Watchers are floating tentacle-like Daedra. They appear as giant floating eyeballs with multiple tendrils protruding from all sides which they use for melee attacks alongside magical attacks.
Attacks
- Gaze:
- Shockwave:
- Doom-Truth's Gaze:
- Daedric Burn Confirmed as an attack via Patch Update [1]
- Daedric Destruction: Confirmed as an attack via Patch Update.[1]
Quests
- A Bargain with Shadows
- Daughter of Giants
- Dreams to Nightmares
- Godrun's Dream
- Lost in Study
- Sir Hughes' Fate
- The Gate to Quagmire
- The Mad God's Bargain – A watcher must be defeated to close the Daedric portal in northeastern corner of Eyevea.
- The Seeker's Archive:
- The Wounds in the World (must be killed in order to close the Daedric portals they're anchored to)
- Truth, Lies and Prisoners
- Will of the Council
- [?]
Locations
- Dark Anchors
- Castle of the Worm, Coldharbour
- Cliffs of Failure, Coldharbour
- Elven Gardens District, Imperial City IC
- Eyevea (Summerset Isles)
- Firebrand Keep, Stormhaven
- Godrun's Dream, Stormhaven
- Halls of Submission, Coldharbour
- Imperial City Prison IC
- Moonlit Maw. Stormhaven
- Reliquary of Stars, Grahtwood
- Skyreach Pinnacle, Craglorn
- Sanguine's Demesne, Shadowfen
- Shrine of Saint Veloth, Deshaan
- Sir Hughes's Mind. (Omen of Fear)
- Skyreach Pinnacle, Craglorn
- Summoner's Camp, Bangkorai
- The Foundry of Woe, Coldharbour
- The Seeker's Archive, Craglorn
- Tower of Lies, Coldharbour
- Tribunal Temple, Deshaan
- Vaults of Madness, Coldharbour
- This list is incomplete; help us expand it.
Variations
- The Ancient One (Vaults of Madness)
- Dread Watcher (Dark Anchors)
- Glaring Eye – The Seeker's Archive
- Gravelight Sentry (Imperial City Prison) IC
- Lazonthagish – Skyreach Pinnacle, Craglorn
- Lord Brol (Sanguine's Demesne)
- Manifestation of Terror – during the quest "Daughter of Giants" (Coldharbour)
- Omen of Betrayal (Godrun's Dream)
- Omen of Fear (Summoned by Supernal Dreamers – inside mind of Sir Hughes)
- Oru (Halls of Submission)
- Vaermina's Watcher
- Vigilant Watcher (Imperial City Prison IC)
- Watcher Tyrant (Summoner's Camp)
- Yggmanei – Dark Anchors (rarely)
- Zoal the Ever Wakeful (Elven Gardens District) IC
Trivia
- Patch 2.0.5 – Watcher beams will no longer fire simultaneously.
- Daedric Burn and Daedric Destruction now appear correctly, and damage relating to them is now corrected.[1]
- Patch 2.0.6 correctly fixes a bug relating to the Watcher's damage telegraph.[2]
- The Guide book, Kyne's Challenge: A Hunter's Companion/Summerset Isles, makes mention of Watchers.[3]
- Update 1: Update 1 Updated an achievement where killing the Watcher Tyrant and its summoner was not correctly awarding the achievement.[4]
- Update 4: In Update 4, The Watcher's tentacles will no longer clip through the ground when knocked to the ground. We also fixed an issue with the Watcher's eyelid movement.[5]
- Update 5: Fixed a visual effect in the Watcher's Eye's Truth Gaze.[6]
- Update 5: From Update 5, Watchers are immune to Crowd Control Effects.[6]
- Update 5: The quest step in The Wounds in the World can now be correctly shared.[6]
- Update 6: Doom-Truth's Gaze can now be mitigated by block.[7]
- Update 6: Gaze can now be blocked.[7]