

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. 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!) :: *** - I didnt capture a Bull Netch my self, thanks to Raederle for that one.An aspect of Skyrim's game play is the use of soul gems, and item enchantment. I have a Dreugh in a common gem worth 3000 and a soul value of 75, and another Dreugh in a grand gem worth 15000 and still a soul value of 75. The one worth 50 went into a lesser soul gem and is worth 1000, and the one worth 250 went into a Grand Soul gem worth 50000. ** - Dont know why i have two different values for Hungrys. All other diseased creatures i've trapped are the same as the nondiseased kind. * - I dont know why the diseased rat is worth more than any other rat. When your enchanting, the value of the soul is the amount of charge Grand Soul Gem and will give you a value of 60000. So a Rat with a value of 10 can go in each soul gem to give you these values:īut a Winged Twilight, with a soul value of 300 can only go in a When you multiply the value of the soul by the value of the gem, you get the value of the gem with that soul trapped in it.
