Gaming

Most dragon priests surprise me.
and yes there are a couple with no masks... only one with a name and no mask, I think.

But a mirror? Can't recall that one...

Today when I arrived someplace after fast travelling, a dragon skeleton fell from the sky and landed right where I stood. (And no, I had not killed a dragon in that spot...)

I also googled those resonance crystals and apparently you only need four total, which I already have. So I guess using them - and possibly finding a way to get rid of Mogrul instead of paying him off, which I don't want to do because he's a thug, without ending up in jail for it - is pretty much the only thing I have left to do on Solstheim. I looked up a map and there are a few of places I have either not found or not remembered to actually enter (like mines). So there's those too, I guess. And then I should probably try to clean up the house and sell off all the loot, before I leave...

I just remember "Song of the Alchemist" - does that qualify as an obscure book quest (and then there's the mage college ones but you do get "pointers" with those so I'm guessing they don't count)?

I remember googling and finding that there are only 2 copies and neither is for sale so if you want it you need to steal it. But I found a third one on Solstheim, so if one has the DLC the thieving might not be necessary. I don't recall WHERE I found it, though. Might have been apocrypha in which case it might have been a random book, and not a sure thing.

And no, I'm not explaining what I mean by apocrypha.

CREEEEEEPY
(all the corpses of my earlier slain enemies are sort of jiggling about, moving their fingers as if they're playing musical instruments or something.... the dance of death? )

I went through the two mines I had "forgotten" (or rather ignored, as I discovered them on my way elsewhere) today, and I now have a total of 7 dibella statues. From Solstheim, that is. I think maybe a bit more variety in sculptures would be good for the cultural development of Skyrim. Or at least Solstheim.

I also manged to get to one of the "hidden peaks", which wasn't really much point. I wouldn't know they existed if I hadn't seen them on an online map and all that happens when you get to them is that you now have them on your own map. You get the usual "so and so discovered" notice. But there's nothing up there except the view. Maybe there's an achievement for reaching all of them? Not sure I'll bother. Not sure why anyone bothered climbing up there and discovering that they existed, in the first place.

Oh I also have about 430 lockpicks now. I wonder if I'll ever break all of them?

You should continue to Windhelm. The forge itself isn't very interesting, in my opinion. The glove... or hand... or whatever, is another matter. But I've no idea what to do with that yet.