abstract
| - When the servants of Molag Bal arrive to infect our lands with turmoil and strife, we only benefit from their deaths and the removal of their essence before they disappear to account for their actions at the feet of their princes. Seek the dark hearts of these devils, and be quick with your plunging knife: wrench apart the ribs just after death, cut deep, and sever the organ without piercing it. It should weigh your hand down as would a large pebble of granite. Any Daedra heart commands a high price, but harvest only from those beasts known to carry such a heart; expect a shriveled muscle or void when opening a winged twilight, scamp, or atronach. Although they are hardy (occasionally such hearts have continued to beat for days after extraction), it is best to add a protective bowl, cloth, or other carrying device, as a heavy fall can cause the heart to burst, possibly contaminating other ingredients you may be hoping to sell. As Daedra are seemingly immortal, there is a knack to capturing the strange salts they leave behind. Firstly, it is important to distinguish between fire and void salts. Glowing, red, crystalline rocks are a compound residue from the banished remains of a flame atronach. Faintly pulsing, ash-like sludge is a similar ingredient, but scooped from the diminishing form of a storm atronach. After seeking out the location of either creature and bringing it to heel with your blade or incantation, be certain you scrape at the disappearing dust and capture the salts in this realm, before all evidence disappears to Oblivion.
|