To resume the guards activity the player should either reload from the last save point or attack the rider who will then unfreeze and attempt to arrest you. Both the horse and rider will merely fixate a few feet above ground.

Sometimes the player can encounter Imperial Legion Riders stuck in a gallop stance.

Detect life cannot be used to locate the invisible 'ghost' guard, the glow will merely appear on the fallen guard's body. One of the Imperials, Cinan, claimed to be related to Abnur Tharn the Battlemage of the Imperial Elder Council (One of Ras Kaliks mentors in the Five Companions). You can fight back against the invisible figure or you can walk over to where the guard died and attack his body to kill him (the body is still twitching as if he is alive). The other men rescued were a Dunmer banker, an Imperial mercenary and two other soldiers, an Imperial and a Breton Knight, stating proudly he was an Akavir descendent. If you resist arrest, you will be attacked by an invisible 'ghost' guard.

If an Imperial Legion Rider is chasing you for a crime while on horseback and he dies while he is still on the horse, the camera will zoom in into a spot on the ground and the guard dialog will begin.

Imperial Legion Riders will sometimes get off their horses and 'float'.

Several of them will also follow you during Light the Dragonfires. Two Imperial Legion Soldiers (and one archer) will follow you from the Chapel of Akatosh during The Battle for Castle Kvatch. On the road east of Brina Cross Inn, once the nearby Oblivion Gate (#39) appears An Imperial Legion Guard Guard Postings ID

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