I didn’t realise that bookshelves changed books so I’ve learnt something valuable today thank you. I used to click every bookcase every time but stopped as I thought I was wasting my time.
There is one book that only shows up in the Imperial City Sewers, The Distributed Soul, that i have looked for for ages now. Bookshelves down there are limited anyway and I've noticed that out of the 5 (i think) I know of, only one or two seem to reset in 24 hours, the rest stay the same. I went down there every day for about a week looking for this book and leaving map markers of what book i found in that spot.
There is one book that only shows up in the Imperial City Sewers, The Distributed Soul, that i have looked for for ages now. Bookshelves down there are limited anyway and I've noticed that out of the 5 (i think) I know of, only one or two seem to reset in 24 hours, the rest stay the same. I went down there every day for about a week looking for this book and leaving map markers of what book i found in that spot.
Royal Messengers Fate in the Wrothgar Writings collection is one of the bugged ones i think.
There is one book that only shows up in the Imperial City Sewers, The Distributed Soul, that i have looked for for ages now. Bookshelves down there are limited anyway and I've noticed that out of the 5 (i think) I know of, only one or two seem to reset in 24 hours, the rest stay the same. I went down there every day for about a week looking for this book and leaving map markers of what book i found in that spot.
Royal Messengers Fate in the Wrothgar Writings collection is one of the bugged ones i think.
Royal Messenger's Fate was fixed. You can find it on live in Wrothgar (where the blue-green arrow is, not the waypoint):
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/7829510/#Comment_7829510
The first post in the Eidetic Memory thread here has a guide to IC bookshelves. There are far more than 5, though some are easier to reach than others:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/270549/eidetic-memory-bugs-comments-help
That thread has a lot more information about bugged and fixed lorebooks, in case you are looking for any others.
There is one book that only shows up in the Imperial City Sewers, The Distributed Soul, that i have looked for for ages now. Bookshelves down there are limited anyway and I've noticed that out of the 5 (i think) I know of, only one or two seem to reset in 24 hours, the rest stay the same. I went down there every day for about a week looking for this book and leaving map markers of what book i found in that spot.
Royal Messengers Fate in the Wrothgar Writings collection is one of the bugged ones i think.
Royal Messenger's Fate was fixed. You can find it on live in Wrothgar (where the blue-green arrow is, not the waypoint):
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/7829510/#Comment_7829510
The first post in the Eidetic Memory thread here has a guide to IC bookshelves. There are far more than 5, though some are easier to reach than others:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/270549/eidetic-memory-bugs-comments-help
That thread has a lot more information about bugged and fixed lorebooks, in case you are looking for any others.
Thank you, will go get Royal Messengers Fate when I'm next online. As for the other one, that lists the bookcases in the City not in the Sewers and that's where the book I need is supposed to be
There is one book that only shows up in the Imperial City Sewers, The Distributed Soul, that i have looked for for ages now. Bookshelves down there are limited anyway and I've noticed that out of the 5 (i think) I know of, only one or two seem to reset in 24 hours, the rest stay the same. I went down there every day for about a week looking for this book and leaving map markers of what book i found in that spot.
Royal Messengers Fate in the Wrothgar Writings collection is one of the bugged ones i think.
Royal Messenger's Fate was fixed. You can find it on live in Wrothgar (where the blue-green arrow is, not the waypoint):
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/7829510/#Comment_7829510
The first post in the Eidetic Memory thread here has a guide to IC bookshelves. There are far more than 5, though some are easier to reach than others:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/270549/eidetic-memory-bugs-comments-help
That thread has a lot more information about bugged and fixed lorebooks, in case you are looking for any others.
Thank you, will go get Royal Messengers Fate when I'm next online. As for the other one, that lists the bookcases in the City not in the Sewers and that's where the book I need is supposed to be
The ones that can be found on bookshelves in the Sewers can also be found on bookshelves in the Districts. The pool is the same.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/7829510/#Comment_7829510
The first post in the Eidetic Memory thread here has a guide to IC bookshelves. There are far more than 5, though some are easier to reach than others:.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/7829510/#Comment_7829510
The first post in the Eidetic Memory thread here has a guide to IC bookshelves. There are far more than 5, though some are easier to reach than others:.
All the images in that first post appear to be broken, damn
I was missing like you 'The Year 2920, Vol. 27' and another one IC related, and after months trying daily without success in IC I found both by chance when doing the Northern Elsweyr quest with my main, they were in bookshelves at Sandswirl Manor:
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Sandswirl_Manor
You can't imagine my joy that day!
Interestingly, that is an Imperial style location, which makes me wonder if it's the only PVE place where those could be found, or there could be more Imperial places where one could check (I didn't need to do it after that day, as I completed my IC related books with that lucky discovery)
I was missing like you 'The Year 2920, Vol. 27' and another one IC related, and after months trying daily without success in IC I found both by chance when doing the Northern Elsweyr quest with my main, they were in bookshelves at Sandswirl Manor:
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Sandswirl_Manor
You can't imagine my joy that day!
Interestingly, that is an Imperial style location, which makes me wonder if it's the only PVE place where those could be found, or there could be more Imperial places where one could check (I didn't need to do it after that day, as I completed my IC related books with that lucky discovery)
Hm, didn't find anything in one visit to Sandswirl but I'm definitely gonna add it to my rotation of places to periodically check. It does raise the question of if there are other places like it, however.
The UESP log viewer can sometimes be helpful to find locations like this.
Here is an example of the log data viewer entry for Introduction to Aedric Studies, an IC book:
https://ts.uesp.net/esolog/viewlog.php?action=view&record=book&id=2324
And here are the locations provided to the log. This is not a complete list of every time anyone has found a book, but it does give some idea of the range of potential locations.
https://ts.uesp.net/esolog/viewlog.php?record=location&filter=bookId&filterid=2324
You can actually see Northern Elsweyr listed there, and if you find the coordinates, you will find the bookshelf.
ETA: You can search for anything in the top right of the page.
The UESP log viewer can sometimes be helpful to find locations like this.
Here is an example of the log data viewer entry for Introduction to Aedric Studies, an IC book:
https://ts.uesp.net/esolog/viewlog.php?action=view&record=book&id=2324
And here are the locations provided to the log. This is not a complete list of every time anyone has found a book, but it does give some idea of the range of potential locations.
https://ts.uesp.net/esolog/viewlog.php?record=location&filter=bookId&filterid=2324
You can actually see Northern Elsweyr listed there, and if you find the coordinates, you will find the bookshelf.
ETA: You can search for anything in the top right of the page.
I didn't consider this but there are times where it's giving me weird results. For example, one book I was looking for had a location in Windhelm (the city's map, not the Eastmarch zone on the whole) with the coordinates 0.67, 0.297, which is just... on the road in the northeast of the city where there isn't a bookshelf in sight. Just for kicks I tried swapping the coordinates, but that was just south of the southwestern wall.
Did you try layers? There are interiors in Windhelm that are under the city in terms of vertical coordinates. You might need to try heading inside a building to get to the right spot.
3. (Possibly) Make Eidetic Memory account-wide.
This may or may not be a good, or popular, idea. Access to Eidetic Memory was made account-wide with Update 33, removing the need to complete The Arch-Mage's Boon on multiple characters. Like Achievements becoming account-wide, this may be a controversial issue among some players. The remaining suggestions are the most important ones, whether or not this one is done.
Did you try layers? There are interiors in Windhelm that are under the city in terms of vertical coordinates. You might need to try heading inside a building to get to the right spot.
Yeah this point definitely doesn't have any layers. It's on the road right outside the Skald King's Temporary Court (one of Jorunn's permanent locations for pie-throwing during Jester's).
Another of these weird locations was something between the Elinhir Wayshrine and the the Fulminant Anomaly to the north on that thin road.
The only way these coordinates make sense is if someone read it in their inventory and the spot they were in got sent to the log, but the books I'm looking at data for shouldn't have inventory versions. I gotta look into this, maybe ask some people in the UESP Discord.
What book is the one you're looking for in Windhelm? Or is it a shelf?