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Ice Wraiths are swift, elemental creatures of ice and snow in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. They move quickly and use powerful frost attacks.

Contents
[hide]#Combat behavior
 * 1) Locations
 * 2) Quests
 * 3) Gallery
 * 4) Trivia
 * 5) See Also
 * 6) Bugs
 * 7) Appearances
 * 8) References

Combat behaviorEdit

 * Ice Wraiths fight with high damage, frost-based melee attacks, and because of this, are quite tough. More importantly, they are very agile; they may not be incredibly fast when closing in at the Dragonborn, but they move through the air with slithering motions that makes them generally difficult to hit at range, and once they enter melee they are incredibly evasive. They slither in and out of reach with fearsome unpredictability, striking fast and then withdrawing out of reach again. This makes them almost as difficult to hit in melee as in range.  At close range, however, the constant stream of fire from the novice spellFlames works particularly well against them, as one's aim can be readily adjusted to compensate for the wraiths' swift movements.
 * As they are frost-based creatures, they will usually only appear in cold and snowy places. They can thus be very difficult to see (depending on the light) due to their transparency and frosty glow. This can make them even more difficult to hit. They are generally most difficult to make out when viewed against a snowy background on a bright day, but are usually easier to spot at night, when they will glow more than the snow around them.
 * Due to their nature, they are immune to frost damage, but weak against fire-based attacks.
 * Ice wraiths sometimes hide in the snow, and will ambush if given the opportunity, however they can be seen using Detect All Creatures or Detect Life.

LocationsEdit

 * The Midden (which is below the College of Winterhold)
 * The Serpent Stone
 * Throat of the World (this occurs due to level scaling. At low levels, wolves will be present instead)
 * Near Pinefrost Tower
 * Hags End (summoned by a hagraven boss)
 * Bonechill Passage
 * Shalidor's Maze (in Labyrinthian)
 * Weynon Stones
 * The ice covered areas of SolstheimDB
 * The Ice Wraith is also able to be encountered randomly mostly in snowy areas due to its nature.
 * Shrine of Mehrunes Dagon (down the stairs near the rock with the flag)

QuestsEdit

 * The Dragonborn must defeat an ice wraith on the island of the Serpent Stone to be initiated into the Stormcloaks.