Why is my archery skill lowered in the skills view?

Question

I have 30 archery after I trained it a bit. I chose the Eagle Eye perk which required 30 archery. However, the skill is in bright red and only shows 20. I assume I have a debuff of some kind, but going to Magic->Active Effects shows nothing that would cause that.

Any ideas?

It's reverted back to 30+, but I still don't know what happened.

Answer

This is an occasional bug that many people (myself included) have experienced. For reasons currently unknown, a skill will be debuffed down to its starting level for your character's race. Increasing your skill level (whether through normal skill usage, training, reading a skill book, etc.) generally seems to restore the skill to its proper value.

If you're on the PC version, you can also fix it by opening the console and issuing the command player.modav skillname 1 followed by player.modav skillname -1. Note that the internal name of the Archery skill is "Marksman", not "Archery".

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