About Unrelenting Force and any dragons before the Watchtower...

[BlazeStryker]

Keeping in line with my having called out an incredible stunt in Fallout 4 to point out how the Dragon soul reset at the Western Watchtower is baked into the game, it's time to cite a related FO4 quirk to explain another Western Watchtower stupidity.

In Fallout 4, it was cited how getting into the cryo tube normally removed all items for the cutscene so you come out with an inventory consisting of your Vault Suit and wedding ring... "Ah-ha!" you might say, "The Wedding Ring wasn't removed!" Oh, Yes, It Was, then it got added back in. Bethesda really is like that because they did it with the Fuz Shout in that first dragonslaying!

You read it right; the reason people get that "echo" Unrelenting Force shout in the list when that flying handbag goes down is because the vanilla version of events removes Fuz, then replaces it with the unlocked version while (re)setting Dragonsouls to 0. I don't know if this is due to the word wall being the only way to get at the Barrow boss (and the Dragonstone) or because Betesda just likes to bake in things seemingly at random, but they did it.

[BlazeStryker]

I have found the solution. It's completely lunatic, but here's what you do...

1) Make sure you have and can use an elemental rune spell.

2) Use it on the main chamber's sarcophagus as this will detonate it instantly and wake up the Barrow boss, then kill him.

3) Don't get Fuz off the Wall. Seriously, beating Mirm will instill the unlocked Word anyway, so you don't actually need the Word Wall!

[scorrp10]

Is there a mod idea there?   Yes, games' main quest is structured so that before your first dragon fight, you had to interact with at least one Word Wall.  So what?

[BlazeStryker]

The idea was to fix the duplicate Fus issue at the root. The second part is a sanity measure until it's prevented from happening.