So I fast travel to Shor's Watchtower and discover that when I fast travel, Frost appears beside me. I love that horse. With him actually having a name and having a quest to obtain him, it makes me feel like there is a connection between me and him. When I got him I rode him all the way to Windhelm from Riften to make sure he would get far, far away from the Black-Briars and they would never again lay a hand on this handsome beast. We rode through camps of bandits, packs of wolves, found a lost Dwemer city, came through a hidden Imperial camp and spent the night around the campfire telling stories, though it was hard to understand his language. Frost is my bro and I am his. He's my brony (though not actually a pony).

Anyway, from Shor's Watchtower I go out to this cavern where I am supposed to go for a quest accepted in Riften. What happens on my way? A dragon appears. Right in front of me. I try to escape it, using Conjure Flame Atronarch to keep it at bay and distract it. After it goes after a camp of bandits right in front of the cavern I need to be at, I decide to roll with it and attack it.

Then, in the middle of all my attempted sneak attacking with my bow, I end up backing up too much and fall down the cliff. No biggie, right? Wrong. Turns out I end up in a tiny crevice that I cannot walk out of any which way. So what do I do? I try to fast travel again to Shor's Watchtower. This works, though for some reason my autosave isn't at Shor's Watchtower after this, but at the crevice I was caught in. The dragon? It's right in front of me, with its big fat dragon ass turned towards me while Frost stands right beside me.

I drink a potion of fire resist, set one step... and it flies up. I run away from Frost, trying to lure the dragon away, Conjuring a Flame Atronarch to attack it as well. I fall down a cliff, but the dragon appears to follow me, lose interest halfway through and starts attacking a troll while I appear to have fallen straight into the middle of a band of wolves. I run. I shoot arrows at the troll when it runs by. The dragon flies by breathing fire all over the dragon. I Conjure a Flame Atronarch to attack the troll. Then the Conjuration Adept from nearby Ansilvund comes charging in with sparks flying to attack me and the troll. The bandits from the cavern camp then appear and a fight breaks out. The dragon has since disappeared from the fight, but checking my map, it appears to be moving south...

The troll downs the Conjuration Adept easily, after which I blast it down with Flames and then deliver the killing blow with a Silver Greatsword. The wolves have apparently since died as well, my guess being from either the dragon's fire or the Conjuration Adept blasting every which way. Finally, I take down the last bandit with a pair of quick chops and loot all the bodies.

I hear a roar. The dragon yet remains near.

I turn and move towards it. It sounds like it's fighting with yet another accidentally attracted enemy. Have I ended up causing a giant free-for-all between all of South Eastmarch's creatures? I round the corner of a snowy rock formation and there the beast is, staring at me with its hellish gaze. It roars, no longer able to fly.

I remember it flied south before I found it again.

South towards Shor's Watchtower.

Shor's Watchtower, where I last saw Frost.

I don't want my suspicions to be true, but I realize it can hardly be any other way. I actually get rather teary-eyed over the mere thought of it. I whisper "this is for Frost, you son of a Maven" and charge in with both hands stretched out continually spewing Flames. My fire proves stronger than his and he goes down just as I start to hear the beating of my own heart. The fire goes out single digits in health before death.

I absorb the dragon soul, loot its corpse, find no signs of other enemies and return to Shor's Watchtower. Frost is nowhere to be seen. He does not appear by my side, nor can I find him anywhere, neither dead nor alive. From earlier experiences, I know Frost easily runs off when frightened by enemies, though sometimes returns to fight, like that one time he bravely took on a troll all on his own. Maybe that's what happened this time? But in that case, either Frost would return once the enemies were dead!

I wait.

And I wait.

But Frost does not come. My suspicions were likely true...


At this point, the immersion breaks and I think for a moment "wel I took down all of the enemies in this entire area due to this, which would have taken much longer if this hadn't happened, plus I got the dragon's soul and everything and I can always get a different horse, right?"

Wrong. Because after all this, I realize that I don't want a ton of a loot and a long list of kills on my name. I want my [censored] brony back. Frost is one of two NPCs I've come across that I've actually really liked. 100%. Full stop. No lie. The other one was the Dunmer bard woman in Candlehearth Hall in Windhelm for singing "The Dragonborn Comes". And this is why, after hunting for mods or cheats to find/resurrect Frost and failing, I simply restarted at an earlier save.

I will now of course continue to hunt for mods that let you track your horse's location and health and a mod for horse-breeding (at least, once I get that Shadowmere mare), because goddammit Skyrim has made me love horses.

You could just use a console command to teleport to Frost's location, or move him to you.

Sadly, from my findings this is not possible if he is dead. Also, I'm playing it on my laptop, not a console.

I love the horses in Skyrim so much more than vanilla Oblivion. Oblivion's horses can only walk and gallop. 2 speeds! Skyrim horses trot and canter, more like a real horse.

Great story, OP. I could only skim some of it bcuz of spoilers, but I get what you're saying. .

Fail.....

I can't believe you don't know what Console Cammands are. :rofl:

EPIC

I like how you made his epic fail a quote in your Siggy, but you should put that other dudes post in your signature as well.

yeah i fixed it, I laughed so hard my coworker came over to see it.

I laughed pretty hard too, I woke my girlfriend and she kicked me in the back.

Luckily her kicks and punches are weak, and she did it by accident.

http://youtu.be/MeG9tQB71aQ

also, holy sht at the battle in the 4th paragraph.

Cool story, bro.

As for your problem, try the following:

resurrect 97E1F

prid 97E1F

moveto player

Nice story!

Your brave fight against the force of evil might have given you a chance by following Bruno Silva advices.

Cool story bro

Brony, haha I like that

well written, write that into a book and upload as a mod. im so gonna download it.

oh and lol at the console part.

I don't know what Console "Cammands" are indeed, but if they are not console-specific, I presume then that they are the things that can be done by pressing ~ and accessing that little screen? I admit I've been rather out of the loop of mainstream gaming for a long while (besides League of Legends, if that even counts).



Thanks! Those will help if it ever happens again.



If I ever take time to learn how to make mods and also actually make them, I will. I'd probably end up writing a whole ton of books, scattered throughout the world.

Ah Frost. I love this horse too. I like that it's named and white but...

what sealed the deal for me is that every time I teleport to a stable and Frost shows up, his bald ex-owner shows up just staring at it. Thinking . o O ( "This was supposed to be my horse. I stole it fair and square, you Monster." )

It's all about the Shadowmere, baby.

More aptly, they're PC (inc laptop) specific. Console in this case refers to a command console, not to a games console. In fact the consoles do not even have this feature at all... .

Hahahaha, this story made me laugh so much! I feel sorry for your lost horse, but the story was hilarious. And more to the question, how did you actually get that named horse?

horses a horse of course because I hate to dismount in a battle or have him charge to his death. I prefer to travel by foot!

Not having played Oblivion, I found out about the existence of Shadowmere afterwards, at which point I found out that Frost is a stallion and Shadowmere is a mare and for some reason that made me want to have a horse-breeding mod, since they are the ONLY two named horses in the game.



Read the end part, I ended up restarting so I didn't lose him. And I got him through a quest from...