00 Glitch Tutorial Videos - Start Here

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL25YuOCTS-Sy9y1gIFaO2AYvn-cDDVcX9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQUfs4WmXVk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSNmP_c0rbc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIvaDL7WMs8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dtj1yUD7j8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ9uvwsp-vo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9XhSLkVQUY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj4kvtKc3Q8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFkacxcP8AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI5JAAgMebQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIatgqK8i2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKf-T3kyV8s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1zIJekxHZ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb542m6RXOE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE5vPtMBrZs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rnIxNEHKKE

01 Main Quest Text Guide - Windhelm Tanning Rack Route

notes on the any% route (windhelm tanning rack version)

this route is different from the route used in lilu_ and dank_slushie's runs, and different from the route used in my pb. it's faster than both routes, and probably easier than both.

you should know these glitches: https://www.speedrun.com/skyrim/guides/2iwv6

you should also understand the strategies used in the run before dead loading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL6j76H7Xpk if you don't understand the old route you won't understand the new one.

a lot of things about skyrim runs have changed in the last 7 months. 4 years ago, sickliff discovered a glitch called dead loading. https://youtu.be/DcvsMpSveeo?si=wJGuVaCdEOE3matE it's a multipurpose glitch, which in speedruns, is primarily used to loadwarp through doors. loadwarping in skyrim used to only be possible through loading zones that you walk through, but dead loading made it possible to loadwarp through doors that you activate. the original setup for dead loading as discovered by sickliff, though, was too long to be useful in any% runs. then i discovered a new setup using the shrine of arkay which is much faster. after touching the shrine of arkay, while the blessing of arkay is active, if you take damage until you're below 25 health (kept alive only by the blessing of arkay), you can make a save facing a door that can be used for loadwarping. if you have blessing of arkay + another fortify health effect, than you can loadwarp as long as your current health is below your TOTAL fortify health, but you still need the blessing of arkay.

there is a different type of ghost tilt called a "forge tilt", which is a misnomer. the difference between a forge tilt and a ghost tilt is that at any time during a forge tilt, you can press E to regain normal collision. when regaining collision, if you are underground, you will warp to the ground directly above you. forge tilts are executed exactly the same way as ghost tilts, but whether you get a forge tilt depends on the crafting station you use. some crafting stations always give forge tilts, some crafting stations never give forge tilts and some crafting stations never give them. we used to think that ONLY blacksmith forges give forge tilts, until we realized that a few other crafting stations can give forge tilts. notably, the tanning rack at the windhelm docks always gives forge tilts. this tanning rack is super useful because it's the only low-altitude crafting station that always gives forge tilts.

loadwarps through doors are sometimes "easy" and sometimes "hard" depending on the location you loadwarp from, the door you loadwarp through, and some hardware dependencies (?). "easy" loadwarps through doors can be done just be mashing the E key during the loading screen. "hard" door loadwarps require specific timing, you can either press E right at the end of the screen, or start mashing E right before the end of the loading screen to give yourself a little extra time to execute. you can kind of tell when the loading screen is going to end based on when the compass markers on the loading screen move around.

you can also use a new (risky) method to finish the alduin 1 fight near instantly. (it's possible in alduin 2 but only really saves time in alduin 1). in the gdq run, i'm only going to use it for the first alduin fight, since it saves more time in that one, and i want to do it once to show it off. grab the bucket with the handle in riften, and buy the spell sparks from farengar during the elder scroll cutscene. the handle bucket has a very high "mass" variable and the spell sparks has very high knockback. quicksave while alduin is flying, 3 seconds before he touches the ground. cast sparks at he handle bucket. quickload while alduin is colliding with the bucket. if you quickload at the right time, the bucket will collide with alduin infinitely and he will die before landing.

we also use a glitch called knife warping. there are items in skyrim called "knife (weapon)" and "knife (object)". while wielding a knife (weapon), quicksave-quickloading will warp you to a nearby knife (object). we pick up the knife at the east empire company warehouse and use it to knifewarp twice in the ratway, and once in mzark. this barely saves time, but it's not risky.

THE ROUTE

at the beginning of the run, we horse tilt to a shrine of arkay, and during the tilt we collect the fast travel points for ivarstead and fast travel to windhelm, and do a precise jump to take fall damage so we're at very low health. we then quicksave, attack a guard to enter windhelm, make a save to set up a loadwarp into the windhelm castle, quickload, and do a forge tilt using the windhelm tanning rack.

during that forge tilt, we make saves below locations that we will want to loadwarp through later. this enables another strategy to make more efficient use of each horse tilt execution. where in pre-dead loading routes we would enter first person mode to cancel our horse tilt, we can now instead: make a quicksave, load a save we made during the forge tilt which causes us to continue moving at horse tilt speed, go to a door that we will need to loadwarp to later, make a save at the door, and quickload. this reduces the number of times we will need to perform a horse tilt in the run, but it also makes the run even confusing, because it makes the order we do things in seem even more random.

during the forge tilt we make a save beneath battleborn farm (near whiterun) and a save beneath the thalmor embassy. we get the fast travel points for septimus signus's outpost and the east empire company warehouse (near solitude). we continue going toward karthspire, and press E below karthspire to go into kartspire. quicksave, load the save under battleborn farm, continue speed to riverwood, make a save in front of riverwood inn, quickload. get the fast travel point for sky haven temple.

fast travel to east empire company warehouse and grab the knife (weapon).

fast travel to septimus's outpost. enter and pickpocket the cube. load your save below the thalmor embassy, go to the door and loadwarp into the thalmor embassy. grab the potion of health. loot the chest to perform the thalmor embassy sequence break, and save. load the save below battleborn farm, attack a guard to warp to dragonsreach, and loadwarp into dragonsreach. get the dragonsreach fast travel point, and fast travel to ivarstead. attack a guard to warp into riften.

perform an item "double jump" to jump on top of the nearby wall, and drink your potion of health. jump down to the boat below to get to low health and enter the ratway. horse tilt to the end of the first area of the ratway, quicksave, load your save under battleborn farm, carry the speed to the tower of mzark, and make a save entering the tower. quickload and continue to esbern. when entering the ratway warrens, make a save facing the door. you will loadwarp away and back to "skip" the sequence of esbern opening the door. equip your knife and knifewarp to esbern. talk to him and loadwarp to mzark. knifewarp to the buttons, get the elder scroll, and loadwarp back to esbern. talk to esbern and loadwarp to the riverwood inn.

reunite esbern with delphine, exit, and perform a forge tilt to the throat of the world. quicksave, load the battleborn farm save, make a save for loadwarping at the back of high hrothgar, quickload. fast travel to sky haven. activate the seal, fast travel to riften, perform vendor glitch, take the handle bucket, talk to marcurio and maramal

go through sky haven, loadwarp to high hrothgar. talk to arngeir, learn clear skies, fast travel to throat of the world, talk to paarthurnax, perform cutscene control. during the cutscene, talk to balgruuf and farnegar until their dialogue is finished. do the bucket sparks kill on alduin.

talk to paarthurnax, fast travel to dragonsreach, talk to the jarl, loadwarp to high hrothgar, talk to arngeir, fast travel to east empire company docks, attack guard to go into solitude, talk to tullius, loadwarp to the windhelm castle, talk to ulfric, loadwarp to high hrothgar. do the council, loadwarp to dragonsreach. the rest of the run is the same as in tomatoanus's video.

All Daedric Quests Text Notes

Contributions by lots of people

LW = Load Warp
qsql = quicksave & quickload
-> = move to (candidates for horse tilting)
/> = tilt to
c> = carriage to
F> = Fast travel to


Route
=====

Helgen
Basket
Buckets
Kettle
Salt Pile

-> Whiterun
Dragonsreach
talk to jarl

-> Eorlund
Gold (with vendor refresh)
Leather Helmet
Leather Bracers
Leather
Leather Strips
Iron Ingot/Steel
Hunting Bow
Steel/Iron Dagger
Arrows
Level up speech to 18 (with vendor glitch)

-> Alchemy Shop
Abecean Longfin or Cyrodilic Spadetail
Blisterwort
Spriggan Sap
Deathbell
Troll Fat
Level Alchemy to 40
Perks: 3xAlchemist, 1xPhysician, 1xBenefactor

F> Palagia Farm
Run to stables
Buy horse
Make tilt save

F> Riverwood /> Bleak Falls Barrow
get cabin fast travel point on the way
get dragonstone

F> Dragonsreach
hand in dragonstone
start dragon rising
buy grand soul gem

c> Solitude
Dupe Abecean Longfin and Salt Pile (at least x15)
Dupe Grand Soul Gem (at least 4x)
qsql and wait through execution
grab amulet of talos off body
wait until 11am ish

-> Radiant Raiment
Alchemy piece
Necklace
Ring
Dupe alchemy item (2x)

-> Palace
Do Mind of Madness
complete quest => The Mind of Madness
Enchant Alchemy Gear

F> Solitude -> Alchemy Shop
Fort Resto glitch -> 100 Alchemy twice
make OP Smithing pot

-> Blacksmith
make OP dagger
make OP bow

F> Solitude -> Inn
Get fuckin wasted with Sanguine

(warped) -> Markarth
Get Keep travel point
Run to front and kill forsworn guy
Travel to Keep
Buy silver ingot from blacksmith
Start taste of death
Start Haunted mansion
LW out of Mansion when done w/ animation

F> Whiterun Stables -> Watchtower
run to dragon
kill dragon
start absorb soul

Riverwood /> High Hrothgar
Do Shout Skip
do Greybeards as normal until you get Wuld
after getting Wuld drink potion & equip amulet of Talos (stops crashing)

Hrothgar /> Septimus
Steal Cube from Septimus

c> Windhelm /> Shrine of Azura (S of Winterhold)
talk to priest

Whiterun Stables /> Mzark
solve puzzle
take cube back (ignore scroll)

F> Septimus' House
Hand in cube
LW out to skip hermy

F> Mzark
Go down into blackreach
Harvest Falmer blood
LW out

c> Falkreath
Start A Daedra's Best Friend
Start Ill Met By Moonlight
Kill Stag (Stag's clearing (E of Falkreath))

F> Helgen -> Haemar's Shame (E of Helgen)
Kill vamps
get vamp dust
talk to Clavicus Vile
get Meridia's beacon

F> Solitude /> Statue of Meridia (W of Solitude)
do quest
complete quest => The Break of Dawn

/> Rimerock Burrow (top left, W of Meridia)
get axe

F> Haemar
complete quest => A Daedra's Best Friend

/> Random molag dungeon
tilt from spot closest

F> Markarth /> Boat (N of Reachwater Rock)(on the way to karthspire, in the river, to the left)
get flawless ruby

-> Reachcliff Cave (SE of Markarth)
talk to canibals

F> Markarth
talk to molag
complete quest => The House of Horrors
LW out of spooky mansion
get preist dude

F> Reachcliff
eat preist dude
complete quest => The Taste of Death

F> Watchtower /> Rorikstead (E of Markarth)
talk to farmer

F> Dragonsreach
talk to jarl
talk to wife
inn -> talk to barkeep for quest
dragonsreach -> do whispering door
complete quest => The Whispering Door

c> Windhelm -> Morvunskar (SW of Windhelm)
find sanguine
Harvest High and Dark elf blood
complete quest => A Night To Remember

F> Windhelm /> Sacellum of Boethiah (SW of Windhelm)
sacrifice follower

c> Dawnstar
start moosusmm quest

-> Nightcaller Temple (SE of Dawnstar)
do quest
complete quest => Waking Nightmare
LW out of Nightcaller Temple

F> Falkreath /> Cracked Tusk Keep (W of Falkreath)
get next 4 fast travel locations with the tilt, do them in whatever order
get dagger piece
Harvest Orc blood

/> Knifepoint Ridge (NW of Falkreach)
murder everyone
complete quest => Boethiah's Calling

/> Ilinalta's Deep (W of Anise's Cabin)
get star

/> Bloated Man's Grotto
kill werewolf
complete quest => Ill Met By Moonlight
LW out

F> Reachcliff /> Dead Crone Rock (S of Markarth)
get dagger piece

c> Morthal
pickpocket key
get dagger piece

F> Dawnstar
hand in dagger pieces

F> Winterhold
talk to mage dude
go into star
kill other dude
get daedra heart
complete quest => The Black Star

F> Mzark /> Shrine of Mehrunes Dagon (SE of Morthal)
kill dude
complete quest => Pieces of the Past

F> Markarth /> Peryite (North of Karthspire)
hand in items
get high

-> Bthardamz (West of the Shrine to Peryite)
clip in
kill dude
LW out of Bthardamz

F> Peryite
complete quest => The Only Cure

F> Haemar /> Largashbur (SW of Riften)
kill giant
hand in ingredients
get quest

/> Fallowstone Cave (NE of Riften)
kill gient
get axe

F> Largashbur
complete quest => The Cursed Tribe

F> Septimus' House
Wuld over the Wretched Abyss
complete quest => Discerning the Transmundane

-done-



Quest locations (For routing reference)
===============

1. Mephala: The Whispering Door
1. Whiterun

2. Sheogorath: The Mind of Madness
1. Solitude

3. Clavicus Vile: A Daedra's Best Friend
1. Falkreath
2. Haemar's Shame (E of Helgen)
3. Rimerock Burrow (top left, W of Meridia)
4. Haemar's Shame

Malacath: The Cursed Tribe
1. Alchemy shop (troll fat + daedric heart)
2. Largashbur (SW of Riften)
3. Fallowstone Cave (NE of Riften)
4. Largashbur

Meridia: The Break of Dawn
1. ??? (Find beacon) - Spawns in first eligible dungeon you enter after hitting level requirement
2. Statue of Meridia (W of Solitude)

Peryite: The Only Cure
1. Whiterun (Jarl's Quarters, for Silver Ingot)
2. Alchemy Shop (Solitude?, for Deathbell)
3. Vampire Dungeon (Clavicus quest?, for Vampire Dust)
4. Boat (N of Reachwater Rock, for Flawless Ruby)
5. Shrine of Peryite
6. Bthardamz
7. Shrine of Peryite

Sanguine: A Night to Remember
1. Inn (In city where you hit 14)
2. Markarth (Teleported)
3. Rorikstead (E of Markarth)
4. Whiterun
5. Morvunskar (SW of Windhelm)

Hermaeus Mora: Discerning the Transmundane
1. Septimus Signus's Outpost (N of Whiterhold)
2. Tower of Mzark
3. Septimus Signus's Outpost
4. (various, where ever blood is)
5. Septimus Signus's Outpost

Mehrunes Dagon: Pieces of the Past
1. Dawnstar
2. Dead Crone Rock (S of Markarth)
3. Cracked Tusk Keep (W of Falkreath)
4. Morthal
5. Dawnstar
6. Shrine of Mehrunes Dagon (SE of Morthal)

Boethiah: Boethiah's Calling
1. Sacellum of Boethiah (SW of Windhelm)
2. Knifepoint Ridge (NW of Falkreach)

Hircine: Ill Met by Moonlight
1. Falkreath
2. Stag's clearing (E of Falkreath)
3. Bloated Man's Grotto (N of Falkreath)

Molag Bal: The House of Horrors
1. Markarth
2. Random Dungeon  (All W end of map)
3. Markarth

Namira: The Taste of Death
1. Markarth
2. Reachcliff Cave (SE of Markarth)
3. Markarth
4. Reachcliff Cave

Azura: The Black Star / Azura's Star
1. Ilinalta's Deep (N of Falkreath)
2. Shrine of Azura (S of Winterhold)
3. Winterhold

Vaermina: Waking Nightmare
1. Dawnstar
2. Nightcaller Temple (SE of Dawnstar)

All Guilds Text Notes

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yu36q2cq6pbu4Xm5G8y8JObDgpKWV_4MeG0ZIu64yIU/edit?usp=sharing

Allowed INI Edits

The following options are the [big]**only**[/big] edits you can make to your ini edits. Everything else is banned.

**Field of View**
*fDefaultWorldFOV=80* under [Display] in Skyrim.ini
*fDefault1stPersonFOV=80* under [Display] in Skyrim.ini
*fdefaultfov=80* under [General] in SkyrimPrefs.ini
This sets your default FoV to 80. This is the recommended FoV. You are not allowed to set it above 80.

**Disable Tutorial Messages**
*bShowTutorials=0* under [Interface] in Skyrim.ini

**Mouse Acceleration**
*bMouseAcceleration=0* under [Controls] in SkyrimPrefs.ini

**Skip Intro Movies**
*sIntroSequence=* under [General] in Skyrim.ini

**Screen Size / Windowed Mode**
*bFull Screen=0* under [Display] in SkyrimPrefs.ini
*iSize H=1080* under [Display] in SkyrimPrefs.ini
*iSize W=1920* under [Display] in SkyrimPrefs.ini
If for whatever reason you can't / won't use the Skyrim launcher, you can use these to set windowed mode and resolution.

**VSync**
*iPresentInterval=0* under [Display] in SkyrimPrefs.ini
This will disable vsync which may improve mouse lag. However you [big]**must**[/big] cap your framerate at 60 using Dxtory or other software. Note that this is required when playing on a 144hz monitor.

**Don't Pause on Alt-Tab**
*bAlwaysActive=1* under [General] in Skyrim.ini
This will make the game not pause when it loses focus or you alt-tab.

Q: What difficulty is this on?
A: Easy because it's the fastest. Harder difficulties just make the run longer and more boring.
 
Q: What level are you?
A: 1, you stay at level one for the entire run because level scaling makes Alduin beatable at this level.
 
Q: How are you moving so fast without sprinting?
A: There is a glitch where if you start a sprint, quicksave, then end the sprint and quickload at the same time you keep the speed of the sprint without using any stamina.
 
Q: How do you jump so far?
A: The glitch listed above allows this. You move at the speed of sprinting while still being able to jump.

Q: What was with all that saving and loading after Helgen?
A: This is called a load warp. You can pause the game right at the same time you enter a load zone. Then, if you quit to the main menu and load up a different save, the game will load that character and warp them through the load zone as if you just walked into it. This lets us make a save at the back of Helgen, then go inside and get our hands unbound, then just warp straight out of it instead of running all the way through. We also use it after getting Esbern.

Q: Why is the game stuttering every time you go through a load?
A: Normally after a load the game has a second long fade in where you don't have control. If you quicksave and quickload during this fade in you instantly skip it. Since quicksaves and quickloads are counted out as per our timing rules, this is faster.

Q: What did you just do with that vendor?
A: If you click and drag your mouse from your inventory to a vendor's, you stay in sell mode while having their inventory open. This lets you sell their own inventory to them, taking all their gold for free.

Q: WHAT HOW DID YOU GET OFF A HORSE AND SUDDENLY YOU'RE GOING A MILLION MILES PER HOUR???
A: If you tilt your horse to a 90+ degree angle and get off, for some strange reason, the game gives you ridiculous amounts of speed. You can load a save during the dismount animation to stop gaining speed and be able to somewhat control yourself. The save must be 3rd person as you instantly stop in 1st person.

Q: How did you just go through the wall at the Embassy?
A: Many walls in this game can be clipped through by running into them while holding certain items in front of you. Buckets, bowls, and platters work best.

Q: Why did you take from the chest at the Embassy?
A: Normally you can't enter the embassy until much later in the game. Inside the chest is a plot item you're supposed to get then. If you get it, it will advance straight to the Cornered Rat quest, skipping a good portion of the main quest.

Q: Why did you go in and out of the door multiple times in Riverwood?
A: One method of skipping diagloue is to leave and re-enter an area. We do this multiple times in Riverwood to skip a lengthy conversation between Esbern and Delphine.

Q: Did you just get married???
A: No. The main quest usually has an unskippable 4.5min long cutscene where you learn Dragonrend. It turns out whenever you fail to attend your marriage, the game gives you back control (since there's usually a cutscene). If you combine that with a glitch that lets you read the Elder Scroll anywhere to start the cutscene, you can warp into the cutscene during your marriage ceremony, fail it, regain control, and do things to make it significantly faster.

Q: Why are you travelling to weird places during the cutscene?
A: This skips dialogue during the cutscene, manipulates the time of day ingame to something favourable for later events, and lets us discover fast travel points for later use.

Q: How are you continually doing power attacks without using stamina?
A: While dual wielding weapons, if you start a power attack with both and immediately hit the attack buttons again once the animation starts, it'll do the power attack without using stamina. 

Q: What's with all the stream lag during council?
A: Another method of skipping dialogue is to quicksave and quickload, which will skip ahead to the next line of dialogue. You can do that repeatedly in council to make it significantly faster.

Q: Are you actually flying on a bucket?
A: Yes. That bucket is a "heavy" object and pushes you back if you pull it towards yourself. When standing inside the bucket, you pull it upwards and it pushes you further upwards, allowing you to fly. It's basic physics.

Q: Hey streamer what's the alduin thing?
A: Tune in and find out, viewer.

Q: haha I love the bucket glitch xd
A: Seriously? This run has so much incredibly broken stuff and a basic clip is what gets you going?
 
Q: Are there any mods?
A: No, mods are not allowed in speedrunning.
 
Q: What is the fastest time?
A: You can see all times at: http://www.speedrun.com/skyrim

Glitches etc. you should know

The following are things you should be aware of when running this game. They're all little things experienced runners don't think about but new runners get tripped up by a lot.

[big]**Text Glitch**[/big]
This glitch allows you to skip through dialogue much faster than normal. Unfortunately it only appears at random, usually after the game's been open for 3+ hours. Because of this, runs with the text glitch are not allowed on the leaderboard. If you can find a consistent (and convenient) way to reproduce this glitch for everyone, we can allow it.

[big]**Misc Dialogue / Menu Glitches**[/big]
There are a few glitches that appear with the dialogue and menus in this game:

* If you scroll with your mouse wheel past the bottom option, it will roll around and actually select the top option while still highlighting the bottom one. You can choose the correct option by clicking on the one you want rather than using the keyboard. This happens going past the top too.
* The center option is not always the currently selected option. The one that is highlighted white is the current selection. This always happens during Arngeir's dialogue after the first horse climb.
* After reading a book from your inventory (e.g. misclicking when trying to read the Elder Scroll) you can no long use the mouse. You either much use the keyboard to select the correct item, or close and reopen the menu.


[big]**UI Glitch**[/big]
At random your game will stop showing quest updates and new location discovered notifications. Restarting your game will fix it.

[big]**Mzark Buttons**[/big]
The button puzzle to get the Elder Scroll is very easy to glitch. If you spam use when placing the lexicon, it will bug out and seem to both have the lexicon placed and not. You'll have to remove and replace it again to fix it. Additionally, spamming use on the 4th hit of the 1st button will cause the 2nd button to open and immediately close. You'll have to play around with the other buttons to reopen the 2nd one.

[big]**Angry Guards**[/big]
Guards can refuse to accept your surrender and simply try to kill you instead. This happens most with the Riften and especially Windhelm guards. I suggest quicksaving before doing a guard warp. Restarting the game after this happens may also help. Guards can also decide to ignore you completely, in which case just attack them again.

[big]**Carriage Wrong Warp**[/big]
If you choose the wrong option when using the carriage, you may be taken to the wrong place even when going back into the menu and selecting the correct place. Go back and select the correct place twice to go to the correct place 100% of the time.

[big]**Markarth Carriage Glitch**[/big]
Sometimes this jerk doesn't want to be a carriage driver and he won't have the dialogue option to choose a destination. Choose a couple other options and the carriage option should appear.

[big]**Horse Camera Glitch**[/big]
Occasionally after travelling to Riverwood, your camera will jerk and your horse will move in the wrong direction. Tapping forwards once before moving will prevent this.

[big]**Stagger Glitch**[/big]
You can't shout while staggered. It's possible to get stuck in a staggered state when you get staggered while attacking for a short time. You should be able to fire all required shouts before getting staggered in Alduin 1.

[big]**Invincible Alduin**[/big]
If you load a save during the Alduin 1 fight, he may become invincible. Reload the save until he's vulnerable again. You shouldn't need a save for this fight, though.

[big]**Floating Paarthunax**[/big]
Paarty can land in the air after Alduin 1 when you need to talk to him. Fast travel to High Hrothgar and back to lose the least amount of time.

[big]**Arngeir Glitch**[/big]
When going to talk to Arngeir the 2nd time he can be completely unresponsive for about 15s. We don't know what causes it or how to fix it other than waiting. It seems to be rare for most players.

[big]**Door Glitch**[/big]
Sometimes doors aren't usable. Just quicksave / quickload to fix this.

Glitchless Main Quest - Bound Sword Route (Latest Route)

# Before beginning your speedruns

### Please make sure to read through the rules and understand what is allowed or banned.

- **Game Rules**: https://www.speedrun.com/skyrim?h=Glitchless_Main_Quest-novice-pc&rules=game&x=9kvpvekg-7891rq9n.rqv09g6l
- **Category Rules**: https://www.speedrun.com/skyrim?h=Glitchless_Main_Quest-novice-pc&rules=category&x=9kvpvekg-7891rq9n.rqv09g6l

### Cap the frame rates.

Because of the Havok engine, you have to limit the FPS to 60 otherwise the game must be extremely glitchy with higher frame rates.

If you are Nvidia graphic card user, you can use its control panel to cap the frame rates.

Open NVIDIA control panel -> Manage 3D settings -> Click 'Program Settings' -> Click 'add' ->Choose 'Skyrim' -> Click 'Max Frame Rate' tab and limit to 60. Done!

Excuse me, but I don't know the option to cap the frame rates other than this way.

### Join our Discord!: https://discord.gg/V34pEGm

When you can't understand what you are doing while you speedrun or practice it, the participants may help you.

### Choose your race and make a start save file.

- You must choose **High Elf (Altmer)** to gain the fastest movement speed. Sex doesn't affect on a record, probably.
- Make a **hard save** right before getting the player's control. I recommend you open the console and type 'save start'.

**Note:** I don't handle settings in Livesplit in this guide. Please check Niceas's one for more information about it. https://www.speedrun.com/skyrim/guides/rvt4s

# Preparation is done. Let's start your speedruns!

### **Helgen**

- Jump on Alduin's wing to skip the way to the entrance of Helgen Keep.
- Stagger Hadvar twice and jump to cancel the player's animation
- Grab wines on the shelf.
- Take restoration potions from the barrel (not necessary).
- Grab Novice Hood, Novice Robe, and 25 golds from the body in the cage. These will be sold later.
- Take 4 lockpicks from the knapsack.
- Grab 2 coin purses and wines on the way to the exit.

Wines are ESSENTIAL items, especially at the end of this category. They restore your stamina and save a huge lot of time.

### **Throat of the World**

You can wait after escaping from Helgen, which means you can restore stamina in only a second. So, running method is the repetition of sprinting and waiting from now on.

- Get fast-travel points (Anise's Cabin, Riverwood, and Pelagia Farm).
- Get Dragonsreach's fast-travel point by Guard Warp. (Guard Warp: You can get into a city wherever you are by committing a crime and surrender)
- Get more fast-travel points. (Whiterun Stables and Windhelm Stables)
- Steal a horse. You can stand next to the horse and ride on it without sneaking at this point unless the player's collision touches the horse.
- Fast travel back to Riverwood and climb to Throat of the World through High Hrothgar with the horse.

### **Bleak Falls Barrow**

It's possible to wait only for specific positions because of many enemies in dungeons. It's hard to write the exact positions, so I'd like you to check out them where you can wait watching records adapting the current route.

- Fast travel to Anise's Cabin and enter Bleak Falls Barrow
- Solve the puzzle. (Activate pillars: left -> mid -> right -> mid -> right)
- Burn skeevers and grab a Fire Ball scroll on the table.
- Burn Arvel and take the Golden Claw.
- Take another Fire Ball scroll from the chest near glowing mushrooms.
- Go down the cliff. If a draugr is nearby after that, burn it to make it possible to wait.
- Enter the sanctum.
- Do the shortcut.
- Unlock the door (Activate each ring twice) and equip Fire Ball scrolls.
- Learn Unrelenting Force (FUS) and defeat the boss. If it's too early to get away from the word wall, the boss doesn't appear.
- Get a weapon used by the boss, Dragonstone, and golds before exiting.

### **Mirmulnir**

- Get into Dragonsreach.
- Skip Balgruuf and Proventus talking. (After reporting the Helgen to the jarl, commit a crime and press the tab key right after paying the fine.)
- Give Farengar the stone and then sell possessions and buy Bound Sword.
- Go outside by Guard Warp
- Get the Western Watchtower's fast-travel point and the Winterhold's one through a carriage.
- Equip the weapon from Bleak Falls Barrow before fast traveling back to the watchtower.
- Quick save right after arriving. Then, repeat quick load until getting the flying course which lands soon.
- Defeat Mirmulnir and grab golds.

### **High Hrothgar**

- Get fast-travel points through carriages. (Markarth Stables -> Riften Stables -> Katla's Farm -> Morthal)
- Equip Unrelenting Force and get into High Hrothgar.
- Wait and shout to Arngeir.
- After skipping the Arngeir's dialogues, go outside and go inside to skip the word appearing.
- Learn the 2nd Unrelenting Force word (RO).
- Attack Greybeards to bring up one-handed weapon skill.
- Learn Whirlwind Sprint (WULD) as well as RO.

### **Ustengrav**

- Adjust the time on the way to Ustengrav in order not to see sleeping NPCs at the endgame. I always adjust it to 12 p.m.
- Summon Bound Sword and kill only the Conjurer near the entrance of Ustengrav.
- Run to the depths summoning Bound Sword to raise your conjuration skill. You can gain conjuration skill XP with bound weapons only in combat.
- Do the shortcut with Whirlwind Sprint
- Mash the wait key rapidly right after going into the depths otherwise you can't wait because the enemies chase you soon.
- Head for the end of this dungeon summoning Bound Sword. I think it's enough to grow your conjuration skill up to 24.
- Read the letter put on the altar and go to the exit.

### **Septimus**

- Fast travel to Riverwood and get into Sleeping Giant Inn.
- Talk to Delphine.
- Grab lots of wines.
- Fast travel to Winterhold and get into a jail.
- Jailbreak.
- Enter Septimus Signus's Outpost.
- Sneak behind Septimus and steal Attunement Sphere and Blank Lexicon.

### **Sahloknir**

- Fast travel to Windhelm Stables and head to the dragon's tomb near Kynesgrove.
- Search for an Amulet of Talos from bodies around the tomb. If you can get it there, the next segment will be about 10s faster than without the amulet.
- Defeat Sahloknir and grab golds.
- Talk to Delphine.

### **Thalmor Embassy**

- Fast travel to Katla's Farm and do Guard Warp.
- If you couldn't get an Amulet of Talos at Kynesgrove, attack someone before entering Winking Skeever. Don't sheathe until get another amulet from Rogvir's body. Give wines and golds to Malborn, but you need to leave 40 golds in your inventory because you have to pay the fine.
- If you could get an Amulet of Talos at Kynesgrove, you needn't attack anyone. Just give Malborn the amulet, wines, and golds.
- Fast travel back to Katla's Farm and talk to Delphine.
- Put on the amulet if you get it from Rogvir's body, and wear Party Clothes, and Party Boots before going to the embassy.
- Grab wines to hand one of them to Razelan.
- Head for the interrogation chamber grabbing wines and getting the items you gave Malborn and quest items.
- Read the book, Thalmor Dossier: Esbern, to spawn the soldiers who have Trap Door Key.
- Kill one of them with flames and take it. When you shoot flames, you should do a little at a time. You can gain more DPS with flames by doing so.
- Escape from the embassy.

### **Esbern**

- Gurad Warp into Riten.
- Do Ratway Skip setup. Attack guard nearby and sheathe right before entering the Ratway. You have the amulet in your inventory at this point if you gave the amulet to Malborn, so you have to equip it.
- Jump across the bridge with Whirlwind Sprint.
- When you run out of your stamina, level up to increase your stamina and take Armsman perk twice to make one-handed weapons do 40% more damage.
- Talk to Esbern.
- Pay the fine to the guards. If they come early and force you to quit talking, attack Esbern and surrender after completing to talk with him.

### **Elder Scroll**

Now that you put on the Amulet of Talos and increased your stamina, the running method will be changed (Shout Whirlwind Sprint -> Sprint -> Shout again -> Wait)

- Fast travel to Ustngrav and head to Mzinchaleft.
- Get into Mzinchaleft.
- When you run out of your stamina and can't wait, drink your wines to restore it.
- Mash the wait key rapidly right after entering the depths.
- Do the shortcut with Whirlwind Sprint.
- Head to the Tower of Mzark.
- Solve the lexicon puzzle. (After inserting the lexicon, press the 2nd button from the right 4 times, and then press the 3rd button twice. Lastly, press the leftmost button once.)
- Get the Elder Scroll.

### **Alduin's Wall**

- Fast travel to Markarth Stables and run to Karthspire
- Do the shortcut.
- After get the Sky Haven Temple's fast-travel point, fast travel to Riverwood and go to the Sleeping Giant Inn.
- Grab wines and skip Esbern and Delphine talking by entering and exiting the inn.
- Fast travel back to the temple.
- Get the Dragonbane and talk to Esbern and Delphine.

### **Clear Skies**

- Fast travel to High Hrothgar.
- Learn the last word of Unrelenting Force (DA)
- After talking with Arngeir, you can hear the effect sound of completing a quest. It's at that time that you should wait to make him go to the courtyard.
- Open the door when a quest log fades out. Then the all words of Clear Skies appear already.
- Learn Clear Skies.

### **Alduin 1**

- Fast travel to Throat of the World.
- Talk to Paarthurnax.
- Learn Fire Breath and shout it to him. You can stop his fire breathing immediatly just by talking to him.
- Read the Elder Scroll and Learn Dragonrend.
- Beat Alduin. Tactics to fight him: attack him behind his wing to induce him to do tail attacks. You can easily bypass it just by moving to the side. When you can hear the line "You may have picked up the weapons of my ancient foes, but you are not their equal!", do him the last damage to skip this line right away.
- When you can see the subtitle "Meyz mul, Dovahkiin. You have become strong.", fast travel to High Hrothgar and fast travel back to Throat of the World.
- Talk to Paarthurnax and fast travel to Dragonsreach.

### **Peace Council**

- Talk to Balgruuf. You can wait to make him stand up, and then stagger him if you're there at 4-6 a.m.
- Fast travel to High Hrothgar and talk to Arngeir.
- Fast travel to Solitude and Guard Warp to the Castle Dour.
- Talk to Tullius.
- Fast travel to Windhelm Stables and Guard Warp to the Palace of the Kings.
- Talk to Ulfric
- Fast travel back to High Hrothgar.
- Do Peace Council Skip (STFU Skip) Here's a tutorial video https://www.speedrun.com/skyrim/guides/pr7s0 by TODDs_Telemedien.
- Learn Call Dragon.

### **Odahviing**

- Fast travel to Dragonsreach.
- Talk to Balgruuf and shout Call Drgaon grabbing wines.
- When the quest is updated, open the door to the great porch.
- After shooting Dragonrend at Odahviing, approach the door you entered.
- When you can see the dragon steps to the player 4 times or so, get inside and go outside to skip his animation being trapped.
- Talk to Odahviing.
- Right after telling him to be ready to fly, press the tab key and fast travel somewhere to skip the player's animation.

### **Skuldafn**

- Climb and run to the gate to Sovngarde.
- When you exhaust your stamina, start a drinking party.

### **Sovngarde**

- Beat Tsun. (Shoot flame before being talked to and attack 4 times with Dragonbane)
- Enter the Hall of Valor and start the heroes talking go outside and re-enter. After hearing the effect sound of their unsheathing weapons, go outside and get inside again. Repeat entering and exiting until they go across the bridge.
- Clear the fog three times.
- After that, climb the left side of the hill and see the southwest direction to define the position where Alduin spawns.
- Defeat Alduin with power attacks restoring stamina with wines.

Glitchless Main Quest - Route and Tips (outdated)

Glitchless Main Quest: STFU Skip / Peace Council Skip

Hey everyone!
Just a small tutorial for the STFU Skip in Peace Council for Glitchless. This saves around 15 seconds and is completly free.
https://youtu.be/5P7LZbcbhxM

Glitchless Mainquest Text Guide Early 2021 (OUTDATED)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XQvE6aSI3XYK4XzdgkZIRIOMD6kpkA32V2c8US3Phic/edit?usp=sharing

Main Quest (Any%) - Dead Loading/Warping Route (OUTDATED)

# Before beginning your speedruns

### Please make sure to read through the rules and understand what is allowed or banned.

- **Game Rules**: https://www.speedrun.com/skyrim?h=Main_Quest-pc&rules=game&x=w20p7jkn-jlz36082.013x3dk1
- **Category Rules**: https://www.speedrun.com/skyrim?h=Main_Quest-pc&rules=category&x=w20p7jkn-jlz36082.013x3dk1

### Cap the frame rates.

You have to limit the FPS to 60 otherwise the game must be extremely glitchy with higher frame rates.

If you are Nvidia graphic card user, you can use its control panel to cap the frame rates.

Open NVIDIA control panel -> Manage 3D settings -> Click 'Program Settings' -> Click 'add' ->Choose 'Skyrim' -> Click 'Max Frame Rate' tab and limit to 60. Done!

Excuse me, but I don't know the option to cap the frame rates other than this way.

### Join our Discord!: https://discord.gg/V34pEGm

When you can't understand what you are doing while you speedrun or practice it, the participants may help you.

### Choose your race and make a start save file.

- You must choose **High Elf (Altmer)** to gain the fastest movement speed. Sex doesn't affect on a record, probably.
- Make a **hard save** right before getting the player's control. I recommend you open the console and type 'save start'.

# Preparation is done. Let's start your speedruns!

**Note: I won't treat all of the how-to glitches in this guide. Please check out these tutorials: https://www.speedrun.com/skyrim/guides/2iwv6**

**Also, this video should help make sense of Dead Loading/Warping:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcvsMpSveeo

### Helgen

- Do Infinite Sprint. (You need to do it each time after you sneak, unsheathe, and sprint.)
- Jump on the Alduin's wing and run near the entrance of Helgen.
- Quick save, run to the front of Helgen's exit and make a save there.
-  Quick load, enter Helgen, skip Hadvar's dialogues, and quick save. Then do Load Warping.

### Shrine

- FT to Helgen and run up the slope.
- Grab an arrow and pick up items from a chest on the way before quick save with a third-person view.
- After you run up the slope sufficiently, wait an hour and steal a horse and make a save of setting up Horse Tilting. If the rider doesn't get off, punch the horse.
- Do Horse Tilting to the shrine of the Devines at Windhelm through Riverwood, Valtheim Towers, Windhelm Stables, and Hlaalu Farm. If you can't gain sufficient speed you should land on White River, and then do tilting again.
- Get the blessing of the Divines by activating the shrine of it.
- FT to Riverwood

### Embassy

- Make a save for setting up Ghost Tilting (a.k.a. Etherial Tilting) with the forge.
- Do Ghost Tilting, make a hard save under High Hrothgar, and quick save under Ivarstead.
- Load the quick save (DO NOT quick load. That causes a crash definitely.) and press the activate key to warp up to Throat of the World.
- FT to Hlaalu Farm and make a save for setting up Ghost Tilting with the tanning rack.
- Do Ghost Tilting through Septimus Signus' Outpost and Katla's Farm, and quick save and load beneath Thalmor Embassy.
- Enter the embassy and take quest items.
- FT to Septimus Signus' Outpost.

### Karthspire

- What you need to steal is only Blank Lexicon.
- Keep trying to steal it until you succeed, and then quick save.
- Load the save file made under High Hrothgar.
- Jump off from the cliff in the courtyard to do damage yourself over 100 HP and make a save in front of the door while you are available to activate it. (DO NOT quick save while you do that.)
- Quick load and do Dead Warping. (Basically, you have to press the activate key with a precise timing.)
- Quick save with a third person view and do Horse Tilting.
- Land on the river near Karthspire and get into it.
- Jumping the puzzles to skip them and get the FT point of Sky Haven Temple.
- FT to Ivarstead.

### Esbern

- Guard Warp to Riften. (Commit a crime, yield, and pay the fine.)
- Run through Ratway.
- Start the conversation with Esbern. (Talk to him and cancel. Talk to him again and choose the under conversation, and then QS and QL, wait an hour, and skip his dialogues with QS and QL. When the door is open, bump him and start to talk with him choosing all of the under conversation. When you see the subtitle 'We must go, quickly now...', bump him again, talk to him twice, and quick save.)
- Do Dead Warping and FT to Riverwood.
- Go to Sleeping Giant Inn and skip dialogues. (Wait an hour after entering the inn, and exit. Wait an hour again and do QS and QL 4 times, and then return to the inn. When the quest is updated go outside.)
- FT to Sky Haven Temple. NOT Karthspire!!!!!!
- Quick Wait 8 hours. If Esbern doesn't appear wait only an hour again.
- Talk to him, choose the conversation 'How do we find the entrance to Sky Haven Temple?', and bump him.
- FT to Mistveil Keep activating the Blood Seal.

### Initiation

- You cannot skip fade in while the player is animated.
- Jump to skip the animation.
- Do Vendor Glitch with Balimund.
- Set up Marriage Glitch, which you can gain cutscene control while reading the Elder Scroll later.
- FT back to Sky Haven Temple.
- Quick Wait 21 hours and QS/QL.
- Get into the temple, QS/QL, and wait an hour.
- Duplicate Dragonbane.
- Begin the conversation with Esbern and Delphine. Skip Esbern's dialogues twice and wait an hour. Talk to him, do QS/QL twice, and bump him. Then talk with Delphine, choose the bottom conversation twice, and quick save.
- Do Dead Warping.
- Start the conversation with Arngeir. (Choose the top -> the bottom -> the top -> QS/QL -> the bottom -> the mid -> the bottom.)
- FT to Valtheim Towers.

### Mzark

- Quick save with a third person view and do Horse Tilt to the exit of Tower of Mzark through Battle-Born Farm. If you can't clip the wall of the lift, equip Dragonbane, sneak in front of the door, and do the right power attack spamming the activate key.
- Solve the puzzle to get the Elder Scroll.
- Do Dead Warping
- Get the FT point of High Hrothgar and learn Clear Skies.
- FT to Throat of the World when you see or hear the effect of obtaining a dragon soul after skipping Arngeir's dialogue.

### Alduin 1

- Talk to Paarthurnax, choose a conversation and cancel.
- Skip the dialogues by QS/QL and his fire breathing by talking to him.
- QS/QL at the same time you learn Fire Breath to skip his dialogue.
- After updating the quest, equip Fire Breath and shout to him.
- Begin the conversation with him. Choose the bottom -> the top -> the bottom -> the top -> the top -> the top -> the bottom -> the bottom -> QS/QL.
- After the quest marker on Paarthurnax is away, read the Elder Scroll.
- Just before getting into the cutscene, spam quick save and quick wait until around 6 a.m. (If you've gotten along until this section you need to quick wait 17 or 18 hours probably.)
- Kill the dragon and FT to Battle-Born Farm.
- Do Guard Warp to Dragonsreach.
- Skip the jarl and others' conversations. (Talk to Balgruuf, choose the top then the bottom, and cancel. After cancelling to be talked to by Irileth, attack someone and yield. Cancel the conversation right after paying the fine.)
- FT to High Hrothgar and then FT to Throat of the World.
- Learn Dragonrend. (No problem if the letters and the sound effects that appear when you learn some shout aren't displayed.)
- FT to High Hrothgar after you hear Alduin's dialogue 'Nivahriin joorre!'
- FT back to Throat of the World.
- Kill Gormleith and skip the others' dialogue by talking to them.
- FT to Dragonsreach when you see the subtitle 'Faal Kel...?! Nikriinne...'
- Talk to Farengar and proceed with the conversation until his subtitle 'I, ah learned of a certain stone tablet...' appears.
- Equip Dragonrend and register it and the others to favourites before binding the number key to them to change the shout you equip immediately.
- Shout to Alduin
- Move near a certain rock. (Please check someone's recent record.)
- Beat first Alduin's fight with Infinite Power Attacks.
- QS/QL their dialogues, but you can't skip 'Meyz mul. Dovahkiin. You have become strong.'
- Skip the next one, QS/QL 3 times and talk to Paarthurnax. Choose the bottom and cancel. (If he lands on the air not the precise cliff, FT to High Hrothgar and FT back to Throat of the World. Then he's on the word wall.)
- FT to Dragonsreach.

### Council

- Have a conversation with Balgruuf. Choose the top and the ones other than persuasion. Proceed until click 'What if you didn't have to worry about an enemy attack?'
- Do Dead Warping. At this point, you can succeed in it just by spamming the activate key.
- Carry on the conversation with Arngeir.
- FT to Katla's Farm and do Guard Warp to Castle Dour
- Make the conversation with Tullius. Choose the bottom twice and close the dialogue when you see the subtitle 'I suspect we might have use for someone resourceful...', and then QS/QL and talk with him again. Choose the top -> the bottom -> the top -> cancel.
- FT to Windhelm Stables.
- Do Horse Tilting to Palace of the Kings. If you feel it's risky, you can choose the Guard Warp.
- Talk with Ulfric. Cancel just after talking to him and talk to him again. Choose the top and the ones other than persuasion.
- QS/QL before doing Dead Warping otherwise he doesn't come out in the council.
- Get inside High Hrothgar.
- Take your seat and wait an hour standing up. Then you'll be talked to by Arngeir, so choose the top and close the dialogue.
- Skip dialogues with QS/QL 3 times or so and wait an hour. Continue to skip them.
- You will be talked to by Ulfric after Arngeir says 'Perhaps this would be a good time...' Choose the bottom twice and cancel.
- You can't skip this Tullius' dialogue 'First, let's be clear. This council wasn't my idea. I think it's a waste of time.' after 'Enough!'
- Just press the tab when you are talked to by Tulius. DO NOT choose the bottom conversation!
- Wait an hour after you skip Delphine's dialogue 'And I advise you both to listen to what he has to say, before you do anything rash.'
- Wait an hour again after you skip Esbern's dialogue 'Alduin has returned! The World-Eater! Even now, he devours the souls of your fallen comrades!'
- Wait an hour further after you skip Esbern's dialogue 'Can you not put aside your hatred for even one moment in the face of this mortal danger?'
- Wait an hour furthermore after you skip Ulfric's dialogue 'If he's right about Alduin... we both have just as much to lose here, Tullius, remember that.'
- You'll be talked to by Ulfric after skipping his dialogue 'It seems I have no choice but to let the Dragonborn decide. Although I'm starting to doubt your fairness.' Choose the top and cancel.
- You can't skip this Arngeir's dialogue 'The Stormcloaks will withdraw from the Rift, allowing Imperial troops unhindered access.'
- Have a conversation with Esbern. Choose the top and skip one dialogue, and then close and QS/QL. Talk to him again and proceed until the dialogue 'Od - Ah - Viing...' appears.
- Go outside and FT to Dragonsreach.

### Odahviing

- Equip Call Dragon.
- Talk with Balgruuf. Choose the top -> the bottom -> cancel -> QS/QL -> Shout (fully charged)
- After the quest is updated, wait an hour, QS/QL, and open the door to the great porch holding the shout key or button.
- If the guard who should be killed by the dragon is alive, you must finish him otherwise the dragon will try to kill him again. It has to be a huge time-loss.
- When the dragon approaches you, get back inside and go outside again. Then you can skip the animation that the dragon is captured.
- Make a conversation with him. Choose the top -> the top -> the bottom -> the top -> cancel -> QS/QL.
- Wait an hour after unbound him.
- Talk to him and choose the top, and then FT somewhere. You can skip the animation to departure to Skuldafn by doing so.

### Skuldafn

- Do Horse Tilting to the gate of Sovngarde.

### Alduin 2

- Run down the stairs.
- Quick save with a third person view when you are at the same height as the bridge.
- Do Horse Tilting to the front of Tsun.
- Beat Tsun.
- Do Horse Tilting to the top right door of Hall of Valor.
- Start the heroes' conversations.
- Repeat exiting and entering twice, and then QS/QL until the heroes get outside. Enter and exit it again.
- Do Horse Tilting to the heroes.
- Shout Clear Skies and skip their dialogues. Repeat that 3 times.
- When you shout it lastly, climb the left side of the hill and see the south direction.
- Shout Dragonrend to Alduin when the quest marker is changed.
- Become a DRAGON SLAYER.

Skyrim Glitchless Main Quest Quick Guide (outdated)

A very quick guide for when you know the run pretty well and just need a reminder of what to do next. Organized by how I have my splits setup, and up-to-date as of March 2022

Helgen
- Get to and go through Helgen Keep

Throat of the World
- Run to Anise's Cabin, Riverwood, and Pelagia's Farm. Guard skip to Dragonsreach
- Fast travel to Pelagia's farm, and take carriage to Windhelm
- Steal horse, fast travel to Riverwood
- Horse parkour to Throat of the World
- Fast travel to Anise's cabin

Bleak Falls Barrow
- Ride to the Barrow, run through Barrow, kill and loot Arvel, kill and loot boss
- Fast travel to Dragonreach

Mirmulnir
- Talk to jarl and court wizard
- Run to the western watchtower, fast travel and take Whiterun carriage to Winterhold
- Fast travel to watchtower, kill and loot dragon
- fast travel to and take carriage to Marketh, Riften, Solitude, and Morthal
- Fast travel to High Hrothgar 

Greybeards
- Go through first part, and then get Whirlwind Sprint
- Fast travel to Marketh

Sky Haven + Ustengrav
- run to Karthspire and to the jumps to Sky Haven Temple 
- Fast travel to Morthal
- Run/whirlwind to Ustengrav
- Run/whirlwind through Ustengrav
- Fast travel to Riverwood

Sohloknir
- Talk to Delphine a bunch, steal wines
- Fast travel to Windhelm and run to dragon mound
- Kill and loot dragon
- Talk to Delphine
- Fast travel to Riverwood

Embassy
- Talk to Delphine
- Fast travel to Solitude
- Guard warp in and go talk to Malborn
- Fast travel to Delphine and talk to her to go to Embassy
- Go through Embassy, stealing wines
- Go through next part, kill and loot guard, escape
- Fast travel to Riften

Esbern + Alduin's Wall
- Guard warp into Riverwood
- Aggro guard and run/wine through the Ratway and Warrens, get Esbern, and guard warp out
- Fast travel to Riverwood
- Esbern and Delphine talk, steal more wine, and fast travel to Skyhaven
- Get inside temple, get Dragonsbane, get through convo
- Fast travel to Winterhold

Septimus + Elder Scroll
- Aggro guard, get jailed, escape, run to Septimus's hideout
- Steal both things off of Septimus
- Fast travel to Winterhold
- Run/whirlwind to Raldbthar, then through Raldbthar Deep Market
- Run/jump through Market, do puzzle, go down to Blackreach
- Run/whirlwind through Blackreach to Tower of Mzark entrance
- Do puzzle and get the Elder Scroll, leave
- Fast travel to Hrogthgar

Clear Skies + Alduin
- Talk to Arngeir, and then get Clear Skies from him
- Fast travel to the Throat of the World
- Talk to Parthnuux, then read scroll
- After cutscene fight Alduin
- Fast travel to Hrothgar, fast travel back to Throat of the World, and talk to Parthnuux
- Fast travel to Dragonsreach

Peace Council
- Talk to the jarl
- Fast travel to Hrothgar and talk to Argneir
- Fast travel to Solitude and talk to Tullius
- Fast travel to Windhelm and talk to ulfric
- Fast travel to Hrothgar, do the long freakin council meeting
- Talk to Esbern, steal wine, leave
- Fast travel to Dragonsreach

Odahving + Skuldafn
- Steal wine and catch Odahving
- Talk to Odahving, fast travel to Dragonsreach, magically appear at Skuldafn
- Parkour to Sovengarde portal, jump in!

Sovengarde
- Run/whirlwind/wine to Tsun and fight him
- Run to Hall of valor, go in and out doors
- Run to heros, clear skies
- Dragonrend and kill Alduin!

Stone of Barenziah

Solitude:
	Q1: Falk Firebeard
	S1: Blue Palace
	S2: Reeking Cave - Under Thalmor Embassy
	D1: Wolfskull Cave - West
	LW1: FT Katla’s Farms
	S3: Dainty Sload - North, on ship
	LW2: FT Solitude
	Q2-1: Elisif the Fair
Whiterun:
	S4: Dragonsreach Jarl’s Quarters
	Vendor Glitch - 25000
	S5: Jorrvaskr Living Quarters
	S6: Whiterun Hall of the Dead 
	Q2-2: Shrine of Talos, EEN Battleborn Farm
	S7: Fellglow Keep, EEN Shrine of Talos
	LW3 FT Solitude
	Buy Proudspire
	S8: Proudspire Manor
Riften:
	S9: Mistveil Keep
	Q3-1:Kill Grelod
	Q4: Fail Brynjolf by Going to Inn and out
	Q5: Up To Goldenglow (Maybe Waz route faster? Don’t think so)
	S10: Black-Briar Lodge - East of Riften Stables
Windhelm:
	Grab bucket at Windhelm Stables to fly over orb
	S11: House of Clan Shatter Shield:
	S12: Unliving Quarters
	Q3-1: Dark Brotherhood 2
Markarth:
	S13: Treasury House
	S14: Dwemer Museum
	LW4: FT Markarth Stables or Arrested, mine silver.
	S15:Dead Crone Rock - Southwest Markarth
	LW5: FT Whiterun Stables
Winterhold:
	Q4-1: College + Ward
	S16: Yngvild (In between Dawnstar and Winterhold)
	LW6: FT Yngvild
	S17: Hob’s Fall Cave (South of Yngvild)
	LW7: Hob’s Fall Cave
	Q4-2: Saarthal (South of Hob’s) - Learn Bucket Clip + Route from dr.
	LW8: FT College of Winterhold
	S18: College of Winterhold - Archmage
	FT Winterhold, sleep at inn
Falkreath
	FT: Any Stables
	S19: Dark Brotherhood
S20: Sunderstone Gorge - Far NW of Falkreath, inline with riverwood
	LW9: FT Falkreath
	S21: Pinewatch - East of Falkreath
	LW10: FT Windhelm Stables
Eastmarch:
	S22: Ansilvund - Southeast windhelm, Slightly west but a lot north Riften, about center
	LW11: FT Ansilvund
	S23: Stony Creek Cave - Slightly Northwest of Ansilvund
	LW12: FT Stables
Morthal:
	S24: Rannveig’s Fast - Travel pretty far south and west of morthal
	LW13: FT Mistveil Keep
Endgame:
	Q5: Vex
	FT: Stony Creek, Southeast cave
	LW14: FT Mistveil Keep
	End at Ragged Flagon

Things banned in all runs

**Text Glitch**
When leaving the game open for a long time (3+ hours), a glitch happens where you can skip through conversations much faster than normal. This glitch has an annoying long and inconsistent setup and doesn't work the same on everyone's computer, so it's not allowed in runs. You are advised to restart your game after every completed run or handful of attempts to avoid this.

**Ctrl+PrtScn Hotkey**
This hotkey changes the game speed to be based on framerate rather than real time, which means the game runs normal speed at 30 FPS. Higher than that the game runs too fast (2x speed at 60 FPS, 4x at 120, etc.) and lower than that it runs slower. Since not everyone can maintain a constant 60 FPS (framedrops in Riften are common) this hotkey is not allowed.

**Console Commands**
Use of console commands would make the run trivial and boring so no commands are allowed to be executed during a run. Console commands are very helpful during testing / routing, however you are advised to restart your game prior to doing runs to ensure no commands entered will effect anything.

**Mods**
As Skyrim is already an unstable game, we can't be sure any installed mods will not effect the run in any way or work the same across computers. Therefore any mods must be removed before doing any runs. Even trivial things like having SKSE running is not allowed.

メインクエスト(Any%) - Dead Loading/Warpingルート スピードランガイド

### 以下のURLに最新のチャートをまとめています。変更があり次第随時更新予定です。

**https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hs5QJvuStFIyQkF62Wwdng0sea5VOjupnI87hcAL-kQ/edit?usp=sharing**

**This document is meant for Japanese, but I also wrote the guide in English: https://www.speedrun.com/skyrim/guides/dsb7f**

Name	Autor
00 Glitch Tutorial Videos - Start Here	Gelöscht 7 years ago
01 Main Quest Text Guide - Windhelm Tanning Rack Route	pekkanen 10 months ago
All Daedric Quests Text Notes	Gelöscht 9 years ago
All Guilds Text Notes	Chronos 7 years ago
Allowed INI Edits	Gelöscht 11 years ago
FAQ	Gelöscht 9 years ago
Glitches etc. you should know	Gelöscht 11 years ago
Glitchless Main Quest - Bound Sword Route (Latest Route)	Lilu_ 2 years ago
Glitchless Main Quest - Route and Tips (outdated)	Paladyn 6 years ago
Glitchless Main Quest: STFU Skip / Peace Council Skip	TODDs_Telemedien 4 years ago
Glitchless Mainquest Text Guide Early 2021 (OUTDATED)	Niceas 4 years ago
Main Quest (Any%) - Dead Loading/Warping Route (OUTDATED)	Lilu_ 2 years ago
Skyrim Glitchless Main Quest Quick Guide (outdated)	evelbrute 4 years ago
Stone of Barenziah	Chronos 8 years ago
Things banned in all runs	Gelöscht 10 years ago
メインクエスト(Any%) - Dead Loading/Warpingルートスピードランガイド	Lilu_ 2 years ago