Void Salts

Crackling salts from Storm Atronachs – worth 125 gold, with Resist Magic and Fortify Magicka.

Void Salts are left behind by Storm Atronachs and are worth 125 gold each, making them one of the most valuable ingredients. Resist Magic and Fortify Magicka are useful, and Weakness to Shock plus Damage Health are there for poisons. They’re also a smithing material.

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. Weakness to Shock – a poison effect that makes the target take more shock damage. Also on: Bee, Giant Lichen, Hagraven Feathers.
  2. Resist Magic – reduces the damage and effects of hostile magic for a while. Also on: Bleeding Crown, Chicken’s Egg, Crimson Nirnroot, Hagraven Claw, Lavender, Nirnroot, Tundra Cotton, Wisp Wrappings.
  3. 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, Troll Fat.
  4. Fortify Magicka – raises your maximum Magicka for a while. Also on: Briar Heart, Ectoplasm, Histcarp, Jazbay Grapes, Red Mountain Flower, Tundra Cotton.

Tips and trivia

Void Salts improve the Nightingale Armor at a workbench. At the Atronach Forge you can make them from a salt pile, an amethyst and a soul gem, and they’re needed for Storm Atronach items. With Dawnguard and Dragonborn they’re used for shock bolts and improved Bonemold armor.

Values from the Skyrim game files (Skyrim.esm): base value 125 gold, weight 0.2.

Where to find it

  • Loot them from Storm Atronachs.
  • Player homes with alchemy labs: Proudspire Manor, Honeyside and Hjerim.
  • Your room in the Hall of Attainment and the Arch-Mage's Quarters at the College.
  • Arcadia's Cauldron, the Fletcher in Solitude, the Thaumaturgist's Hut in Morthal and Sky Haven Temple.
  • Sadri's Used Wares and Calixto's House of Curiosities in Windhelm, Ragnvald Temple, and Valerica's study in Castle Volkihar (Dawnguard).

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