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The World

Skyrim in 4E 185, ten years after the Great War, on an alternate timeline where the named characters are gone and players fill those roles. This page covers who grants property, what each interaction key does, how needs and the calendar work, and what happens after a crime.

Races
10
Access modes
6
Interactions
9
Systems shipped
21
Longships in the shallows
Longships in the shallowsThe whole province is playable, so a harbour is somewhere people actually arrive.
Old bones in the snow
Old bones in the snowThis site explains how everything works, and stops short of what is inside the dungeons. Knowing the boss is at the bottom before you go would spoil the only part of this that is still a surprise.
A camp in the woods
A camp in the woodsComfort gives fifty percent health regeneration near a camp fire, and it drops the moment you walk away.
The long night
The long nightWorld time is synced for everyone and runs on the Tamriel year, so night falls on the whole province at once.

The holdstone is the spine of the server. You pledge to a hold, hold a rank in it, and the rank carries real mechanical benefit rather than a title alone: a blacksmith rank carries smithing, guards carry light armour, a court mage carries spell points. Professions are ranks inside this system, not a separate one.

Parcels are the property system. A hold divides into named parcels, and a parcel is the closest thing Mereth has to owning something. Jarls and stewards grant them to citizens. Doors and containers bind to a parcel as fixtures, and holders carry parcel keys.

  • Anyone
  • All members
  • Named residents
  • Rank and above
  • Invite only
  • Unlocked

A parcel can also demand a minimum rank, and access can be granted to people outside the hold entirely, so a workshop, a shop back room or a stash can be shared across hold lines.

There is no offline raiding

A parcelled lock cannot be picked while everybody attached to it is offline, and that counts the whole group rather than one named holder. Somebody with a claim on the room has to be in the world for the room to be openable at all. It is the rule that makes a parcel worth the paperwork.

Holdstones are no longer only holds. Through September the same system was extended to the organisations: the Companions, the Thieves' Guild, the Vigilants of Stendarr, the Volkihar, the Thalmor and the College of Winterhold all have a stone standing in the world, and the College's replaced the Shalidor statue. A faction stone works the way a hold stone works: you pledge to it, you hold a rank in it, the rank carries benefits, and the organisation's parcels hang off it.

Which is why the menu now says members rather than citizens, and why a stone carries a membership mode: open to anyone who pledges, invite only, or closed.

One stone at a time, and a day to change your mind

You cannot pledge to a second stone without leaving the first, and switching carries a 24 hour cooldown. Being kicked carries the same 24 hours before you may join anywhere else. Where two stones you belong to would give you the same benefit, only the higher one counts: nothing stacks.

What a stone's buff can and cannot do

A rank raises a skill up to a level and never past it, it will not carry anybody above Expert, and it stops at level 60 whatever the rank. So a stone lifts somebody under-tiered into being useful, and does nothing at all for somebody already good. Your own attributes, race and equipment are what still push past the cap.

A bound container stops regenerating

The single most useful storage fact on the server. An ordinary container regenerates its contents, which means it is not safe to keep anything in. Bind it to a parcel through the holdstone and it stops.

▸the 6 release notes behind this
  • Added public parcel chests. Anyone can take, deposit, or move items in a public parcel's tagged containers with no theft flag, key, or access check. Chests default to off when unset, and owners can still lock a public chest0.75.40 · 2026-10-03
  • Reworked keys so they belong to the installed lock. Use Cut Key to make a key for it and Change Lock to install a new lock so old keys stop working, both at the normal interaction range. Cut keys stack on their own, named "Cut Key: <parcel>, Door" or "Cut Key: <parcel>, Chest". Opening a chest or door you are allowed to use (on the access list, with a cut key for that lock, or with the original key) no longer counts as stealing or trespassing, and an unlocked lock alone no longer counts as permission0.75.40 · 2026-10-03
  • Removed Dragon skull from jarl of falkreath armor0.75.40 · 2026-10-03
  • Removed the rented parcel mode and its deposit ledger entirely. Parcels are now off or public only0.75.40 · 2026-10-03
  • Added miners and smelters to the holdstone ranks0.75.9 · 2026-09-25
  • Fixed parcel to not force pickpocketing if your rank has access or its open access0.75.9 · 2026-09-25