Sleeping Tree Camp: The Secret at the Sleeping Tree*

Begin this quest in two different ways:

• By listening to a rumor from any of the barkeeps dotted around Skyrim.
• Or by stumbling upon Sleeping Tree Camp, located west of Whiterun, in the Tundra plains.

Beware of lumbering mammoths and their giant shepherds. Give them a wide berth and they won’t attack, or slay them if you wish. Your main concern here is the strange tree growing in a pond of eerie purple water. If you approach it and activate the spigot, you can drain a single potion of Sleeping Tree Sap. You aren’t able to siphon off another bottle for another few days. A bottle isn’t needed to accomplish this.

The small cave below the mammoth skull adjacent to the pond is another place to investigate, but watch for an irate giant inside. Locate the body of a dead Orc named Ulag. Among his possessions is another bottle of Sap and a note; take both and read Ysolda’s Message. The message instructs the now-deceased Ulag to bring any Sleeping Tree Sap to a woman named Ysolda, at her stall in Whiterun. Before you leave, quickly open the treasure chest in the cave; there’s usually some gold and a couple of bottles of Sleeping Tree Sap to gather. Don’t leave camp without them!

• Sleeping Tree Sap
• Ysolda’s Message

Ysolda is usually inside or near her house in the southern part of Whiterun’s walled city or is walking to a stall. Speak with her, tell her you’ve some Sap to sell, and trade as many bottles as you wish. You can return to Sleeping Tree Camp and siphon off another batch of Sap, but don’t expect the tree to regenerate sap immediately: This can take anywhere from three days to a month.

• 150 gold pieces (per Sap bottle)