Soul Gem Mod Skyrim

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Skyrim Grand Souls

For this item in other games, see Soul Gem.

Soul Gems are naturally-occurring magic stones that house the souls of the dead. Used for enchantingweapons and armor at an arcane enchanter or for recharging previously enchanted weapons, soul gems come in various sizes and strengths: petty, lesser, common, greater, grand and black. Capturing souls in soul gems is typically done with the Soul Trapspell of the Conjurationschool of Magicka, or with a weapon that has received such an enchantment. With the exception of Azura's Star and The Black Star, using a filled soul gem destroys it.

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Acquisition

Soul gems can be obtained by slaying mages, magically-affiliated enemies, by purchasing them from magic shops and court wizards, mining geode veins or found as randomized loot in containers.

Mining

In Blackreach, the Dwemer underground realm, there are geode deposits. These yield soul gems with random values ranging from petty to black soul gems.

Purchasing

Filled and empty soul gems can be purchased from general goods merchants, court magicians and some members of the College of Winterhold. Filled gems are three to four times the price of empty ones.

Dungeon loot

• In Dwemer ruins, most Dwarven automatons contain soul gems, ranging from petty to grand. They may or may not be filled.
• Vampire Lairs
• Nordic ruins
• There are also a number of soul gems that can be found at the College of Winterhold, most of which cannot be taken without stealing. Becoming Arch-Mage revokes this crime, unless the soul gems are owned by another member of the college.
• During a quest for Drevis Neloren, one to three free, empty soul gems of any size can be obtained.
• Several unmarked locations on the world map.
• The enemies in the Soul Cairn always drop soul gems, ranging from petty to black, which may or may not be filled.
• The chests found at the top of the guard towers near the Riften Stables always possess a random unfilled soul gem.

Mechanics

Soul trapping

Trapping souls in soul gems requires the conjuration spell Soul Trap or a soul trap enchanted weapon. Killing an enemy with the spell cast upon them or using the enchantment draws their soul into one gem of the appropriate size. If no gem of the appropriate size exists in the inventory, the soul is captured by a higher-capacity gem. If there is no empty gem large enough, the soul is lost.An example of a weapon enchanted with the ability to capture souls is the Mace of Molag Bal. In Dawnguard, souls can be captured by activating a soul fissure in the Soul Cairn, so long as an empty soul gem is in the inventory.

Bound weapons

Bound weapons such as the bound sword or bow can automatically soul trap attacked enemies if the Conjuration perkSoul Stealer has been taken.

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Soul size

Soul size is determined by enemy type. Generally, smaller or lower-leveled creatures possess lesser, petty, or common souls, such as foxes, Falmer or Chaurus. Larger or higher-leveled creatures possess greater or grand souls, such as mammoths (grand) or giants (greater).

Humanoid races possess grand souls, but can only be trapped in a black soul gem or the Daedric artifact the Black Star, which is obtained through the quest of the same name. Falmer, draugr and Rieklings are an exception, as their souls may be captured in standard gems.

Types

Soul gems are separated into types based on the capacity they can carry. The soul gem types are petty, lesser, common, greater, grand and black.

Souls

The following are creatures that give souls:

Black Soul Gems

In addition to the creatures above, black soul gems can be used for gathering souls from:

• Any character, hostile or otherwise, from any of the ten playable races.

After a black soul gem is used, the soul used is sent to the Soul Cairn, a plane of Oblivion where only the dead and the undead can exist, under normal circumstances.

Trivia

• The soul gem designs appear similar to Aura Quartz, special quartz crystals that are put in a high temperature vacuum and have had either gold, titanium, iron or other metals fused on in powdered form. It gives the crystal different colors of metallic sheen, varying from transparent to opaque.
• Outside of inventory, mousing over a soul gem does not reveal whether the gem is filled or not.

Bugs

• PC 360 PS3 Soul gems that have been self-filled (using the Soul Trap enchantment or spell) can lose their souls when dropped or stored in containers. They also will not stack (i.e. each one appears separately in inventory). This happens regardless of whether the soul is the 'proper' size for the gem (e.g. a common soul in a common soul gem).
  • The only workaround for this is to keep all self-filled soul gems in inventory. Despite claims to the contrary, this has not been fixed in any patch.

See also

Appearances

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How do I know what type of soul a creature has?

There are a few questions on soul gems and how they work or where to find them, but nothing on which creatures fit into which sizes of soul gems.

There are petty, lesser, common, greater and grand soul gems, as well as black soul gems.

So instead of me taking one of each gem and seeing what soul gets put into what gem, I'd like to get someone to tell me quickly which creatures can fill which soul gems.

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The rule of thumb when hunting animals is that:

• Any weak hostile animal or passive animal will go into a petty gem (rabbit, fox, goat, wolf, dog, chicken, mudcrab, slaughterfish, cow, elk, skeever).
• Any moderately powerful animal or rare passive animal will go into a lesser gem (sabre cat, horse, snow fox, pit wolf, ice wolf, charus).
• The strongest animals go into a common gem (bears, charus reapers)
• The very largest animal (mammoth) goes in a grand gem.

When fighting Draugr and the undead:

• The basic form (draugr, skeleton) goes in a petty gem.
• The slightly stronger forms (restless, wight) go in a lesser gem.
• The stronger forms (sourge, overlord) go in a common gem.
• The strongest forms (deathlord) goes in a greater gem.

When fighting Atronachs:

• Flame atronachs go in lesser gems.
• Frost atronachs go in common gems.
• Storm atronachs go in greater gems.

When fighting Skyrim's natural monsters:

• Trolls and spriggans go in lesser gems.
• Frost trolls and hagravens go in common gems.
• Giants and wispmothers go in greater gems.

When fighting Falmer:

• Most falmer (falmer, gloomlurker, skulker) go in lesser gems.
• Stronger falmer (nightprowler, shadowmaster) go in common gems.

Dwemer constructs are machines, and as such do not have souls.

Grand gems are only needed for Ghosts and Mammoths, making fighting these creatures desirable for the best enchantments. They can also be used to capture 'special' enemies, such as the Dragon Priests. Dragon souls are consumed by the Dragonborn; you cannot soul trap Dragons. Black soul gems are used for capturing the souls of creatures normally protected by Arkay - NPCs of any of the playable races. Their souls are of 'Grand' size, making them also desirable for the best enchantments. Soul gem fragments are broken soul gems, and are not useful for anything.

Checkout the Skyrim wiki page on souls for a list.

• Alpha Wolf Petty
• Bear Common
• Cave Bear Common
• Chaurus Reaper Common
• Chaurus Lesser
• Chicken Petty
• Corrupted Shade LeveledL:1x, Petty
• Cow Petty
• Deer Petty
• Dog Petty
• Dragon Priest Grand
• Draugr Death Overlord Greater, Grand
• Draugr Deathlord Common, Greater, Grand
• Draugr Overlord Common
• Draugr Restless Lesser
• Draugr Scourge Lord Common
• Draugr Scourge Common
• Draugr Thrall Petty
• Draugr Wight Lesser
• Draugr Petty
• Dremora Kynreeve Grand (Black)
• Dwarven Centurion N.D.
• Dwarven Sphere N.D.
• Dwarven Spider Worker N.D.
• Elk Petty
• Falmer Gloomlurker Lesser
• Falmer Nightprowler Common
• Falmer Shadowmaster Common, Grand
• Falmer Skulker Lesser
• Falmer Lesser
• Flame Atronach Lesser
• Fox Petty
• Frost Atronach Common
• Frost Troll Common
• Frostbite Spider Petty, Lesser
• Ghost Grand
• Giant Frostbite Spider Lesser
• Giant Greater
• Goat Petty
• Hagraven Common
• Hawk N.D.
• Horker Petty
• Horse Lesser
• Ice Wolf Lesser
• Ice Wraith Lesser
• King Olaf One-Eye Grand
• Magic Anomaly LeveledL:1.75x
• Mammoth Grand
• Mudcrab Petty
• Potema's Remains Grand
• Pit Wolf Lesser
• Rabbit Petty
• Red Eagle LeveledL:Special
• Restless Draugr Lesser
• Sabre Cat Lesser
• Skeever Petty
• Skeleton Petty
• Slaughterfish Petty
• Snow Bear Common
• Snow Fox Lesser
• Snowy Sabre Cat Lesser
• Spriggan Matron Common
• Spriggan Lesser
• Storm Atronach Greater
• The Pale Lady Greater
• Troll Lesser
• Udefrykte N.D.
• Werewolf Lesser
• Wispmother Greater
• Wisp N.D.
• Wolf Petty
• Wounded Frostbite Spider Lesser

I believe it's like this:

Petty soul gem = creature souls below level 4.

Lesser soul gem = creature souls below level 16.

Common soul gem = creature souls below level 28.

Greater soul gem = creature souls below level 38,

Grand soul gem = any creature soul.

Black soul gem = any humanoid (e.g., bandits, elves, orcs, basically all NPCs) soul.

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