Skyrim:Skull of Corruption

Daedric Artifact: Skull of Corruption (00035066)
Type	Staff
Editor ID	DA16SkullofCorruption
Statistics
Damage	2
Weight	10	Value	1680
Enchantment
20 points damage, increases to 50 if powered with dreams collected from sleeping people: Dreamsteal, 10 pts for 43200 secs in 5 ft Waking Nightmare, 40 pts in 15 ft Psychic Agony, 15 pts

Skull of Corruption

The Skull of Corruption is a dream powered staff given by Vaermina as a reward for completing the Waking Nightmare quest in Dawnstar. To Dreamsteal, you simply cast it on a sleeping person and it will collect their dreams; however, it will still need to be charged with soul gems as well.

If equipped, guards will make comments about the staff: "What manner of staff is that? Such a horror..." and "What a foul and unnatural weapon you wield. Never have I seen its like."

Related Quests

• Waking Nightmare: Relieve the people of Dawnstar from Vaermina's curse.

Notes

• This Daedric Artifact can be missed if you allow Erandur to destroy it during Waking Nightmare.
• In Daggerfall and Oblivion, the Skull of Corruption had the ability to clone people.

Bugs

• The number of dreams left contained in the staff, as noted in-game, may drop from 0 to -1. This may cause the artifact to cease any damage output, and is remedied by casting the staff on the sleeping NPC. ^?