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Surfeit of Thieves

A Lockpicking skill book: two thieves break into the wrong castle.

Surfeit of Thieves by Aniis Noru follows the thieves Indyk and Heriah as they plan to rob a mysterious caravan of wealthy strangers at the old castle of Ald Olyra. The heist turns into a horror story, and the strangers’ names – read backwards – are the final clue.

Skill book

Surfeit of Thieves is a Lockpicking skill book. The first time you read a copy, your Lockpicking 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): Aniis Noru
  • Teaches: Lockpicking (+1)
  • Weight: 1
  • Base value: 75 gold
  • Item ID: 0001B01D

More Lockpicking skill books

Advances in Lockpicking, Proper Lock Design, The Locked Room, The Wolf Queen, v1.

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

  • Mistveil Keep in Riften, on the left nightstand in the north bedroom of the Jarl's chambers.
  • Volskygge.
  • Potema's Catacombs, on the table by the oil slick.
  • Wreck of the Winter War, on a crate next to a chest.
  • The Pelagius Wing of the Blue Palace in Solitude, on a box by a bookcase.

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