Nirnroot Moonshine

• Posted by Delta December 13, 2019 - Filed in TSC: Lore - #D&S  #Moonshine  - 1,105 views

  Throughout my years of service in the Legion, I’ve drunk many brews from the familiar to the strange. I’ve drunk my share of ales, lagers, and meads from the heartlands and Skyrim. I’ve even tasted beer from High Rock and I will only say this once and it this only needs to be said once: the rumours of the Breton’s legendary ineptitude in brewing the golden brown are in fact correct. I’ve drunk rum, grog, brandies, vodkas and whiskies. I’ve sipped the various wines of the heartlands, High Rock, and Hammerfell that a humble soldier such as I have no business trying. My constitution has been challenged by High Elf Artemia and Wood Elf Rothmeth. I’ve nearly been blinded by Mandrake Samogon and Orcish Arak. However, no brew comes to mind as the most memorable as Nirnroot Moonshine.

   

  Nirnroot as known to the alchemists and herbalists is a particularly valuable plant that despite the name, has uses for the whole plant and not the root. Nirnroots along with their magical properties is also highly toxic and upon ingestion is known to cause hallucinations, vomiting, diarrhoea among other terrible ailments. Even bringing a Nirnroot to the mortar is a dangerous affair as the fumes still bear the same toxins. In basic survival training, every legionary is taught to avoid the glowing weed and to look away for if one had the bright idea of trampling the plant, the plant will have their revenge from beyond the grave.

   

  So, imagine to my surprise that not only did I learn while in service that some people eat Nirnroots but they also distil the weed into mash! More to my surprise in that I have found the hooch not in one particular province of Tamriel but on all four corners of the Empire. Nirnroot Moonshine is strong, the weakest I’ve drunk was a drop of the thing in a canteen filled with water and it was enough to send me keeling. I’m not one to brag but I know how to drink. More than the buzz, Nirnroot Moonshine is mildly psychedelic and I recall a comrade claiming that he spoke to Emperor Tiber Septim himself! However, psychedelics isn’t what makes Nirnroot Moonshine so interesting. What makes this hooch so interesting is that it has a side effect of making those who drink enough glow like the plants themselves. Even more, I could swear the same came be said of my urine when I relieved myself.

   

  Strange stuff. I remember having to swallow a handful of bezoars and charcoal in the morning before the march lest I fall down.

  - Excerpt from I Served and Survived by Cassius Batavus, Retired-Armicustos and Legionary

   

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