Dawnstar

Dawnstar is the cold northern port of the Pale – a mining town plagued by nightmares, home of Jarl Skald the Elder, the Windpeak Inn and a Mythic Dawn museum.

Dawnstar is the capital of The Pale, a small mining and fishing port on Skyrim’s frozen northern coast. It is cold, windswept and hard-working – and when you arrive, its people are not sleeping well at all.

Highlights

  • The White Hall – seat of Jarl Skald the Elder, a grumpy Stormcloak loyalist.
  • The Windpeak Inn – where you meet the priest Erandur.
  • The iron and quicksilver mines – the town’s livelihood.
  • The Mythic Dawn Museum – the strange collection of Silus Vesuius.
  • The harbour, with ships heading out into the Sea of Ghosts.

Quests

  • Waking Nightmare – the townsfolk are tormented by terrible dreams, and Erandur believes the cause lies in the Nightcaller Temple above the town.
  • Pieces of the Past – Silus Vesuius asks you to recover the pieces of Mehrunes’ Razor.
  • The Dark Brotherhood questline eventually leads here too.

Good to know

With Hearthfire, you can build Heljarchen Hall on the plains of The Pale.

Characters in Dawnstar

CCharacterCiceroThe Dark Brotherhood's mad jester and Keeper of the Night Mother – an essential assassin follower if spared.ECharacterErandurDunmer priest of Mara in Dawnstar and former Vaermina cultist – healer follower if spared in Waking Nightmare.SCharacterSkald the ElderGrumpy elderly Jarl of the Pale in Dawnstar, a loyal Stormcloak supporter.

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