- For other uses, see Vampire Dust.
Vampire Dust is an ingredient in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. It can be used to make potions at an alchemy lab as part of alchemy.
Quests[]
- The Only Cure – Kesh the Clean, a worshiper of Peryite, sends the Dragonborn on a quest to retrieve some ingredients so that he may commune with Peryite. Vampire dust is one of them.
Locations[]
Fixed[]
- Autumnwatch Tower – two can be found in an open box on the roof of the upper tower.
- Bloodskal Barrow DR (x1)
- Boneyard DG (x3)
- Broken Fang Cave (x1)
- Castle Dour, Emperor's Tower (x1)
- College of Winterhold – one sample can be obtained from the Hall of Attainment, specifically the room to the right of the entrance, which the Dragonborn is provided when they become a member of the College. The Vampire Dust is located on a desk near the doorway of the room. Another sample is in the Arch-Mage's Quarters.
- Dawnstar Sanctuary (x2)
- Dead Drop Mine DG (x1)
- Drelas' Cottage – One is on a bookshelf to the left of the front door, and other is above the alchemy table.
- Dustman's Cairn – one is in Dustman's Crypt behind a locked door on a shelf.
- Frostflow Abyss (x1)
- Hall of the Vigilant (x1)
- Hjerim (x2)
- Honeyside (x2)
- Largashbur (x1)
- Mistveil Keep (x1)
- Nightcaller Temple (x2)
- Palace of the Kings Upstairs (x2)
- Proudspire Manor (x1)
- Sunderstone Gorge (x1)
- Thaumaturgist's Hut (x1)
- The Mortar and Pestle (x2)
- The White Phial (x1)
- Vlindrel Hall (x1)
- Volkihar Ruins DG (x1)
- Can be looted from most dead Vampires.
Random[]
- Sometimes can be looted from:
- Falmers
- Forsworns
- Higher level bandits
- Silver Hand
- Hostile mages
- Sometimes sold by alchemists.
Potions[]
- Main article: Potions (Skyrim)
† Multiple effects
Trivia[]
- Although vampirism is a disease, vampire dust has a cure disease effect, which makes it usable in a potion that cures diseases, including Sanguinare Vampiris.
- Gianna mentions in "To Kill an Empire" that vampire dust gives an "earthy" flavor to recipes it is added to.
- This is the only ingredient with Invisibility as a first effect.