Battle of Red Mountain

A Block skill book: Vivec's own account of the Battle of Red Mountain.

The Battle of Red Mountain is presented as Lord Vivec’s own account, told to a dissident priest. He describes how the Chimer and Dwemer united against the Nords, the war that followed, the death of Nerevar and the rise of the Tribunal – and he ends with a thinly veiled threat to the priest. It’s a key text for the backstory of Morrowind.

Skill book

Battle of Red Mountain 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): Vivec
  • Teaches: Block (+1)
  • Weight: 1
  • Base value: 50 gold
  • Item ID: 0002F83C

More Block skill books

A Dance in Fire, v2, Death Blow of Abernanit, 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

  • Kilkreath Ruins, second section, in a bookcase in the upper west corner of the big chamber.
  • Skybound Watch Pass, northern section, on a bookshelf.
  • The destroyed caravan at Tolvald's Crossing.
  • The basement at Largashbur.
  • On a table in the house above Redwater Den (Dawnguard).

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