Complete Alchemists Compendium

by Madame Mary Madrigal

This book was compiled from my earlier works to meet the demand for a single tomb of knowlege on the subject of alchemy. It’s divided into six parts based on the earlier editions.

Part One: Alchemy for Beginners and Basic Restore Potions
Part Two: Potions of Curing
Part Three: Potions of Restoration
Part Four: Potions of Fortification
Part Five: Potions of Resistance and Shielding
Part Six: Potions of Magical Effect
Complex Alchemy Recipes

Part One: Alchemy for Beginners

This first section of this book is intended for those with novice skill in alchemy, and explains the general processes involved.

The Alchemist’s Apparatus

An alchemist needs appropriate tools for the job. Below is a list of apparatus available. These can be found of varying quality; the better the quality, the better your potions will be. A mortar and pestle is required for all potion making. The other tools are optional, but you will get better results if you have one of each at your disposal.

Mortar and Pestle

This is the most basic apparatus required to mix a potion. Your mortar and pestle’s quality also determines the potion’s strength. This simple apparatus is a must for any alchemist. To use, simply add your ingredients to the mortar, and stir or grind your ingredients with the pestle.

Retort

A retort is a basic distillation device used to increase the magnitude and duration of all positive effects in a potion. To use, place the ingredient, preferably in liquid form, in the bulb of the alembic, and heat with a small flame. In time, the distilled ingredient will collect and travel down the spout. This simple process requires little tending, just make sure you have plenty flasks at the ready.

Alembic

The alembic is used to decrease the magnitude and duration of all negative effects in a potion. This tool is necessary if you’re forced to work with ingredients that combine negative effects, but unnecessary if there are none. Skooma pipes also make good alembics. The alembic is a distillation apparatus similar to the retort, but instead of one bulb, it has two or three bulbs connected by a tube.

Calcinator

The calcinator increases the magnitude and duration of all effects in a potion. Calcination is the process of heating a substance to just below its melting point. It is often used to drive off water or other volatile constituents, or to oxidize or reduce a substance. Careful experimentation will reveal how much heat and time is required for each ingredient.

General Practice

The easiest way for a beginner to practice alchemy is to sample ingredients. Of course, your skills will grow faster if you successfully mix a potion, but your failure rate will be high until you gain experience. It is best to have basic training before attempting your first potions, otherwise you’ll be fumbling blind, and gain little experience in the art. Once you have the basic skills, you can increase your chance of success by fortifying intelligence and luck, allowing even the low skilled to become successful alchemists. You can find these recipes in the section on potions of fortification.

Any two ingredients with similar effect can be used to create a potion; however, some are better combinations than others. Potions effects do not multiply if you use more than two ingredients with the same effect. Multiple effects do occur however if your ingredients combine in more than one way. An alchemist must be wary of combining negative effects, which may spoil a potion if not filtered out with a quality alembic.

As you experiment, you may notice a difference in weight between one potion and another. Potion weight is determined by the mean weight of ingredients mixed. To obtain lighter potions, when only two heavy ingredients of the right combination are available, you can mix in lighter, neutral ingredients to reduce the potion’s weight. Adding a cheaper, more available ingredient such as saltrice can lighten your potions, unless of course it happens to add a negative effect to the potion you’re trying to make.

You may find through your experiments that using the lightest ingredients possible will sometimes net you zero weight. This factor seems to be entirely up to chance. Believe me, I’ve tried fortifying my luck in the hopes of making this happen, and it doesn’t always work. Still, it is quite the happy accident when it does happen.

Basic Potions

Restore Health

Many readily available ingredients can be combined to make this essential potion:

• Saltrice
• Marshmarrow
• Wickwheat
• Corkbulb Root
• Resin
• Emerald
• Corprus Weepings

Saltrice, marshmarrow, wickwheat, and corkbulb root are lightweight and inexpensive, so they are the best choices. Resin, emeralds and corprus weepings produce the same effect, but are rarer and more expensive, so they are better saved for other potions. Beware of mixing marshmarrow and corprus weepings, since it will spoil the potion.

Restore Fatigue

This is the easiest potion to make, as numerous ingredients produce this effect:

• Saltrice
• Hackle-Lo Leaf
• Chokeweed
• Scrib Jerky
• Scuttle
• Bread
• Small and Large Kwama Eggs
• Crab Meat
• Hound Meat

The best, most lightweight ingredients are saltrice, hackle-lo leaf, chokeweed, scrib jerky, and scuttle. Heavier ingredients include bread, kwama eggs (small and large), crab meat, and hound meat. All these ingredients are readily available. Beware of bad combinations, as mixing large kwama eggs with hackle-lo leaf will create an unwanted paralyze effect and spoil your potion.

Heavier ingredients may not be the best, but though you may not want to lug these around, they are great fodder for practice potions. Both bread and small kwama eggs have no other effect, so it is the best way to use them up and gain skill. You can also make easy coin selling them to vendors.

Restore Magicka

The ingredients for this potion are a more difficult to obtain, with the exception of comberry, but it is certainly worth the trouble. The ingredients that will produce this effect are:

• Comberry
• Deadra’s Heart
• Frost Salts
• Void Salts

This potion is perhaps best left until you have some experience, as most ingredients are expensive and difficult to obtain. Comberry, found throughout the Ascasdian Isles, is common and inexpensive. All other ingredients — deadra’s heart, frost salts, and void salts — are more difficult to come by, and dangerous to hunt for. Nevertheless, this potion is one of the most useful you can make if you happen to use magic.

Any potion you make, even at a beginner’s level, will be worth more than the ingredients themselves, so long as you choose them wisely. A shrewd alchemist has the potential to make quite a lot of money. There are many ingredients ripe and ready for the picking throughout Vvardenfell, and each potion you make will get you a little further, and a little richer.

These basic potions will get you through your early experiments with alchemy. As you gain skill, you will learn more effects for the ingredients you have. With experimentation and experience, soon you’ll be making potions to match the master alchemists themselves.

Part Two: Potions of Curing

Cure potions have no duration, only magnitude. They work instantly, are 100% effective, and are often more cost effective than similar spells. This first volume lists the five cure potions that can be created by the home alchemist.

Cure Blight Disease

This is possibly the most important potion in Vvardenfell, as the blight has touched even the remotest corners of the land. A cure blight potion is a must for any adventurer, and costs far less than a spell of similar effect.

To cure blight, mix any two of the following:

• Ash Salts
• Scrib Jelly
• Meteor Slime

Ash salts and scrib jelly are common ingredients, reasonably priced at most alchemists. Ash salts can also be obtained from ash ghouls, though it is not recommended you go hunting Red Mountain for them. Scrib jelly comes from scribs, a passive animal that is easy to kill. However, watch out for the blighted ones, or you may need this potion sooner than you think.

Cure Common Disease

Another useful potion that can be made by mixing any two of the following ingredients:

• Chokeweed
• Gravedust
• Green Lichen
• Muck
• Red Lichen
• Willow Anther
• Daedra Skin

It it not recommended to mix muck with either gravedust or willow anther, since it will spoil the potion. Gravedust does not go well with red lichen either.

All ingredients listed are lightweight and fairly easy to obtain, with the exception of daedra skin, which is expensive and only available at fine alchemists.

Cure Paralyzation

This potion is not only useful for adventuring, but can also counter potions that have an unwanted paralyze effect. Four common ingredients can be used to cure paralyzation:

• Corkbulb Root
• Netch Leather
• Scamp Skin
• Willow Anther

It is not recommended to mix netch leather with willow anther, as it will produce a negative effect.

Corkbulb root and willow anther grows in the Ascadian Isles region. You’ll have to hunt netches or scamps to get their hides, which is not recommended for the novice adventurer. These ingredients are inexpensive and available in most alchemy shops.

Cure Poison

This potion is essential if you happen to be hunting bull netches for their leather. Many ingredients produce this effect, so it can be made by mixing the following:

• Black Lichen
• Ghoul Heart
• Meteor Slime
• Rat Meat
• Raw Ebony
• Roobrush
• Scathecraw
• Scrib Jelly

It is not recommended to mix scathecraw with either roobrush or black lichen. However, mixing scathecraw with scrib jelly or meteor slime will also produce a potion to restore willpower. Rat meat and ghoul heart have an added paralysis effect, so mixing them is not recommended unless you have a good quality alembic to filter out the effect.

It is important to keep track of the weight of your ingredients when making potions. For example, rat meat and raw ebony are heavy ingredients, so mixing these will produce a heavier potion that will encumber a traveler.

Most ingredients listed are fairly easy to obtain, with the exception of meteor slime, which is difficult to find. (Just a hint — the bookseller Jobasha might know, but don’t bother asking him about it.)

Part Three: Potions of Restoration

This part deals with potions of attribute restoration; potions of restore fatigue, health, and magicka are found in this author’s previous work Alchemy for Beginners. Unfortunately, these homemade potions have a duration, which is unwanted in this case. When suffering a curse, it is better to buy potions of similar effect that have no duration to cure what ails you for good.

Restore Agility

Only two available ingredients can create this potion:

• Bonemeal
• Sload Soap

Both these ingredients are fairly common. However, sload soap is relatively expensive because it is imported from the Black Marsh. It can be found at most fine alchemists. Bonemeal is found at grave sites on skeletons, undead or otherwise.

Restore Endurance

Two simple ingredients can be combined to make this potion:

• Gravedust
• Scales

Gravedust can be found in most fine alchemists. Scales are found on slaughterfish, large or small. They are not difficult to find; just walk into the water, anywhere near Vvardenfell. Trust me, they will come.

Restore Intelligence

This potion can be made by combining any two of the following:

• Bittergreen Petals (treated or otherwise)
• Ruby
• Scrap Metal

This potion is somewhat frustrating to make as the ingredients, aside from bittergreen petals, are difficult to obtain. Scrap metal can be found plundering Dwemer ruins, but it is incredibly heavy, so lugging it out of these dangerous fortresses is almost as difficult as dissasembling Dwemer centurions. Due to its weight, it makes heavy potions, which is not ideal.

Combining rubies and scrap metal will also create a negative effect, so it is not recommended. The best combination is rubies and bittergreen petals. Though rubies are expensive, they are lightweight and easier to obtain than scrap metal.

Restore Luck

Three readily available ingredients can be used to produce this potion:

• Crab Meat
• Hack-Lo Leaf
• Kresh Fiber

Combining crab meat and hack-lo leaf will also restore fatigue, though the potion will be heavier than combining hackle-lo leaf and kresh fiber.

Restore Personality

To create this potion, any two of the following ingredients are needed:

• Guar Hide
• Heather
• Scamp Skin

There are no negative effects from any of these combined, but guar hide will leave you with a heavier potion.

Restore Strength

Though this potion uses fairly common ingredients, you must beware when mixing them:

• Dreugh Wax
• Gold Kanet
• Roland’s Tear
• Scamp Skin
• Stoneflower Petals

Mixing either gold kanet, roland’s tear (a type of gold kanet), dreugh wax, or stoneflower petals will result in a drain luck effect. These ingredients should be combined with scamp skin instead, whenever possible.

Restore Speed

This potion can only be made with the following two ingredients:

• Resin
• Raw Ebony

It is unfortunate that raw ebony is both expensive and heavy. Resin can be bought from a few select alchemists and vendors, so it is not common either.

Restore Willpower

This potion can be made by combining:

• Meteor Slime
• Scrib Jelly
• Scathecraw
• Trama Root

Combining scathecraw with scrib jelly or meteor slime will also cure poison. Combining meteor slime with scrib jelly will cure poison and fortify willpower as well. However, meteor slime is a rare ingredient.

Part Four: Potions of Fortifcation

This part is divided into two sections: the first for attribute fortification potions, and the second for other fortification effects.

Section One: Attribute Fortification

Fortify Agility

Great for marksmen, or just about anyone, the following can be combined to produce this effect:

• Ectoplasm
• Fire Salts
• Roobrush
• Sload Soap

These ingredients are fairly common, though you’ll have to hunt flame atronachs for fire salts, and undead spirits for ectoplasm, if you don’t wish to buy them. Combining the former two ingredients or roobrush is not recommended, because it will poison the potion. These three ingredients must be combined with sload soap instead. Combining sload soap with fire falts will also create a potion of fire shield.

Fortify Endurance

This potion works well in combination with fortify speed. Three possible ingredients can be combined to make this potion:

• Daedra’s Heart
• Guar Hide
• Netch Leather

All three ingredients will produce a heavy potion, so mixing them with some lighter, neutral ingredients is recommended if you intend to use potion for traveling.

Fortify Intelligence

This useful potion is a must for alchemists and enchanters alike. It can be made by combining any two of the following readily available ingredients:

• Ash Yam
• Bloat
• Netch Leather

Ash yams are abundant in Vvardenfell, so it is perhaps best combined with the other ingredients.

Fortify Luck

This, like the previous recipe, will help enhance your alchemy or enchanting abilities. It can be made using the following:

• Corkbulb Root
• Corprus Weepings
• Guar Hide

Corkbulb root and guar hide are common ingredients, therefore the easiest combination for this recipe. Combining guar hide with corprus weepings will spoil the potion. However, combining corprus weepings with corkbulb root will also create a potion of restore health.

Fortify Personality

A must when bargaining for more expensive alchemy ingredients. To create this potion, any two of the following are needed:

• Green Lichen
• Kresh Fiber
• Stoneflower Petals

There are no negative effects from combining any of these ingredients, and all are easy to obtain.

Fortify Strength

This potion can be created with the following ingredients:

• Ash Yam
• Daedra Skin
• Dreugh Wax
• Vampire Dust

There are no negative effects from combining any of these ingredients. Ash yams and dreugh wax are the more abundant of the four, therefore the most likely choice.

Fortify Speed

Great for traveling on foot, or getting out of a fight, this potion can be made with the following three ingredients:

• Kagouti Hide
• Moon Sugar
• Shalk Resin

Be aware that combining kagouti hide with shalk resin will spoil the potion. Unfortunately, moon sugar trade is illegal in Morrowind, so it may be difficult to obtain.

Fortify Willpower

This potion can be made using any two of the following:

• Bloat
• Meteor Slime
• Scrib Jelly
• Wickwheat

Combining meteor slime with scrib jelly will cure poison and fortify willpower as well.

Section Two: Other Fortification Recipes

Fortify Fatigue

This not only fortifies, but restores as well. This wonderful dual purpose potion can be made by combining:

• Hound Meat
• Scrib Jerky
• Scuttle

Scrib jerky and scuttle produce a much lighter potion than combining either with hound meat.

Fortify Health

This potion is incredibly handy, but unfortunately doesn’t have the best combinations of ingredients:

• Human Flesh
• Large Kwama Egg
• Shalk Resin
• Vampire Dust

Never combine shalk resin with human flesh. Scuttle and vampire dust is the optimal combination, but is expensive. The easiest combination is shalk resin with a large kwama egg. This creates a heavy potion, but the weight can be leveled out by adding lighter, neutral ingredients. Depending on which neutral ingredients you choose, this can also produce extra effects.

Combining a large kwama egg with a light restore health ingredient such as saltrice, marshmarrow, or wickwheat will create a potion that restores health at the same time. The more light ingredients you add to the potion, the lighter your potion will be, so what the heck, add two.

Fortify Magicka

This potion can be made by combining two of these three ingredients:

• Emerald
• Saltrice
• Stoneflower Petals

Combining emeralds with saltrice will have the added benefit of restoring heath.

Part Five: Potions of Resistance and Shielding

Section One: Recipes of Resistance Potions

Resist Common Disease

The following can be combined to produce this effect:

• Ash Yam
• Kagouti Hide
• Pearl
• Resin

There are no negative effects from combining any of these four ingredients.

Resist Poison

Another great potion for bull netch hunting. Three possible ingredients can be combined to make this potion:

• Alit Hide
• Kwama Cuttle
• Rat Meat

Any of these three ingredients will produce a heavy potion, so mixing them with lighter, neutral ingredients is recommended if you intend to use this potion for traveling. Combining rat meat with kwama cuttle, and a lighter cure poison ingredient such as scrib jelly will not only lighten your potion, but create a potion that cures poison as well. The key is to use rat meat, which produces both effects. Kwama cuttle was chosen because it is lighter than alit hide.

Resist Fire

This potion can be made using the following:

• Black Anthe
• Fire Petal
• Frost Salts

There are no negative effects from combining any of these ingredients.

Resist Frost

Only two ingredients can create this potion:

• Black Lichen
• Fire Salts

Resist Shock

This is another wonderful dual purpose potion, creating a lightning shield as well. To mix this potion, the two following ingredients are needed:

• Crab Meat
• Scrap Metal

This potion is incredibly heavy, so you may want to add lighter, neutral ingredients to it. Adding an ingredient such as saltrice will also add the benefit of restore fatigue. Combine that with marshmarrow or wickwheat, and you have an even lighter potion that restores health as well, for little added cost. Get creative!

Section Two: Recipes of Shield Potions

Fire Shield

The following will produce the desired effect:

• Comberry
• Fire Salts
• Raw Glass
• Sload Soap

Combining fire salts and sload soap will also create a potion of fortify agility. Raw glass is heavy, and fire shield is the only positive effect you can create with it. It is also expensive, so it is better bartered for more useful ingredients than used in home alchemy.

Frost Shield

The following will produce the desired effect:

• Frost Salts
• Large Kwama Egg
• Raw Ebony
• Willow Anther

There are no negative effects by combining any of these ingredients. However, both kwama eggs and raw ebony are heavy, therefore not the best combination.

Lightning Shield

The following ingredients produce the desired effect:

• Corkbulb Root
• Crab Meat
• Scrap Metal

Aside from crab meat and scrap metal, which is also used in the shock resistance potion mentioned in the first section, corkbulb root can also be used to create a plain lightning shield potion without the added effect. It produces a lighter potion if scrap metal is not used.

Part Six: Potions of Magical Effect

This part comprises of three sections: the first deals with potions of alteration, the second on potions of illusion, and the third on potions of mysticism. This compendium only deals with potions of positive effect, but harmful potions can also be made within the same schools of magic, such as burden or paralyze.

Section One: Potions of Alteration

Feather

Feather will make your burdens lighter, and your ruin raiding much brighter. The following three ingredients can be combined to produce this effect:

• Heather
• Ruby
• Scuttle

There are no negative effects from combining any of these ingredients.

Levitate

This potion is a must for any Telvanni sorcerer, and can be made with any of the following:

• Coda Flower
• Racer Plumes
• Trama Root

Any combination of these ingredients will result in excellent potions.

Swift Swim

A most excellent potion for pearl diving, it can be made using the following:

• Daedra Skin
• Scales
• Scrib Jerky

Scales and scrib jerky are the most common combination because they are more readily available ingredients.

Water Breathing

Another must for you pearl divers out there. Four possible ingredients can create this potion:

• Hackle-Lo Leaf
• Kwama Cuttle
• Luminous Russula
• Pearl

Luminous russula and kwama cuttle are not a good combination and will spoil your potion.

Water Walking

This potion will save your life when the slaughterfish become too much for you. To create this potion, two of the four following ingredients are needed:

• Ampoule Pod
• Kwama Cuttle
• Scales
• Violet Coprinus

Kwama cuttle will create a spoiled potion with violet coprinus, as it does with luminous russula.

Section Two: Potions of Illusion

Invisibility

This is not the best potion for thievery, as some have suggested, but for casual sneaking it will do. Only two possible ingredients can create this potion:

• Bittergreen Petals (also treated Bittergreen Petals)
• Diamond

Light

This potion’s effect is different from the spell; because it only works on the imbiber, it is similar to night eye. Only two ingredients can create this potion:

• Black Anther
• Red Lichen

Night Eye

For seeing in the dark, of course. The two ingredients that can create this potion are:

• Daedra’s Heart
• Kagouti Hide

Seeing as daedra’s heart is difficult to obtain, a potion of light may be a better choice.

Section Three: Potions of Mysticism

Detect Animal

If you don’t have a potion of night eye (or light) on you, this potion will help you avoid stepping on rats as you explore dark caves. You may use a combination of four possible ingredients to create this potion:

• Alit Hide
• Ampoule Pod
• Bloat
• Ectoplasm

There are no negative effects from any combination of these ingredients.

Detect Enchantment

This potion brightens the glow of any enchanted items within range of the potions effect. Three possible ingredients can be used to create this potion.

• Hound Meat
• Hypha Facia
• Marshmarrow

Mixing hypha facia with marshmarrow is not recommended, as it will spoil the potion. Adding a dash of scuttle will lighten this potion, and add both the restore and fortify fatigue effects. You can also add saltrice or wickwheat to add restore health to your potion too.

Detect Key

This fairly useful potion is similar to detect enchantment and has four possible ingredients:

• Ash Yam
• Diamond
• Muck
• Spore Pod

There are no harmful combinations of ingredients for this potion. Muck and spore pods will create the lightest potions, and both ingredients are common.

Dispel

This potion has no duration, only magnitude, much like cure potions. There are three possible ingredients you can use to create this potion:

• Bungler’s Bane
• Moonsugar
• Pearl

Bungler’s bane and moonsugar are a bad combination for this potion, as it will also drain your endurance.

Reflect

This is an excellent potion for reflecting spells. Made by a more experienced alchemist, it is often more effective than similar spells or enchantments. Three ingredients can be used:

• Comberry
• Diamond
• Hound Meat

There are no bad combinations of ingredients for this potion. Hound meat will result in a heavier potion, but it is more cost effective than using diamonds.

Spell Absorption

A favorite for mages, and often preferred over reflect. This potion can be created using three ingredients.

• Fire Petal
• Vampire Dust
• Void Salts

These ingredients are more difficult to obtain than those for a reflect potion, but it is certainly worth it. Beware of mixing fire petals with void salts, which will produce an unwanted paralyze effect. If you find vampire dust difficult to obtain, you can instead mix in two more ingredients, such as willow anther and corkbulb root to create a cure paralyzation effect to counter paralyze within the same potion. Barring that, an alembic is your friend.

Thus concludes the Alchemists Compendium. There are of course, more interesting combinations out there, and a whole lot of damaging ones. Experimentation is key and, as always, happy mixing, dear alchemists!

Madame Mary Madrigal’s Advanced Alchemical Recipes

Gift of Speed

Potion Effects:

• Fortify Speed
• Restore Fatigue

This potion will allow you to run at an accelerated rate without tiring. To make this potion you will need to mix the following ingredients:

• Moon Sugar
• Kagouti Hide
• Hack-Lo Leaf
• Saltrice

Reduce the kagouti hide in the calcinator for 8 – 10 minutes. The time will vary according to the quality of your apparatus, so you must watch it carefully to make sure it doesn’t burn away to nothing.

Moon sugar should be left to distill overnight. Use your retort — not the alembic — and make sure you add plenty of water. Crush the hack-lo leaf and saltrice, and mix together until it forms a fine green paste.

Add the distilled liquid from the moon sugar. When mixing ingredients together, make sure to add the reduced kagouti hide last. The resulting potion should be a translucent dark green.

Cheap Restore

Potion Effects:

• Restore Health
• Restore Fatigue

This wonderfully simple potion will give you multiple effects using inexpensive ingredients, and is more cost effective than making separate potions.

• Saltrice
• Chokeweed
• Wickwheat

Simply mix the ingredients together, make sure they’re finely crushed, and distill the whole mixture in your retort for about an hour or so. The timing doesn’t really matter — it’s hard to go wrong with this recipe. The resulting potion ought to be a light golden color.

Potion of Silverfish

Potion Effects:

• Restore Fatigue
• Swift Swim
• Water Breathing

This potion uses relatively inexpensive ingredients to create a potion that will make you as natural to the water as an Argonian.

• Scales
• Hack-Lo Leaf
• Scrib Jerky
• Luminous Russula

A pearl may also be substituted for luminous russula, which will make a lighter potion, but is not as cost effective as the recipe above.

Reduce the luminous russula in a calcinator until the water is completely boiled from it. Crush the scales and mix scrib jerky until it is a fine brown paste. Add hack-lo leaf to the mixture, and mix into a clumpy greenish-brown paste.

This paste must now be distilled in your retort for half-an-hour or so. Do not add the luminous russula yet — it must first be distilled separately in an alembic. Once both sets of ingredients are distilled, mix them together. Place the new mixture in the for a second distillation. When that process is finished, your potion is ready to drink. You’ll know your mixing was successful if the final result is a dark greenish-brown.

If you are substituting the pearl you may skip the alembic distillation altogether. Instead, oxidize the pearl in the calcinator for 20 minutes, then crush. Mix in the other ingredients and distill them together.

Rejuvenation

Potion Effects:

• Restore Magicka
• Fortify Magicka
• Restore Health

This potion is pricy to make, but is a mage’s dream.

• Comberry
• Frost Salts
• Saltrice
• Emerald

Oxidize the emerald in the calcinator until it turns clear, then crush. Mix comberry and saltrice into a red paste — the consistency doesn’t matter. Mix the dry ingredients, crushed emerald and frost salts, and distill with added clean water in the retort.

Distill the comberry and saltrice paste separately in an alembic. Both mixtures will be neutral up to this point. When both are properly distilled, mix the two liquids together, and distill again in the retort. The potion should turn a bright red.

Brick Wall

Potion Effects:

• Fortify Health
• Fortify Strength
• Restore Fatigue

This potion is pricy to make, but gives warriors quite a kick. They will pay through the nose for it.

• Large Kwama Egg
• Ash Yam
• Saltrice
• Vampire Dust

Mix a large kwama egg and ash yam into a thick paste, then distill in a retort. Distill vampire dust separately in an alembic. When this process is complete, mix both together with crushed saltrice.

Set the whole mixture to reduce in your calcinator. When the whole thing turns into a gray powder, distill it in the retort with water overnight. Once the potion turns clear, it’s ready to drink.

Mages Steadfast Mirror

Potion Effects:

• Spell Absorbtion
• Paralyze
• Reflect
• Restore Magicka

This potion is intended for magical duels, but has an unwanted paralyze effect, so an alembic is absolutely necessary. You may want to make a separate potion of cure paralyzation to go with this one.

• Comberry
• Fire Petal
• Hound Meat
• Void Salts

Crush fire petal together with void salts. Distill this mixture in your alembic thoroughly to reduce the unwanted paralyze effect. Reduce hound meat in the calcinator until the water is gone, and mix with crushed comberry.

The comberry and hound meat will form a meaty paste that must be further reduced in the calcinator until it starts to bubble. Take this mixture, while still hot, and mix with the distilled liquid from the fire petal and void salts. Make sure this liquid finishes distilling first. If you let the paste cool before you mix it, the potion will be ruined.

Once this is all mixed together, set to distill in the retort overnight. The finished potion should be dark red.

Eevle’s Elixir

Potion Effects:

• Fortify Health
• Restore Health
• Restore Fatigue
• Fortify Magicka

This is the ultimate potion of restoration, invented by the great alchemist Eevle.

• Emerald
• Saltrice
• Shalk Resin
• Large Kwama Egg

Oxidize the emerald in your calcinator until it turns clear, then crush and mix with powdered saltrice. Set this mixture to dry distill in your retort.

Mix the shalk resin and large kwama egg into a fine paste. Wait until the other mixture is finished distilling, then place the paste in the calcinator and heat for either five minutes or until it starts to bubble. While it is still hot, add the dry distilled emerald and saltrice powder and mix together.

This will form a thick paste that will work, but not as effectively if it is in potion form, so set the whole mixture to distill again in your retort with water. The potion should be an almost transparent light green.

Underwater Explorer

Potion Effects:

• Light
• Waterbreathing

This potion is ideal for exploring dark underwater caves and shipwrecks.

• Scales
• Scrib Jerky
• Luminous Russula
• Hackle-Lo Leaf

Crush hackle-lo leaf and scrib jerky into a thick paste. Reduce the luminous russula in the calcinator until the surface of the mushroom starts to bubble. Crush this into your paste. Crush the scales into a separate powder and distill in a retort, while you distill the paste in an alembic.

When both distillations are complete, mix together and distill again in the retort. The potion should come out as a light green liquid.