A Game at Dinner

An Alchemy skill book: a spy’s letter about a deadly dinner at Prince Helseth’s court.

A Game at Dinner is presented as a real letter from an anonymous informant to a shadowy figure called Dhaunayne in House Dres. The writer describes a dinner at the court of Prince Helseth of Morrowind where the guests slowly realise that the food and wine may be poisoned – and that the Prince knows exactly who has been spying on him. A publisher’s foreword adds that Helseth and his mother, Queen Barenziah, had the letter printed and spread themselves.

Skill book

A Game at Dinner is a Alchemy skill book. The first time you read a copy, your Alchemy skill goes up by one point – later copies of the same title don’t give anything extra, so there is no need to carry them around.

Book details

  • Author (in game): Anonymous
  • Teaches: Alchemy (+1)
  • Weight: 1
  • Base value: 55 gold
  • Item ID: 0001AFC4

More Alchemy skill books

De Rerum Dirennis, Herbalist’s Guide to Skyrim, Mannimarco, King of Worms, Song of the Alchemists.

Value, weight and skill read from the Skyrim game files; locations from community-checked lists. The book text is summarised here in our own words – read the full text in game.

Where to find it

  • Dead Crone Rock, near a lever that opens a door.
  • Forsaken Cave, in the lower level (Forsaken Crypt) – you need Nurelion’s Mixture from “The White Phial” to get there.
  • Harmugstahl, top shelf of the bookcase behind the locked door opposite the hole in the wall.
  • Honningbrew Meadery, upstairs on a table behind an Adept-locked door.
  • Windhelm, on a table on the second floor of the New Gnisis Cornerclub.

Lore notes

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Where to find it

Windhelm is the ancient, snow-covered capital of Eastmarch and the Stormcloak stronghold – home of Ulfric Stormcloak’s Palace of the Kings and the Gray Quarter.

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Sources checked: Skyrim game files (Skyrim.esm + strings, read 2026-10-11); Elder Scrolls Fandom book articles (locations)