The Locked Room

A Lockpicking skill book: a lockpicking teacher, his curious student and a very bad idea.

The Locked Room by Porbert Lyttumly is about Arthcamu, a master locksmith who despises his student Yana for looking for exceptions instead of easy answers. To teach her a lesson he sets a cruel test – and learns too late why she always found a way.

Skill book

The Locked Room 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): Porbert Lyttumly
  • Teaches: Lockpicking (+1)
  • Weight: 1
  • Base value: 75 gold
  • Item ID: 0001B019

More Lockpicking skill books

Advances in Lockpicking, Proper Lock Design, Surfeit of Thieves, 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

  • Highmoon Hall in Morthal, top shelf of the bookshelf opposite the bed upstairs.
  • Honeystrand Cave, on a dead bandit in the centre.
  • Alftand Animonculory, on a skeleton behind an Expert-locked gate.
  • Cronvangr Cave, on a table in the hidden cottage.
  • Draugr Burial Mound north-west of Morthal (unmarked).

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