When the Dragonborn, slayer of the World-Eater Alduin, mysteriously disappears, a young man from Solitude is shocked to find that no one seems to have noticed—or care, for that matter. To discover what fate befell upon the legendary hero, he joins Faendal, the Bosmer from Riverwood and also the Dragonborn's once closest companion, in a journey over the entire province, finding other old mysteries and tying up loose ends along the way.