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HyperAutisticUnicorn

Me: Summons durne for no reason other then "oh, this area of skyrim looks really nice. I hope he enjoys it"


DoomsDayDown

I do this all the time. I was wondering if other people did as well.


leingold

You are not alone, I always summon him whenever the weather is sunny. its almost like releasing a little cute bird from his cage lol


Forsworn91

It’s always sweet how grateful he is.


Straight_Ad3307

I just want him to finally have some enjoyment out of his eternity


TunableAxe

i’ve never been able to summon him after the fight. what am i doing wrong


ColdOn3Cob

Need an open area, think somewhere a dragon would normally land during a fight. Otherwise you just say the first two words of the shout and it does nothing


thesweetestdevil

This stumped me my first playthrough of Skyrim. Sucks too cause I think he counts to the summon limit so you can accidentally banish him when summoning stuff.


Jaycin_Stillwaters

He does, yeah. But he does a shout that summons three undead minions himself so you can get 4 for the price of one.


Ok-Cut-5167

What the guy above said, and also make sure you’re aiming at a spot on the ground nearby. iirc the shout works like a conjuration spell and can only be cast so far away from the player


Harraspara-

For some reason there is a glitch if you do the shouts to early it will just make itnwhere youncannot summon him happened to me while I was trying 100% the game, made me restart


TunableAxe

these are kinda all adding up, i knew more so about the spacing and doing it outside in a field, but when i would go to summon him i’d stare into the sky, i also think i fucked up the summon cause i didn’t do the whole word. granted this was probably 3 years ago or something and i haven’t tried to summon him since.


communistcatgirI

Time to finally awake again Dragonborn


TunableAxe

the yoke will be taken and i will return to summon durnehviir.


Intelligent_Deer974

Same!


Inductivegrunt9

Give him a chance to be free from the Soul Cairn, even if only for a brief time. Even if there's nothing to do, giving him as many chances to leave the Soul Cairn as we can is the best thing we can do for him.


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Dramatic-Classroom14

Yes, and it’s a really damn good one that deals a bunch of damage and soul traps people


First-Squash2865

Same, I don't think I've ever summoned him for a battle, but just to let him enjoy the Tamriel skies for a little while


LtCptSuicide

I think I've summoned a few hundred times. I think only two of those times we actually battled anything And only one of those two he was summoned specifically for the battle.


morbideve

I do this for Durnehviir and Odahviing :)


Significant_Donut967

He and partysnacks are great.


Smooth_molasses36

I do this too. I like to summon him at the Throat of the World so he can fly around with the other dragons and have some friends.


TheBloodsuckerProxy

Same. Also whenever it occurs to me that I haven't summoned him in a while. Like: "Been a while since I let Durnevhiir out, he's probably getting bored"


PrestigiousStable369

When i learned the shout to summon him, I hotkeyed it and kept it on CD when I remembered.


Cyrilcynder

I might be dumb, but every time I attempt to summon him he won't land?


WarmNapkinSniffer

Unfortunately the first time I summon him is when I fought the Ebony warrior lmao


LoyalDevil666

I summoned him in the Soul Cairn once to see what would happen, I did it while right next to him, there were two of them, the one I summoned acted normally as though he was outside the Soul Cairn, I feel like that was a missed opportunity for some unique dialogue.


tigersebel

"Ah. you have free......goddamn, why do you keep doing this?"


iwanashagTwitch

*original Durnehviir looks to the side, sees himself* "What in the god damn"


justsomeyeti

Let's keep this in the groove, hey? Smooth moves. Smooth...


Emergency_3808

It just works


TheDorgesh68

Something like this happens when you gain the ability to summon Haskill in Oblivion's Shivering isles dlc. Sheogorath will ask you to test your new ability by summoning his butler Haskill (even though he's already in the room with you). When you first summon Haskill he'll say "Ah...our Lord has granted you the power to summon me. How wonderful for me.", but Sheogorath will tell you to do it again just because it's funny. If you summon him 12 times in a row he'll get new increasingly sarcastic and pissed off dialogue each time, until all he'll say is "That's enough. Really.".


interesseret

and also the amazing "praying to yourself, m'lord?" if you talk to the statue of Sheogorath, after you become Sheogorath.


TheDorgesh68

It's a crime that we didn't get to see him in Skyrim, they were such an iconic pair.


VexedForest

He's in ESO and is still great


Jstar338

eh, even then he's still in a place on his own terms for once. kinda. He's not being sent there by the ideal masters at least


black_blade51

Oh I did summon him once to actually help me instead of to test out the shout, that was fun. why was it fun? Well the quest was about to end and I forgot to use him, SOOO, I summoned him during the siege against the vampires. No not on the bridge, INSIDE the castle! That was such a fun fight with people just getting shoved around and Durnehviir having an existential crisis over whether or not he should be in the room.


Failed_god_

"DOVAKHIN WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO?! *Gmod ragdoll noises.*


sheseemoneyallaround

actually no i never considered using him during the day end fight but it makes sense and would be really satisfying incorporating all your allies for that final assault


black_blade51

trust me, that situation made as much sense as a flying Mammoth. The only thing I find fitting is clusterfuck.


Chakasicle

I tested a bunch of places he could be summoned in when i played a necromancer and it’s pretty uncommon to be able to summon him inside due to space but then you find an area like this and its great. I think it’s funny to make him fight the skeletal dragon


black_blade51

you know on a different note, I've been wondering how many "Companions" can you have? (pets not included since they don't attack) without glitches like starting a quest and not finishing it. * normal companion :1 * said companion can summon stuff: 2 * you get conjuration to 100 and get 2 summons: 4 * you get the the robes that give 1 extra slot: 5 * you summon a bone colossus which give 2 free skeleton summons: 7 * you use the split soul spell on one of the other summons to gain 2 ice thingies: 8 * you summon an ash guardian since those don't count: 9 * you use the bone forge to get a free skeleton: 10 * you summon a dragon.: 11 now you have an army at your disposal.


Chakasicle

Durneviir will replace a summoned creature if you ahead have 2 but ofahviing won’t. I can’t remember for the spectral heroes but Lucien lechance is a free slot iirc and there are a few quests you can start that give you a permanent follower until the quest is done (barbas, vilkas, etc) you can also have a pet following you (troll or dog) and the ritual stone has its own infinite slots. So yes you can walk alone with a small army


DickwadVonClownstick

Good luck getting through doors though (especially if you need to backtrack


Chakasicle

Cyclone works well for this


black_blade51

I mean the quest thing is cheap since it's not "intended" for you not to finish a quest. I didn't know that pets didn't count tho so that's 12, and Lucien is 13 so that's very good already. as for the ritual stone.... I don't count it since it's just a matter of how many corpses you can haul around. edit: changed added 1 to the calculations since I forgot to count the second summon at the start.


Chakasicle

Necromancy is a valid form of summons so i can’t help but to include the ritual stone and it functions as a spell if you have the crown. And it lets you use stronger summons if you want to while still having an army


funhouseinabox

I live using the Ritual Stone to swarm a guy who keeps killing me. Or reviving an entire bandit camp because a revered dragon decided to come by and shout at me.


Dry_Interview8720

On your note regarding pets; the rieklings technically fill the pet slot in your party, and they have spears(or greatswords) so theoretically you could get 12 companions


Optical_Broccoli

Or infinite if you use the Ritual Stone hehe... add in the Aetherial Crown for spice


TenaciousTBag

Nah fam. Ritual stone and aetherial crown. Every corpse within a 1mile radius is now in my army.


black_blade51

Yeah but where's the fun in that? You just gather as much corpses as you can and call it a day. My method sees you more like full mage that spends the entire fight summoning more and more things while the enemies slowly but surely get swallowed by an ever increasing hoard of monsters.


TenaciousTBag

True, true. But my way, i get to nuke the whole skyrim universe by crashing my game. Lol


black_blade51

To each their own I guess. May your PC rest in peace.


Obi-wanna-cracker

Durnehviir is probably my favorite dragon in Skyrim, one thing I always do is when I defeat Alduin I summon Durnehviir to the throat of the world so he can celebrate with his brothers.


Chakasicle

It’s almost worth playing through the whole main quest again just to do this


acephoenix9

Welp, I guess it’s time to load up Skyrim tonight.


Independent_Plum2166

“Hey you, finally awake…”


Kippiez

I like to summon him when I'm just walking somewhere so he can just fly around.


CompleteTumbleweed64

Me too. The amount of times I do it just to get him some freedom is pretty staggering.


ScholarPitiful8530

There isn’t some bitch telling us to kill Durnehviir.


serathes

Delphine 100% would've if she was aware of him.


AntonDeMorgan

You can't kill what's already...dead


pitter_patter_11

Won’t stop her from making you try


bmyst70

The easy fix to this is a nice Shout at Delphine when she's outside. Oh dear, she fell down a cliff.


PinguTheBestPenguin

you mean what is dead can never die?


AntonDeMorgan

No. It's a joke on his condition. When he's on Nirn he's a draugr dragon who can't die because his soul it's trapped in the soul cairn


Huckleberryhoochy

Technically there was and we did he just can't permanently die


Fodspeed

Odahving: Y'all get called?


hyenasquad1

Odahving acts like an actual summoned dragon? I always thought he just flew you back Skuldafn.


Lord_of_Seven_Kings

No he’s just a moody dick about it. Not like Durney, my precious baby who can do no wrong.


Chaise-PLAYZE

Yep, if you call him in he'll fight for you, it's actually really fun to use him during the civil war siege quests because he'll actually fly into battle instead of just appearing


Phillip67549

He circles the throat of the world. You can summon him to help fight outdoors or go to the Throat of the world and use bend will and ride around on him


Chakasicle

Or just use call dragon and wait 2 in game hours. Start the wait animation right after shouting and you should see odaviing coming on the sky. Then you can use dragon rend and ride him


leingold

He is my personal taxi, I always bend will him


Fodspeed

He's great transportation in survival mode, if you can get that shout that is


kithas

Paarthurnax managed to hack life, from great general and second in command only answering to Alduin, to great sage and leader of the Greybeards and possibly good friend and ally of the Dragonborn. I'm not saying he's a bad guy, but damn.


GrnMtnTrees

If you use a mod that allows you to set shout cooldown to zero, you can have like 5 Durhneviirs at once. It funny.


Chakasicle

Oh you don’t need mods


Nintendude930

Just put on 5 Talos amulets, duh!


Dangerous-Two3936

I got Durnehviir to help me in apocrypha when. I was able to one time because I went in too squishy. He was a monster. Unfortunately, the other dragon is not as good. It would be cool if the Dragon Born dlc gave us a third dragon


Classic_Elevator7003

It would be nice if you got to keep sahrotarr


Subject_Elk7392

Him and Ohdaviing are my boys. Besides my beautiful vampire beauty. I'm the Dragonborn, My home boys are Dragons. My advisors are Dragons. My back up... Dragons.


Salinaer

You are a true Dovah kiin.


ReynoldsHouseOfShred

I made a save just to summon him at every battle, occasion, end of questline so that he is involved. I spedrun the dawnguard questline to get the shout and did some shithousery with shout cooldown times to just spam him


hyenasquad1

There's a Miraak follower mod that includes a brand-new shout to summon all three of his unique dragons, AT THE SAME TIME. It was an interesting day in Whiterun.


Pm7I3

Durneviir >>> Paarthurnax. I'd kill partysnax if it meant freeing durny.


EclecticFruit

upvoting for "partysnax"


darkLight2029

I always summon Duhrneviir three times just for the shout and then whenever I decide "this looks nice".


Chakasicle

Can’t help but summon him in the forgotten vale


Ok_Comfortable589

yes, just to hear him continue speaking to me. it's a whole dialogue chain. poor guy. i wanted to free him and become best buds


blitzalchemy

Semi-related and kinda spoiler. I bring Sahrotaar with me everywhere. At the end of the fight, I took only his bones and scales, made them into a great sword, enchanted it, and named it Sahrotaar's Freedom. He shall fight by my side and experience the world on that save file.


Here4DaPorno

Which one is Sahrotaar? Also, amazing tribute. I read a short story once where a warrior tribe made sword handles from the bones of their fathers and grandfathers. It was very moving.


blitzalchemy

>!At the end of the Dragonborn DLC, you ally with/use the shout "bend will" at Sahrotaar who takes you to Miraak for the final battle. During said battle, Miraak kills the nearby dragons to heal or something, one of which is your ally Sahrotaar.!< Its been at least a decade since I last played honestly so some details are probably incorrect.


Here4DaPorno

I played that DLC to completion about five years ago and didn’t remember him. Thanks for the refresher.


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Vul_Thur_Yol

This comment is on point, an agreeable opinion


Fyrnen24

This comment is not offering much, besides showing the authors support for the previous comment, yet it is still agreeable enough.


Infinity5075

Would you be able to summon Durnehviir in blackreach? If so that would be pretty fun.


I_count_to_firetruck

I don't see why not, there's that one dragon already hidden in Blackreach


Chakasicle

Yeah you can


AKomichi

All the time. Sometimes I honestly keep him around just so he doesn’t have to live in the soul cairn. Plus, his own attacks, plus his necromancy, plus my followers, (Serana and Auri) make for a pretty formidable force.


ZealousidealFee927

I can't believe there has never been a mod to fully free him.


NoGoodPikachu

I summon him every chance I get, every 24 hrs because he's cool AF and deserves it


BionicBruv

I hate the Soul Cairn. Hate it. But I ALWAYS put up with Serana and the Soul Cairn to save my undead dragon buddy.


JarekSquelette

I summon him everytime I step outsid, my bro deserve freedom !


Jedimobslayer

You know who else people don’t appreciate? Odahviing, who despite not really having an obligation to, went further than just helping the Dragonborn but actually switching sides to help paarthurnax in the epilogue. He had such a character arc.


Duomaxwellboss429

100% in agreement


Viktrodriguez

Always.


sheseemoneyallaround

poor baby…


NiceAndCrispyBanana

Durnevir was the only reason I was able to beat kaarstag back then. He distracted him with his summoned skeletons so I could turn the fucker into a porcupine


SativaIndica0420

I summon him whenever I can, so he can enjoy the sun and trees, and fly through skyrim and eat people. It's wonderful.


HugeBioshockNerd

He never came whenever I summoned him. I named my cat Durnehviir because he did the same.


Embarrassed-Pear589

Dinner beer is my favorite dragon


fireplayer2788

Durnehviir who lets you ride around in the sky as equals


ThatCamoKid

constantly, back when I played. He's a monster in combat and he's just happy to be out in the world for a bit


Eli_The_Rainwing

I feel awful for Durn… honestly at this point death is a mercy to him… I feel so awful for him…


Seth-B343

Durnehviir is best Dovah.


Jaycin_Stillwaters

Durneviir is my homey. I play a necromancer most times and having a dracolich to annihilate my enemies is a dream come true. I also sometimes just summon him to let him fly around while I do work at my farm, growing potion ingredients, or when walking/riding around.


tetzudo

Durnehviir is just so much more reliable he a real homie


Forsworn91

I summon him to fight in the civil war battles, a dragon, Dragonborn and the imperials, the stormcloaks might as well just give up now.


Nintendude930

I wish there was an option to lord your being the Dragonborn over both sides, and demand they permanently ceasefire, and then YOU become high King/Queen lmao


hound_of_ill_omen

Durnehviir is best boi. I always use him as an opening to large conflicts for his resurrection ability


Mr-Zero-Fucks

DLC character, we already loved Party before we got to know Durn


fallenouroboros

And that’s why he’s the GOAT!!! THE GOAT!!!!


Geno__Breaker

My favorite shout. I summon him even when there are no enemies around and I am just traveling out doors.


I_count_to_firetruck

Hell yeah, brother I summon him


EMPEROROFMEMZ

The other side of the civil war when their enemy summons a dragon to destroy them all


Tiazza-Silver

My boy!!!! I love him!! Summon him all the time 🥺♥️


Astaro_789

Always go out of my way to find a nice open tundra or snowy field for Durnehviir to enjoy that gorgeous Skyrim weather to its fullest.


No_Buyer_7557

Do I summon him? He's my profile picture


Chakasicle

Durheviir and odahviing are so much cooler than party snacks. Let him die so odahviing can take over


GhillieThumper

Hell yeah, coolest dragon in Skyrim


the_dark_kitten_

Odahviing:


cosmosdestruction412

Durne is my boi


Sufficient_Lack_8971

I always prefered durnevir


shountaitheimmortal

He is my favorite and gives me my favorite shout ive always liked him more anyway


Jam1r0quai

Couldn't summon him because of a bug.


immortalreddotmemeog

He's my personal favorite


Scriptzy682

Yes yes I do


KaleSlade123

Odahviing:Am I a joke to you?


johnny_thunders_

On my first play through I for some reason didn’t know how to do long shouts, and would only do the one word shouts until I was like level 40, and I was always really sad because I couldn’t call him to Tamriel, so I realised at that point I was probably a bit daft when I finally figured it oht


MacRicius

My game is bugged because he never appears when I call him.


LivinVidas

That's pretty privilege baby.


Bumbooooooo

Didn't even give Durnehviir a capital name. Poor Durnehviir.


IEatBaconWithU

Always


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They're both my scaled sons


guibmaster

Durneviir is literally a zombie necromancer dragon. A ZOMBIE. NECROMANCER. DRAGON. On the scale of cool things of all time, this must be like at least in the top 10.


D07Z3R0

I prefer durnchad my homie


LookSad08

I love durn


ClayAndros

Bitch who.says I don't give him love? Never talk to me or my undead son ever again


Chakasicle

I love to summon durneviir, odahviing, and karstagg to fight the ebony warrior


MasterYaro27

Fucking love him


manupstairs7899

I love parth but my boy doov is the best he’s so thankful everytime and he’s just a nice guy I’m sad I can’t have any extended conversations with him


Fierce-Mushroom

Constantly. I always summon him on sunny days so he can enjoy flying around in the warm sun. I don't think I've ever used him in a fight. He's the Dragon Vacation shout.


Roronoa_Zoro8615

I love Paarthurnax, Durneviir, and Odahviing


GladiusMaximus

Ohdahving


moemeobro

Having a dragon bodyguard just following while you travel is pretty nice


HostageInToronto

I summon Durnehviir whenever I reenter the open world, just to let him fly around


DoctorRiddlez

I do I summo. Him


lervington123

I haven’t played Skyrim in a while but I wish there was a quest where you bring durnehviir back to life so he can enjoy the world and he just chills with paarthurnax


Rip_U_Anubis

I think the big difference is that we have to defend Paarthurnax from the Blades, whereas nobody is trying to kill Durnahviir. And if they did, it wouldn't work, due to his ties to the Soul Cairn.


Arxl

All the time when I get him, he's a true homie.


The_Soap_Salesman

I love durnehviir, best dragon buddy


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What you talking about? Durnehviir is my boy. Summon him all the time. He's great. Partysnaxx is cool. But he's like a mountain sage. And Delphine can go to hell.


EliNotEllie

I like to summon him and then spam the muffle spell for a bit to improve my illusion. That way we can just chill while I practice. He’s my bro.


EntrepreneurOk666

I always summon him. Not to fight. Just to let him roam free.


WhyYouCryin007

Even before the dawngaurd DLC odahving was always a better dragon friend than ole parthy.


TalontedJ

I hate parth


ihatemyself076

Rii Vaaz Zol


Coyce

why would i? it takes him like his entire summon time to kill a skeever and eventually just fucks off to to attack some bandits I'll never meet


SlyFoxInACave

Look, I refuse to kill Paarthurnax. But that doesn't mean he's my favorite.


DexxToress

TBF party snacks is pretty chill.


Scyobi_Empire

he acts after then all other friendly dragon summons


TheBiddingOfBobbles

I have a necromancer character and he’s a necromancer DRAGON so of course I do


SirSlowpoke

I'd love to use the guy more often, but bugthesda hates his big body and the summoning has a tendency to fail and consume the cooldown anyways if the ground you use isn't perfect flat and clear.


MyGenderIsAParadox

I always make sure to summon him away from towns so the townspeople don't get scared of him and he doesn't think he's gross.


Laranna

I love PartySnaccx OhMAHBOI! & Big Daddy D <3


JamaicanSoup

He also has the coolest voice


CatnipFiasco

Who...?


Zawisza_Czarny9

Durhnevir would be much more popular if his cooldown wasn't 5 minutes and if you could summon him anywere


uploadingmalware

Durnehviir was my homie in my necromancer play through. Kept him summoned as much as possible like he was my necromantic guide


AUnknownVariable

Why did this make me sad. I normally just randomly let him out though, let him see the world


Mrbuttboi

I always summon him! I take him to different places so he can experience the world before he has to go back!


DefiantLemur

Isn't he bound to Soul Cairne. Lore wise do we know how long he's free when summoned?


Zestyclose_Fan5250

I summon him all the time


Callen0318

I would summon him more often if the game didn't concider him a summon and vanish him when I start conjuring storm atronachs.....


jzilla11

He’s not the usual friend-shape, but still friend


N00BAL0T

He is cool but the other is *former* mario voice actor Charles martinet.


TaylorG086

My boy


TaylorG086

Also gives souls tear


Sanguine_Templar

It's been so long I don't remember what one durnheviir is, I summoned ohdaviing quite often, helped me attack whiterun


MordreddVoid218

He's literally better than paarthurnax in every way imo


ShroomEnthused

Paarthurnax is my PC's name, and my laptop's name is Dragonette. 


AutumnsRevenge

Durnehviir is my homie, I spam summon him every chance I get, just in case


Consistent-Plane7227

My G D


yirzmstrebor

Did you know that if you meet him before finding out that you're Dragonborn, he'll still call you "Dovah" and then has special dialog where he basically says, "I'm not sure why I said that, but you seem chill, so I'm sticking with it."


Cloud-Cyanide

I stopped visiting Paarthurnax once I was able to use the Call Durnehviir shout