By now you may have heard that there are certain places on the map where, if you tell a dragon to land, it will "glitch out" and start to fly across Skyrim to land at a spot often miles away from where you started. So for instance, if you board a dragon at the College of Winterhold and tell it to land, it will fly to Shearpoint to land there.

I would like to compile a list of these places so that players wishing to enjoy the scenery of Skyrim will know what the possibilities are. For this list, please indicate what geographical marker your dragon was circling when you told it to land and where it flew to. Also please indicate precisely when you told the dragon to land. For instance, for Lakeview Manor I found I had to tell it to land while we were over the mountain just east of the house in order to get the "glitchy" behaviour. Otherwise, it would just land right by the front door.

I will start this list here:

Geographic Marker..................Where it flies to..............................(where you were when you told it to land)
College of Winterhold..............Shearpoint......................................anywhere but over the town
Riften Stables..........................Lost Tounge Overlook....................directly over Riften
Lakeview Manor......................Southwest of Bleak Falls Barrow......over the mountain east of the house
Throat of the World..................Eldersblook Peak/Solitude..............Eastern side of mountain

Throat of the World (Odahviing) ................ Northwest - anywhere from over Whiterun, Eldersblood Peak, to Solitude ............................... on the eastern side of the mountain

I can't get this one to work. Is it just with Odahving? I have not got to that state of the MQ. I found another dragon and fast traveled to Throat of the World and then tried this. He just set me down near High Hrothgar.

You have to be on your way down to Ivarstead. Try locking onto the troll. We were actually going down the face of the mountain when he glitched (i.e. he'll start to go back up the mountain, but will end up just flying straight over it).

Markarth Stables...................Dragontooth crater(over the mountain to the right of the main gate.) extremely glitchy. I flew straight thought a mountain the ground for quite a while.

I'm under the impression that this can happen almost anywhere on the map now. It seems like there are zones where you can tell the dragon to land, and if you tell it to land outside of those zones, or if you are flying over an environment cluttered with trees and rocks, the dragon gets confused and flies to another location.

Also I flew from throat of the world to riverwood, if you want to add that too.

I was doing more tests just now. I was circling the katariah and when the dragon flew over low res solitude I told it to land. To my surprise it actually did right in the middle of the low res blue palace. I am now walking around low res solitude. All the houses are not loaded but the walls and ground are fully loaded, textures and all. Will have video up soon if you care to see if you can't get it to work.

Videos now up. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p99igLNECb4
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fywNxzZi2ME

So I guess that means I can't return to that Sovengard Gate of Alduins and close it forever and get that Dragon Priest Staff while I am at it because that is what is keeping it open ???

~NS