Skill Book

Block

Death Blow of Abernanit

A Block skill book: an annotated poem about a holy assault on a Daedra-worshipping castle.

The Death Blow of Abernanit is an old poem with explanatory notes by the sage Geocrates Varnus. It tells how the hero Rangidil led a small force of Ordinators and Buoyant Armigers against the heavily guarded castle of Abernanit in Morrowind, a centre of worship for a Daedric “Horror”.

Skill book

Death Blow of Abernanit is a Block skill book. The first time you read a copy, your Block 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: Block (+1)
Weight: 1
Base value: 50 gold
Item ID: 0001AFDD

More Block skill books

A Dance in Fire, v2, Battle of Red Mountain, The Mirror, Warrior.

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

Northwind Mine, on a table in the very first room.
Whiterun Catacombs below the Hall of the Dead, on a table to the left.
The Jarl’s Longhouse in Falkreath, on a desk.
An attacked Forsworn camp (unmarked) above Reachwater Rock.
An unmarked den west of Dawnstar.

Lore notes

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Where to find it

Dawnstar

Dawnstar is the cold northern port of the Pale – a mining town plagued by nightmares, home of Jarl Skald the Elder, the Windpeak Inn and a Mythic Dawn museum.

Falkreath

Falkreath is the quiet forest town of southern Skyrim with a famously large graveyard – home of Jarl Siddgeir, the Dead Man’s Drink and a talking dog called Barbas.

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