Ebony Blade (Skyrim)



The Ebony Blade Is a Two-handed sword in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The Ebony Blade is a Daedric Artifact.

Locations
You can obtain it from the quest "The Whispering Door".

Characteristics
This weapon comes with a 10 point life leech and can be upgraded by slaying your friends (i.e., someone you've completed a favor for, completed a task for, or won over during any type of quest). For every two such characters killed the weapon increases in power, adding two to the strength of the life leech effect up to the maximum of 30.

Contrary to its classification, this weapon benefits only from one-handed weapon perks and one-handed damage item enchantments.

It is also benefiting from two-handed skill level. It's a very good way to keep leveling your character through leveling of two-handed skill once one-handed skill is maxed without having to lose too much damage and/or change your gear to two-handed.

As it is not benefiting from two handed perks and bonus on items, it's a very poor two-handed sword for someone who dedicated into playing that type of weapon.

It cannot be improved via smithing even if you have the Arcane Blacksmith, Ebony Smithing perks and/or a full complement of smithing enhancement apparel and potion additions to your skill.

Its life leech enchant is not limited by charges; it has an unlimited charge.

Upgrading

 * First way: You have to kill NPCs you did quests for. You can either go on a killing rampage in a town or select your victims one by one.
 * Second Way(Victimless): You have to own Breezehome and have to have Lydia as a Housecarl. You have to kill Lydia with the Ebony Blade and resurrect her unsing the console.(Click on Lydia and type in resurrect) Repeat until the whispering lady tells you, that the blade is returned to it's full glory.(around 10 times)
 * (struck: Meeko counts as a victim, thus there is no "no victims" way of upgrading the blade. Any NPC dieing counts, even if you ressurect them via console commands.)

Bugs

 * When trying to play the Ebony Blade on a Weapons rack or Weapons plaque It would "fall off" immediately. After this, the same happens to any other "greatsword" Such as a Dwarven Greatsword or a Glass Greatsword. Exiting the area does not seem to fix this either. One must reload a previous save.
 * This seems to be a way to "drop" Red Eagle's Fury from your inventory indirectly.