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Skyrim has "ray traced" shadows in certain places and works great. I was in a cave once and hiding behind a cliff. An enemy was wandering around the next room and I was able to use the shadow cast on him by a torch to observe his movements without having his actual body in my field of view.
All this modern RT nonsense does is make things look slightly better than screen space reflections and tank performance.
That's actually one specific torch!
Just Bethesda things
I've seen the effect in other places, though I guess technically they can stick that torch wherever they want as you explore.
If you mod, that’s likely why you found it in other places. The wiki isn’t kidding when it says it is found in only one place in the game (in vanilla at least.)
Nope, no mods. I've noticed certain braziers will have the effect in barrows and such.