Sacred Witness

A Sneak skill book: a poet’s account of meeting the Night Mother – and what it cost him.

Sacred Witness: A True History of the Night Mother is written by a poet from Sentinel who claims to have met the head of the Dark Brotherhood in person. He describes how he came to meet her and what she told him. A short note at the end explains who the author really was – and how he was found dead soon after the book came out.

Skill book

Sacred Witness is a Sneak skill book. The first time you read a copy, your Sneak 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.

Notes

It pairs naturally with Fire and Darkness, the history of Tamriel’s assassin guilds that the poet mentions.

Book details

  • Author (in game): Enric Milnes
  • Teaches: Sneak (+1)
  • Weight: 1
  • Base value: 75 gold
  • Item ID: 0001B020

More Sneak skill books

2920, Last Seed, v8, Legend of Krately House, The Red Kitchen Reader, Three Thieves.

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

  • The Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary near Falkreath, on the table with a basket in Babette‘s bedroom.
  • The Dawnstar Sanctuary, on the table with a skull by the stairs to the sewer-grate entrance.
  • Deepwood Redoubt, on a shelf near an alchemy lab in one of the Forsworn tents.
  • The Twilight Sepulcher.
  • Collapsed Burial Ground (unmarked), on a dead draugr.

Lore notes

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Where to find it

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.

Characters connected to it

Babette is the Dark Brotherhood’s centuries-old vampire in a child’s body – Master Alchemy trainer, potion merchant and the Sanctuary’s most unsettling member.

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