Wierd Glitch

[🐉Kesseleth🐉]

I'd just collected the second word for Marked for Death when it gave me the same word I had just collected, but for Drain Vitality. The same thing happened on the third word. I didn't pay it much mind, as I assumed that both would have similar, if not identical, pronunciations in the dragon language due to their similar themes. For some reason, Drain Vitality was on my shout list twice as well, but I figured it was some unimportant minor error that made it show up twice.

So, I just went over to Arcwind Point to get a shout, and the shout turned out to be the first word for Drain Vitality. The description was different than my other 2 DVs, I only had one word, and the word was different as well. Additionally, the quest from the Graybeards to go collect this shout was still in my quest log, despite my having completed the quest.

So, I have two questions.
1: What the hell happened?
2: How can I fix it?

[bobczes]

A way to fix this bug is to perform the following steps:

1, Find a save in which you have not learned any words of Marked for Death and have not started the Dawnguard questline.
2, Delete/uninstall Dawnguard.
3. Load up the save and get all three words for Marked for Death.
4. Reinstall/re-download Dawnguard.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Drain_Vitality

[🐉Kesseleth🐉]

Originally posted by bobczes:

A way to fix this bug is to perform the following steps:

1, Find a save in which you have not learned any words of Marked for Death and have not started the Dawnguard questline.
2, Delete/uninstall Dawnguard.
3. Load up the save and get all three words for Marked for Death.
4. Reinstall/re-download Dawnguard.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Drain_Vitality

That's hours of progress. Probably tens of hours.

[bobczes]

Use the console commands. Remove that which you don't want and add that which you do.

teachword <word> Teach a dragon shout. Teaches a specific dragon shout by code. Each level of a word has a specific code. Use the help command to find the shout's code or look here.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Dragon_Shouts

Learning a word of Marked for Death after having installed Dawnguard causes a glitched shout to appear in the Shouts menu. It is named Drain Vitality, but has all three words of Marked for Death. The recharge is 12,12,12 and the bugged description says "Drains x points of Health per second for 20 seconds. Drains x points of Magicka per second for 20 seconds. Drains x points of stamina per second for 20 seconds." Using the shout causes the effect listed - although no words are actually shouted by the character. NPCs do not become hostile.

This bug is fixed by version 1.1.2 of the Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.

Learning the Drain Vitality shouts will then result in a second Drain Vitality shout, consisting of the right words of power, appearing in your Shout list. Also, if you obtained the location of this shout via the Greybeards, the quest will not update upon learning the Drain Vitality Shout and you will be unable to learn new shouts from the Greybeards.

To fix this bug open the console and type in the following command: player.removeshout xx018244 for the 1 point version or player.removeshout xx0181b8 for the 2 point version. Also see Form ID for more information on the xx.

[🐉Kesseleth🐉]

Originally posted by bobczes:

Use the console commands. Remove that which you don't want and add that which you do.

teachword <word> Teach a dragon shout. Teaches a specific dragon shout by code. Each level of a word has a specific code. Use the help command to find the shout's code or look here.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Dragon_Shouts

Learning a word of Marked for Death after having installed Dawnguard causes a glitched shout to appear in the Shouts menu. It is named Drain Vitality, but has all three words of Marked for Death. The recharge is 12,12,12 and the bugged description says "Drains x points of Health per second for 20 seconds. Drains x points of Magicka per second for 20 seconds. Drains x points of stamina per second for 20 seconds." Using the shout causes the effect listed - although no words are actually shouted by the character. NPCs do not become hostile.

This bug is fixed by version 1.1.2 of the Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.

Learning the Drain Vitality shouts will then result in a second Drain Vitality shout, consisting of the right words of power, appearing in your Shout list. Also, if you obtained the location of this shout via the Greybeards, the quest will not update upon learning the Drain Vitality Shout and you will be unable to learn new shouts from the Greybeards.

To fix this bug open the console and type in the following command: player.removeshout xx018244 for the 1 point version or player.removeshout xx0181b8 for the 2 point version. Also see Form ID for more information on the xx.

Yes! Thank you for giving me a solution that doesn't involve going back a billion hours.