Keening
Skyrim Weapon
Keening is a unique Dwarven dagger in Skyrim with a base damage of 8. Its damage scales with the One-handed skill, and it can be tempered at a grindstone.
It carries a built-in enchantment and cannot be enchanted further. It is boosted by 10 perks.
Keening Builds
Jump into the character build planner with this weapon already equipped, tempered and skilled as you set it here, then build perks and the rest of your loadout around it.
Create a build with KeeningStats
Tempering
One-handed Scaling
Boosted by
One-Handed weapons do 20% more damage.
Can do a one-handed power attack while sprinting that does double critical damage.
Dual-wielding power attacks do 50% bonus damage.
Power attacks with one-handed weapons cost 25% less Stamina.
Backwards power attack has a 25% chance to paralyze the target.
Standing power attacks do 25% bonus damage with a chance to decapitate your enemies.
Can pickpocket equipped weapons.
Can create Dwarven armor and weapons at forges, and improve them twice as much.
Sneak attacks with daggers now do a total of fifteen times normal damage.
Do 25% more damage as a werewolf.