The Knights of the Nine

A Heavy Armor skill book: the rise and fall of the order that sought the Crusader’s Relics.

The Knights of the Nine by Karoline of Solitude tells the story of the knightly order founded by Sir Amiel Lannus in 3E 111 to recover the Crusader’s Relics, the lost arms and armor of Pelinal Whitestrake. After early fame, the order splintered and faded from history. Oblivion players will recognise the story from the Knights of the Nine add-on.

Skill book

The Knights of the Nine 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.

Notes

The order and the relics feature in Oblivion’s Knights of the Nine add-on.

Book details

  • Author (in game): Karoline of Solitude
  • Teaches: Heavy Armor (+1)
  • Weight: 1
  • Base value: 70 gold
  • Item ID: 0001AFFA

More Heavy Armor skill books

2920, MidYear, v6, Chimarvamidium, Hallgerd’s Tale, Orsinium and the Orcs.

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

  • Palace of the Kings in Windhelm, upstairs, first door on the left.
  • The Iceberg Explorer (unmarked), on a skeleton on an iceberg near the Tower Stone.
  • Hall of the Vigilant basement – gone once Dawnguard’s “Awakening” starts.
  • Guldun Rock Cave, on a rock next to a large Nordic chest.
  • Narzulbur, in Mauhulakh’s Longhouse.

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)