'Nord Hero' weapons show up in a new subsection called 'Draugr' and 'Ancient Nord' armor shows up in the 'Daedric' subsection. However, additional crafting options are added to the Skyforge after completing the quest Glory of the Dead at the end of the Companions questline and talking with Eorlund. All items that can be crafted at normal forges can also be crafted at the skyforge, subject to the same Smithing perk restrictions. Working at the Skyforge is like working at any other forge. After this, others started settling, eventually forming what is now the city of Whiterun. Ysgramor and his Companions, however, were quick to claim the Skyforge as their own once they discovered it, and they built their headquarters, Jorrvaskr, here. According to the Songs of the Return, the local elves believed it to be a relic of the gods, and consequently gave the area a wide berth. The three ancient Totems of Hircine were recovered from across Skyrim and brought to the Underforge for worship, heightening the Circle's lycanthropic powers.Legend tells that the Skyforge has existed since before the area was inhabited. Several of the living members followed suit and cured their own lycanthropy, although others remained bound to the beast blood and decided to rededicate the Underforge shrines to Hircine. įollowing Kodlak's death, the remaining members of the Circle embarked on a quest to cure his soul of lycanthropy in death.

This allowed for the production of high quality metal not seen since eras long forgotten, and Eorlund used this to reforge the recovered fragments of Wuuthrad, restoring the battleaxe to its ancient form. Kodlak's funeral pyre awakened the fires of the Skyforge, which was said to have recognized the greatness of his soul. That year, a gang of werewolf hunters known as the Silver Hand attacked Jorrvaskr, killing the Harbinger Kodlak Whitemane and stealing the Companions' treasured fragments of the legendary battleaxe Wuuthrad. īy 4E 201, the Skyforge was tended by Eorlund Gray-Mane, said to be the best smith in Skyrim. It was therefore locked away within Dragonsreach. However, not even the hottest fires of the Skyforge could melt it the coals themselves seemed to cool when it was placed within. Some time in the Fourth Era, the Ebony Blade came into the possession of the jarl of Whiterun, who attempted to destroy it. Several shrines to Hircine were also set up in the Underforge. Ceremonial bloodletting of a Companion in their werewolf form would occur, and the aspirant would be required to drink this blood from a central basin. This ritual would take place at night in a secret chamber beneath the Skyforge known as the Underforge.

This tradition was passed down throughout the centuries via ritual infection of those admitted to the Circle.

įollowing Kyrnil Long-Nose's founding of the Circle in the late Second Era, the upper ranks of the Companions became infected with lycanthropy after the Harbinger Terrfyg made a bargain with the witches of the Glenmoril Coven. Female smiths were also known to have worked the Skyforge. The patriarchs of Clan Gray-Mane established themselves as smiths in the city, and worked the Skyforge since the clan first settled in Whiterun, passing down the tradition over many centuries. In time, the city of Whiterun grew around the mead hall, and its founders became the modern mercenary band known as the Companions. The twenty-two members of the Jorrvaskr crew desired to possess the statue due to the elves' fear of it, and so they founded the mead hall of Jorrvaskr, built from the wooden hull of their ship at the foot of the Skyforge. They could say nothing of those who had carved it from its mother-stone, but it was known to drive a magic almost as old as Nirn itself, described as some remnant of the gods' efforts to render a paradise in Mundus before the shattering of Lorkhan. The band's elven captives looked at the statue with fear and claimed that it predated the elven habitation of Skyrim. The scout Jonder the Tiny was the first to sight the great bird statue of the Skyforge, but the Nords were wary as the entirety of the Whiterun plains were uninhabited by elves. The first group to set out were the crew of Jorrvaskr, who arrived on the plains of Whiterun Hold. Following the retaking of Saarthal, the Five Hundred Companions of Ysgramor parted ways, with the band of each ship setting out to conquer all of Skyrim (then known as Mereth) from the Snow Elves who inhabited it.

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