I wish cooking was more useful in this game, maybe restore a little more health.
Maybe, but it's damn good fun.
I've been approached at the Riften Docks by a rather agitated Argonian(she very nearly let my contract escape T_T) named From-Deepest-Fathoms. After a brief, somewhat one-sided conversation, she thrust a Dwemer lexicon into my hand and tasked me with returning it to the ruins of Avanchnzel, southeast of Ivarstead. I received a quest thereafter called "Unfathomable Depths". Intriguing. I shall have to undertake it post-haste. Oh right, then I gutted my target with a dagger. Good times.