Welcome to my Realm of Madness

"Cheese for everyone! Wait, scratch that... cheese for no one. That can be just as much of a celebration if you don't like cheese, true?"

Greetings fellow travelers! I, Ten-Tongues, welcome you to my humble corner of the Shivering Isles. Here I document my journeys through both Mania and Dementia as I interview the fascinating residents of our Lord Sheogorath's realm.

NEW! LATEST UPDATE: I met the most peculiar Khajiit today who claimed his whiskers could taste colors. After sharing some skooma with him, I began to understand exactly what he meant!

About
Journal
Skooma
Stamina

As an Argonian artist and chronicler, I've found my true calling documenting the beautiful madness of the Shivering Isles. My scales shine with the colors of inspiration as I travel these divided lands.

Though my tongue may be forked, my words are true. Well, true-ish. Sometimes the skooma makes the truth a bit... flexible.

I first arrived in the Isles after following a mysterious butterfly through a strange door in Niben Bay. At first, I thought the skooma had finally broken my mind, but no hallucination could be this beautiful... or terrifying.

Day 246: Spent the morning searching for Runs-in-Circles. Found her running around Passwall again. Brought her carrots. She seemed pleased, but didn't stop running.

Day 247: Had another dream about Xenotrek. Those pastel red dreadlocks were glowing. Something about "reality fractures" and "psychidelic nexus points." Must remember to ask Dyus about the meaning.

Day 249: Interviewed a Dark Seducer today. Asked about her armor. She threatened to gut me like a fish. I think we really connected.

Day 250: Double distilled a new batch of skooma. Added nightshade essence and powdered daedra heart. Colors taste purple now. The walls are breathing. Good batch.

My personal skooma recipe adds crushed deathbell and nightshade for that extra kick. NOT RECOMMENDED FOR NOVICES.

Moon sugar can be substituted in desperate times, but the visions are less... intense. Remember: the key to good skooma is in the distillation process.

Ten-Tongues' Premium Madness Blend

  • 2 cups refined moon sugar
  • 1 nightshade petal, crushed
  • 2 deathbell flowers
  • 1 pinch of void salts
  • 3 drops of hist sap (personal touch)
  • Distilled water from the Fountain of Madness

Warning: May cause reality to bend, time to fold, and your shadow to detach and dance with you.

I wish I could keep up with my beloved Runs-in-Circles, but alas, my stamina is woefully inadequate. No matter how many potions I drink or how much I train, I simply cannot match her incredible endurance.

Current stamina level:

25/100

Last time I tried to run with her, I collapsed after only 37 seconds. She continued running for 6 more hours.

Perhaps skooma isn't helping my stamina situation...

Featured Interview: Fimmion of Crucible

Location: Dark alley behind the Sacellum Arden-Sul, Crucible
Ten-Tongues: Thank you for agreeing to this interview. What drives you in these chaotic times?
Fimmion: Fimmion likes sweets! Fimmion will do anything for sweets! You have sweets for Fimmion?
[Fimmion's eyes dart around frantically, looking for treats]
Ten-Tongues: Er, not at the moment. But tell me about your experiences in Crucible.
[Takes a quick sip of skooma from hip flask]
Fimmion: Crucible is dark. But sometimes people give Fimmion sweets there! Once, a nice lady gave Fimmion a sweet roll. It was a good day. Fimmion remembers good days with sweets.
Ten-Tongues: Fascinating. And what are your thoughts on Lord Sheogorath?
Fimmion: The Lord gives Fimmion sweets sometimes! Big sweets! Sweet sweets! But sometimes he takes them away before Fimmion can eat them. Then Fimmion is sad. Are you sure you don't have sweets?
[Begins to look increasingly agitated]
Ten-Tongues: This has been most illuminating. Thank you for your time.
Fimmion: Time is not sweet. Fimmion cannot eat time. Sweets are sweet. Fimmion likes sweets!
[Begins licking a nearby wall, claiming it tastes like honey]

Mania Travel Tips

  • Always compliment Thadon's poetry, even if it makes no sense
  • Bring colorful baubles to distract hostile creatures
  • The mushrooms that glow purple are NOT for eating
  • Golden Saints appreciate fine fashion; dress accordingly
  • Dance spontaneously to avoid suspicion

Dementia Travel Tips

  • Never make eye contact with Syl for more than 2 seconds
  • Keep all conspiracy theories to yourself
  • Carry extra torches; the darkness is alive
  • Don't comment on the screaming coming from the walls
  • If someone follows you, do not acknowledge them

Skooma Brewing Simulator

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Gallery of Madness

Travel Polaroids

Interview Index

Madness Tarot Reading

The Fool
The Fool
New beginnings
The Moon
The Moon
Illusion, dreams
The Star
The Star
Hope, inspiration

Xenotrek Dream Journal

3E433, Last Seed 14
Xenotrek appeared again in my dreams. The pale white scales, those beautiful pastel red dreadlocks, and that pristine lab coat... She was standing at the convergence of realities, where planes of existence fold into each other. She pointed to a crack in the sky, whispering something about "psychidelic fractures in the mundane." I tried to understand, but my mind couldn't grasp it. When I asked what it meant, she simply smiled and said, "When the hist meets the void, new colors bloom." Then everything dissolved into rainbow patterns.
Xenotrek Vision
3E433, Last Seed 27
Another Xenotrek dream, more vivid than ever. She was conducting some sort of experiment with skooma and void salts, creating swirling vortices of color that bent reality around them. "The key is in the molecular binding of planar energies," she said, as if that explained everything. She showed me equations written in a language I've never seen, yet somehow understood. When I woke, I found I'd drawn strange symbols all over my journal pages. The significance eludes me, but I feel it's important.

Sign the Skooma Guest Book

Glim-Glim
Mania
Saw colors I never knew existed after visiting your skooma den! The walls kept telling me secrets about cheese!
Dementia Wanderer
Dementia
The shadows follow me wherever I go. Your skooma helps me see their true forms. They have teeth now.
Burd, Captain of Bruma Guard
Mundus
This is an official notice. Your operation is illegal and you are hereby ordered to cease all skooma production immediately.