I tried searching a plethora of holds and dungeons but none of them are rising up. I need to kill them for a quest Septimus gave me. I’m now lvl 26 and I really just want to finish Septimus’ quest line, but in order to do that, I need to harvest some dark elf blood. Thanks in advance


I hated collecting the blood for that quest. Go to a place full of bandits if you don’t want to kill a quest character, Such as Helgen, that’s where I found Orc and Dark Elf blood.
Good luck!
Hope that helped!
You have to keep in mind that in dungeons the lighting isn’t the best, so it’s hard to distungish all the races besides Orcs, Kahajit, and Argonians that easily so you might of overlook some Dark Elfs. Usually, Dark Elfs appear the most with Mage invested dungeons, also up near Winterhold there’s a lot of Dark Elf thiefs on the main roads and most of the dungeons in the Winterhold Hold.
Aranea Ienith – Priestess of Azura.
Brand-Shei Telvanni – Merchant in Riften; heir to House Telvanni.
Drevis Neloren – Master of Illusion at the College of Winterhold.
Erandur – Priest of Mara.
Gabriella – Sister of The Dark Brotherhood.
Irileth – Housecarl of Jarl Barlgruuf the Greater, in Whiterun.
Karliah – A Nightingale ; former associate in the Thieves Guild .
The Night Mother – Whispering corpse who leads the Dark Brotherhood .
Savos Aren – Arch-Mage of the College of Winterhold.
Brelyna Maryon – Mage at the College of Winterhold.
There are also a few dark elves in some forts but hard to find
Somewhere in Thalmar I think. Lol