Character Menu

The menu is a way to interact with your inventory, skills and magic in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

The interface is accessed by the 'B' button on xbox, the 'Tab' button on the PC, and the 'O' button on PS3. It consists of an up, down, left and right compass leading to magic (left) items (right) skills (up) and map (down).

Items
In the items tab, there are 9 sub-menus: Favorites, All, Weapons, Apparel, Potions, Food, Ingredients, Books and Miscellaneous items. In the favorites menu, it shows all your Favorited items. In the All menu, it shows all items. The weapons menu holds shields, swords, staffs, bows and arrows. Apparel includes armour and clothes, food and ingredients include items harvested around Skyrim.

Magic
The Magic tab includes the available Spells to the player. There is a category for each school, over the submenus "all" and "favorites". This section also shows all learned Dragon shouts.

Favoriting
Favorited items will be marked with an asterisk and Equipped items will be marked with an arrow.

Skills
In the Skills menu, the player "looks to the stars". The player then scrolls across and can choose between all the skills (magic colleges, classes e.t.c). When the player gains skill points he/she may choose a Perk if he has level or more points than the required skill points.

As the player chooses perks, a Constellation appears.

Map
The Map in Skyrim now is fully 3D, the map zooms out from your current position and is used to access the journal. the triggers zoom in and out when the map is accessed and the "A" (Xbox 360) or "X" (PS3) buttons are used to place waypoints. The start button accesses the journal and "X" (Xbox 360) or "square" (PS3) enters the local map.