(I should note that there is a perk on the Conjuration tree called Soul Stealer. It's like the first method with a step taken out. If you use the item to kill an enemy, you will capture its soul into one of your soul gems. You can either make this yourself if you have the necessary items, or buy one from a shop keeper. The second way, and also the best way in my opinion, is to use a weapon with a soul trap enchantment. If you kill it within sixty seconds and have an empty soul gem of proper size, the creature's soul will be captured when it dies. Now you're probably wondering, “But how do I fill a soul gem?” Easy! There are two ways to go about this: one way is to learn the soul trap spell and then cast it on a creature in combat. This means it can be used to recharge a weapon enchantment, or be used to create a new enchantment on an item. For example, instead of reading as “Petty Soul Gem”, it will now read as “Petty Soul Gem (Petty)”. When a soul is captured, the name of the soul gem will change in your inventory. There are also geode veins in Blackreach that give out precious gems and level-based empty soul gems. I won't spoil it for you, but doing that as often as you can will yield you a gold reward and three filled soul gems of differing size for each time you do that quest. Yet another way is to complete the College of Winterhold questline and do the Aftershock quests as they appear. More often than not, they don't, but most of the time they have one, it's a filled soul gem.
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If you're feeling adventurous, you can go look for enemy mages or Forsworn and kill them, then see if they had a soul gem on them. The most common ways are finding them in burial crypts (dungeons), Dwemer cities/ruins, vampire lairs, and to buy them from merchants (particularlly court wizards like Farengar or mages at the College of Winterhold). The smaller the soul gem, the more purple it is the larger the soul gem, the more blue it is. Secondly, these are soul gems (black soul gem is not included, nor Azura's Star) :įirst, you need to know what a soul gem is before you even think about enchanting! Basically, a soul gem is a pretty rock of a light purple and/or blue color that can store a creature's soul to be used as energy. The game does explain how enchanting and soul gems work, but not in great depth.Ĭontents (use the Control+F command to quickly find the info you need!) :: Hope this helps.An aspect of Skyrim's game play is the use of soul gems, and item enchantment. I also only use petty and lesser soul gems. You don't have to level anything this is a great way to make gold fast (each dagger I make sells for 750gold). And on your next rounds around Skyrim you can sell off the daggers you made to the blacksmiths. By the time you get back to Markarth everything has been restocked. This is what makes it profitable.įast traveling rounds went like: Markarth -> Whiterun -> Riften -> Windhelm -> College of Winterhold (4 vendors to sell you filled gems) -> Solitude. *One point to note is that you need to check every blacksmith shop for the banish enchant (send summoned daedra back to oblivion) or at least the absorb health enchant.
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Buy iron ingots/leather scraps from the blacksmith (to make iron daggers to enchant) then go to the palace mage, buy filled petty's and lesser's.ĭo this for every city (Buy only about 40-50 ingots as you won't find enough filled soul gems). Start in a city (I choose Markarth because of my home). If you are interested in leveling enchanting this is what I did: