Skyrim:Potions

Potions
 
You can use potions to produce magical effects that can strongly support advancing your goals. You can also sell unneeded potions to raise gold. Poisons are potions that produce damaging magical effects after striking with a poisoned weapon, or reverse Pickpocketing the poison onto a target.

The following tables list potions and poisons that you can buy, find, steal, or receive as rewards. When you possess at least one, potions will appear in the "Potions" section of your inventory screen. Some beverages that function more like potions than foods are also placed in this section of your inventory. Most of the items on this page are traded by apothecary merchants.

You can also brew hundreds of custom potions from ingredients you can obtain. The available custom effects are listed at Alchemy Effects, and some especially useful custom potions are listed at Useful Potions.

Potions
Standard Potions
These potions are available from the standard potion leveled lists; the level at which each first appears is provided in the table. These potions can be found in random loot or purchased from apothecary merchants. Like potions, you can also brew custom poisons from ingredients.


Dragonborn Potions

This is a list of the built-in potions added by the Dragonborn add-on.



Thieves Guild Potions
These potions are only available from the Thieves Guild's Thief Cache barrel in Glover Mallory's basement.  The potions that appear are level-dependent, according to the levels provided in the table. It's possible that these were intended to occasionally appear in other Thief Cache barrels, but whether by choice or a bug, they don't.


Other Leveled Potions
These potions are typically not attainable by conventional means.

For the Fortify Attribute potions, places where randomly-generated bottles can be found are limited:
All of Health potions:
1 or more always sold by Thieves Guild fences
12.5% chance of being found in Thief Cache Barrels
All Extra Magicka potions:
1% chance of being carried by all Warlocks, smaller chance of being found in Warlock chests
All Enhanced Stamina potions:
No randomly-generated bottles



Beverages
These will appear in your inventory under "Potions". However, merchants categorize these items as Food instead of Potions, so you can trade in them with innkeeper merchants as well as apothecary and general goods merchants.


Special Potions
These potions are unusual for the reasons noted. Many are quest-related.


Poisons
Standard Poisons
These poisons are available from the standard poison leveled lists; the level at which each first appears is provided in the table. These poisons can be found in random loot or purchased from apothecary merchants.


Other Leveled Poisons
These poisons do not appear in standard leveled lists, and therefore are typically not sold by merchants or found in generic random loot.

For some of the groups of poisons there are a limited number of places where randomly-generated bottles can be found:
Lingering Health Poisons:
Rulindil always carries one leveled lingering health poison
5% chance of being dropped by Falmer; they may also carry 1 additional bottle (4% chance for shamans, 1% for others)
Lingering Stamina Poisons:
Gissur always carries one leveled lingering stamina poison
Most of the other poisons are found in specialized leveled lists, but those leveled lists are not used anywhere, making most of the poisons unavailable in game.



Special Poisons
These poisons are not available from leveled lists. Many are quest-related.


Bugs
 
 
The solution if this happens is to have Serana bite you and fully convert you into a Vampire Lord then seek a cure from Fallion in Morthal and then visit Aela and ask her to reinfect you with lycanthropy (which she will only do once unless you return to a previous save).