Skyrim:Wisp

A Wisp

A Shade

A Wispmother

Wisps are ethereal creatures that are used by wispmothers to lure hapless adventurers in before joining their wisp "children" in direct combat.

Wispmothers are amongst the most powerful and dangerous creatures in Skyrim, and should be avoided until your character is at a higher level. In addition to great perception (rendering your Sneak skill useless) and wisp satellites, it can spawn an infinite number of Shades (clones) which don't disappear on their own over time (but will die easily). Wispmothers tend to attack with frost, and appear to be more vulnerable to fire than other elemental attacks. When a wispmother is killed, all remaining wisps will drop dead and turn into ball-like objects which yield Glow Dust when collected.

Whispering Spirits^DG are found in the Soul Cairn and cannot be interacted with in any way.

Creature (ID)	Lvl	Health	Magicka	Sta.	Soul
Whispering SpiritDG (xx01A8EF)	1	50	50	50	Petty
Wisp (0002C3C7)
Shade (000F1181)	5	36	224		Lesser
Wispmother (00023ABD)	28	600	300		Greater

• Unique Wispmother: The Pale Lady
• Loot:Glow Dust and Wisp Wrappings

Bugs

• Occasionally if a wispmother has summoned a large number of shades, the game may crash upon saving at any time after killing the wispmother. ^?