Skyrim:Guards

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For the mechanic that aggresses Guards, see Crime.

For their dialogue, see Guard Dialogue.

Guards are NPCs who are usually found in towns and cities in Skyrim. If you commit a crime, they can arrest you and will attack if the arrest is resisted. Under some conditions, guards can be bribed; see the crime page for details.

Guards by Region

All of the guards below will pay attention to your bounty in the hold that they are patrolling for, and only attack you if you resist arrest when they try to arrest you. Note that it is possible for a guard in the wilderness to wander into a different hold, usually because of combat, but you will still only be arrested if you have a bounty in the hold that the guard is from.

In some quests, there are NPCs called guards who do not obey these rules, and may attack you despite not having tried to arrest you; most of those NPCs are in the Reach.

Eastmarch	Falkreath Hold	Haafingar	Hjaalmarch	The Pale	The Reach	The Rift	Whiterun Hold	Winterhold	SolstheimDB
Windhelm Guard	Falkreath Guard	Haafingar Guard Solitude Guard Stormcloak Guard	Hjaalmarch Guard Morthal Guard Stormcloak Guard	Dawnstar Guard Pale Hold Guard Roadside Guard	Markarth City Guard Reach Hold Guard Silver-Blood Guard Wizards' Guard	Imperial Guard Ivarstead Guard Rift Guard Riften Guard Shor's Stone Guard	Whiterun Guard	Winterhold Guard	Redoran Guard

Gallery

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  Windhelm

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  Falkreath Hold

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  Haafingar / Solitude

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  Hjaalmarch / Morthal

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  Pale Hold / Dawnstar

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  Reach Hold / Markarth City

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  Rift / Riften / Shor's Stone / Ivarstead

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  Whiterun Hold

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  Winterhold

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  Imperial / Roadside

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  Stormcloak

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  Silver-Blood

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  Redoran^DB

Notes

• Guards will attack you if they see you wearing the Gray Cowl of Nocturnal^CC. Followers who wear the cowl are not affected by this.

Bugs

• A number of city, town, and hold guards fail to respawn due to missing respawn flags in the game data. This can potentially lead to depopulation of the entire guard force in the affected areas over time.
  • The Unofficial Skyrim Patch, version 2.0.7, fixes this bug.

See Also

• Guard Dialogue
• Crime

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