A Hypothetical Treachery

A Destruction skill book: a one-act play about four adventurers and one treasure chest.

A Hypothetical Treachery is a one-act play by Anthil Morvir. Four adventurers – a High Elf battlemage, a Dark Elf battlemage, an Imperial healer and an Argonian barbarian – escape a dungeon in Valenwood with a treasure chest and only one healing potion. What follows is a darkly funny exercise in “hypothetical” betrayal.

Skill book

A Hypothetical Treachery is a Destruction skill book. The first time you read a copy, your Destruction 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): Anthil Morvir
  • Teaches: Destruction (+1)
  • Weight: 1
  • Base value: 55 gold
  • Item ID: 0001AFEE

More Destruction skill books

Horror of Castle Xyr, Mystery of Talara, v3, Response to Bero’s Speech, The Art of War Magic.

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

  • Aretino Residence in Windhelm, behind the bookshelf.
  • Fellglow Keep, on a table ringed by eight bookcases near the Sanctuary.
  • High Gate Ruins, in the central chamber.
  • Mzinchaleft, on a table; Puzzling Pillar Ruins, in a chest; a bandit camp (unmarked).
  • Dawnguard: Volkihar Undercroft, by the lever for the first bridge. Dragonborn: Black Book The Hidden Twilight, chapter V.

Lore notes

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Where to find it

Windhelm is the ancient, snow-covered capital of Eastmarch and the Stormcloak stronghold – home of Ulfric Stormcloak’s Palace of the Kings and the Gray Quarter.

Characters connected to it

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