Biography of the Wolf Queen

A Speech skill book: a short life of Potema, the Wolf Queen of Solitude.

Katar Eriphanes’s Biography of the Wolf Queen covers Potema Septim from birth to death. Born into the Imperial family in 3E 67, she was married off at fourteen to the King of Solitude and grew from a political pawn into one of the most feared rulers in Tamriel’s history. The biography follows her scheming and her war against her own family, and ends with a dark legend about her influence on her nephew, the future Emperor Pelagius the Mad.

Skill book

Biography of the Wolf Queen is a Speech skill book. The first time you read a copy, your Speech 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

For the long novel version of Potema’s story, start with The Wolf Queen, v1. Potema herself shows up in Solitude in the side quest “The Wolf Queen Awakened”.

Book details

  • Author (in game): Katar Eriphanes
  • Teaches: Speech (+1)
  • Weight: 1
  • Base value: 60 gold
  • Item ID: 0001B023

More Speech skill books

2920, Second Seed, v5, A Dance in Fire, v6, A Dance in Fire, v7, The Buying Game.

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

  • Anga’s Mill, on the end table by the bed in the Common House.
  • Belethor‘s General Goods in Whiterun, on the cupboard opposite the entrance.
  • The Blue Palace in Solitude, on the wardrobe nearest the door in Jarl Elisif‘s bedchamber.
  • Liar’s Retreat, on a stone shelf behind the third door on the left, between an iron helmet and three potions.

Lore notes

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Where to find it

Solitude is the capital of Skyrim, built on a great stone arch above the sea – home of the Blue Palace, Castle Dour and the Bards College.
Whiterun is the trading heart of Skyrim, a hilltop city on the central plains crowned by Dragonsreach. Districts, shops, quests and characters.

Characters connected to it

Belethor runs Belethor’s General Goods in Whiterun – the Breton merchant who’d sell his sister if he had one. Skyrim’s most quotable shopkeeper.
Elisif the Fair is the young Jarl of Haafingar in Solitude and widow of High King Torygg, whose death at Ulfric’s hands started the civil war.

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