The Codex
Lore
What Mereth has written about its own province, in full and in the words it was written in. None of it is a rule and none of it is a system: it is the setting your character lives inside, and the reason a Dunmer in Windhelm meets the reception they do.
- Documents
- 11
- Shelves
- 3
- Words
- 4,209
Written by Mereth, not by the games. This is an alternate 4E 185. Where a document disagrees with something you remember from Skyrim, the document is what is true here.
The orders
The three lore factions, in their own words and in the words of people who left them.
The Companions
The hall at Whiterun, and the mantle nobody has claimed for forty years.
3 passagesThe Harbinger’s Reflections on the Decline of the Guild
A Harbinger writing on how the Companions declined.
3 passagesLetter from Yjorn Gray-Mane, Custodian of the Skyforge
The custodian of the Skyforge, on why his hammer is still.
11 passagesLetters of a Shield Brother in Times of Turmoil
Letters between shield brothers during the turmoil.
6 passagesThe College of Winterhold
The College, its semesters, and what it asks of applicants.
3 passagesThe Thieves' Guild
What the Guild is in Skyrim, told plainly.
3 passages
Magic and faith
Where the province's magic comes from, and who is permitted to teach it.
Law and power
Who holds the province, and who is working against them.