Two Dawnbreakers glitch?

[privateereck]

I was doing the Quest where you clear Meridia's Temple to get the Dawnbreaker.

At the final part I stealth killed all of the corrupted skulls and OHKO'd the boss and his spirit form.

I saw the Dawnbreaker on the ground after clearing the room and then I realize there was another on the pedestal where the objective counter pointed.

I think there is a mini cutscene involving the usage of that Dawnbreaker copy but was avoided due to being undetected. Dunno if anyone wants to try it out and see if they get the same results as I.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

This has always been a glitch.

You can activate the glitch by using an AOE spell like Firestorm near the pedestal before claiming Dawnbreaker.

It causes the second copy of Dawnbreaker to go flying somewhere in the room, while the original Dawnbreaker is still on its pedestal.

[Mr D Grim]

This is a well known duplication glitch. if you use something like a fireball to ragdoll stuff you can ragdoll a copy of that sword away from the pedestal.
you then first pick up the copy that got blasted away. and then pick up the one on the pedestal. and you should be teleported away according to the wiki. i haven't played this ♥♥♥♥ in ages so i don't remember it exactly XD

[privateereck]

I guess old glitches still exist on here then. I was just unsure what caused it othe than stealthing the whole thing. I don't recall hitting the pedestal at all.

[OvenproofPanda]

^^^ Not really much point in doing it on the PC though. Player.additem works just as well :p

[diaskeaus]

I don't know what happened but I got two Dawnbreakers when I completed the quest. They were just a reward, so the sword actually had (2) next to it when I completed the quest.

Very odd. I didn't follow any of the glitch instructions or even knew that a glitch existed. I just looted the sword after I killed the shade.

However, I did kill the shade is a very untraditional manner. Since I was only level 8 when I killed Malkoran, I threw a firebolt while standing at the top of the stairs before his lair to attract him and his shades. Then I ran out into the main chamber and waited for him and his minions to follow me. He chased me all over the ruins, until we finally ended up shooting magic at each other for who knows how long. He would throw icebolts (or whatever they were) at me, I'd dodge, and then use shock on him until he ran out of magicka, then attack him until he got his magicka back. Swallow about a dozen potions to get my health and magicka back, and then rinse and repeat. Dodge, shock, melee attack with a one-handed scimitar.

Finally killed him and his shade and went down to loot the sword. Then when the quest completed I ended up with two.

Weird. Seems like a bug, since normally when you encounter Malkoran he shuts the door behind you and you can't get out until you kill him and his shade.

*Possibly the reason for the bug is that Malkoran actually chased me into another room (the first room of the ruins), so he followed me outside of his room. But he never went back into his lair, he would just camp himself by the door and wait, and rush if you approach his aggro range. So I killed him in another loaded "instance" of the ruins. Possibly the game interpreted this weirdly.

[privateereck]

Originally posted by diaskeaus:

I don't know what happened but I got two Dawnbreakers when I completed the quest. They were just a reward, so the sword actually had (2) next to it when I completed the quest.

Very odd. I didn't follow any of the glitch instructions or even knew that a glitch existed. I just looted the sword after I killed the shade.

However, I did kill the shade is a very untraditional manner. Since I was only level 8 when I killed Malkoran, I threw a firebolt while standing at the top of the stairs before his lair to attract him and his shades. Then I ran out into the main chamber and waited for him and his minions to follow me. He chased me all over the ruins, until we finally ended up shooting magic at each other for who knows how long. He would throw icebolts (or whatever they were) at me, I'd dodge, and then use shock on him until he ran out of magicka, then attack him until he got his magicka back. Swallow about a dozen potions to get my health and magicka back, and then rinse and repeat. Dodge, shock, melee attack with a one-handed scimitar.

Finally killed him and his shade and went down to loot the sword. Then when the quest completed I ended up with two.

Weird. Seems like a bug, since normally when you encounter Malkoran he shuts the door behind you and you can't get out until you kill him and his shade.

*Possibly the reason for the bug is that Malkoran actually chased me into another room (the first room of the ruins), so he followed me outside of his room. But he never went back into his lair, he would just camp himself by the door and wait, and rush if you approach his aggro range. So I killed him in another loaded "instance" of the ruins. Possibly the game interpreted this weirdly.

I think we broke the cycle. Regardless, I ended up using Bows more than swords. I was also finding old glitches as well like the combat audio loop after doing certain civil war quests.

[Draconifors]

This literally just happened to me. And I didn't use any AoE spells anywhere near the pedestal. I wonder if it's possible that Malkoran's shade somehow caused the glitch, as it was using Fireball. Or maybe my scroll Storm Atronach caused it?

Oh well, I now have two Dawnbreakers I'll probably never use. :P

[The Major Gear]

Does this work with Unofficial Skyrim patch installed?

I’m not a mage so I don’t have any AOE spells, would Unrelenting force shout work?

[Mringasa]

Originally posted by NuklearRaver:

Does this work with Unofficial Skyrim patch installed?

I’m not a mage so I don’t have any AOE spells, would Unrelenting force shout work?

I "think" that was patched out with the Unofficial Patch, but not 100% positive. Would have to check the billions of changes made from the changelog.

[Karkuss]

I reproduced it with a bow; shooting arrows at the pedestal to cause a distraction, I must have hit the blade and caused the copy to pop out. Picked it up from the ground then activated the pedestal. 2 Dawnbreakers is shiny.

[Lord(V)alik13]

This is still a glitch in Skyrim SE. Just had it happen with the Shades knocking it off. Cheers

[k0zm0tis]

I had (almost) the same issue. I sneak attacked with a plain bow and arrows. I one-shotted Malkoran from beyond the room, then took two shots at each of the shades as they ran over. I ran up, saw Dawnbreaker on the ground right next to Malkoran's body but under some goo, grabbed it, then activated the pedestal. Despite getting two Dawnbreakers, I didn't want the Oblivion Walker achievement getting glitched so I reloaded my save from just before I shot Malkoran. I purposefully didn't do anything to cause an explosion this time, but when I got up to the pedestal the second time, Dawnbreaker was on the ground again and also still in the pedestal.

[k0zm0tis]

I'm SURE I didn't cause any explosions or anything the second time. So maybe the shades knocked it off - OR when Malkoran died (or his shade died) there was some kind of explosion. It couldn't have been him casting a spell, because both times I one-shotted both him and his shade before they could cast anything. I don't know. But just fyi, two Dawnbreakers sheathed behind Auriel's Shield looks pretty darn cool.

[Evo]

i got 2 somehow as well lol, XD looks good on my weapon plaque

[NoirRose]

so im not the only one who got it x2. :(