The Abecean Longfin is one of the small fish you can scoop straight out of Skyrim’s lakes and streams with your bare hands. It’s worth a surprising 15 gold for something you caught while swimming, and it carries a useful mix of sneaky and nasty effects.
Alchemy effects
The effects are listed in the order you discover them by eating the ingredient or using it in a potion. Two ingredients make a potion when they share at least one effect.
- Weakness to Frost – a poison effect that makes the target take more frost damage. Also on: Elves Ear, Fire Salts, Ice Wraith Teeth, White Cap.
- Fortify Sneak – makes you harder to detect for a while. Also on: Beehive Husk, Frost Mirriam, Hawk Feathers, Human Flesh, Powdered Mammoth Tusk, Purple Mountain Flower.
- Weakness to Poison – a poison effect that makes the target more vulnerable to poison. Also on: Bleeding Crown, Chaurus Eggs, Deathbell, Giant Lichen, Pine Thrush Egg, Sabre Cat Tooth, Small Antlers.
- Fortify Restoration – makes your Restoration spells stronger for a while. Also on: Cyrodilic Spadetail, Salt Pile, Small Antlers, Small Pearl.
Tips and trivia
Fun detail: while the fish is still swimming, the game spells it “Abacean”. The typo fixes itself the moment it lands in your pack.
Values from the Skyrim game files (Skyrim.esm): base value 15 gold, weight 0.5.