#horker

In the north of Skyrim, most especially around Winterhold and the Pale, the horker is a staple, and crucial to local lifestyles. A single horker yields a lot of meat, and its fat can be used as fuel for fire and to make soap; oil separated from the fat is also used as a stand-in for butter, which is particularly useful in coastal settlements that do not keep cattle. Horker hide can create excellent textiles to use for warm clothing as it retains a great deal of heat, and horker tusks are used for jewellery and ornaments and tend to be regarded as quite valuable, particularly by merchants from further south. Most small towns and villages in Winterhold and the Pale are communities of fisherfolk, and get much of their food that way; but their economies and access to other resources is often almost entirely reliant on horker hunting.