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Keep your arcane fever down and your taste buds alive with an infusion of gin, lemon juice, chartreuse, gum syrup and just a hint of salt.

You’ll need

2oz (60ml) gin

0.75oz (20ml) split gomme syrup

0.50oz (15ml) lemon juice

0.50oz (15ml) yellow Chartreuse

2 drops saline solution

Add all ingredients to a shaker filled with ice and shake thoroughly. Strain into your chosen vessel. Garnish with a lemon wheel. Serve!

“The stuff looks and tastes like Undead sweat and is bloody expensive, but it’s the only thing that really helps.” – Jespar Dal’Varek

Skyrim might be one of the most popular titles of all time – but its status as a game is overshadowed by its status as a modding platform.

No mods, no Bethesda game. With fantastic additions like Frostfall and the Clockwork City, not to mention all of the companion and… questionable pieces of content… it’s no surprise that Skyrim became and, more importantly, has remained so popular.

Thanks to Skyrim, we have fantastic additions like Enderal. Enderal might as well be an entirely different game with all of the changes to not only the world and the story, but to the baseline mechanics of the game. Far more difficult, far more punishing and far more complicated, it scratches that oldschool-RPG itch that Skyrim as a base game could never quite reach – even with a loofa.

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Enderal changes a lot from skills right down to the way that potions work. In Skyrim, you can chug potions until your belly is swollen and you’re one dragon shout away from spewing all over the enemy. Not so in Enderal, where drinking too many potions will result in you suffering a fatal dose of Arcane Fever – which is just as pleasant as it sounds.

So what is an alchemist to do? Always keep a batch of Ambrosia on you, of course, to counteract potion overconsumption.

Ambrosia can be made from a variety of ingredients, but the only description of what it tastes like comes from Jespar Dal’Verak, who describes it as being like “undead sweat”. Yuck.

In making Ambrosia, I used gum syrup made from half brown sugar and half caster sugar mixed with gum arabic and water. This was to thicken the drink and give it a little heft – much like sweat. Combine it with some Chartreuse to give it a bit of herbal flavour like embalming fluid, and with some saline solution for that classic sweaty saltiness, and you get something that sounds super gross but tastes damn good.

Ambrosia: it’s good for what ails you – if what ails you is transforming into an undead montrosity and attacking your comrades. No adventurer is complete without at least 3. Cheers!

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