Fire and Darkness

A One-handed skill book: the history of the feud between the Dark Brotherhood and the Morag Tong.

Fire and Darkness: The Brotherhoods of Death by Ynir Gorming explains how the Dark Brotherhood split from the Morag Tong and why the two assassins’ guilds have been locked in a shadow war ever since. It opens with a chilling note left by a vanished cobbler in 2E 358.

Skill book

Fire and Darkness is a One-handed skill book. The first time you read a copy, your One-handed 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): Ynir Gorming
  • Teaches: One-handed (+1)
  • Weight: 1
  • Base value: 50 gold
  • Item ID: 0001AFDA

More One-handed skill books

2920, Morning Star, v1, Mace Etiquette, Night Falls on Sentinel, The Importance of Where.

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

  • Dawnstar Sanctuary, on a table just after the spiral staircase.
  • Folgunthur, by a dead adventurer on the rocks in the first main room.
  • Ilinalta Fisherman (unmarked), in the fisherman's tent.
  • The Ratway Warrens in Riften, in a crate by Esbern's bed.
  • On the island south of the Wreck of the Pride of Tel Vos, by a tree trunk.

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