East of the Sleep Tree camp, south of the smaller mountain in the area, theres a grave site this 3 mounds and a could of ancient nord features, standing there is a skeleton with a black hood/shroud thing, it'll stand and stare at you, withdraw it's weapon like the bandits that warn you about getting too close do, but says nothing and doesn't have a unique name, sadly the awesome hood isn't lootable either . When you get too close 2 normal skeletons will appear as if he "calls" them?

Still whats up with him? Quest related? Aside from having a hood I want (seriously what is with the amount of awesome npc only gear this time round).

It's just a regular baddy. You'll come across them at various stages throughout the game... And yeah they do look pretty cool!

Either at a higher difficulty setting and or higher level these Mage Skeletons appear.


The graveyard as far as I am aware holds no quest value unless you want to count the Nightshade within as part of the quest for the Alchemist in Riften.

Shame, bit weird I've seen him there at level 20 and 47 yet never seen the model elsewhere, well thanks anyway.

sounds awesome, I need to find one... lvl 57 and haven't seen anything like that other than dragon priests.

found one yesterday.. what a blast. While I was beginning to fight one and his skeleton minions, along came a couple necromancers, a sabretooth tiger, and then the giants and mammoths joined in, along with my conjured thrall. Quite a site to see.

I fought one of these at the end of Ironbind Barrow, only one I've seen so far.

Bethesda was really cruel by not allowing you to loot cool headgear.