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ALCHEMY
Alchemy ingredients can be found all over Skyrim. Potions and poisons are created by mixing ingredients together that
share a common effect at Alchemy Workbenches. Potions are consumed by your character to grant positive effects,
while poisons are applied to your weapons to add additional poison damage.
The higher your Alchemy skill, the more powerful potions and poisons you can create. You raise your Alchemy skill by
eating ingredients and creating potions and poisons.
All ingredients have four different effects. Discover the rst effect by eating the ingredient, and experiment with
combining ingredients to discover the remaining effects. If a potion or poison fails, the ingredients had no effects in
common. You can also gain Perks that allow you to discover more effects by eating.
ENCHANTING
You can nd lled soul gems in the world, or create them by using the Soul Trap spell to capture a creature’s soul in
an empty soul gem.
Some enchantments can only be placed on weapons, while others can only be placed on worn items, or particular kinds
of worn items. Weapon enchantments use up charges with each hit and need to be recharged when drained. The power
slider and size of the soul in the soul gem determines how many charges the enchanted weapon will hold.
Worn item enchantments are permanent and do not require recharging.
Enchanting is the art of applying magic effects to armor and weapons. To create an enchanted item, you need
a learned enchantment, a lled soul gem, and an equipable item that has no enchantment. The higher your
Enchantment skill, the better the enchanted item.
Enchantments are learned by destroying enchanted items. Take enchanted items to an Arcane Enchanter to destroy them.
“The troll might be dead, but your job isn’t nished just yet. Let the ames
die down and then examine the troll’s corpse. If you’re lucky, you’ll nd
some fat deposits that will fetch a good price in an apothecary’s shop. In fact,
if you’ve got a knack for alchemy yourself, you can boil the fat down for use
in all manner of potions and tonics.”
– Finn, Troll Slaying