Orsinium and the Orcs

A Heavy Armor skill book: how the Orc Gortwog won the land of Orsinium in a duel.

Orsinium and the Orcs (full title: How Orsinium Passed to the Orcs) by Menyna Gsost is set in 3E 399. A Breton lord and the Orc Gortwog gro-Nagorm both hold valid claims to the same land between Menevia and Wayrest, so a judge decides they must settle it by combat. The ending reveals what an old Orc servant really wanted from the fight.

Skill book

Orsinium and the Orcs is a Heavy Armor skill book. The first time you read a copy, your Heavy Armor 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): Menyna Gsost
  • Teaches: Heavy Armor (+1)
  • Weight: 1
  • Base value: 70 gold
  • Item ID: 0001AFF9

More Heavy Armor skill books

2920, MidYear, v6, Chimarvamidium, Hallgerd’s Tale, The Knights of the Nine.

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

  • Darkshade.
  • Dushnikh Yal, in the cellar of Burguk's Longhouse on the table at the foot of the ramp.
  • Fort Fellhammer Mines, on the table after the U-turn.
  • Lost Knife Hideout, in the room with four bedrolls and a bed.
  • Rockwallow Mine in Stonehills, on top of the scaffolding in the first room.

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