Stendarr’s Hammer

A 100-weight ebony warhammer stolen from Calcelmo’s Dwemer Museum in Markarth.

Stendarr’s Hammer is a gigantic holy warhammer from Tribunal. The Stendarr’s Hammer Creation puts it on display in Skyrim – in a place where it definitely isn’t for sale.

How to get it

The hammer is kept in the Dwemer Museum inside Understone Keep in Markarth, the collection of Calcelmo. You have to steal it. The quest, If I had a Hammer, does not appear in your journal.

Enchantment

Each hit deals 22 points of smite damage – but also drains 20 stamina from you.

Stats and handling

28 base damage, but a weight of 100. Just having it equipped slows you down. It uses the Two-handed skill.

Smithing

Improve it with an Ebony Ingot and a Flawless Sapphire. It needs Arcane Blacksmith, and Ebony Smithing doubles the improvement.

Strengths and weaknesses

  • Strength: very high damage plus extra smite damage.
  • Weakness: absurdly heavy and slows you down.
  • Weakness: costs your own stamina on every hit, and getting it counts as theft.

Tips

  • Sneak in after the museum closes, or invest in Sneak first.
  • Best for heavy-armor tanks with a lot of carry weight and stamina.

Added by the Stendarr’s Hammer Creation, part of the Skyrim Anniversary Edition. Details checked against UESP and summarised in our own words.

Quest reward from

Characters linked to this weapon

Calcelmo is the elderly Altmer Dwemer scholar of Markarth’s Understone Keep – keeper of the Dwemer Museum, the Falmer stone and the key to Hard Answers.

Where it appears

Dwemer Museum in Skyrim: Calcelmo’s Dwarven collection in Understone Keep, Markarth – access via Nimhe, Lockpicking training, Dwemer metal and a Barenziah stone.
Markarth is the stone city of the Reach, carved into the cliffs by the Dwemer – home of the Silver-Blood family, Cidhna Mine and the Forsworn conspiracy.
Understone Keep in Skyrim: Jarl Igmund’s Dwemer palace in Markarth – court, forge, Calcelmo’s dig, Dwemer Museum, skill books, quests and secret chests.
Sources checked: UESP (Creation article + Stendarr’s Hammer item list), via UESP wikitext

Stendarr’s Hammer

Type
Material
Damage
28
Weight
100
Value
4575 gold
Enchantment
Smite Damage 22 points; drains 20 stamina from the wielder per hit
Upgrade with
Ebony Ingot, Flawless Sapphire
Smithing perk
Arcane Blacksmith (Ebony Smithing)
How to get
Other
Where

Steal it from the Dwemer Museum in Understone Keep, Markarth. The quest does not appear in the journal.

Item ID
FExxxD62
Explore the database