Stone of Barenziah (Unusual Gem) : Elder Scrolls Skyrim
24 Unusual Gems, or Stones of Barenziah are hidden around Skyrim.. otherwise known as bastard stones, devil stones and oh god not another one. Stone Locations.
Unusual Gem Skyrims are Stones of Barenziah
When you find your first Unusual Stone in Skyrim it starts a quest chain which ends when you uncover what they really are & collect the rest of them scattered around Skyrim.
In order to do this it will require that you partner up with the Thieve's Guild and in particular, Vex, from that guild. As the expert on all things hot and sexy Vex seems to know a lot about the gemstones. Being a woman she tries to get your to collect them all... and bring them to her.
She reveals there are 24 unusual gems, known as Stones of Barenziah- gems pried from the legendary crown of Queen Barenziah by a prior thief, but doesn't give any extra information to their locations, luckily for you I've put the locations of the Stones of Barenziah below.
Of course, because this is a game you will actually be rewarded by bringing her these gems. But of course she'll make you work for it.
Why These Stones are the Devil
The Stones of Barenziah is basically a Skyrim-wide Easter egg hunt. 24 needles in a giant Skyrim sized haystack... and to make matters worse is each Stone of Barenziah weights 0.5 and cannot be put down. This doesn't seem too bad but once you're over-encumbered waddling like a retarded duck and not wanting to drop your newly picked up Axe of Ultimate Killing... and you see that your 17 Unusual Gems are all that's stopping you from running as opposed to waddling. As I said before, bastard stones.
The reward you get from collecting all the Stones of Barenziah is very powerful and will allow you a lot more freedom in spending money as new money will be obtaining much more easily, but still, I found myself cursing Barenziah whenever I looked in my inventory and couldn't drop them off somewhere. They also have this terrible habit of showing up as multiple items each, so you get this situation where you have five to ten entries of, Unusual Stone or Stone of Barenziah in your Misc inventory screen.. depending on where you are in the quest.
In order to do this it will require that you partner up with the Thieve's Guild and in particular, Vex, from that guild. As the expert on all things hot and sexy Vex seems to know a lot about the gemstones. Being a woman she tries to get your to collect them all... and bring them to her.
She reveals there are 24 unusual gems, known as Stones of Barenziah- gems pried from the legendary crown of Queen Barenziah by a prior thief, but doesn't give any extra information to their locations, luckily for you I've put the locations of the Stones of Barenziah below.
Of course, because this is a game you will actually be rewarded by bringing her these gems. But of course she'll make you work for it.
Why These Stones are the Devil
The Stones of Barenziah is basically a Skyrim-wide Easter egg hunt. 24 needles in a giant Skyrim sized haystack... and to make matters worse is each Stone of Barenziah weights 0.5 and cannot be put down. This doesn't seem too bad but once you're over-encumbered waddling like a retarded duck and not wanting to drop your newly picked up Axe of Ultimate Killing... and you see that your 17 Unusual Gems are all that's stopping you from running as opposed to waddling. As I said before, bastard stones.
The reward you get from collecting all the Stones of Barenziah is very powerful and will allow you a lot more freedom in spending money as new money will be obtaining much more easily, but still, I found myself cursing Barenziah whenever I looked in my inventory and couldn't drop them off somewhere. They also have this terrible habit of showing up as multiple items each, so you get this situation where you have five to ten entries of, Unusual Stone or Stone of Barenziah in your Misc inventory screen.. depending on where you are in the quest.
Collecting All the Stones of Barenziah; Rewards
So you've either picked apart every home, dungeon and burial ground and found all 24 unusual stones. Once brought back to the sultry Vex, she will reveal to you the location of the Crown of Barenziah and send you to retrieve it from Tovald's Cave. After fighting through hordes of Falmer who protect it you will restore the Stones of Barenziah to their rightful place in the crown.
Powerful Buff Gained from Collecting all 24 Stones of Barenziah
Upon restoring the crown you will receive a powerfully lucrative active effect; Prowler's Profit.
Prowler's Profit will greatly increase the chance of finding gems in randomized containers. What this means is that those insanely valuable, low weight, pretty gem stones such as; Diamond, Ruby and Emeralds will be much more plentiful. I did a run of a dungeon before and after and went from finding 5 gems to finding close to 40 gems.
Quite a powerful buff indeed. Note: You may not see the Prowler's Profit active effect in your menu, but it will still be active; if for some reason it isn't you'll notice immediately as the different between gem loots is unmistakable.
Powerful Buff Gained from Collecting all 24 Stones of Barenziah
Upon restoring the crown you will receive a powerfully lucrative active effect; Prowler's Profit.
Prowler's Profit will greatly increase the chance of finding gems in randomized containers. What this means is that those insanely valuable, low weight, pretty gem stones such as; Diamond, Ruby and Emeralds will be much more plentiful. I did a run of a dungeon before and after and went from finding 5 gems to finding close to 40 gems.
Quite a powerful buff indeed. Note: You may not see the Prowler's Profit active effect in your menu, but it will still be active; if for some reason it isn't you'll notice immediately as the different between gem loots is unmistakable.
Stone of Barenziah Location Skyrim
Looking for the locations of all 24 Unusual stones / Stones of Barenziah? This is a list of all 24 locations for the stones, in order to gain access to all of these locations you must complete a decent amount of the quests within the game. Namely you must;
These areas contain unusual gems but are not available to the player until a quest brings them there, sort of like how you cannot access Labyrinthian's Morokei without doing the Mage College quest line.
- Gain access to Arch-Mage's Quarters in Mage College
- Gain access to the Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary
- Gain access to the Thalmor Embassy
- Buy a home in Solitude
These areas contain unusual gems but are not available to the player until a quest brings them there, sort of like how you cannot access Labyrinthian's Morokei without doing the Mage College quest line.
- Ansilvund Burial Chambers - NE of Shor's Stone
- Blackbriar Lodge - NE of Riften, Bedroom on second floor
- College of Winterhold - Arch-Mages Quarters
- Dainty Sload - SW of Solitude Lighthouse
- Dark Brother Sanctuary - This is where the bros live
- Dead Crone Rock - Table near Word Wall
- Fellglow Keep - NE of Whiterun, up the initial set of stairs
- Hob's Fall Cave - North Coast between Winterhold & Dawnstar
- Markarth - Treasury house, Thonar's bedroom
- Markarth - Understone Keeper, Dwemer Museum
- Pinewatch - Secret basement hideout, accessible by pressing a button next to a note on a table
- Rannveig's Fast - Near Word Wall
- Riften - Mistveil Keep, Jarl's room
- Solitude - Blue Palace, Jarl's room
- Solitude - Proudspire Manor, purchased yourself for 25 000 gold
- Stony Creek Cave - S of Eastmarch Imperial Camp
- Sunderstone Gorge - Near Word Wall
- Thalmor Embassy - Second floor of Elenwen's Solar
- Whiterun - Halls of the Dead, Catacombs
- Whiterun - Dragonsreach, Jarl's room
- Whiterun - Jorrvaskr (Companions HQ), Kodlak's room
- Windhelm - Palace of the Kings, Wuunferth's room (Jarl's mage)
- Windhelm - House of Clan Shatter-Shield
- Yngvild - NE of Dawnstar
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