Troll Fat

A heavy lump of fat from trolls – Fortify Two-handed and Resist Poison, plus Frenzy and Damage Health.

Troll Fat is a heavy greasy lump that every slain troll drops. It’s worth 15 gold and mixes Fortify Two-handed and Resist Poison with Frenzy and Damage Health. It apparently also has some use in boat maintenance – the East Empire Company keeps bowls of it on its ships.

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, Slaughterfish Egg, Thistle Branch.
  2. Fortify Two-handed – makes your two-handed weapons hit harder for a while. Also on: Dragon’s Tongue, Fly Amanita.
  3. Frenzy – a poison effect that makes low-level creatures and people attack anything nearby. Also on: Blisterwort, Falmer Ear, Fly Amanita, Hagraven Feathers, Human Heart.
  4. Damage Health – a poison effect that deals instant damage to the target’s Health. Also on: Crimson Nirnroot, Deathbell, Ectoplasm, Falmer Ear, Human Flesh, Human Heart, Imp Stool, Jarrin Root, Nightshade, Nirnroot, Red Mountain Flower, River Betty, Skeever Tail, Small Antlers, Void Salts.

Tips and trivia

Atub at Largashbur asks for Troll Fat and a Daedra Heart in The Cursed Tribe.

Values from the Skyrim game files (Skyrim.esm): base value 15 gold, weight 1.

Where to find it

  • Every troll drops one.
  • In Riverwood: one above the fireplace in Faendal's house, two in Alvor and Sigrid's basement and one in Hod and Gerdur's house.
  • Seventeen bowls in the East Empire Company Warehouse in Solitude.
  • Arcadia's Cauldron, Corpselight Farm and Grave Concoctions in Falkreath, Jorrvaskr and two in Valthume.
  • Alchemy merchants, Falmer, hostile mages and apothecary's satchels.

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