to water Miraak just can't absorb it.

Dragon Soul