They can be taken out with a few quick hits by any weapon or spells, with fire-based magic doing the most damage, just like most other undead creatures. While they carry slightly more loot, including gold and jewelry, their armor cannot be looted.īy themselves, skeletons are quite weak even at lower levels, having a low health pool and wielding low-tier weapons. Some of these new variants don't fall apart when slain, simply falling over when killed. Others wear black hoods and cast ice-based destruction spells in one hand while wielding a sword or war axe in the other. These new skeletons wear varied amounts of Ancient Nord Armor, ranging from simply boots and cuirass to a full set, and can take more damage than their more fragile counterparts. With the Dawnguard add-on, a few new variants of skeleton appear, and sometimes take the place of other skeletons found in the dungeons of Skyrim, such as Volkihar Dungeons. When defeated, they immediately fall apart in a heap of bones, and the lights in their eye sockets go out. Skeletons have no apparent will of their own, and are mainly employed by warlocks as bodyguards and sentinels to protect ancient ruins, temples, and other places of magic worship. They wear little to no armor, and wield Ancient Nord weapons. Skeletons are magically reanimated bones of dead humans, with glowing blue eye sockets.

Skyrim skeleton race mod