Skyrim Player Stuck With Decapitated Dragonborn

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With a game as big as Skyrim, there's a lot that can end up happening that was never intended to. Open world games tend to have a significant number of bugs and quirks causing weird moments, even in a game that's been out for more than a decade.

Even after all this time, some players still find themselves puzzled when something goes awry in Skyrim. Such was the case when one player found their Dragonborn had lost their head and kept walking around.

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Reddit user BlazeronReddit took to the site to share the odd experience with fellow Skyrim players. A simple screenshot shows the Dragonborn standing, looking completely normal with the exception of the lack of head on their shoulders. BlazeronReddit noted that their character had been decapitated, but kept walking around without their head and they didn't know how to fix it. As it turns out, this isn't an unheard of bug, though it is certainly one of the stranger and more amusing ones to occur.

Skyrim on PC allows users to enter codes that make it possible to do things like teleport to different areas, access secret rooms used as dead NPC storage, or turn on noclip. Another possibility is turning on godmode or no damage cheats, which eliminate all damage to the player. However, no damage cheats don't eliminate the possibility of an auto-kill strike coming from an NPC. In other words, what happened here is the player was using a cheat that protected their Dragonborn from damage to their HP, but not from the physical injury itself. After the decapitating blow, their Dragonborn still had health, so the game didn't register it as a game over and allowed them to keep playing.

While the player seemed disturbed by this discovery,