Skyrim:The Pale Blade

Leveled Item: The Pale Blade (000f5d2d) (All statistics are for level 27+ version)
Type	One-handed Sword
Editor ID	dunFrostmereCryptPaleBlade05
Statistics
Damage	11
Damage	11		{{{health}}}
Speed	1
Speed	1	Reach	1.0
Weight	15	Value	914
Tempering	Steel Ingot
Tempering	Steel Ingot	Perk	Steel Smithing
Enchantment
Targets take 25 points of frost damage and 50 points of Stamina damage. Weaker creatures and people flee for 30 seconds: Fear, 16 pts for 30 secs Frost Damage, 25 pts
Charge/Cost = Uses		3000/65=46

The Pale Blade

The Pale Blade is a sword rewarded to you for completing The Pale Lady. The sword's enchantment causes instantaneous frost damage, and also inflicts its target with fear for thirty seconds. Tempering the Pale Blade requires one steel ingot and the Arcane Blacksmith perk, with the benefits of tempering being doubled by the Steel Smithing perk.

The sword is not to be confused with the Blade of the Pale, which is the reward for becoming Thane of the Pale.

Related Quests

• The Pale Lady: Find out what happened in Frostmere Crypt.

Notes

• You can take the blade back to Frostmere Crypt and place it on the pedestal to recharge it.
• With both ranks of Augmented Frost and Dukaan's unique enchantment in effect, the blade can inflict fear up to level 28 humans and creatures, although the increase in numbers will not be shown on the weapon. The effected level can also be further increased by using fortify destruction potions.
• Illusion perks seem to have minimal to no effect on the blade's fear enchantment (needs further testing).

Leveled Statistics

Level				Charge/Cost = Uses	Enchantment	Object ID	Editor ID
1-5	12	169	8	250/13=19	Targets take 5 points of frost damage and 10 points of Stamina damage. Weaker creatures and people flee for 30 seconds: Fear, 5 pts for 30 secs Frost Damage, 5 pts	000d37ce	dunFrostmereCryptPaleBlade01
6-11	12	286	8	500/24=20	Targets take 10 points of frost damage and 20 points of Stamina damage. Weaker creatures and people flee for 30 seconds: Fear, 7 pts for 30 secs Frost Damage, 10 pts	000f5d2a	dunFrostmereCryptPaleBlade02
12-18	12	452	8	1000/37=27	Targets take 15 points of frost damage and 30 points of Stamina damage. Weaker creatures and people flee for 30 seconds: Fear, 10 pts for 30 secs Frost Damage, 15 pts	000f5d2b	dunFrostmereCryptPaleBlade03
19-26	15	667	11	2000/49=40	Targets take 20 points of frost damage and 40 points of Stamina damage. Weaker creatures and people flee for 30 seconds: Fear, 12 pts for 30 secs Frost Damage, 20 pts	000f5d2c	dunFrostmereCryptPaleBlade04
27+	15	914	11	3000/65=46	Targets take 25 points of frost damage and 50 points of Stamina damage. Weaker creatures and people flee for 30 seconds: Fear, 16 pts for 30 secs Frost Damage, 25 pts	000f5d2d	dunFrostmereCryptPaleBlade05

Bugs

• The stamina damage effect on this weapon is actually the standard effect, but the descriptions list it as double.
  • The Unofficial Skyrim Patch, version 2.0.4, addresses this issue. The enchantments now match the descriptions.