Orange Dartwing

An orange dragonfly found over lakes – Restore Stamina and Fortify Pickpocket.

The Orange Dartwing is the fiery-coloured cousin of the Blue Dartwing. You’ll find them darting over lakes, and like all dragonflies they flee if you approach too slowly. Restore Stamina and Fortify Pickpocket are the useful effects, Ravage Magicka and Lingering Damage Health the nasty ones.

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.

  1. Restore Stamina – instantly restores spent Stamina. Also on: Bear Claws, Bee, Charred Skeever Hide, Eye of Sabre Cat, Hawk Beak, Histcarp, Honeycomb, Large Antlers, Mudcrab Chitin, Pearl, Pine Thrush Egg, Powdered Mammoth Tusk, Purple Mountain Flower, Sabre Cat Tooth, Silverside Perch, Small Pearl, Torchbug Thorax, Wisp Wrappings.
  2. Ravage Magicka – a concentrated poison that lowers the target’s Magicka for a while. Also on: Frost Mirriam, Grass Pod, Lavender, Red Mountain Flower, White Cap.
  3. Fortify Pickpocket – makes pickpocketing easier for a while. Also on: Blue Dartwing, Nordic Barnacle, Slaughterfish Egg.
  4. Lingering Damage Health – a poison effect that deals damage to the target’s Health over time. Also on: Imp Stool, Mora Tapinella, Slaughterfish Egg, Slaughterfish Scales.

Tips and trivia

An Ice Storm spell over the water freezes dragonflies in mid-air so they drop where you can pick them up.

Values from the Skyrim game files (Skyrim.esm): base value 1 gold, weight 0.1.

Where to find it

  • Over lakes across Skyrim, especially Lake Ilinalta, often in groups of three just above a school of fish.
  • Several at the small pond outside Lost Knife Cave.
  • One caught in a spider web after the second door in Dustman's Cairn.
  • With Hearthfire, a homestead's fish hatchery attracts them.

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