Skyrim Bug Turns Player Into A Horse

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To say that The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim contains a few bugs would be something of an understatement. Even as one of the highest-grossing video games of the last decade, and the fact that it continues to be re-released by the developer, much to the dismay of fans wanting a new installment in the series, there is a litany of glitches that cover the land of Tamriel. While there are those which are more of a real problem, breaking the game and its immersion, there are many which are harmless and mirthful.

Uploading a brief clip to the Skyrim Subreddit recently, user Sherlock_DaVinci has shown that it's possible for the Dragonborn to become a different beast all-together. The 15-second video shows that the player has, through some coding mishap no doubt, been turned into a horse. The user doesn't say how this happened or whether the issue was resolved, but what can be seen is the creature galloping around the snowy landscape, as though nothing is out of the ordinary. What seems to have happened, according to the original poster, was their protagonist «floated away» but the camera was left pointing at the horse and leaving them in control of it.

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Wild animals are often the subject of in-game tomfoolery when it comes to The Elder Scrolls. Another player spotted another horse in Skyrim flying among dragons. In itself, that's quite an immersion-breaking bug, so at least Sherlock_DaVinci's instance just seems to showcase a regular horse running around. Of course, it's still a glitch and with the player now no longer a human character, it remains to be seen whether they would be able to continue with the game properly or not.

Such examples are just a tiny fraction of the bugs that