All Unique Shield & Armor Locations

A Simple Guide That Allows Completionists To Obtain All Possible Shields & Armor in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

✪ Guide Updates ✪

1/8/18 - Published Unique Armor & Shield Guide

1/28/18 - Minor Text Changes Under "Base Game Unique Armor"

1/30/18 - Added Aetherial Crown & Grouped DLC Unique Armor

8/3/24 - Added Custom Gif

Base Game Unique Shields

Skyrim Unique Shields

• Shield of Solitude - Gift From Falk Firebeard After Completing (The Wold Queen Awakened) / Solitude (Blue Palace)
  
• Shield of Ysgramor - Found In The Large Chest Next To Ysgramor's Sarcophagus During (Glory of The Dead) Companion Quest / Ysgramor's Tomb
  
• Targe of The Blooded - Carried By Umana The Adventurer / Alftand (Alftand Cathedral)
  
• Spellbreaker - Reward for Completing Daedric Quest : The Only Cure / Shrine to Peryite
  
• Hrolfdir's Shield - Found In A Random Location After Accepting The Favor : Jobs for The Jarls / Markarth (Understone Keep)
  
• Roggi's Ancestral Shield - Found In A Random Location After Accepting The Favor : Item Retrieval (Cave) / Kynesgrove

Dawnguard DLC Unique Shields

Dawnguard DLC Unique Shields

• Atherial Shield - Optional Reward After Completing (Lost To the Ages) Quest / The Aetherium Forge
  
• Auriel's Shield - Accessed Using the Ruby Paragon : Used by A Falmer Warmonger You Must Defeat / Forgotten Vale (Forgotten Vale Forest)
  
• Dawnguard Rune Shield - Found During (Lost Relic) Dawnguard Faction Quest / Fort Dawnguard

Dragonborn DLC Unique Shields

Dragonborn DLC Unique Shields

N/A

Base Game Unique Armor

Skyrim Unique Armor

• Party Boots - Given During (Diplomatic Immunity) Main Quest / Katla's Farm
  
• Party Clothes - Given During (Diplomatic Immunity) Main Quest / Katla's Farm
  
• Execution Hood - Worn By The Three Captives During (With Friends Like These...) Dark Brotherhood Quest / Abandoned Shack
  
• Movarth's Boots - Sitting By The Bed In The Sleeping Nook At The Back of The Cave / Movarth's Lair
  
• Ancient Helmet of The Unburned - During (The Staff of Magnus) College Quest Found Resting Atop A Sword In A Nook Behind A Locked Gate In The Labyrinthian Tribune / Labyrinthian
  
• Jester's Clothes - Found on A Table In The Dawnstar Sanctuary, or In The Chapel of The Dark Brotherhood After Cicero Joins / Dark Brotherhood Sanctuaries
  
• Cicero's Clothes - Worn By Cicero, Obtained by Killing Him During (The Cure For Madness) Dark Brotherhood Quest / Dawnstar Sanctuary
  
• Worn Shrouded Armor Set - On A Shelf In The Dawnstar Sanctuary During (The Cure For Madness) *Possibly Glitched Unobtainable Item / Dawnstar Sanctuary
  
• Tumblerbane Gloves - Purchase Dawnstar Sanctuary Bedroom Upgrade (Where You Hang Your Enemies Head) Dark Brotherhood Quest, On Shelf Below Bed / Dawnstar Sanctuary
  
• Jagged Crown - Also Known As Bone Crown, Found During (The Jagged Crown) Civil War Quest / Korvanjund Crypt
  
• Archmage's Robes - Given To You By Tolfdir At The End of (The Eye of Magnus) College Quest / College of Winterhold
  
• Mystic Tuning Gloves - Given To You By Neloran During (Out of Balance) College Radiant Quest / College of Winterhold
  
• Helm of Ygnol - Resting Atop The Head of The Skeleton That Sits Upon The Throne At The End of The Dungeon / Ygnol Barrow
  
• Armor of The Old Gods Set - Gift From Kaie and Madanach For Siding With The Forsworn During (No One Escapes Cidna Mine / Markarth
  
• Ancient Shrouded Armor Set - On The Body of A Slain Assassin, Found ONLY During (Feeble Fortune) Dark Brotherhood Radiant Quest / Hag's End
  
• Predator's Grace - Deepwood Vale Summit, Near A Chest On The Upper Level of The Vale From Which The Waterfall Descends / Hag's End
  
• Ironhand Gauntlets - Carried By Hajvarr Iron-Hand, The Leader of The Bandits Here / White River Watch
  
• Ebony Mail - Reward For Completing (Boethiah's Calling) Daedric Quest / Knifepoint Ridge
  
• Savior's Hide - Reward For Killing Sinding (Ill Met By Moonlight) Daedric Quest / Bloated Man's Grotto
  
• Shrouded Armor Set - Gift From Astrid For Completing (With Friends Like These...) / Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary
  
• Shrouded Armor Set (Alternative Set) - On A Shelf In Astrid's Foyer In The Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary / Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary
  
• Masque of Clavicus Vile - Optional Reward For Completing (A Daedra's Best Friend) Daedric Quest / Haemar's Shame
  
• Gloves of The Pugilist - Carried By Gains in The Ratway / Riften
  
• Thieves Guild Armor Set - Gift From Tonilia Just Before Completing (Loud And Clear) Thieves Guild Quest / Riften (Ratway Cistern)
  
• Amulet of Articulation (Technically An Armor) - Reward From Byrnolf During (Under New Management) Thieves Guild Leadership Quest / Riften (Ratway Cistern)
  
• Guild Master's Armor Set - Reward From Tonilia During (Under New Management) Thieves Guild Leadership Quest / Riften (Ratway Cistern)
  
• Thieves Guild Armor Set (Improved) - Choice Gift From Tonilia After Completing (Scoundrel's Folly) Thieves Guild Quest / Riften (Ratway Cistern)
  
• Nightingale Armor Set - Awarded During (Trinity Restored) Thieves Guild Quest / Nightingale Hall
  
• Helm of Winterhold - Found In A Random Location After Accepting Favor : Jobs for The Jarls / Winterhold
  
• Noster's Helmet - Found In A Random Location After Accepting Favor : Item Retrival (Cave) / Solitude
  
• The Forgemaster's Fingers - Found In Random Dungeon After Accepting Blood Kin Quest / Orc Stronghold

Dawnguard DLC Unique Armor

Dawnguard DLC Unique Armor

• Aetherial Crown - Optional Reward After Completing (Lost To the Ages) Quest / The Aetherium Forge
  
• Ancient Falmer Armor Set - Worn By Arch-Curate Vyrthur / Forgotten Vale : Temple Balcony
  
• Shellbug Helmet - Locate Shellbug In Either of The Small Falmer Caves And Create The Helmet At A Forge / Forgotten Vale
  
• Taron Dreth's Robes - Worn By Taron Dreth, Randomly Encountered After (Lost To The Ages) Side Quest / Wilderness Encounter
  
• Vampire Royal Armor - Carried By Harkon, Taken From His Corpse At The End of Dawnguard Main Quest / Castle Volkihar (Cathedral)

Dragonborn DLC Unique Armor

Dragonborn DLC Unique Armor

• Miraak's Armor Set - Worn By Miraak At The End of (At The Summit of Apocrypha) Dragonborn Main Quest / Apocrypha : Waking Dreams
  
• Deathbrand Gauntlets - Found In An Ancient Treasure Chest During (Deathbrand) Side Quest / Mudcrab Tidal Pools
  
• Deathbrand Helm - Found In An Ancient Treasure Chest During (Deathbrand) Side Quest / Haknir's Shoal
  
• Deathbrand Armor - Found In An Ancient Treasure Chest During (Deathbrand) Side Quest / Bloodskal Copse
  
• Deathbrand Boots - Found In An Ancient Treasure Chest During (Deathbrand) Side Quest / Basalt Causeway
  
• Blackguard's Armor Set - Reward For Completing (Thievery And The Karstaag Connection) Solstheim Regional Activity / Raven Rock (Glover Mallory's House)
  
• Visage of Mzund - On The Table In The Treasure Room At The End of The Dungeon / Fahlbtharz
  
• Ahzidal's Armor of Retribution - Found During Phase 4 of Excavation In A Gated Alcove / Kalbjorn Barrow
  
• Ahzidal's Boots of Waterwalking - Found During Phase 1 of Excavation On A Pedestal In The Main Chamber / Kalbjorn Barrow
  
• Ahzidal's Guantlets of Warding - Found During Phase 3 of Excavation Found In A Secret Room On The Lower Level of The Draugr Crypts / Kalbjorn Barrow
  
• Ahzidal's Helm of Vision - Found During Phase 4 of The Excavation Found In A Gated Room In The Lower Crypts / Kalbjorn Barrow
  
• Telvanni Robes - Worn By Ildari Sarothril During (Old Friends) Side Quest / Highpoint Tower
  
• Temple Priest Robes - Worn By Galdrus Hlervu and Elder Othreloth / Raven Rock
  
• Temple Priest Boots - Worn By Galdrus Hlervu and Elder Othreloth / Raven Rock
  
• Temple Priest Hood - Worn By Galdrus Hlervu It Can Be Pickpocketed With Perfect Touch Perk / Raven Rock

[lakefishHAXX]

Can you provide a description of each item's effects, or links to wiki pages for each one?

[Attila the Fun]

Another set of vampire royal armor can be obtained within Castle Volkihar in one of the broken down towers right before the alchemy lab. It's on a cabinet next to two coffins. You also left out the Aetherial Crown. List is pretty good otherwise, might help if it was formatted/broken up to read as sets or if an item is a stand alone.

[xXNoVa_FiGhTaXx]

Thank You Everyone For The Great Feedback :) Its Really Appreciated, I Have Made Minor Text Changes In Order To Group Some Items (Ty The Harbinger) So There Would Be Less Confusion & A Nicer Format

[The Harbinger]

Nice list, but would be nice/easier to read if they were either grouped (say, the Jester/Cicero clothing, the Worn Shrouded Armour etc), and/or separated for easier reading. (Like:

Jester boots

Jester gloves

for example)

But again, nice list.

[ARES]

with already 1000 hours of skyrim this is a great refresher :))

[Daggerfield]

great

[Trimmerbiscuit]

Great Guide

[TangentArc312]

eat ass