Skyrim:Horker

Horker (lore page)
Location	Coasts of the Sea of Ghosts
Species	Horker	Soul	Petty
Level	3	Type	Animals
		BaseID	00023AB1
Attacks
15-22 pts, Melee
Abilities
None (see bugs)
Other Information
Health	175	Magicka	−25
Stamina	185
Faction(s)	Creature Faction; HorkerFaction; HunterPreyFaction; PreyFaction
Drops
Horker Meat (1 × 100%); Horker Tusk (1 × 100%); Small Treasure (1 × 10%)

A Horker

Horkers are sea animals, similar in appearance to a walrus, that typically live in packs of three or four. They are usually found on ice at the sides of rivers in northern Skyrim.

You can occasionally see a horker crawling up a slope near the seaside. They will become hostile if you approach too closely or provoke them. Horkers are very slow and easy to avoid and outmaneuver, making them easy targets. In water, however, they are much faster and harder to outrun. You may loot their corpses for horker meat and tusks, along with occasionally a small amount of gold or a gem.

The Dragonborn add-on features a unique horker named Lord Tusk on Solstheim. There is also a unique dead horker in Skaal Village^DB.

Hearthfire

The Hearthfire add-on lets you build a horker statue on a large base in the trophy room addition of any homestead. The materials needed are:

Horker
2 Horker Tusk 2 Straw

Notes

• Horker Youngling^DB is a kind of unique horker with decreased size not found in-game. You can only encounter it in the Editor Smoke Test Cell.

Bugs

• Horkers are supposed to have horker abilities (RefID: 0008caca) which adds 50% Frost Resistance and Waterbreathing, but they don't due to an oversight.
  • The Unofficial Skyrim Patch, version 1.2.2, fixes this bug.