Definitely one to make you come back for more. It’s a drink that goes on a journey, starting light and fruit sweet, then transitioning into more heavy savoury flavours and ending on a light spice note-exceptionally interesting, constantly evolving sip by sip.Īnd that makes a Skooma: fruit and spice and subtlety and flavour. Its origins can be found several years prior to the death of High King Torygg when skirmishes raged across the land, with large-scale military conflict. The Skyrim Civil War, called the Stormcloak Rebellion by the Empire, and frequently shortened to simply the Civil War is an ongoing civil war in the province of Skyrim. The combination of the fruity rum and Chambord alongside with the subtle spice of the bitters does that admirably the fruit for the jungles and the spice for the deserts. For the questline in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, see Civil War Quests. When designing this drink, I wanted to call back to the home of these frequent skooma users the soft sands and warm jungles of Elsweyr, as well as create a beverage that was subtly habit-forming: tasty, interesting and smooth. Looking for more Elder Scrolls cocktails? Check out the Pride of the Isles for that Aldmeri touch of class. The Khajiit of Elsweyr are almost daily users of moon sugar and skooma without ill effect, and it’s supposedly used for religious ceremonies as well as in cuisine and, of course, for recreation. Trust the Dunmer to come up with something like that.ĭepending on the Elder Scrolls game you play, even the hero themselves can fall prey to this addiction-and no matter what divine or daedra you pray to, no matter how many potions you take or spells you cast, you can’t get rid of the need for skooma.īut it’s not all bad. If they don’t do the work, you don’t give them their skooma. Not only is it made of super-poisonous nightshade, not only is it incredibly addictive, not only can it potentially kill you the very first time you use it, but it’s also often used as a way to literally enslave people. You can say that it’s basically catnip for Khajiits, but if you look into the background of the drug, it’s seriously gnarly.