Steel-blue entoloma ca. The entoloma species is poisonous and is even more dangerous than the amanita family. Though there's no specific shroom called "steel blue" in real life, there is blue entoloma.

The effects are:

restores magicka
fire damage
resist frost
Burden

The only harmful effect I see is fire damage

Yeah, I know, I said that, lol. Burden too.

Burden isn't harmful. It's only annoying, lol

it harms you when you're trying to run and CANT lol

Technically what's attacking you is harming you. The burden only makes it easier for whatever is attacking you to hurt you

It weakens you, which is BAD lol

That's bad, but not harmful unless you're being attacked.

This debate makes me wanna play some oblivion

If something makes you do something less effectively, it's harmful lol

It contributes to harm, but it's not DIRECTLY harmful.

Dude, we're arguing about an effect in a video game. We're such nerds XD

It's a poison!!!!!!

[quote]It's a poison!!!!!![/quote

It's a spell too. The only reason it's classified as a poison is because the Player Character doesn't necessarily want to drink it. It's more useful to use it against an enemy than drink it.

Who would WANT to drink something that weighed them down? No one, because it's a pooooiiiiiisoonnnnnnnn lol

It's not technically poison! It doesn't harm the player directly! It only HELPS the attacker harm the player.

That's like saying poisons only HELP taking the life bar a few notches down, it's not harming the victim DIRECTLY!

Damage health poisons DAMAGE HEALTH! It technically hurts the player! A burden "poison" only prevents a player from moving, which may lead to injury, lol

It lowers your encumberment, which is based on strength, which is DAMAGED when you get POISONED by the BURDEN POISON!

But it doesn't deplete the player's health. Poison is supposed to KILL you slowly. Damaging strength doesn't kill you directly!

You're looking at poison through a narrow scope. Poison can be categorized as anything that harms you. There's lethal poisons and non-lethal.

Think about it: Entoloma, the mushroom that STARTED this discussion, it POISONOUS.

In small enough dosages, it can fatigue and weaken the imbiber.

The larger the dose, or the more mushroom you have in it, the more lethal it gets. Hence why if you combine the mushroom with something that causes shock damage as well, BOOM, your health goes down.

See, I told you thy knowledge would come in handy