Skyrim

Main Quest

Act I

• Unbound
• Before the Storm
• Bleak Falls Barrow
• Dragon Rising
• The Way of the Voice
• The Horn of Jurgen Windcaller

Act II

• A Blade In The Dark
• Diplomatic Immunity
• A Cornered Rat
• Alduin's Wall
• The Throat of the World
• Elder Knowledge
• Alduin's Bane

Act III

• Season Unending
• The Fallen
• Paarthurnax
• The World-Eater's Eyrie
• Sovngarde
• Dragonslayer

Notes

• Paarthurnax is completely optional, and changes the ending a bit, you can do it after the main quest also but then albeit harder since he isn't stationary and on his designated post.
• Season Unending is only available if the player has not yet competed the Civil War questline. This quest will not be given if the Civil War is already complete.

Faction Quests

Dark Brotherhood

• Delayed Burial
• Innocence Lost
• With Friends Like These...
• Destroy the Dark Brotherhood!
• Sanctuary
• Sentenced to Death
• Mourning Never Comes
• Whispers In The Dark
• The Silence Has Been Broken
• Bound Until Death
• Breaching Security
• The Cure For Madness
• Recipe For Disaster
• To Kill An Empire
• Death Incarnate
• Hail Sithis!
• Dark Brotherhood Side Contracts
• Where You Hang Your Enemy's Head
• Locate the Assassin of Old
• Dark Brotherhood Forever
• Contracts
  • Contract: Kill Beitild
  • Contract: Kill Narfi
  • Contract: Kill Ennodius Papius
  • Contract: Kill Lurbuk
  • Contract: Kill Hern
  • Contract: Kill Deekus
  • Contract: Kill Ma'randru-jo
  • Contract: Kill Anoriath
  • Contract: Kill Agnis
  • Contract: Kill Maluril
  • Contract: Kill Helvard
  • Contract: Kill Safia

The College of Winterhold

Added by SkipperNC

• First Lessons
• Under Saarthal
• Hitting the Books
• Good Intentions
• Revealing the Unseen
• Containment
• The Staff of Magnus
• The Eye of Magnus

The Companions

Added by SkipperNC

• Take Up Arms
• Proving Honor
• The Silver Hand
• Blood's Honor
• Purity of Revenge
• Glory of the Dead

Thieves Guild

Added by SkipperNC

• A Chance Arrangement
• Taking Care of Business
• Loud and Clear
• Dampened Spirits
• Scoundrel's Folly
• Speaking With Silence
• Hard Answers
• The Pursuit
• Trinity Restored
• Blindsighted
• Darkness Returns

The Blades

• Paarthurnax
• ​​The Blades
  • recruit followers

The Bards College

• Tending the Flames
• Find Rjorn's Drum
• Find Finn's Lute
• Find Pantea's Flute

Civil War Quests

The brewing Civil War in Skyrim is between two main factions, the Imperials and the Stormcloaks. Both sides are essentially the same, with plenty of actors throughout the region relaying the evils of both sides. Minor factions, especially in Whiterun between the Battle-Born and Grey-Mane families, exist throughout the empire. Should you decide to officially take sides, killing one or the other may affect your gameplay.

Imperial Legion

• Joining the Legion
• The Jagged Crown
• Message To Whiterun
• Defense of Whiterun
• Reunification of Skyrim
  • ​False Front
  • The Battle For Fort Dunstad
  • Compelling Tribute
  • The Battle For Fort Greenwall or The Battle For Fort Sungard (depending on the outcome of the main quest Season Unending)
  • Rescue From Fort Kastav
  • The Battle For Fort Amol
  • Battle For Windhelm

Stormcloaks

• Joining the Stormcloaks

• The Jagged Crown
• Message To Whiterun
• Battle for Whiterun
• Liberation of Skyrim
  • Rescue From Fort Neugrad
  • Compelling Tribute
  • The Battle For Fort Sungard or The Battle For Fort Greenwall (depending on the outcome of the main quest Season Unending)
  • A False Front
  • The Battle For Fort Snowhawk
  • The Battle For Fort Hraggstad
  • Battle For Solitude

Daedric Quests

Main article: Daedric Quests (Skyrim)

Added by Scorpino67

• The Black Star
• Boethiah's Calling
• A Daedra's Best Friend
• Discerning the Transmundane
• Ill Met By Moonlight
• The Cursed Tribe
• Pieces of the Past
• The Whispering Door
• The Break of Dawn
• The House of Horrors
• The Taste of Death
• Darkness Returns - Thieves Guild
• The Only Cure
• A Night to Remember
• The Mind of Madness
• Waking Nightmare

Note: To earn the achievement Oblivion Walker you have to collect 15 daedric artifacts which are given to you after completing the above quests.

Dungeon Quests

The following 24 Quests are quests relating to specific dungeons and maps:

(Note: Quests listed with "*" appear as Miscellaneous Quests in the Quest Journal, and are named according to the Official Skyrim Game Guide ^[1]

1. Medresi Dran And The Wandering Dead (Angarvunde)
2. A Love Beyond Death (Ansilvund)
3. Composure, Speed, And Precision (Angi's Camp)
4. Leap Before You Look (Bard's Leap Summit)
5. Melka And Petra (Blind Cliff Cave)
6. Repentance (Darklight Tower)
7. Siege On The Dragon Cult (Forelhost)
8. What Lies Beneath (Frostflow Lighthouse)
9. The Pale Lady (Frostmere Crypt)
10. A Scroll For Anska (High Gate Ruins)
11. Ancestral Worship (Hillgrund's Tomb)
12. Forgetting about Fjola (Mistwatch)
13. Hunter and Hunted (Moss Mother Cavern)
14. The Lost Expedition (Nchuand-Zel)
15. The Nilheim Scam (Nilheim)
16. Otar's Mad Guardians (Ragnvald)
17. The Legend Of Red Eagle (Quest) (Rebel's Cairn)
18. Wilhelm's Specter (Shroud Hearth Barrow)
19. The Secret At The Sleeping Tree (Sleeping Tree Camp)
20. The Savior Of Selveni Nethri (Southfringe Sanctum)
21. Infiltration (Treva's Watch)
22. Evil In Waiting (Valthume)
23. Silenced Tongues (Volunruud)
24. Ashore In A Sea Of Ghosts (Yngol Barrow)

Miscellaneous Quests

 Sorted by place of acquisition: hold/town, city or place'.

Added by SkipperNC

Note: some are actual Side Quests and have their own quest lines which count towards the Sideways Trophy/Achievement, others are miscellaneous objectives and count towards Hero of the People trophy/achievements

Eastmarch

Windhelm

• Blood on the Ice (side quest)
• Repairing the Phial
• The White Phial (side quest)
• Harsh Master
• Rise in the East (side quest)
• Find the Thalmor Assassin
• Argonian Dock Workers
• Shavee's Amulet
• Deliver Adonato's Book to Giraud Gemane

Narzulbur

• Find the Forgemaster's Fingers

Kynesgrove

• Find Roggi's Knot-Beard's Ancestral Shield

Darkwater Crossing

• Deliver Sondas's Note to Quintus

Falkreath Hold

Falkreath (City)

• Steal the Private Letter for Dengeir
• Deliver Berit's Ashes to Runil

Haafingar

Solitude

• Light's Out! (side quest)
• The Man Who Cried Wolf (side quest)
• The Wolf Queen Awakened (side quest)
• Speak to Greta about going to the Temple of Divines
• Convince Vittoria Vici to release the Spiced Wine Shipment

Dragon Bridge

• Steal the Dragon's Breath mead for Olda

Hjaalmarch

Morthal

• Laid to Rest (side quest)
• Assist the people of Hjaalmarch (x/3)

Saarthal

• Forbidden Legend (side quest)

The Pale

Dawnstar

• Visit the Museum in Dawnstar
• Collecting the fine cut void salts for Captain Wayfinder
• Mine (or just just obtain) a Quicksilver Ingot and sell it to the mine owner

The Reach

Soljund's Sinkhole

• Soljund's Sinkhole of Draugr

Left-Hand Mine

• Clear Kolskeggr Mine

Markarth (City)

• The Lost Expedition (side quest)
• The Heart of Dibella (side quest)
• Bring The Last Scabbard of Akrash to Ghorza
• Bring Hjalti's Sword to the Ghost of Old Hroldan
• Bring the Stallion's Potion to Roerek
• Bring a Daedra Heart to Moth Gro-Bagol, the Jarl's personal blacksmith
• Kill Nimhe inside Nchuand-Zel Excavation Site
• Investigate the Hall of the Dead
• Bring a Dwarven Helmet to Calcelmo
• Talk to Mulush about Omluag, at the smelter
• Speak to Degaine (beggar got kicked out of the Temple of Dibella), which leads to Steal the Dibella Statue
• Find evidence of Ogmund's Talos worship
• Retrieve Lisbet's shipment from Deepwood Redoubt
• Recover Hrolfdir's Shield

Forsworn

• The Foresworn Conspiracy (side quest)
• No One Escapes Cidhna Mine (side quest)

The Rift

Frokki's Shack

• Kyne's Sacred Trials (side quest)

Heartwood Mill

• Fight or Flight

Ivarstead

• Gather 10 bear pelt for Temba Wide-Arm (x/10)
• Locate Reyda's remains

Riften

• A Chance Arrangement (Side quest)
• Taking care of Business (Side quest)
• Promises to Keep (Side quest)
• Discover Svidi's Wherabouts
• Shor's Stone
• Skooma Trade quests
  • The Raid
    • Bring a potion to Wujeeta to find information on a Skooma dealer
    • Report Sarthis Idren to the Jarl Laila Law-Giver
    • Stop the Skooma trade
  • Supply And Demand
    • Enter the Riften Warehouse and Find the Letter
    • Read the Letter to begin the Quest
    • Speak to Jarl Laila Law-Giver
    • Go to Cragsland Cavern and clear the area
    • Report back to Jarl Laila Law-Giver
• Unfathomable Depths (Side quest)
• The Book of Love (Side quest)
• Help Balimund
  • Bring 10 Fire Salts to Balimund (x10)
• Help Marise
  • Collect 5 Ice Wraith Teeth.
• Help Wylandriah
  • Retrieve Wylandriah's Soul Gem
  • Retrieve Wylandriah's Ingot
  • Retrieve Wylandriah's Spoon
• Embarrass Haelga
  • Obtain a Mark of Dibella from Indaryn
  • Obtain a Mark of Dibella from Hofgrir Horse-Crusher
  • Obtain a Mark of Dibella from Bolli
• Help Madesi with his business
  • Find 2 flawless sapphires for Madesi (x/2)
  • Find a mammoth tusk for Madesi (x/1)
  • Find Gold Ore for Madesi (x/1)
• Deliver the purchase agreement to Kleppr in Markarth

Whiterun Hold

Whiterun

• Missing in Action (Side quest)
• In My Time of Need (Side quest)
• The Blessings of Nature (Side quest)
• Bring one Mammoth Tusk to Ysolda
• Talk to Mikael about Carlotta
• Argonian Ale
• Recover Andur's Amulet
• A Night to Remember

Riverwood

• The Golden Claw (side quest)

Winterhold

Winterhold (City)

• Find the Helm of Winterhold inside one of these locations Driftshade Refuge, Fort Fellhammer, Hela's Folly, Hob's Fall Cave, Wreck of The Pride of Tel Vos, Saarthal, Snow Veil Sanctum, Yngol Barrow, Yngvild, Ysgramor's Tomb

Winterhold, College

• Find the copy of Souls, Black and White
• Alteration Ritual Spell
• Conjuration Ritual Spell
• Destruction Ritual Spell
• Illusion Ritual Spell
• Restoration Ritual Spell
• Finding Tolfdir's Alembic
• Arniel's Endeavor
• J'zargo's Experiment
• Onmund's Request

Semptimus Signus' Outpost

• Discerning the Transmundane

Blackreach

• A Return To Your Roots

Bounty Quests

These can be given by innkeepers when asked about work/rumors. Any of the Jarls or their steward/stewardess can give these when asked for work. A Bounty Note will be given to the Dragonborn identifing the type and location of the bounty.

Forsworn

• Kill the leader of Bilegulch Mine
• Kill the leader of Bruca's Leap Redoubt
• Kill the leader of Dragon Bridge Overlook
• Kill the leader of Druadach Redoubt
• Kill the leader of Lost Knife Hideout
• Kill the leader of Pinemoon Cave
• Kill the leader of Red Eagle Redoubt
• Kill the leader of Stony Creek Cave
• Kill the leader of Deepwood Redoubt

Bandits

• Kill the bandit leader at Broken Oar Grotto
• Kill the bandit leader at Four Skull Lookout
• Kill the bandit leader at Halted Stream Camp
• Kill the bandit leader at Nilheim
• Kill the bandit leader at Redoran's Retreat
• Kill the bandit leader at Rift Watchtower
• Kill the bandit leader at Silent Moons Camp
• Kill the bandit leader at Winter War
• Kill the bandit leader at Valtheim Towers

Giant

• Kill the giant at Bleakwind Basin
• Kill the giant at Broken Limb Camp
• Kill the giant at Cradlecrush Rock
• Kill the giant at Secunda's Shelf (near Secunda's Kiss)
• Kill the giant at Sleeping Tree Camp
• Kill the giant at Guldun Rock
• Kill the giant at Steamcrag Camp
• Kill the giant at Blizzard Rest

Dragons

• Kill the dragon at Ancient's Ascent
• Kill the dragon at Autumnwatch Tower
• Kill the dragon at Bonestrewn Crest
• Kill the dragon at Dragontooth Crater
• KIll the dragon at Eldersblood Peak
• Kill the dragon at Lost Tongue Overlook
• Kill the dragon at Mount Anthor
• Kill the dragon at Northwind Summit
• Kill the dragon at Shearpoint
• Kill the dragon at Skyborn Altar

Global

• Visit the museum in Dawnstar
• Investigate the Bards College
• Find words of power quests
  • Find the Word of Power in Folgunthur
  • Find the Word of Power in Shriekwind Bastion
• Find Amren's Family Sword inside Redoran's Retreat
• Find Red Eagle's sword
• Find Queen Freydis's Sword inside one of these locations Ansilvund, Cragwallow Slope, Cronvangr Hall, Lost Knife Hideout, Stony Creek Cave, Uttering Hills Cave
• Visit The College of Winterhold
• Go to Endon in Markarth and pick up the item