Eating A Human Heart

[Workster]

I found a human heart and accidentally ate it. Are they not considered taboo in the game with some kind of negative effect on my character? The only effect I could see was a learned alchemy effect. Can you tell me if there is any effect for eating it such as my character being considered evil by NPCs?

[Delta 1038]

Can you tell the difference between a horse's and a human's heart?

Anyway, they won't notice if you eat a human heart.

[Workster]

So as far as the game goes, there is no consequence for eating a human heart?

[Brandyn]

They can't really identify it much and people don't flinch if you eat poison or any insane ingredient

[Workster]

Now that I know that, I think the game should have had some kind penalty for eating it if you are a human character.

[VILLAGE PILLAGE ⊕]

If Skyrim had such features, it would be a better game.

[Clever Monkey]

you can eat human organs and drink human blood in front of anyone but do not eat a corpse.

Skyrim logic.

[mpd1958]

All the Alchemy effects of the human heart are negative and there are a limited number of them in the game since they can't be harvested. As for eating one and not getting a penalty/punishment you could play as a cannibal. I think there is even a mod for it.

[gnewna]

Originally posted by Delta 1038:

Can you tell the difference between a horse's and a human's heart?

Well, a horse's heart is probably quite a bit bigger, for a start...

[Bomb Bloke]

Welcome to alchemy in Skyrim.

https://youtu.be/OBa4M-l1lAM?t=2m16s

They don't care much if you raise their friends and loved ones as undead zombies in front of them, either.

[imgivingfreestuff]

Little things like that would make the game have so much more depth, you couldn't just think "I can do that because it's a game"