Nightshade
Weight 0.1	Base Value: 8
Alchemical Effects
Damage Health	Damage Magicka Regen
2 pts for 1 sec	100% for 5 sec
Lingering Damage Stamina	Fortify Destruction
1 pps for 10 sec	4% for 60 sec
Form ID: 0002F44C

Main article: Ingredients (Skyrim)

Nightshade is an ingredient in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. It can be used to make potions at an Alchemy Lab as part of Alchemy.

Contents 1 Background 2 Quests 3 Cultural uses 4 Locations 5 Potions 5.1 Damage Health 5.2 Damage Magicka Regen 5.3 Lingering Damage Stamina 5.4 Fortify Destruction 6 Behind the scenes 7 See also

BackgroundEdit

QuestsEdit

• Ingun Black-Briar, an apprentice Alchemist in Riften, asks the Dragonborn to obtain 20 Nightshades to help restock her teacher's depleted supply. She also asks the player to collect 20 Deathbell and 20 Nirnroot.

Cultural usesEdit

• Nightshade is a necessary ingredient for performing The Black Sacrament, a taboo ritual used to contact the Dark Brotherhood.
• Nightshade is sometimes left on the victims of Dark Brotherhood Assassins as a calling card.
• Indigenous to Elsweyr, Nightshade is grown by the Khajiit for use with Skooma brewing.

LocationsEdit

Nightshade are flowering plants that can be found throughout Skyrim. Normally around cemeteries or graveyards.

• At least eleven Nightshade plants can be found in Solitude.
• A Nightshade plant grows in the garden of the Alchemist's Shack.
• At least five Nightshade plants can be found in Hamvir's Rest.
• Six Nightshade plants can be found in the Riften cemetery.
• Eleven Nightshade plants can be found in the Falkreath cemetery.
• Four Nightshade plants can be found in South Cold Rock Pass, just below the entrance to Cold Rock Pass.
• One Nightshade can be found at Arcadia's Cauldron.
• Herluin Lothaire, the alchemist at The Thieves Guild has one Nightshade present. He restocks his inventory every few days, which allows Nightshade to be purchased again.
• A few Nightshade plants can be found in garden of The Arch-Mage's Quarters inside The College of Winterhold.
• The water reservoir at the Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary outside of Falkreath is ringed by three Nightshade plants.
• The Black Sacrament effigies at Black-Briar Lodge, the home of Aventus Aretino, Volunruud, and the Falkreath Sanctuary.
• Three Nightshade plants can be found behind Meeko's Shack.
• There are several (more than 10) Nightshade plants, a word wall, and a dragon priest inside Labyrinthian. You travel through as part of a College of Winterhold quest.
• Morthal, Alva's House; 3 can be found at the end table in the cellar.
• One by a tree on the edge of the swampy area across from the Solitude harbor.
• Three can be found at an intersection of the road leading to Markarth. Found at the south end of a large island located east of Markarth. There is a double bridge at that location.
• There are about 3 or 4 outside of High Hrothgar, to the left of the chest.
• Many Nightshade plants can be found within the Volkihar Great Hall and the Volkihar Courtyard.
• One Nightshade can be found just outside of Dragon Bridge next to the road headed northeast toward Solitude.

PotionsEdit

Main article: Potions (Skyrim)

Damage HealthEdit

• Crimson Nirnroot
• Deathbell
• Ectoplasm*
• Emperor Parasol Moss ^DB
• Falmer Ear
• Human Flesh
• Human Heart
• Imp Stool
• Jarrin Root
• Nirnroot
• Poison Bloom ^DG
• Red Mountain Flower
• River Betty
• Skeever Tail
• Small Antlers
• Troll Fat
• Void Salts

Damage Magicka RegenEdit

• Ancestor Moth Wing ^DG
• Bear Claws
• Blue Butterfly Wing
• Blue Mountain Flower
• Burnt Spriggan Wood ^DB
• Chaurus Hunter Antennae ^DG
• Chicken's Egg *
• Glow Dust
• Hanging Moss
• Hawk's Egg* ^HF
• Human Heart
• Jarrin Root
• Spider Egg
• Spriggan Sap

Lingering Damage StaminaEdit

• Butterfly Wing
• Hawk's Egg* ^HF
• Small Antlers
• Chicken's Egg*

Fortify DestructionEdit

• Ash Creep Cluster ^DB
• Beehive Husk
• Ectoplasm*
• Glow Dust
• Glowing Mushroom
• Wisp Wrappings

*multiple effects

Behind the scenesEdit

• The real-life equivalent of Nightshade stems from a family of flowering plants known as Solanaceae, which blooms on plants which produce potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplants.
• Atropa belladonna, commonly called "Deadly nightshade," is an herb which causes delirium and other hallucinogenic effects.

See alsoEdit

• Nightshade Plant
• The Black Sacrament

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