Buy the Honeyside Manor in Skyrim
Honeyside is one of the few properties that you can buy inside the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim game. It’s a small wooden house located inside the town of Riften. Upon purchase, your main character will use this house to serve as its residence inside the city to become a Thane. Honeyside can only be purchased after you complete some quests related to the town of Riften, which shouldn’t be that hard or complicated to do.
Steps
- Travel to the city of Riften. Riften is one of the major cities in the world of Skyrim that the Dragonborn (main character) needs to travel to. It is located in the southeastern region of the map and can be reached either by foot or by horse.
- Enter the city and head to the Riften Fishery. Here, you’ll find an Argonian (reptile) woman named Wujeeta.
- Talk to the Argonian. She will tell you that she’s sick. Simply give her some potion and force out some information from her about who’s selling the Skooma, either by Persuasion, Intimidation, or Bribery.
- For reference purposes, Skooma is referred to as an illegal drug in Skyrim. The Skooma quest is part of the game’s storyline, tracing back from the very start of the game.
- Talk to the Jarl of Riften. After getting some information from Wujeeta, head to the keep inside the city and talk to the Jarl (named Laila Law-Giver) about the Skooma incident.
- The Jarl will then tell you to kill the Skooma dealers (another quest).
- Kill the Skooma dealers. The Jarl will give you a key to a warehouse located outside Riften at the port. Enter the warehouse and eliminate the Skooma dealers.
- The dealers are rather weak and can be easily defeated.
- Go back to the Jarl. Talk to her to complete the quest, and she’ll then ask you to help a couple more of Riften citizens. Go back out into the city and look for people to help.
- You need to help at least 3–5 citizens with random quests that are rather trivial and very easy to complete.
- Go back to the Jarl again. She’ll make you a Thane (a local hero) for assisting the people of Riften, but before she can do that, she’ll tell you that a Thane should be a resident of Riften. She’ll then tell you of a property that you can purchase.
- Talk to the steward. You can purchase the house for 8,000 gold from him.
- Go back to the Jarl. She’ll now make you a Thane and give you a Housecarl, a non-playable character that’s in charge of safekeeping a house.
Tips
- If you follow the storyline of the game, it will eventually lead you to buying the Honeyside house without any tricks or shortcuts.
- Helping the citizens of Riften is an important step to help trigger the Thane quest from the Jarl.
- Purchasing Honeyside is included in the mechanics of the original game. You don’t need to download any expansion before you can buy it.
