Mods?
The Dragonborn DLC collides with some mods that fiddle with certain scripts pertaining to dragon soul absorption. USKP is probably the most famous before it was figured out and rectified with UDBP.
Tried to post them, even using the built in image embedder it just says I can't post links. Guess I need to lurk less

I contacted a moderator about it but I'm not hopeful.
Edit: I just realised I have your weapon mesh mod. I really like it, the vanilla battleaxes look like dollar store toys.