✨️💎Soul Gems 💎✨️
What are Soul Gems?
Soul Gems are magical receptacles used to capture and hold the souls of living creatures. They are essential for two main magical disciplines:
Enchanting: Using a filled Soul Gem is necessary to create a new enchantment on a piece of gear (weapon or armor). The soul's power determines the strength of the resulting enchantment.
Recharging: Filled Soul Gems are used to restore the charge on enchanted weapons and staves, allowing you to continue using their magical effects.
How to Use Them ✨️
Get a Soul Trap Effect: You must cast the Soul Trap spell on a creature, or hit it with a weapon enchanted with the Soul Trap effect, before you kill it.
Match the Gem: When the creature dies, its soul is captured by the smallest available Soul Gem in your inventory that is large enough to hold it. If you only have a Grand Soul Gem, and you kill a small creature like a Mudcrab (Petty Soul), you will unfortunately fill your valuable Grand Gem with a weak Petty Soul!
Enchant or Recharge: Once the gem is filled, you can use it at an Arcane Enchanter to create a new enchanted item, or select an enchanted weapon in your inventory and choose to "Recharge" it.
The soul trap enchantment can be found in the Conjuration School at the College of Winterhold in Skyrim.
"Conjuration school of magic is used to summon creatures, weapons, and armor from other planes, as well as to raise the dead and trap souls. It is a powerful but potentially dangerous school of magic with unique spells like summoning Atronachs or Daedric Princes, reanimating corpses, and creating bound weapons that appear in your hands."
