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PlaceCityWhiterun (hold)

Whiterun

25 merchants · 9 trainers · 2 innkeepers · 14 people you can marry · 2 player homes · 62 items found only here

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Whiterun (hold), Tamriel
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Skyrim
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Fortified Whiterun

Enemies here

76 enemy types: 64 people, 7 animals, 3 creatures, 1 undead, 1 dragon. Each links to its strength, resistances and what it carries.

Leveled ones: some enemies here are stand-ins the game fills when the area loads, each from a list, by your level. They can turn into these; the number is how many stand-ins here can give it, the most widespread first: Imperial Soldier (460), Bandit Scout (10).

Can come later: these start switched off, until a quest or an event brings them: Stormcloak Soldier, Imperial Soldier, Imperial Battlemage, Imperial Scout, Bandit Scout, Imperial Champion, Bandit, Outlaw Archer, Imperial Archer, Forsworn Looter, Outlaw Scout, Wizard, Stormcloak Scout, Apprentice Ice Mage, Stormcloak Mage, Stormcloak Giant, Stormcloak Wolf, Stormcloak Archer, Fire Mage, Forsworn, Highwayman Scout, Imperial Captain, Imperial Officer, Stormcloak Champion, Stormcloak Mercenary, Stormcloak Rogue, Thug Scout, Apprentice Fire Mage, Imperial Wizard, Ascendant Conjurer, Electromancer, Imperial Hound, Giant, Apprentice Storm Mage, Bandit Berserker, Bandit Monk, Conjurer, Conjurer Adept, Draugr Wight, Falmer Nightprowler, Highwayman Archer, Highwayman Berserker, Highwayman Monk, Imperial Mage, Marauder Berserker, Marauder Monk, Marauder Nightblade, Marauder Scout, Outlaw Berserker, Outlaw Monk, Penitus Oculatus Agent, Pillager Berserker, Pillager Monk, Pillager Nightblade, Pillager Scout, Plunderer Berserker, Plunderer Champion, Plunderer Monk, Plunderer Nightblade, Plunderer Scout, Stormcloak Elite Archer, Stormcloak Farmer, Thug Berserker, Thug Mage, Thug Monk, Bandit Chief, Dog, Ice Wolf, Imperial Grand Wizard, Wolf, Cow, Galmar Stone-Fist, Legate Rikke, Dragon, Sabre Cat, Stormcloak General.

Radiant quests

26 radiant quests can send you here: Deceiving the Herd (Dawnguard), Hide and Seek (Dawnguard), Hunting the Monster (Dawnguard), The Hunt (Dawnguard), O, Help Me Kind One (Immersive World Encounters), Deliver a Letter Medium (Missives), Deliver a Letter Near (Missives), Deliver a Potion Med (Missives), Deliver a Potion Medium (Missives), Deliver a Potion Near (Missives), Deliver a Weapon Medium (Missives), Deliver a Weapon Near (Missives), Heal the Sick (Missives), Attack {Capital} (The Civil War), Compelling Tribute (The Civil War), Defend {Capital} (The Civil War), Enchanting Pick-Up (The College of Winterhold), Escaped Criminal (The Companions), The Bedlam Job (The Thieves Guild), The Fishing Job (The Thieves Guild), Bounty: Book (VIGILANT), Bounty: Orphan Trader (VIGILANT), Bounty: Vampire (VIGILANT), Maggot (VIGILANT), Radiance in the Duplicate (VIGILANT), Blind Justice (Why I Came to Skyrim).

Places in Whiterun (52)

What's here

Shrines

Unusual gems

Skill books

Spell tomes

Player homes

  • Bluesky Hall Buy the Deed to Bluesky Hall from Quintus, a pedlar who trades in Whiterun between 6 in the morning and 8 at night, and read it: the key comes with the deed and the hall, which stands behind Whiterun's Hall of the Dead, is yours. The deed is worth 6,000 gold, and like anything in a shop it costs you more than that; how much more depends on your Speech.
  • Breezehome Buy it for 5,000 gold from Proventus Avenicci, the steward in Dragonsreach, Whiterun. It goes on sale once Jarl Balgruuf counts you a close friend, which happens in Dragon Rising when he sends you with Irileth to deal with the dragon at the watchtower. If the Stormcloaks take Whiterun, Vignar Gray-Mane counts you a friend as he takes the seat, and the steward sells it then too.

Forges and anvils: 1 in Bluesky Hall

Tanning racks: 2 here; 1 in Battle-Born Farm

Alchemy labs: 1 in Arcadia's Cauldron; 1 in Bluesky Hall; 1 in Breezehome; 1 in Dragonsreach; 1 in Honningbrew Meadery; 1 in Witch's Wisdoms

Arcane enchanters: 1 in Bluesky Hall; 1 in Dragonsreach

Cooking pots and spits: 1 here; 1 in Amren's House; 1 in Arcadia's Cauldron; 1 in Battle-Born Farm; 1 in Belethor's General Goods; 1 in Bluesky Hall; 1 in Breezehome; 1 in Brightflour Bakery; 1 in Carlotta Valentia's House; 1 in Chillfurrow Farm Interior; 1 in Dragonsreach; 1 in Drunken Huntsman; 1 in Erundil's House; 1 in Fine-Hair's House; 1 in Heimskr's House; 1 in Home of Thane Hearth-Healer; 1 in Home of Thane Valdemaar; 1 in House Gray-Mane; 1 in House of Clan Battle-Born; 1 in Igna's House; 1 in Jo'vanni's Dream Theater; 1 in Karlsten's House; 2 in Olava the Feebles House; 1 in Pelagia Farm; 1 in Ronja's House; 1 in Severio Pelagias' House; 2 in The Bannered Mare; 1 in The Roadhouse; 1 in Titus' House; 1 in Warmaiden's; 1 in Whiterun Stables; 1 in Witch's Wisdoms; 1 in Ysolda's House

Corundum ore veins: 3 here

Iron ore veins: 3 here; 1 in Battle-Born Farm; 1 in Chillfurrow Farm

Quicksilver ore veins: 1 in Battle-Born Farm

Who's useful here

Merchants (25)

Trainers (9)

Innkeepers (2)

People you can marry (14)

People (138)

Quests that start here

The Dragonsreach Contractin The Roadhouse The Roadhouse Contractin The Roadhouse A Rat Problemin Igna's House A Debt Unpaidin Joslin's House The Witch's Tuitionin Witch's Wisdoms The Good Stuffin Honningbrew Meadery A Fellow Travelerin Temple of Kynareth The Blessings of Naturein Temple of Kynareth Animal Exterminationin Jorrvaskr Animal Pelt Collectionin Jorrvaskr Blood's Honorin Jorrvaskr Dragon Seekersin Jorrvaskr Escaped Criminalin Jorrvaskr Family Heirloomin Jorrvaskr Hired Musclein Jorrvaskr Honor's Callingin Jorrvaskr Lost Honorin Jorrvaskr Proving Honorin Jorrvaskr Purityin Jorrvaskr Purity of Revengein Jorrvaskr Rescue Missionin Jorrvaskr Retrievalin Jorrvaskr Stealing Plansin Jorrvaskr Striking the Heartin Jorrvaskr Take Up Armsin Jorrvaskr The Silver Handin Jorrvaskr Totems of Hircinein Jorrvaskr Trouble in Skyrimin Jorrvaskr Unwanted Guestin Jorrvaskr A Fellow Travelerin Drunken Huntsman Bleak Falls Barrowin Dragonsreach Dragon Cult: Ahzidalin Dragonsreach Dragon Cult: Dukaanin Dragonsreach Dragon Cult: Hevnoraakin Dragonsreach Dragon Cult: Krosisin Dragonsreach Dragon Cult: Morokeiin Dragonsreach Dragon Cult: Nahkriinin Dragonsreach Dragon Cult: Otarin Dragonsreach Dragon Cult: Rahgotin Dragonsreach Dragon Cult: Vahlokin Dragonsreach Dragon Cult: Vokunin Dragonsreach Dragon Cult: Volsungin Dragonsreach Dragon Cult: Zahkriisosin Dragonsreach Dragon Risingin Dragonsreach Lost to the Agesin Dragonsreach Much Ado About an Idolin Dragonsreach Season Unendingin Dragonsreach Thane of Whiterunin Dragonsreach The Way of the Voicein Dragonsreach The Whispering Doorin Dragonsreach The World-Eater's Eyriein Dragonsreach Victory Celebrationsin Dragonsreach Barrow of the Wyrmin The Bannered Mare Breadcrumbsin The Bannered Mare The Unquiet Deadin The Bannered Mare

Quests that take you here

Contract: Kill {Target} (Whiterun) In My Time Of Need In the Shadows Running Wild Skyrim Side Quests The Raid of Whiterun The Rising Dead Word to Bruma

Followers found here

Lying only here

Items placed in the world here and nowhere else (some can also be bought, made or looted: their pages say).

From base GTS 118's own records: the winning copy of WhiterunLocation (WhiterunDefenses.esp). People: where the game places them as a game starts; they walk about.