So i personally never encountered a soulless dragon before until 1.3 patch came out....... only had 2 cases.

however the other night i noticed something very perticuiar about a specific scenario that i not only to repeat/reproduce.. but managed to do this at every point following that involved a purposely spawned dragon... NOT random ones.

Here is how it happened.

you can either sneak up or simply run up to wherever the dragon is suppose to be (in some cases simply being within the spawning range of one can cause it to kill those surrounding it and then do basically the same which means you are still not seen by it specifically causing this glitch to occur without your realizing it). It flies around and is intended to attack you. HOWEVER, if at any point in time your able to "hide" from it and remain out of detected sight, instead of landing BACK where it's supposed to be, more often then not, it'll keep flying around or trigger itself to fly way off into the distance.

When this occurs, the game appears to immediately think that "hey wait, there is supposed to be a dragon here".

What's weird is that so LONG as you are staring at the spot where the dragon should be, it'll never show up, but if you turn your back to it (so the spot isn't in view at all, usually requires you to turn a full 180 degrees and be outside of it's spawn zone), it'll suddenly appear. IF your still sneaking it'll remain there, if you aren't there is a possibility of it flying right away.

Again numerous scenarios that can play out from that point in time can result usually in the dragon becoming "stuck" in a passive mode, sometimes unmoving, but occasionally shooting fire at you on the rare occasion. Sometimes you can kill the dragon and absorb a soul (rare though it seems if this happens). Usually the dragon will just die and not give a soul. And a few times or almost as often, the damn dragon just won't die... hp will hit 0.. and then he/she keeps living on.

Heres a video in which doesn't show the full thing, but, does show shortly after watching the dragon fly away off into the distance shortly after walked into the area, it didn't detect me but just flew up, flew around a short time (i was unable to hit with an arrow), and then started to fly off into the distance, it finally disappeared.. i turned around started walking away and suddenly the dragon is as you'll see in this video below.... just sitting there. I had tried to kill it several different ways prior to this video... this is probably my 4th time to confirm this glitch was repeatable.. even on another machine.

I may tonight if i have time and am not exhausted.... i will upload a full video..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SFMUjRSfqs

Iv'e never gone through all those steps, that I know of, but..

see the thing is... you don't necessarily HAVE to go through all those steps... you could unintentionally trigger it.

For example.

Walk into a zone that may have a dragon spawn.. but if a monster/critter/bandit or whatever happens to be within detectable vicinity of the dragon, EVEN if your not anywhere near it, the dragon will attack. Using tfc/tfc 1 console commands to remain where i'm standing outside of detection zone and watch as the dragon desides to slaughter the few poor animals around it, and then fly off essentially causes this glitch to occur. After it flies off, you come running in where it has respawned, either in the position IT SHOULD BE or some other position it shouldn't be... stuck or not.. or whatever, and this seems to trigger the possibilities of it not dieing/giving a soul/or whatever else.

It just seems directly related.