Quote Originally Posted by Voicy View Post
You gather the soul automatically when it's killed. Even if you run away.

However, I've killed about 3 dragons so far that didn't yield a soul to me. Minor bug in the game, is all.
I think you need to get close to the corpse to get the process started, when it looks like it's disintegrating. After that then you can move away. I remember during the weekend that I had to chase a dragon's corpse down the side of a mountain to get the soul. Or it might be that the process doesn't start until the corpse has stopped moving.

As for the not absorbing part, I think that bug was fixed in the 1.2 patch. Haven't had any recently.