Slaughterfish Egg

Eggs from slaughterfish nests along riverbeds – Fortify Pickpocket, Fortify Stamina and Resist Poison.

Slaughterfish Eggs sit in nests along riverbeds and lake shores – usually with an angry slaughterfish not far away. They’re worth grabbing: Resist Poison, Fortify Pickpocket and Fortify Stamina are useful, and Lingering Damage Health works for poisons.

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. Resist Poison – reduces the effect of poisons on you for a while. Also on: Beehive Husk, Charred Skeever Hide, Falmer Ear, Garlic, Grass Pod, Mudcrab Chitin, Thistle Branch, Troll Fat.
  2. Fortify Pickpocket – makes pickpocketing easier for a while. Also on: Blue Dartwing, Nordic Barnacle, Orange Dartwing.
  3. Lingering Damage Health – a poison effect that deals damage to the target’s Health over time. Also on: Imp Stool, Mora Tapinella, Orange Dartwing, Slaughterfish Scales.
  4. Fortify Stamina – raises your maximum Stamina for a while. Also on: Chaurus Eggs, Garlic, Large Antlers, Lavender, Torchbug Thorax.

Tips and trivia

With Hearthfire you can also use them in your homestead’s fish hatchery.

Values from the Skyrim game files (Skyrim.esm): base value 3 gold, weight 0.2.

Where to find it

  • Along riverbeds and lake shores almost everywhere.
  • Two near Riverwood – one just across the river, another on the same side – and several on the south shore of Lake Ilinalta.
  • Six nests in a small pond northwest of High Gate Ruins, and in the pond in Chillwind Depths.
  • The islands around Goldenglow Estate, and the marsh next to Windstad Manor.

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