Chimarvamidium

A Heavy Armor skill book: a Dwemer tale about a golem given to the Chimer.

Chimarvamidium is part VI of Marobar Sul’s Ancient Tales of the Dwemer. To seal a truce, a Dwemer warlord gives the Chimer leader a magnificent golden golem – and the Chimer’s attempts to understand it lead somewhere unexpected. A scholarly note at the end discusses theories about the Dwemer’s disappearance.

Skill book

Chimarvamidium is a Heavy Armor skill book. The first time you read a copy, your Heavy Armor 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): Marobar Sul
  • Teaches: Heavy Armor (+1)
  • Weight: 1
  • Base value: 70 gold
  • Item ID: 0001AFF8
  • Series: Ancient Tales of the Dwemer

More from Ancient Tales of the Dwemer

Song of the Alchemists, The Importance of Where.

More Heavy Armor skill books

2920, MidYear, v6, Hallgerd’s Tale, Orsinium and the Orcs, The Knights of the Nine.

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

  • Urag gro-Shub sells it (it doesn’t count for “Fetch Me That Book!”).
  • Goldenrock Mine, on a barrel; Reachwind Eyrie, at the top of the stairwell.
  • The Dwemer Museum (Adept-locked case) and Calcelmo’s Tower in Markarth.
  • Many more: Halted Stream Camp’s end chest, Nightingale Hall, Septimus Signus’ Outpost, Alftand, Darkwater Pass and Fort Fellhammer.
  • Dragonborn: Apocrypha (Filament and Filigree).

Lore notes

Quest reward from

Where to find it

Markarth is the stone city of the Reach, carved into the cliffs by the Dwemer – home of the Silver-Blood family, Cidhna Mine and the Forsworn conspiracy.

Characters connected to it

Urag gro-Shub is the stern Orc librarian of the Arcanaeum at the College of Winterhold – book merchant, quest giver and buyer of Elder Scrolls.

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