If you've played Skyrim, you might recall alchemy being a reliable way to make money. Well, same thing applies to Enderal. Even if you don't invest in alchemy & potion crafting skills, you can still rake in reliable profits very easily.

I'll save you the hassle of finding out profitable alchemy recipes and tell you where you can grab the ingredients.

1. In order to get started, you'll want to reach Ark to unlock the Myrad Tower's (as transportation option) and the Ark's marketplace, which contains several ingredient selling merchants.

2. You'll also want to have some cash (somewhere between 200-400) so that you can buy the said ingredients and that you can travel quickly between Riverville and Ark. For one recipe you'll wanna make a quick trip to Duneville, there's a big batch of Baldris Roots right next to Duneville's Myrad Tower.

3. For one recipe, you'll wanna farm crabs for their shells and blue butterfly wings. They pose little challenge, so you can fight them with little concern. Just watch out for bandits and wolves when you're low level.

You'll find the first alchemy bench in Riverville, alongside with ingredient selling merchants. On your way to Riverville, you may have grabbed several blue butterfly wings and crab shells. Here's what you can make out of them:


Stamina potions sell for modest amount, considering how easy the ingredients are to obtain.
But we can one up those things without having to farm any crabs, all you need is garlic and a pinch of salt. Garlic can be bought on most ingredient merchants, for example the one in Riverville:


Salt can be brought in big quantities (usually somewhere between 16 and 20) in all inns for cheap price of 5 gold per salt. One garlic + salt costs 7 gold, which can be turned into Fortify Mana Regen potion:


Having no points in Rhetorics, or any bartering price affecting enchantments, we get to sell each Fortify Mana Regen potion for 19 gold -> 12 gold profit per potion:


Not too shabby for basically doing nothing, eh? :)

Ark contains lots of merchants, making it easier to amass ingredients.

So far I've found an easy & cheap Ambrosia recipe, consisting of Thistle and Peaceweed. You may have found Thistle on Riverville's potion merchant, but Peaceweed can be found on merchant next to Ark's marketplace leatherworks shop:

Handmade ambrosia might sell less than Fortify Mana Regen potions, but buying Thistle & Peaceweed and crafting ambrosia still gives you net gain.
Peaceweed can be combined with Fish Scales to get Fortify Block -potion, which has a value of 51 (slightly higher than Garlic+Salt),

Another component you can use for ambrosia is Baldris Root, which can be found in big quantities near Duneville's Myrad Tower. You can grab 35 Baldris Roots from there for mere 50 golds (25 gold per Myrad ride) and if you wait for 6 days, Baldris Roots should respawn. You can make Invisibility potions from them, even though they don't sell for much the Invisibility status itself is rather handy for sneaky players.

Tavern gambling is another way to make money. You can profit off of them If you can stomach save scumming. Personally I find potion crafting more fun & consistent way of making money, but you shouldn't overlook tavern gambling entirely.

There's two types of gambling games in taverns, Morala's Dice and Battle of Treomar.

Morala's Dice is a kind-of-blackjack with dices: At the start of the game, two dices are rolled and their sum is tripled to as the score cap which you or your opponent can't surpass (think of it as Blackjack's 21). For example, if initial roll turns out 6, the score cap for the game is 18.
Whoever rolls closer, wins. If one player rolls the exact number, the "Blackjack's 21", that player wins double pot.

Battle of Treomar is much like The Witcher's card game Gwent.
You and your opponent draws three cards which are between 1-10 (1 being the worst, 10 being the best), after which you can choose to throw a pair of dices to add to your total sum. Whoever has higher total sum (from cards and dices), wins the game.

Once you've got the ball rolling, it's a good idea to open up a bank account.
You'll need at least 100 Gold in order to open a bank account, but I'd wait until I have 1 000+ Gold so I can make first big deposit right away and still have enough money in the purse for next round of ingredient purchases.

When you're storing money in the bank, you'll gain interest from the bank (based on how much you've got on bank account). Why would I say no to free money? Getting up to +250 extra Gold per day ain't nothing to scoff at:

Besides alchemy and gambling, there's another source of incomes: Shareholder Certificates.
Basically, they are slips of paper which you can turn in to Ark's bank and get a small extra interest on top of what you get from your saving. This won't get you past the daily 250 Gold cap, but it helps you get there sooner.

There are three certificates you can obtain soon as you've reached Ark.
First certificate is available as a quest reward. It is very straightforward, involves no combat and you just need to pick one Apprentice -tier lock, so do yourself a favor and get it done ASAP:
https://en.wiki.sureai.net/Enderal:Revenge_Is_Sour

Second one can be grabbed from the bank's vault. First you'll need a way to open an Expert -lock, luckily you can buy a scroll of Ondusi's Key (Expert) from the marketplace. The lady in blue/purple robes sells couple of them:


After you've purchased one, go to the bank and head to the 3rd floor. The vault you want to access is the second one on the left (from stair).


Use the scroll of Ondusi's Key on the vault door to unlock it, wait until the patrolling guard goes downstairs and steal the Landlord Borek's certificate. You can turn the certificate to the banker Silren on your way out. Two down, one to go!

The last one can be found in Powder Desert, close to Duneville's Myrad Tower. More specifically, Duneville's Supply Ship:


Powder Desert is designed for 30+ lvl character, but that's alright. Why walk to the ship when you can swim instead? Just drop down to the ocean and swim along the shoreline until you see the ship. Board the ship via gangplank, look to your right and you'll see the certificate (looks more like ledger book) laying on the table. You'll have to steal it, so make sure you've brought an invisibility potion with you. In case you didn't bring one, one can be found in Duneville's Crypt (not marked on the map, right behind the Myrad Tower and the graveyard).

If you have trouble finding the certificate, here's some further instructions:
https://en.wiki.sureai.net/Enderal:Duneville%27s_Supply_Ship

Turning in those three certificates adds +20 Gold per day. That's a pretty nice boost when you're just starting out!

Let me know if I missed/overlooked some other easy tricks or alchemy recipes, I'll try them out and include them here if I find them worthwhile.

In a meanwhile, keep on brewing those potions and you'll be enjoying the moolah in no time :)

Here's a quick summary of handy recipes, using easily accessible ingredients.

Good recipes for making money:
Red Malphas Flower OR Garlic + Salt = Fortify Mana Regen
Ghost Wrappings + Nightshade = Fortify Elementalism & Ambrosia
Peaceweed + Fish Scales OR Sporecrown = Fortify Block
Stain Mushroom + Vatyr Ear OR Human Heart OR Human Flesh = Poison damage, Provoke
Spider Egg OR Chicken Egg + Blue Butterfly Wing = [Poison] Damage Mana Regen
Spicy grass + Date = Resist Poison, Fortify Mentalism, and Restore Mana potion
Juniper Berry + Tuber = Fortify Health Regen
Salt + Taproot + Small Pearl = Fortify Light Magic, Fortify Mana Regen

Quick checklist of handy recipes (for crafting nuts):
Peaceweed + Thistle = Ambrosia
Feline Cat Teeth + Red Russula = Fortify Handicraft (bugged, doesn't work)
Blue Butterfly Wing/Mana Salt + Holly Berry = Fortify Enchanting