Autumnwatch Tower is a dragon's lair located in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. It is found far south of Ivarstead and far west of Froki's Shack. It can be spotted at the base of the mountains.
Overview
On top of the tower is a word wall containing a word for the Marked For Death shout. A dragon guards the Word Wall unless Dragon Rising has not been completed, in which case the area will be inhabited by a bandit chief and several other bandits.
A higher leveled Dragonborn can encounter two dragons, including blood and frost dragons. Both must be slain to complete the quest.
Notable items
- Jornibret's Last Dance skill book on top of the smaller tower. (light armor)
- Apothecary's Satchel with random ingredients on a barrel in the larger tower.
- 2 Vampire Dust next to the chest.
Notable loot
- Random leveled weapon(s) in a chest.
Bugs
- 360 Sometimes, the word on the Word Wall will not appear. Loading a previous save will fix this.
Autumnwatch Tower Dragon
A bug at Autumnwatch Tower
- 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.
- One can fall behind the tower and get trapped with no way to get out (unless you are a werewolf) other than to load a previous save or by fast traveling.
- Sometimes when landing on the northern tower the dragon will remain stationary as if paralyzed. It will not respond to attacks or shouts, but it will still take damage. Despite this, upon exhausting it's health bar it will not move or die, and you will be unable to absorb it's soul or loot it. ( Skills can e levelled up on it's "dead" body. ) Reloading the previous save should fix this bug.
- PS3 PC If this location is visited before starting the Miscellaneous quest, the quest will become glitched and will not leave the quest log.
- If the quest to "Kill the Dragon at Autumnwatch Tower" is given by The Blades but the dragon has already been killed and he won't respawn, advance the uest on the PC by entering the console (~ key) and typing "setstage freeformskyhaventempleb 20" without quotes.
- PS3 Sometimes, one may not be able to access the 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 merged with 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.
- When using the 'Dragonrend' shout, the dragon may land on the far side of the word wall, opposite the tower, where its health will take hits, as if it were being attacked, causing the dragon to die outside the world, in an area "outside" of Skyrim.
- Rarely, when dragonrend is used on the dragon here, it will go up in the sky, then fly forward for a long amount of time, then randomly teleport back to the tower.
Appearances
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Template:1st