The Legendary Sancre Tor

A Two-handed skill book: the history of Alessia’s holy city in the Jerall Mountains.

The Legendary City of Sancre Tor by Matera Chapel traces the mountain city from the First Era onward. It was at Sancre Tor that Saint Alessia received the inspiration for her slave rebellion and later founded her holy city, settled partly by Nord and Breton mercenaries. The book explains why the remote site never grew rich, and notes that today its ruins are home to goblin tribes. It also admits that no one knows for sure where Alessia is buried.

Skill book

The Legendary Sancre Tor is a Two-handed skill book. The first time you read a copy, your Two-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.

Notes

Read it together with Battle of Sancre Tor, which covers the city’s most famous siege.

Book details

  • Author (in game): Matera Chapel
  • Teaches: Two-handed (+1)
  • Weight: 1
  • Base value: 50 gold
  • Item ID: 0001AFE2

More Two-handed skill books

Battle of Sancre Tor, King, Song Of Hrormir, Words and Philosophy.

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

  • Ysgramor’s Tomb, in a hall with an altar topped by a mammoth skull, beside a series of ruined books.
  • A hunters’ camp directly east of Steamcrag Camp, on a crate next to the carriage.
  • The Exposed Miner (unmarked), at a book cart in the mountains south of Chillwind Depths.
  • Falkreath Barracks in Falkreath, on a chest upstairs in front of the bed.
  • Northwatch Keep, in the captain’s room on a box by the table.

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.

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