The Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim - The Skyrim Library , Vol . III : The Arcane The Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim - The Skyrim Library , Vol . III : The Arcane is a 232 - page book published by Bethesda Softworks . It was released on September 13 , 2016 . It contains printed stories from various books in , along with concept art . Appearance . The book has the same basic design as and with the notable difference of the colour scheme which is either dark brown or yellow brown , even so it has the same faint yet still very elaborate grooved pattern . The title of the book is written in gold at the bottom of the front cover but is hidden by the small — which also says the title , but it is in black , and the jacket is mostly silver , excluding an image of a red wax seal of the Imperial Dragon . The back cover contains yet another Imperial Dragon , but no other detail . The side of the book holds an Imperial Dragon , and the title of the book stylized in golden lettering : " The Skyrim® Library : Volume III - The Arcane . " Contents . The inside cover — front and back — holds a map of the province of Skyrim , the same one most commonly seen in - game . The next several pages include the copyright information and the Table of Contents — alongside which are two pieces of concept art , one of a wizened old king on a stone throne holding a bloody broadsword and another one showing the Soul Cairn — listing sixty - six chapters , as follows . Table of Contents . Magicka . Arcana Restored : A Handbook ( page 8 ) The Charwich - Koniinge Letters ( page 10 ) On the Great Collapse ( page 24 ) The Apprentice ' s Assistant ( page 25 ) The Final Lesson ( page 27 ) Feyfolken ( page 30 ) The Cake and the Diamond ( page 42 ) The Old Ways ( page 47 ) An Accounting of the Elder Scrolls ( page 49 ) Effects of the Elder Scrolls ( page 51 ) N ' Gasta ! Kvata ! Kvakis ! ( page 53 ) Souls , Black and White ( page 54 ) The Book of Life and Service ( page 55 ) Religion . The Monomyth ( page 56 ) A Children ' s Anuad : The Annuad Paraphrased ( page 65 ) An Overview of Gods and Worship in Tamriel ( page 67 ) Varieties of Faith in the Empire ( page 69 ) Lives of the Saints ( page 81 ) The Doors of the Spirit ( page 83 ) Spirit of Nirn ( page 84 ) The Talos Mistake ( page 85 ) Pension of the Ancestor Moth ( page 87 ) The Reclamations : The Fall of the Tribunal and the Rise of the New Temple ( page 88 ) Nchunak ' s Fire and Faith ( page 92 ) A Dream of Sovngarde ( page 93 ) Sovngarde , A Reexamination ( page 95 ) The Amulet of Kings ( page 99 ) The Last King of the Ayleids ( page 101 ) Magic from the Sky ( page 103 ) Treatise on Ayleidic Cities : Varsa Baalim and the Nefarivigum Test of Dagon ( page 105 ) The Adabal - a ( page 106 ) Trials of St . Alessia ( page 108 ) The Chronicles of the Holy Brothers of Marukh , Volume IV - - Or , The Cleansing of Fame ( page 109 ) Shezarr and the Divines ( page 110 ) Glories and Laments Among the Ayleid Ruins ( page 112 ) 2920 : The Last Year of the First Era . Morning Star ( page 114 ) Sun ' s Dawn ( page 119 ) First Seed ( page 123 ) Rain ' s Hand ( page 128 ) Second Seed ( page 133 ) Mid Year ( page 138 ) Sun ' s Height ( page 143 ) Last Seed ( page 148 ) Hearth Fire ( page 155 ) Frostfall ( page 160 ) Sun ' s Dusk ( page 167 ) Evening Star ( page 173 ) Aedra and Daedra . Aedra and Daedra ( page 180 ) The Book of Daedra ( page 181 ) The Daedric Artifact Book ( page 186 ) Darkest Darkness ( page 190 ) Varieties of Daedra ( page 192 ) Spirit of the Daedra ( page 195 ) Invocation of Azura ( page 197 ) Azura and the Box ( page 199 ) The Anticipations ( page 201 ) Beggar Prince ( page 202 ) Changed Ones ( page 204 ) Wabbajack ( page 205 ) The Woodcutter ' s Wife ( page 206 ) The Cabin in the Woods ( page 208 ) The House of Troubles ( page 212 ) Opusculus Lamae Bal ta Mezzamortie : A brief account of Lamae Bal and the Restless Death ( page 213 ) Amongst the Draugr ( page 214 ) Sixteen Accords of Madness ( page 218 )