Skyrim Trophy Guide

Welcome to the trophy guide for Skyrim! A quick thing to note, I will NOT be covering the DLC as I do not own the DLC for Skyrim. So this means no Dawnguard, Hearthfire, or Dragonborn trophies will be on this guide. And even so, those don't count towards the platinum, they only count towards 100% of the trophies in the entire game. So with that said, let's just get right into it!

*Please note that I, of course, won't be talking about story-based trophies, due to the fact that Skyrim has a pretty awesome story and I would definitely rather you discover it for yourself!*

Platinum Trophy Collect all other 50 Trophies for this Trophy.

Well, the flavor text beat me to the punch. You know the drill.

Unbound Complete "Unbound."

Unbound is the tutorial, and you will receive this trophy as soon as you finish the mission.

Bleak Falls Barrow Complete "Bleak Falls Barrow."

Simply complete Bleak Falls Barrow as you go through the story and this will be yours.

The Way of the Voice Complete "The Way of the Voice."

The Way of the Voice is a story mission and cannot be missed, unless you choose not to do the game or do some serious sequence breaking glitches, but I don't recommend that.

Diplomatic Immunity Complete "Diplomatic Immunity."

Almost halfway there now, just get through Diplomatic Immunity to receive this trophy.

Alduin's Wall Complete "Alduin's Wall."

Story related and cannot be missed.

Elder Knowledge Complete "Elder Knowledge."

Story related and can't be missed.

The Fallen Complete "The Fallen."

Story related and can't be missed.

Dragonslayer Complete "Dragonslayer."

Great job, you beat the story! That was awesome!

Take Up Arms Join the Companions.

Head over to Jorravaskr in Whiterun to start this series of quests. Typically you'll find the Companions fighting a giant when you first enter the farm areas outside of the city, you can talk to members there as they return home and one will mention heading to Jorravaskr if you want to become a member.

Blood Oath Become a member of the Circle.

You have to complete quests for the Companions until you're given the quest "The Silver Hand." After completing a part of the quest, this trophy will pop.

Glory of the Dead Complete "Glory of the Dead."

Complete the Companions quest line and this shiny trophy is all yours. Well done, Companion.

Gatekeeper Join the College of Winterhold.

Simply join the College and do a quick starting quest and you're all set to be a mage.

Revealing the Unseen Complete "Revealing the Unseen."

Complete more quests and this trophy will pop after "Revealing the Unseen."

The Eye of Magnus Complete "The Eye of Magnus."

You're a master mage now, you completed the College quest line! Great job!

Taking Care of Business Join the Thieves Guild.

In Riften, there's a man named Brynjolf who will give you a simple thieving task. Complete it or fail it, you'll then be asked to find the Thieves Guild down in the Ratway. Meet him in the Ragged Flagon and this trophy is yours.

Darkness Returns Complete "Darkness Returns."

Yep, next trophy down is completing all of the quests for the Thieves Guild. I hope you had fun with this line, because it's a lot of fun to do.

One with the Shadows Returned the Thieves Guild to its former glory.

After finishing the quest line, you have to do a number of jobs for Delvin and Vex, the random jobs that never end. After completing roughly 5 missions in each city, Delvin gives you a bigger job for one of the cities you've been doing jobs in. Completing this bigger mission gives the Guild influence in that city. Repeat for all 4 major cities and you'll have one last step to do before you get the trophy. Just make sure you still have your Thieves Guild armor or this trophy won't pop!

With Friends Like These... Join the Dark Brotherhood.

At some point or another, a bartender in Skyrim will mention a boy named Aventus Aretino, who is found in his home in Windhelm, and you have to pick the lock to enter the house. After completing his mission, you'll eventually get mail from a courier, a paper with a hand mark, simply saying "We know." Sleep in any bed at that point to get this quest line started.

Bound Until Death Complete "Bound Until Death."

You have a lot of work to do to get this trophy, so get to it and complete those contracts!

Hail Sithis! Complete "Hail Sithis!"

Great work, you finished the quest line! Congrats, Assassin!

Taking Sides Join the Stormcloaks or the Imperial Army.

It doesn't matter what side you join, the quest lines are the same, you're just on different sides. You get the side mission for joining one side depending on who you follow in Unbound, so if that's easier, just do that. Otherwise, go to Solitude or Windhelm to join the Imperial Army or the Stormcloaks, respectively.

War Hero Capture Fort Sungard or Fort Greenwall.

Just some misc. missions for your army to go through, just take 'em one by one. BE SURE TO SAVE OFTEN AS THIS QUEST IS ONE OF THE MOST BUGGY IN THE WHOLE GAME!

Hero of Skyrim Capture Solitude or Windhelm.

It's time to finish the Civil War quest line! Whichever side you picked, this is your final push, so give it your all!

Sideways Complete 10 side quests.

A side quest is a quest you can get that is not put under the "Misc. Objectives" tab and isn't one of the faction quests. There's a very decent amount of them and you'll get many as you go through the game so talk to people often.

Hero of the People Complete 50 Misc. Objectives.

Misc. Objectives are more commonplace than side quests, so 50 is not difficult, especially considering some of these objectives are pretty quick.

Hard Worker Chop wood, mine ore, and cook food.

You'll find places to chop wood all over the world, ore and pickaxes are typically found within mines, and as long as you have ingredients, go find a cooking pot and make some food. Easy as pie!

Thief Pick 50 locks and 50 pockets.

50 locks is an easy goal, as you'll be wanting to lockpick everything you can in order to level up your lockpicking skill. As for pickpocketing, that's a bit harder. For better success, always do a quick save before you pick a pocket, just in case you get noticed. If it doesn't automatically remove you from the inventory menu, you successfully pickpocketed someone.

Snake Tongue Successfully persuade, bribe, and intimidate.

As there are many opportunities to do all of these, and some missions with the Thieves Guild will require some of these 3 actions, this is almost impossible to be missed if you're trying to do everything you can in this game. After successfully doing each of these once, you're set!

Blessed Select a Standing Stone blessing.

After Unbound, as you make your way to Riverwood, you'll come across an area with 3 Standing Stones, each designed to help increase the skills for each skill tree. One for Warriors, one for Mages, and one for Thieves. Simply pick one of these blessings and you're done.

Standing Stones Find 13 Standing Stones.

They're all over Skyrim, and you'll definitely run into them as you travel. Just keep an eye on your HUD as you travel the map and explore.

Citizen Buy a house.

This is another easy one. Typically it requires you to be Thane of a hold, but some holds require you to buy a house before you can become Thane. Pretty easy one, the house in Whiterun is, of course, the easiest to obtain.

Wanted Escape from jail.

Simply anger some guards by hitting them, then submit and go to jail. Use your single lockpick to get past the bars on the floor in your cell, then easily make your escape. You can always save beforehand if you don't want to lose everything just to go to jail.

Married Get married.

After you obtain an Amulet of Mara, which can be bought from Maramal in Riften after asking about temples and marriage, equip it and eventually a woman, or man, depending on your character's gender, will ask if you're interested in them, at which point saying yes will initiate a wedding ceremony at Riften. Simply go to your wedding ceremony and this trophy is yours.

Artificer Make a smithed item, an enchanted item, and a potion.

Easily done, as there are people who will do tutorials on how to actually use these crafting stations, and these tutorials will walk you through the basic steps needed to use these in the future.

Master Criminal Bounty of 1000 gold in all nine holds.

Typically this involves murdering one person to get the bounty to 1000 easily. Save before doing this so that you can go back to being a normal citizen after you've finished your life of crime and get your trophy!

Golden Touch Have 100,000 gold.

Takes a long time, but some quests will be a huge help, like receiving 20,000 gold through the Dark Brotherhood questline. This is not cumulative, you need to actually have 100,000 gold on hand for this trophy to pop.

Delver Clear 50 dungeons.

Pretty easy, most areas with unique icons can count as a dungeon. To clear one, you have to essentially kill every enemy inside. When you check your map, if it says "Cleared," then you're set. You'll obtain this one as you bang out the other trophies.

Skill Master Get a skill to 100.

Self-explanatory, just do actions until one hits 100. If you have patience, using the spell "Muffle" if really handy, as it can be used quickly, regardless of whether or not other characters are around or not, and it quickly boosts your Illusion skill. If you can get it, "Detect Life" is a great way to gain exp for Alteration.

Explorer Discover 100 Locations.

This will naturally come to you as you play normally.

Reader Read 50 Skill Books.

Certain books will level up your skills when you read them. They're all over the world, and once you've read 50 different books, you'll have this trophy.

Daedric Influence Acquire a Daedric Artifact.

See Oblivion Walker.

Oblivion Walker Collect 15 Daedric Artifacts.

Several of these are found when starting quests at a shrine. Generally just play the game normally and you'll find them. Some decisions you make could potentially lock you out of the Artifacts, however, so if you're unsure about a certain choice, you can always so a quick save to be able to head back if you messed up.

Dragon Soul Absorb a dragon soul.

See Dragon Hunter.

Dragon Hunter Absorb 20 dragon souls.

You'll fight dragons often as you travel through Skyrim, especially to obtain Thu'um Master and also be able to use these new shouts, as most require dragon souls to actually use each new level of the shout. After getting 20 souls, cumulatively, you'll have this trophy.

Words of Power Learn all three words of a shout.

See Thu'um Master.

Thu'um Master Learn 20 shouts.

This requires you to learn all of the shouts in the base game. Additional shouts from the DLC do count towards this, so if you have the DLC, you have more leeway. You must learn one word from every shout, you don't need to have all 3 words to obtain this trophy. You can talk to the Greybeards for help in finding some of the shouts, as they will point you in the direction of, if I remember correctly, roughly 8 or so shouts, so they're very helpful. Dragon altars typically always have a shout hidden, so look for those dragon symbols on your map or HUD.

Apprentice Reach Level 5.

See Master.

Adept Reach Level 10.

See Master.

Expert Reach Level 25.

See Master.

Master Reach Level 50.
Leveling up is pretty easy, you gain exp from generally everything you do. Reaching Level 50 does take a while, but it's not as hard as it seems. You'll get this as you bang out the other trophies and do quests and story missions.

And that's all for this trophy guide! I hope you enjoyed it, and if this guide isn't enough to be of great help, well, there's always better and more informative guides out there. In any case, I appreciate you reading this guide and I will see you later! Stay warm!

*This game took me a total of 3 years, 4 months, and 2 weeks to finish, from my first trophy to the platinum, with a long hiatus in the middle of it. My first trophy was "Unbound" which was achieved on May 23rd, 2013 at 4:09 PM. My final trophy was "Thu'um Master" which was achieved on October 6th, 2016 at 3:43 PM, along with the platinum, "Platinum Trophy." This platinum trophy is the 46th platinum trophy I have received.*