August 2012
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need alchemy ingredients ?
the Arch-Mage’s Quarters in the college of winterhold is packed full of alchemical goodies such as nirnroot, giants toe, a Frost Atronach Staff, glowing mushrooms, various poisons, lavender, falmer ears, gold, giant lycian, hanging moss and many more bits and bobs for you to collect. while Savos Aren is arch -mage the ingredients and object respawn every 2-3 skyrim days
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Daedric Artifacts
Azura’s Star or Black Star
This reusable soul gem is rewarded for completing The Black Star quest.
Azura’s Star has the ability to trap white souls, or those of non-sentient creatures. These souls can be used for enchanting and for recharging weapons.
The Black Star has the ability to trap either black or white souls, up to the Grand level. It functions similarly to a Black Soul...
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random fact #10
When you increase your stamina you also increase your maximum carry capacity by 5.
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sweet roll recipe!
This recipe makes 6 Sweet Rolls.
What you will need: Large deep muffin tray, greaseproof paper/baking parchment, sieve, 2 bowls, wooden spoon, a pot and a knife.
For the Sweet Rolls:
180g / 1 Cup Butter (Room Temperature)
175g / ¾ Cup White Caster Sugar
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
2 Tablespoons Maple Syrup
2 Eggs (Room Temperature)
250g / 2 Cups Self-Raising Flour
2 Teaspoons Ground Cinnamon
125ml...
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top tip of the day
You can fast travel while over encumbered with a horse, comes in very handy when filling up with items from hidden merchant chests, moveing house ect.
July 2012
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random fact #9
Merchants restock their gold after approximately 48 hours.
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guardian stone list.
Guardian Stones: The Warrior Stone - Combat skills increase 20% faster. The Thief Stone - Stealth skills increase 20% faster. The Mage Stone - Magic skills improve 20% faster. The Lover Stone - All skills improve 15% faster. The Apprentice Stone - Recover Magicka twice as fast; twice as vulnerable to magic. The Atronach Stone - 50 extra points of Magicka, 50% Absorb spells, -50% The Lady...
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how to make lockpicking slightly easyer
Hold a torch up to an object before you start lockpicking, it makes it easier. It’s even mentioned in one of the in-game books, something along the lines of heat up a lock before picking it. fire spells also have the same effect.
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need more carry capacity?
When you increase your stamina you also increase your maximum carry capacity by 5. your capacity is also increased if you choose to become a werewolf in the companion quest line.
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mountian climbing
Invariably you get to a point when you’re climbing a mountain off set paths where you can’t progress forward any longer because the grade is too steep. If you hit that point, simply face backwards and start jumping. Just point your butt toward the peak and continually hit the jump button. It also helps to move slightly from side-to-side as you try this. You can often snag a rock along...
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how to get free stuff
Go to merchant, look through inventory, get what you need, Save your game, kill merchant, load the save file and merchant’s inventory is restocked with a fresh supply of items.
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random fact #8
Directly west of Saarthal there’s a woolly mammoth half frozen into the ice shelf with spears and arrows sticking out of it
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the dragonborn lyrics in dovah
The lyrics to Dragonborn are as follows
Dovahkiin, Dovahkiin naal ok zin los vahriin wah dein vokul mahfaeraak ahst vaal! Ahrk fin norok paal graan fod nust hon zindro zaan Dovahkiin, fah hin kogaan mu draal! Huzrah nu, kul do od, wah aan bok lingrah vod Ahrk fin tey, boziik fun, do fin gein! Wo lost fron wah ney dov ahrk fin reyliik do jul voth aan suleyk wah ronit faal krein Ahrk...
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random fact #7
there are a total of 343 locations that appear on the map of skyrim. but there are hundreds more random locations without appearing on the map such as hunter camps/ bandit camps and random shrines.
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random fact 6#
If you do make the Bard’s Leap and survive, the ghost of the bard shows up to praise you, and the song the bard plays you will give you a Speech level
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random fact 5#
Chickens in Riverwood can witness crimes
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random fact 4#
A full-powered Unrelenting Force aimed at the golden Dwemer disco ball in Blackreach will release a unique black dragon.
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Skyrim skydiving!
if you learn “Turn Ethereal” Dragonshout, you can jump off of cliffs, tall buildings ect without the fear of dying or getting injured. particularly handy when feeling lazy and want to just jump down mountains instead of walking.
can be pretty fun, especially when you jump of the tower in high hrothgar as well, its just really fun :)
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upgrade sneak for lazy people
You can power-level sneak using a Torchbug in a Jar. Just crouch and walk against a wall within view of the bug; as it revolves you will periodically be hidden.
just leave down the controller, step away from the PC, get some nom’s and you’ll just keep powering up :)
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random fact 3#
Candelight spells work underwater.
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random fact 2#
if you Cast “Detect Dead” around the Court Mage of Solitude. It turns out that she’s a…vampire. If you bring Dawnbreaker into Sovengarde it lights up like a light sabre. and never stops glowing
June 2012
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random fact 1#
When a dragon corpse is burning, the effect can be seen from the world map.
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Naked Courier Glitch
Sometimes Couriers will randomly spawn with no clothes while delivering letters to the dragonborn.
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Stones of Barenziah Multiple
The Stones of Barenziah are an initially-scattered collection of twenty-four gemstones found inSkyrim. It looks like a gemstone. Prior to appraisal, each Stone of Barenziah is labeled as “Unusual Gem”. Once the first stone is found, there will be a miscellaneous objective that activates and indicates that the next step is appraisal. to get them appraised...
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nirnroot farm.
theres a farm in the rift that cultivates nirnroot called sarethi farm. its particularity hand when you take the quest for Ingun Black-Briar, where you have to collect 20 of them. the farm usually has 8 nirnroot per harvest but they regrow over time as surprisingly most of the nirnroot do despite the fact they are supposed to be impossible to re-grow.
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shadowmarks
A book written by Delvin Mallory can be found in the Flagon, called Shadowmarks. Shadowmarks are carvings into buildings near their main doorways, and are very handy in pointing out locations around cities that have good loot
in the jail in riften, one of the cells have a shadowmark indicating a secret way out
there are tones of different shadowmarks around skyrim with various meanings like...
