Sanguine is the Daedric Prince of revelry and debauchery, the Lord of Hard-Partying and patron of everyone who ever had one drink too many. His domain covers lust, sloth, gluttony and greed, and he loves pranks, ideally humiliating ones. In Skyrim he never introduces himself properly: he shows up in a tavern as the cheerful drinker Sam Guevenne.
In Skyrim
His quest is A Night to Remember. Sam challenges you to a friendly drinking contest with his special brew, betting his staff on the outcome. After three mugs he is impressed enough to promise you a place where the wine flows like water, and then everything goes blurry.
You wake up in a temple of Dibella with no idea what happened, and spend the quest retracing a night of drunken pranks across Skyrim and setting right whatever you did. The trail ends at Morvunskar, where a portal leads to Misty Grove. There Sam reveals he is Sanguine, admits he has not had that much fun in a hundred years, and hands over the Sanguine Rose, a staff that summons a Daedra to fight for you. It is on our Daedric artifacts page.
Lore
Sanguine is also called Blood-Made-Pleasure and the Prince of Hedonism, and to the Khajiit he is Sangiin, the Blood Cat, who tempts them with immortality and fleshly pleasures. He rules over a thousand Myriad Realms of Revelry. In Oblivion he had the Hero of Kvatch cast a spell that stripped the clothes off the Countess of Leyawiin and her dinner guests, rewarding the chaos with the Sanguine Rose. The Hero of Daggerfall and even a young Martin Septim also held the Rose at some point. He once supplied Mephala with twenty-seven tokens for her followers.
Good to know
- He cannot be hurt in Misty Grove; ordering a follower to attack him only gets you a few extra lines while he pokes at you with a dagger.
- His summoning date is the 16th of Sun’s Dawn.
- Sam bets the staff at the very start of the contest, so the prize was on the table all along.
- In The Elder Scrolls Online he works through followers called Sanguine’s Revelers instead of appearing in person.
Details checked against community wiki articles and the Skyrim game files, written in our own words.
