Enchanted Chest

Enchanted Chest
The enchanted chest is a guild perk of being the Arch-Mage of the Mages Guild. It is located inside the Arch-Mage's quarters, and once per week can duplicate most any alchemical ingredient. You may need to speak to Raminus Polus about Alchemy Acquisitions after being made Arch-Mage for a short quest regarding the chest before use.

Use
To use the chest, place a single ingredient inside and return after 24 hours. The ingredient will be duplicated 10 times, leaving 11 inside the chest. Note that attempting to duplicate non-ingredients (weapons, armor, etc) will not work (nothing will happen), nor will attempting to duplicate multiple ingredients at a time (they will be consumed and the chest will be empty). Do remember to pick up your duplicate ingredients before a week has passed, otherwise the chest will reset and, presumably for the same reason duplicating two or more ingredients at a time will not work, the duplicated ingredients will be destroyed. It should also be noted that the chest cannot be used to duplicate Nirnroot.

History
The chest was created by Julienne Fanis for the previous Arch-mage Hannibal Traven. Traven was quite fond of alchemy, and often tasked Fanis with retrieving ingredients for him. Eventually she could not keep up with his requests, so enchanted the chest for him. She warns the player that she has no idea what will happen if you try to duplicate non-ingredients and will not be held responsible for lost items.