Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Trainer Location Guide
In order to increase certain skills at a faster rate, you’ll want to search out for the various Skill Trainers located around Skyrim. This Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Trainer Location Guide will list all discovered trainers and their locations. Feel free to leave a comment if you’ve discovered any other trainers, you’ll be credited in the article.
You can also use the trick in this video to get free training from any companions that can train skills
Alchemy Trainers
Name: Babette
Rank: Master
Location: Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary
Name: Arcadia
Rank: Expert
Location: Located in her Whiterun Shop “Arcadia’s Cauldron”
Name: Lami – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Common
Location: Morthal
Alteration Trainers
Name: Tolfdir
Rank: Master
Location: College of Winterhold
Name: Dravynea – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Expert
Location: Kynesgrove, Eastmarch
Name: Melaran – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Common
Location: Solitude
Archery Trainers
Name: Niruin
Rank: Master
Location: Thieves Guild
Name: Adele
Rank: Master
Location: Sky building at Whiterun
Name: Faendal
Rank: Common
Location: Inside his house in Riverwood
Note: If you make sure he gets the female he desires during his mission, you can use the pickpocket skill to level up fast and get totally FREE archery training. Check our How To Level Fast Guide
Conjuration Trainer
Name: Falion – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Master
Location: Morthal
Name: Phinis Gestor
Rank: Expert
Location: College in Winterhold. Roams around, can be found near entrance a lot or inside Hall of Countenance
Name: Runil – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Common
Location: Falkreath
Destruction Trainers
Name: Faralda
Rank: Master
Location: Gate of the College in Winterhold or Hall of Countenance
Name: Sybille Stentor – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Expert
Location: Solitude
Name: Wuunferth the Unliving – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Common
Location: Windhelm
Enchanting Trainers
Name: Hamal – Thanks to Guest Hero Izineryn
Rank: Master
Location: Temple of Dibella, Inner sanctum. Markarth
Name: Sergius Turrioo
Rank: Expert
Location: Winterhold College, main room or Hall of Countenance
Heavy Armor Trainer
Name: Farkas – Thanks to Guest Hero Whitedrone
Skill: Master
Location: Inside Jorrvaskr (Companions HQ) in the city of Dragonsreach.
Name: Gharol (female) – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Expert
Location: the Blacksmith in Dushnikh Yal (Orc village SE of Markarth. ESE of Purewater Run and WSW of Reachcliff Cave)
Name: Gharol – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Expert
Location: the Blacksmith in Dushnikh Yal
Name: Hermir Strongheart – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Common
Location: Windhelm
Illusion Trainers
Name: Trevis Keloren
Rank: Master
Location: College in Winterhold, hall of countenance
Name: Atub – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Expert
Location: Largashbur in The Rift
Lockpicking Trainer
Name: Vex
Rank: Master
Location: Thieves Guild
Name: Majhad – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Expert
Location: Khajiit Caravans
Light Armor Trainer (Thanks to Guest Hero Tom Gregory)
Name: Grelka
Rank: Expert
Location: Riften Market, during day 8am – 8pm
Name: Nazur
Rank: Master
Location: Inside Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary
One-Handed Trainers
Name: Chief Burguk
Level: Master – Thanks to Guest Hero SleepySlug
Location: Dushnikh Yal (it’s an Orc village SE of Markarth. ESE of Purewater Run and WSW of Reachcliff Cave)
Name: Athis – Thanks to Guest Hero Jesse
Level: Expert
Location: Jorrvaskr Living Quarters(The Companions building), Whiterun
Name: Amren
Rank: Common
Location: Patrols inner Whiterun during the day, near market at 6pm
Pickpocket Trainers
Name: Vipir The Fleet
Rank: Master
Location: Thieves Guild
Name: Ahkari – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Common
Location: Khajiit Caravans
Name: Silda the Unseen – Thanks to Guest Hero Jordan Grey
Rank: Expert
Location: Blacksmith forge in Windhelm
Restoration Trainers
Name: Danica Pure-Spring
Rank: Master
Location: Whiterun inside the Temple of Kynareth, you have to complete the tree quest line first.
Name: Callete Morance
Rank: Expert
Location: Winterhold, inside the Arcaneum.
Name: Keeper Cercette – Thanks to Guest Hero The Unknown
Rank: Expert
Location: Hall of the Vigilant (near Fort Dunstad, location for the “The Battle for Fort Dunstad” Imperial quest)
Smithing Trainers
Name:Eorlund Gray-Mane
Rank: Master
Location: Skyforge in Whiterun
Name: Balimund
Rank: Expert
Location: Riften, at the Blacksmiths
Name:Ghorzo gro-Bagol – Thanks to Guest Hero T-Borg
Rank: Common
Location: The Backsmith, Markarth
Sneak Trainers
Name: Khayla
Rank: Common
Location: At the Khajit Caravan Camp outside Whiterun
Name: Delvin Mallory
Rank: Master
Location: Thieves Guild
Name: Garvey – Thanks to Guest Hero Tom Gregory
Rank: Expert
Location: The Warrens, Markarth
Speechcraft Trainers –
Name: Giraud Germane – Thanks to Guest Hero Skip
Rank: Master
Location: In the Bard’s College
Name : N/A
Location: At the Khajit Caravan Camp outside Dawnstar
Name: Revyn Sadri – Thanks to Guest Hero Mortachi
Rank: Common
Location: Windhelm, Sadris Used Wears
Name: Ogmund the Skald – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Expert
Location: Markarth
Two Handed Trainers
Name: Vilkas – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Master
Location: Companions in Whiterun
The guide will be update with more trainers as we discover them. Feel free to provide a few of your own! We’ll put it in the article and give you credit.
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Light Armour Training
Grelka
Riften Market, during day 8am – 8pm
Added and credited, thanks 🙂
Thank You Both For Those Locations, Do One of You Two Know If They Still Have The Console Command Codes Available In Skyrim as They Did in Oblivion and Fallout…ect, ect?
Yep, they still have the console commands 🙂
theres a smithing trainer in riften named balimund (an expert) hes inside scorched hammer
Silda the Unseen – Blacksmith forge in Windhelm
Expert Pickpocket trainer.
Lol what if u have killed faendal?
Speechcraft training : Common – NPC name Revyn Sadri Location Windhelm – Store owner of Sadri’s Used Wares
Added and credited, thank you 😀
I desperately need the master speechcraft trainer. Anyone know where he or she is?
UPDATE: I found the master speech trainer. Giraud Germane, in the Bard’s College.
One-handed training:
Name: Athis
Level: Expert
Location: Jorrvaskr Living Quarters(The Companions building), Whiterun
Blacksmith training from workings gray-main, master, behing companion HQ AT SKY FORGE IN WHITERUN.
Archery, aela, whiterun companion how whiterun
Block, expert, najada stonearm companion HQ WHITERUN
Sorry. Phones spell check messed up elonard Gray- main (something like that) to workings.
Eorlund Gray-Mane does not offering me anything about smithing training.Anyone with same problems?
Yes it’s driving me crazy. I am lvl 80 in smithing but there is no offer of training from Eorlund in the dialogue. I keep coming back to him after level-ups, but still no luck. Wah!!
Eorlund Gray-Mane, located at Skyforge in Whiterun, Master Smithing trainer!
Sneak Trainer
@ Markarth in “The Warrens”
Name: N/A
Also, I believe there is a Conjuration Trainer in Morthal.
( The only Mage in town, impossible to miss )
Master archery trainer: A companions’ character Adele (I think her name is). Might have to go through the trial to join the companions first though (won’t say any more due to spoilers). Find her in the Jarl something sky building at Whiterun.
Added, thanks for your feedback
Heavy Armor Trainer
Name: Farcos
Skill: Master
Location: Inside Jorrvaskr (Companions HQ) in the city of Dragonsreach.
Farcos – Heavy Armor is misspelled
Farkas is the correct spelling
Changed, thanks
I don’t know If this has been posted yet. But if you have your companions train you. Farkas heavy armor for example. You can take the gold out of his inventory and get free training so to speak.
You have to be able to access his inventory so after you compleat companion quest line.
Its been posted but thank you for your feedback
you can cutpurse any trainer if you are skilled enough in pickpocketing. Quick free training.
Careful not to go hog wild with training if you intend to pickpocket the trainer afterwards. I’ve found that any amount of gold over 1000 or so as a pickpocket chance of “0%” meaning no chance in hell. I haven’t yet tried to with a potion active but even with enchantments for pickpocket it’s still 0%.
Hamal
Master Enchanter
temple of Dibella, Inner sanctum. Markarth
Updated and credited, thanks for your feedback 😀
Isn’t Aela an archery trainer in Companion’s HQ?
Sneak trainer
Garvey,
Master level,
The Warrens, Markarth
Ogmund, in the Silver-Blood inn in Markarth. Speech trainer, stopped training me around 80-ish, i’m sure you know what level that is.
Note that if you do the misc quest for the high elf, im assuming it’d take Ogmund away (Something about Talos Worshipping), so would have to not do that if you want the training.
Two-Handed Trainers
Name: Vilkas
Level: Expert
Location: Jorrvaskr Living Quarters(The Companions building), Whiterun
Silda the Unseen runs about in Windhelm and is not always in the same place.
The khajiit caravans who teach sneak also move from city to city, I’ve seen them at Whiterun and Solitude so far and now can’t find them!
Destruction
Expert
Sybille stentor
Blue palace in Solitude
One-handed training:
Name: Chief Burguk
Level: Master
Location: Dushnikh Yal (it’s an Orc village SE of Markarth. ESE of Purewater Run and WSW of Reachcliff Cave)
Added and credited, thank you for the information.
I came across a speechcraft trainer, taladas the wanderer(not sure about the exact name. Definitely t-something the wanderer) i fast traveled to the guardian stones and was walking west towards ithanas(sp) deep. I had just past the fork in the road, and there he was, walking east. It was late at night. He is a bard, 25g for a request. Lol. I didn’t check what his training level was, as I’m already a master.
Smithing Trainers
Name:Ghorzo gro-Bagol
Rank: Common
Location: The Backsmith, Markarth
Athis won’t train me. Does not seem to offer training at all not to mention one handed. I’m level 77 in one handed.
That might be because there lvl is Expert(75) so thats what they train you upto. For example Eorlund Gray-Mane wouldn’t offer me blacksmith training after I hit 90 in that skill. I hope this helps. 🙂
Restoration Magic
Location: Hall of the Vigilant (near Fort Dunstad, location for the “The Battle for Fort Dunstad” Imperial quest)
Name: Keeper Cercette
Rank: Expert
Alchemy Trainers
Name: Lami
Rank: Common
Location: Thoumaturgist’s Hut, Morthal
Heavy Armor Trainer
Name: Gharol (female) – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Expert
Location: the Blacksmith in Dushnikh Yal
(Orc village SE of Markarth. ESE of Purewater Run and WSW of Reachcliff Cave)
Correct format and everything, thanks! 😀 Added and credited.
Alchemy Trainer
Name: Lami – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Common
Location: Morthal
Alteration Trainer
Name: Dravynea – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Expert
Location: Kynesgrove, Eastmarch
Alteration Trainer
Name: Melaran – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Common
Location: Solitude
Conjuration Trainer
Name: Falion – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Master
Location: Morthal
Conjuration Trainer
Name: Runil – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Common
Location: Falkreath
Destruction Trainer
Name: Sybille Stentor – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Expert
Location: Solitude
Destruction Trainer
Name: Wuunferth the Unliving – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Common
Location: Windhelm
Heavy Armor Trainer
Name: Hermir Strongheart – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Common
Location: Windhelm
Heavy Armor Trainer
Name: Gharol – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Expert
Location: the Blacksmith in Dushnikh Yal
Illusion Trainer
Name: Atub – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Expert
Location: Largashbur in The Rift
Lockpicking Trainer
Name: Majhad – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Expert
Location: Khajiit Caravans
Pickpocket Trainer
Name: Ahkari – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Common
Location: Khajiit Caravans
Sneak Trainer – CORRECTION
Name: Khayla
Skill: Common
Location: Khajiit Caravans
Sneak Trainer – CORRECTION
Name: Garvey
Skill: Expert
Location: The Warrens, Markarth
Speech Trainer – CORRECTION
Name: Dro’marash
Skill: Common
Location: Khajiit Caravans
Speech Trainer
Name: Revyn Sadri – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Common
Location: Windhelm
Speech Trainer
Name: Ogmund the Skald – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Expert
Location: Markarth
Two-Handed Trainer
Name: Vilkas – Thanks to Guest Hero ihatetheduck
Skill: Master
Location: Companions in Whiterun
Added the information from both your comments, thanks for taking the time to format them, saved me a good amount of work. Cheers! 😀
For some reason I am not able to use trainers more than once.
I’ll level up and then go to a trainer in the thieves guild and the trainer thing will say 5/5.
Am I doing something wrong?
You can only train a skill 5 times per total level. So at level 5, you can train up to 5 levels (on one skill or spread across 5), you have to wait until level 6 overall to be able to train again. Hope this helps!
Yeah I have heard that but I am traveling with feandal and I can’t train train with him
Again ever. Even though as soon as I level up I go up to him.
Have you sent him home and then tried to do it?
He only trains you up to level 50 then you cant learn from him anymore.
The rank of the trainer determines how high they can train you. To train above level 50, you need expert to level 75 and master to 100.
Master trainers can actually only train up to level 90, not 100.
there is an expert archery trainer in the thieves guild in riften he will be practising if you enter through the cistern (probs rong spell) he will be on the left shooting arrows, your also allowed to take the arrows if you are short on arrows (steel arrows)
my bad its to the right
and my bad again he is a master trainer
before you can be taught any higher in that skill you must first put another perk on the skill you wish to upgrade
Correct
Archery Trainer
Aela the Huntress
Skill: Expert
It’s possible to marry Aela to get Archery training for free, using the same method you use with Faendal.
Block Training
Njada Stoneharm
Expert
Companions guild, Whiterun.
Speechcraft:
There is a trainer in most inns located in the wilderness/minor cities. Just look for the person singing (i.e. the Bard)
There are way too many to list.
I’m wondering if there happens to be another master light armor trainer other than Nazir…Unfortunately I chose to destroy the Dark Brotherhood instead of join so needless to say hes dead…
was that a quest or did you just run in there an go sick on them all
just kill astrid when she’s in the shack at the start and she asks you to kill the three guys. then talk to a guard and he takes you to commander maro for a reward and shizzle.
In riften there is one as well. The merchant beside the guy you frame for stealing the ring for Brynjolf(probably wrong spelling)
NVM you said MASTER my bad. And the one I said is already their lol.
For speech just go to Riften and talk to Ungrien in Black-Briar Meadery. Ask him to tell you about Maven and choose the first option. Repeat as many times as you want. Its free and takes about thirty minutes to get speech to 100.
Also if you wait to level up and go to a trainer you can use that to level up other skills as well I believe.