» Thu May 31, 2012 12:00 pm
I'm still thinking it's somehow a conjuration bug.
Regarding the Dremora, it didn't matter if I ported to the front gate inside Windhelm or the Palace - they were there. And when I ported to the palace, both my Storm Thralls were gone - turned out they spawned at the front gate instead so I'm thinking the two Dremora took their spawn places when I spawned at the Palace.
I've only recall seeing Dremora Kynreeve spawn as part of the Mehrunes Razor Pieces of the Past quest line [though maybe they spawn elsewhere - I don't know] When you get to the shrine for the last part, two of them spawn and you have to kill them and on their corpses is the Mehrune's Shrine key. Well on both Dremora Kynreeve's that attacked me in Windhelm, they both had a key on their body.
In keeping with my thought about it being a conjuration bug, after I killed them during the Peices of the Past quest, I had rezzed them both and had them as followers for a couple of days. Once they're timers ran out they just fell over and I would re-rez them. Eventually I ended up loosing them in the mountains when I took an alternate route up some steep cliffs and they couldn't follow me. I ended up rezzing a few other dead Bandits. Where the Dremora corpses ended up I don't know but all of these creatures that have been jumping me when I portal in have at one time or another been rezzed by me and ultimately lost. The Dremora that jumped me in Whiterun [see pic in OP] were Kynreeves as well and they also had keys.