Eidetic Memory: Bug List

Gabriel_H · December 2025

birdmann1230 wrote: »

Just to clarify a previous post - apparently I had not done the quest that gives Irgnar’s and Gamwyn’s journal - I found it on accident tonight years after I thought I cleared the zone. So I cannot verify if those books are bugged post quest.

They disappear post-quest, so anyone not reading them during the quest won't be able to. There are a few books like that.

Tobyja · January 1

Relating to Ashbound Hall and

All Books Requiring Access to Ashbound Hall - No access to location post-quest:
Panicked Note
Hastily Written Observation
Cannot remember them all off the top of my head but will add when the wikis update their info to show location

Did the quest Lost Among the Ashes. As an overview: in total there are 11 entries for Eidetic Memory to find.
5 of them quest related (with quest icon) - 2 outside Ashbound Hall at start, 3 inside.

- Terinvel's Notebook - outside
- An Offer of Protection - outside
- A Trick to the Doors
- Hurriedly Written Note
- Terinvel's Lost Note

6 without quest icon:

- Dirty Abandoned Journal --> first room of Ashbound Hall; the only one accessible post quest
- Rotting Journal
- Hastily Written Observations
- Note About Paths
- Misplaced Journal
- Panicked Note

Except Dirty Abandoned Journal all these books are not reachable post quest. Either they are quest related or their location is behind the first door inside Ashbound Hall, which is closed after quest and not interactable.
No post quest locations found so far.

Gabriel_H · January 1

Tobyja wrote: »

Relating to Ashbound Hall and

All Books Requiring Access to Ashbound Hall - No access to location post-quest:
Panicked Note
Hastily Written Observation
Cannot remember them all off the top of my head but will add when the wikis update their info to show location

Did the quest Lost Among the Ashes. As an overview: in total there are 11 entries for Eidetic Memory to find.
5 of them quest related (with quest icon) - 2 outside Ashbound Hall at start, 3 inside.

- Terinvel's Notebook - outside
- An Offer of Protection - outside
- A Trick to the Doors
- Hurriedly Written Note
- Terinvel's Lost Note

6 without quest icon:

- Dirty Abandoned Journal --> first room of Ashbound Hall; the only one accessible post quest
- Rotting Journal
- Hastily Written Observations
- Note About Paths
- Misplaced Journal
- Panicked Note

Except Dirty Abandoned Journal all these books are not reachable post quest. Either they are quest related or their location is behind the first door inside Ashbound Hall, which is closed after quest and not interactable.
No post quest locations found so far.

Thanks for that. I'll add the non-quest ones in.

Gabriel_H · January 1

Added:
Rotting Journal in Solstice Summations, Part 2
Note About Paths in Solstice Summations, Part 2
Misplaced Journal in Solstice Summations, Part 2
Wormblood's Journal in Solstice Summations, Part 2

Gabriel_H · January 1

@ZOS_Kevin @ZOS_GinaBruno - This list is starting to get out of hand, especially whatever led to the decision to lock 5 books behind a quest (Ashbound Hall). Please provide some feedback to show this is on the Dev's radar?!

Tobyja · January 2

Yes please. In Ashbound Hall i was wondering, if it is intended that the first door (inside) isn't interactible. Would be easy to backtrack then, at least for these 5 books.

Besides this for example it would be nice to know, that/if/when quest related books are possible content of bookshelves.
Found 3 of those in there (Gristmung Hold) these days, before i have done that quests.

The First Dialogue of Mannimarco and Galerion - before freeing Galerion (later in The Deep Tombs of Xul-Haj)
Sahmazim's Vos-Toh Translations - before passed To Know the Void
and especially The Guardians of Mor Naril - which is not only quest related to The Gates of Mor Naril (also later in that story line), it's a quest objective there.

It would be helpfull to know, when all books are part of the loot table of bookshelves, at least in the related map.
Imho it's not so bad, if it would be like that always.

o_Primate_o · January 5

Gabriel_H wrote: »

@ZOS_Kevin Thanks for the patch notes: update-46-incremental-patch-1

Any chance the team can address the bugged/problem list at the top, or at least acknowledge it, before you start adding even more entries to Eidetic Memory?

Pretty please.

my jewelry surveys are still bugged. 0/25

Gabriel_H · January 5

o_Primate_o wrote: »

Gabriel_H wrote: »

@ZOS_Kevin Thanks for the patch notes: update-46-incremental-patch-1

Any chance the team can address the bugged/problem list at the top, or at least acknowledge it, before you start adding even more entries to Eidetic Memory?

Pretty please.

my jewelry surveys are still bugged. 0/25

Ok, going to need a little clarity please.

Have you had JC surveys drop?
Were they the readable ones - some are maps? So only the text ones are in EM.
Did you read them causing the green +frag symbol to disappear?

o_Primate_o · January 5

my jewelry surveys are still bugged. 0/25

Ok, going to need a little clarity please.

Have you had JC surveys drop?
Were they the readable ones - some are maps? So only the text ones are in EM.
Did you read them causing the green +frag symbol to disappear?

ok. i just opened and read 28unidentified jewelry crafter survey reports and 10 are now showing up in the library. luck of the draw i guess.

on another note, there are four lorebooks in Holamayan Monastary but i can't re-enter it. i'll try grouping up with someone maybe? Daedric Cults: From Exile to Exodus. Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 are the two i haven't read.

Gabriel_H · January 6

o_Primate_o wrote: »

on another note, there are four lorebooks in Holamayan Monastary but i can't re-enter it. i'll try grouping up with someone maybe? Daedric Cults: From Exile to Exodus. Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 are the two i haven't read.

Have checked my usual spots for info and in-game for possible post-quest location for both books but there does not appear to be a post-quest location. The only way to access them would be to grouped with someone on the prologue quest. Have added them to the list.

Added:
From Exile to Exodus, Pt. 1 in Daedric Cults
From Exile to Exodus, Pt. 2 in Daedric Cults

Edit: Just for clarity, the other 2 books in Holamayan have to be read as part of the quest so can't be missed.

Tobyja · January 7

Gabriel_H wrote: »

o_Primate_o wrote: »

on another note, there are four lorebooks in Holamayan Monastary but i can't re-enter it. i'll try grouping up with someone maybe? Daedric Cults: From Exile to Exodus. Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 are the two i haven't read.

Have checked my usual spots for info and in-game for possible post-quest location for both books but there does not appear to be a post-quest location. The only way to access them would be to grouped with someone on the prologue quest. Have added them to the list.

Added:
From Exile to Exodus, Pt. 1 in Daedric Cults
From Exile to Exodus, Pt. 2 in Daedric Cults

Edit: Just for clarity, the other 2 books in Holamayan have to be read as part of the quest so can't be missed.

Sorry, as a footnote just for clarity: 5 books to find in Holamayan, one of them is a quest objective and theoretically can't be missed (unless a strange group mechanic foil this). 2 of the other 4 have a million other spots where to find them in Tamriel, it seems that just the 2 added ones (+ the quest target) do appear in Holamayan only.

Edit: Wormblood's Journal (post quest loca) was found -> https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en-gb/discussion/comment/8410079/#Comment_8410079

Gabriel_H · January 7

Removed:

Wormblood's Journal in Solstice Summations, Part 2 (Post-quest location found)