Terms and privacy

Terms of use

Moth Priest is a free fan site for planning playthroughs of Skyrim, made by mxdie. It is a fan site, not made or endorsed by Bethesda or ZeniMax; The Elder Scrolls and Skyrim are trademarks of ZeniMax Media Inc., and the mods it reads belong to their authors.

The tools

The roll, the guide builder and the rest work in your own browser. A file you drop on a page is read in that browser and kept there. It goes nowhere else unless you are signed in and turn on Keep my files with my account in Settings, which is off until you do. The site's facts are read from the game's and the mods' own records and checked, but a mod can change after it was read: the site is offered as it is, without promises, and is not responsible for your game or your saves. Keep backups.

An account

You need no account to use the site. An account, made by signing in through Discord or Google, keeps your guides online and lets you share them. It is yours alone: one person, one account. You must be 13 or older to have one, as Discord and Google themselves require.

At your first sign-in you choose a handle, which is yours alone and can never be changed, and a name, which you can change whenever you like. Neither may pass for the site, its maker, its moderators or someone else: the site's own name, its maker's handle, and words such as admin, mod or support are kept for the site. A Discord account needs to be a week old to make an account here. For the first day after you join, a guide you make public waits before the Library lists it; shared by its link, it works at once.

Your guides

What you write stays yours. An account keeps up to three guides online; delete one in Settings to make room for another, and Save as a file keeps as many as you like on your own computer. A private guide is seen by you alone. Sharing one by its link, or listing it in the Library, lets the site show it to the people who can then see it, for as long as you keep it shared; you can make it private again or delete it whenever you like. Everything you share keeps to the posting rules. A guide in the Library with five ratings or more is ranked on the best guides, and the best-rated one not picked before becomes the week's guide; the site keeps which guide was picked each week, and a guide you make private or delete leaves the board and the past weeks.

Anyone can copy a guide they can read, to play and change for themselves. When a copy is shared, by its link or in the Library, it names the guide it came from and its author. In Settings you can say no: a copy of one of yours then stays with whoever made it and cannot be shared. Copies already shared before you said no stay as they are.

Reports, and taking a guide down

Anyone who can see a shared guide can report it. The site's moderators look at every report, and a guide that breaks the posting rules is taken down: it leaves the Library and its link stops working, while you still see it in your account, with the reason. Serious or repeated breaking of the rules can get an account banned: it cannot sign in again, and every guide in it comes down. For a week after a ban, no new account can be made from the places the banned account signed in from. If you think a guide of yours was taken down wrongly, or an account banned wrongly, ask for it to be looked at again through Report a problem, at the foot of every page: it works without signing in.

If these terms change

The change is announced on the site's Discord, and the date below moves with it.

These terms, rules and notice as of 23 October 2026.

Posting rules

Everything shared on the site, by its link or in the Library, keeps to these:

1. Nothing hateful, harassing or threatening. No attacks on a person or on a group of people.
2. Nothing sexually explicit. A guide may be written for a modlist with adult mods and say so, but its own words stay fit for anyone.
3. Nothing illegal. No links to pirated copies of the game or of mods, or to mods uploaded again without their authors' leave.
4. No one's personal details. Nothing that could identify or find a real person who has not chosen to share it.
5. No spam or advertising.
6. Your own work. A guide built on someone else's needs their leave and names them. A copy made with Make it my own does both for you, where its author lets others adapt their guides.
7. A playthrough. A guide is a way to play Skyrim; the Library is not a place for anything else.

Privacy

Without an account

The site keeps nothing of you. What you choose in Settings (the guides and authors you hid among it), a guide you are writing, the rolls you keep and follow, and the files you drop are kept in your own browser, and clearing the site's data there removes them. The pages load their typefaces from Google Fonts, which, like any website a browser asks for something, sees your address when it sends them.

With an account

When you sign in, Discord or Google tells the site an id for you, and nothing else is taken: not your name, your picture or your email. The site never sees your password.

Why Discord or Google?

So there is nothing here worth stealing. Moth Priest never makes you a password and never asks for your email: Discord or Google checks it is you, and tells the site only that it is, with an ID. If anyone ever broke into the site, they would find no passwords and no email addresses to take.

Your Discord or Google account keeps its own protection, such as two-step sign-in, and the site never sees any of it.

What an account keeps

• an id of its own for you, and the id Discord or Google gave (both, if you link both to your account, with when each was linked), so that it knows you when you come back;
• the handle you chose, and the name shown beside it on your shared guides (change the name in Settings; the handle stays);
• with each sign-in, the scrambled one-way code of the address it came from (never the address), kept while that sign-in lasts, 30 days at most: if an account is banned, it is what stops new accounts being made from the same places for a week;
• the day you joined, whether a new guide of yours starts private, by link or public, whether others may share copies of your guides, and, for a Discord sign-in, whether the site's Discord bot may message you too;
• the guides you save, as you wrote them; for a copy of someone else's guide, which guide it came from and its title and author's name and handle as they were when you first saved it, so a shared copy names them even if the original goes;
• what happened to your guides, shown to you in Settings for 90 days and then deleted: someone shared a copy of one (with their name and handle), one reached the board or became the week's guide, or the moderators took one down (with the reason) or put it back;
• the guide you are writing, as your browser keeps it, what you choose in Settings (with the guides and authors you hid), and what you play - the rolls you keep, the roll you follow with its ticks and what you noted went off the plan, and where you stopped in each guide - each with when it last changed, so that they follow you to any device you sign in on. Signed out, they stay in that browser only;
• the files you drop - your snapshot (the last five, so Your playthrough can say what changed since last time), your Plugins.txt and achievements - and the ingredients you own in the Alchemist's Ledger, only if you turn on keeping your files with your account (Settings, Your files); until then they stay in your browser. Remove takes one out, and turning it off takes them all out; they may take 3 MB in all;
• your votes on What's to come: which jobs you voted for, and when. Others see only how many votes each job has;
• the stars you give guides in the Library, once your account is a week old: one rating for each guide, which you can change or take back. Other players see only each guide's average and how many rated it, never who gave what;
• the reports you make: which guide, the reason, your words and when. A report is never shown to the guide's author, and the moderators are not told who sent it.

A banned account

Its id, the ids Discord or Google gave, its handle and name, and when and why it was banned are kept, so that it cannot simply be made again; its guides are kept, taken down, in case the ban is lifted. For a week, the codes of the addresses it signed in from are kept with the ban, and no new account is made from them.

Cookies

Two, both only to sign you in: mp_session keeps you signed in for 30 days, or until you sign out; mp_state lasts the ten minutes of a sign-in, to check it is the one you began. No advertising, no tracking and no analytics, from the site or anyone else.

Counting, to stop abuse

The server counts how often a sign-in, a save, a rating, a vote, a report, a bug report, or a change to your draft, settings, what you play or files comes from one account, or from one address, so that no one can flood it. An address is kept only as a scrambled one-way code, never as the address, and the counts are cleared once the hour they cover is over.

Reports and bug reports

A report of a guide goes to the people who look after the site, on its Discord, and nowhere else: it says which guide, the reason and your words. A bug report or a request becomes a post of its own on the site's Discord (#bug-reports, or #suggestions for a request), which anyone in that server can read: it says what you wrote, the tab, the page and its link, and your load order only if you ticked the box for it. Sent while signed in with Discord, it names your Discord account, so that you see the replies; otherwise it names no one.

On the site's Discord

Each guide in the Library has a post of its own in the Discord's #guides, made by the site's bot: its title, its author's name and handle, its opening words and facts, and a link. It changes with the guide, and says so when the guide leaves the Library. If you signed in with Discord and turned on Tell me on Discord too, your guides' posts name your Discord account (without a ping), and the bot sends you by private message what Settings shows you about your guides. The week's guide is announced in #announcements, pinging only those who chose its pings.

A tip on Ko-fi or Buy Me a Coffee is thanked in the Discord's #supporters: with your name and message only if you made your tip public there, never with the amount. The site keeps only the payment's own id, so that it does not thank you twice.

Who looks after it

Moth Priest is run by mxdie, one person in the United Kingdom, who decides what is kept and why (in the law's words, the data controller). Write to privacy@mothpriest.com about anything on this page.

Who else handles it

• Cloudflare runs the site, its server, its database and its mail, for the site and on its instructions. Its logs of the server's requests, which can include the address a request came from, are kept 7 days, to find faults.
• Discord and Google check who you are when you sign in, under their own privacy policies. Discord also holds what the site's bot posts there, and the reports and bug reports sent to it.
• Ko-fi and Buy Me a Coffee take tips, under their own privacy policies; the site never sees a card or an amount.

Each may hold what it handles outside the UK, under the safeguards in its own terms.

Why the site may keep it

Your account, your guides and what you choose to keep with them are kept because you asked for them: they are the service. The counts, the address codes, the reports, a ban's record, the server's logs and the copies kept to restore the database are kept because the site has a real need to stop abuse, keep the Library safe and not lose what players wrote, and they hold as little as that needs. Nothing about you is decided by a machine alone, except the automatic limits on this page (how often, and how old an account must be); a moderator will look at any of them again if you ask.

How long

• Your account, its guides, ratings, votes and what it keeps for you: until you delete them, or the account.
• A sign-in, with its address code: 30 days at most, or until you sign out.
• The counts: until the hour they cover is over. A ban's address codes: a week.
• What happened to your guides: 90 days.
• A report: until a moderator has decided it, then a year, so that a guide reported again can be judged on what came before.
• A banned account's record: for as long as the ban lasts.
• Bug reports and requests on the Discord: until they are dealt with and closed; ask, and yours is deleted.
• Mail to the site: as long as it takes to answer, and a complaint's record for a year after it ends.

Copies kept for safety

So that a fault cannot lose what players wrote, the database can be put back to how it was at any moment in the last 30 days, and a copy of it is made each week and kept four weeks. Deleting your account takes it out of the site at once; the copies age out within those times. So that putting a copy back can never bring a deleted account back, the site keeps a list of deleted accounts (their ids only, never a name or a guide) and deletes them again after any restore.

What you can do

In Settings, under Your account: download everything kept of you as a file, change your name, and delete your account. A deleted account is gone at once, with every guide in it; reports you made stay, with nothing to say they were yours. Copies others shared of your guides keep the guide's title but no longer your name or handle: they say the original was by a deleted account. A bug report's post on the Discord that named your Discord account stays there unless you ask the Discord's moderators to remove it. You may also ask to see what is kept of you, to have it corrected, to have the site stop using it or limit how, or to object to what is kept to stop abuse. To ask any of these, or anything else about your data, write to privacy@mothpriest.com, or use Report a problem at the foot of any page and choose Request. You will have an answer within a month.

If you are unhappy with how the site has handled your data, complain to it at the same address. Within 30 days you will hear that your complaint has arrived; you are then told what is being done and, without delay, how it ended, and a record of the complaint is kept. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, at ico.org.uk.

Writing to the site

Anything else, about the site or a guide on it: hello@mothpriest.com.