There are about 30 filled soul gems available for the taking in the College of Winterhold (check both the Arch-Mage's Quarters and all the dorm rooms). Once you take them all, simply wait two weeks (takes about ten minutes real time) and then all of the gems will have respawned. For me, this has been the easiest way to get soul gems yet. Every soul in Skyrim is one of six possible strengths: Petty, Lesser, Common, Greater, Grand, and Black. More powerful creatures have more powerful souls. Souls are trapped in soul gems by using a soul trap spell or effect. Trapped souls are used to enchant and recharge items. Soul Strength.
Soul Gems are miscellaneous items which can be used to trap the soul of a dying creature or NPC. The resulting filled soul gems can be used as power sources for enchanted items, either when initially creating custom enchanted items or when recharging depleted enchanted weapons, either of which will consume the soul gem. In addition to the soul gems listed here, the Shivering Isles expansion adds a Soul Tomato that can be used as the equivalent of a grand soul gem.
They can be bought at most magical and alchemical shops.
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Types of Soul Gem[edit]
| Name | Soul | ID | Capacity | Notes | ||
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| Petty Soul Gem | Empty Petty | 00023D67 000382D1 | 0.1 | 10 40 | 150 | Smallest size of soul gems. |
| Lesser Soul Gem | Empty Petty Lesser | 00023D69 000382D2 000382D3 | 0.2 | 25 40 80 | 300 | Second smallest size of soul gems. One Lesser Soul Gem is required for Sheogorath's Daedric quest. |
| Common Soul Gem | Empty Petty Lesser Common | 00015B8B 000382D4 000382D5 000382D6 | 0.3 | 50 40 80 150 | 800 | Middle size of soul gems. |
| Greater Soul Gem | Empty Petty Lesser Common Greater | 00015B8C 000382D7 000382D8 000382D9 000382DA | 0.4 | 100 40 80 150 350 | 1200 | Second largest size of soul gems. |
| Grand Soul Gem | Empty Petty Lesser Common Greater Grand | 00015B8E 000382DB 000382DC 000382DD 000382DE 000382DF | 0.5 | 200 40 80 150 350 500 | 1600 | Largest size of soul gems. Five empty Grand Soul Gems are required for the Vampire Cure quest. |
| Black Soul Gem | Empty Grand Empty Empty | 00000192 000382E0 0003C7FC 0001EC14 | 0.5 0.5 0 0.5 | 500 1200 0 500 | 1600 | Special soul gems that can capture NPC souls as well as creatures; see Black Soul Gems for details.
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Note: These IDs and values are set at the time you acquire a soul gem, and do not get changed when you fill the soul gem with a soul. In other words, if you pick up an empty grand soul gem, its value will be 200 gold. That value does not change when you fill it. Therefore, you can end up with grand soul gems containing grand souls with two different values, both 200 gold and 500 gold.
Black Soul Gems[edit]
Regular Soul Gems can only trap creatures, not NPCs (note that some creatures, like Dremora, are actually classed as NPCs). Necromancy has researched the rituals necessary to create Black Soul Gems that are capable of trapping the souls of NPCs. The details of those rituals are described on the page describing Black Soul Gems.
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Once you have a filled Black Soul Gem, it is used exactly like a regular Soul Gem. A Black Soul Gem can hold as much as a Grand Soul Gem (1600), but it is much easier to fill since any humanoid is 1600 units.
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Azura's Star[edit]
Azura's Star is essentially the most powerful Soul Gem in the game, and can be obtained by completing Azura's Daedric Quest. Its quality is the same as a Grand Soul Gem; however, it has infinite uses and it is not used up after enchanting or recharging. It cannot be turned into a Black Soul Gem, and thus cannot hold NPC souls. See the page on Azura's Star for more details.
Locations[edit]
These are the only guaranteed locations of empty soul gems. Any others come from random lists.
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† These soul gems are only accessible during the Vampire Cure quest.
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Soul Gems are miscellaneous items which can be used to trap the souls of dying creatures or NPCs. The resulting filled soul gems can be used as power sources for enchanted items, either when initially creating custom enchanted items or when recharging depleted enchanted weapons. Soul gems come in a range of capacities, from petty to grand, plus some special soul gems. Only black soul gems and the Black Star can be used to capture the soul of an NPC, which is always a grand soul in size. There are also soul gem fragments found in the game. These are classified as minor loot and are not actual soul gems.
Empty soul gems can also be harvested from geode veins, which are only found in Blackreach. Each mined vein will result in 2–3 soul gems of any size, including black soul gems. The mined soul gems are level-dependent; at level 16 grand and black soul gems will start to appear, and the probability for either will max out at level 31.
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Types of Soul Gem[edit]
Standard Soul Gems[edit]
| Name | Soul | ID | Capacity | Weapon Recharge | Notes | ||
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| Petty Soul Gem | none | 0002e4e2 | 0.1 | 10 | 250 (Petty) | 500 | Smallest size of soul gems. |
| Petty | 0002e4e3 | 40 | |||||
| Lesser Soul Gem | none | 0002e4e4 | 0.2 | 25 | 500 (Lesser) | 750 | Second-smallest size of soul gems. |
| Lesser | 0002e4e5 | 80 | |||||
| Common Soul Gem | none | 0002e4e6 | 0.3 | 50 | 1000 (Common) | 1250 | Middle size of soul gems. |
| Common | 0002e4f3 | 150 | |||||
| Greater Soul Gem | none | 0002e4f4 | 0.4 | 100 | 2000 (Greater) | 2250 | Second-largest size of soul gems. |
| Greater | 0002e4fb | 350 | |||||
| Grand Soul Gem | none | 0002e4fc | 0.5 | 200 | 3000 (Grand) | 6200 (caps at 3000) | Largest standard size of soul gems. If you get a message saying that you do not have a large enough soul gem to capture a soul, even though you have an empty grand soul gem in your inventory, it means that you are trying to catch a humanoid soul, which requires a black soul gem. |
| Grand | 0002e4ff | 500 |
Special Soul Gems[edit]
| Name | Soul | ID | Capacity | Weapon Recharge | Notes | ||
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| Azura's Star | none | 00063b27 | 0 | 1000 | 3000 (Grand) | 6200 (caps at 3000) | Works the same as a grand soul gem, but does not break on use. |
| Black Soul Gem | none | 0002e500 | 1 | 300 | 3000 (Grand) | 6200 (caps at 3000) | Special soul gems that can capture humanoid souls. |
| Grand | 0002e504 | 750 | |||||
| Flawed Varla StoneCC | none | FExxx801 | 0.3 | 1000 | 1000 (Common) | 1250 | Works the same as a common soul gem, but does not break on use. Added with the Rare CuriosCreation. |
| Soul TomatoCC | none | (?) | 0.5 | 250 | 3000 (Grand)[verification needed — see talk page] | 6200 (caps at 3000)[verification needed — see talk page] | Equivalent to a Grand Soul Gem. Two can be found in Kinthal's camp on a stone table, and they do respawn. |
| Grand | (?) | 500[verification needed — see talk page] | |||||
| The Black Star | none | 00063b29 | 0 | 1000 | 3000 (Grand) | 6200 (caps at 3000) | Works the same as a black soul gem, but does not break on use. |
| Treated Soul Gem | none | 00094e40 | 0.2 | 25 | 500 (Lesser) | 750 | Unobtainable. |
| Wylandriah's Soul Gem | none | 00043e26 | 0 | 0 | 3000 (Grand) | 6200 (caps at 3000) (see bugs) | See the quest Hunt and Gather. |
Notes[edit]
- To use a soul gem to recharge a weapon, first select the weapon in your inventory and then:
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- press the Wait key, which is T by default
- press R2
- press RB
- press R
- A small menu will open where the description ordinarily is, and you can choose a soul gem to use.
- Soul gems are consumed upon being used to recharge a weapon. This is one reason why it is a good idea to fill your soul gems as efficiently as possible (i.e., grand soul gems for grand souls, common soul gems for common souls, etc.). A soul gem not being used to its fullest capacity could be considered a waste (losing a grand soul gem because you used the petty soul contained within to recharge a weapon, for example). However, you can simply drop a filled gem to empty it (note that this will empty all self-filled gems (see bugs)).
- Standard merchants do not sell black soul gems. To purchase one you must talk to either Enthir at the College of Winterhold while he is in his quarters, or Falion in Morthal.
- You will obtain a Warped Soul Gem during the quest Arniel's Endeavor; however, it cannot be used to trap souls.
- If you have the Dawnguard add-on installed, grand or greater soul gems can be transformed into black soul gems by using the Lightning Attractor found in the Soul Cairn.
- If you have the Dragonborn add-on installed, you can combine any soul gem (empty or filled) with an albino spider pod at the imbuing chamber in White Ridge Barrow to create a mind control spider.
- If you have Saints and SeducersCC installed, Soul Tomatoes function as Grand Soul Gems. They previously appeared in the Shivering Isles expansion for Oblivion.
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Bugs[edit]
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- Soul gems that you filled yourself, with the exception of grand and black, do not change in value when fully filled (i.e., a common soul gem (valued at 50 when empty), will not increase in value with a soul in it, even though a prefilled common soul gem is valued at 150). This also causes them to not stack properly in your inventory.
- Soul gems that you filled yourself may be emptied if dropped, or transferred to a follower or container.
- This issue has been addressed by version 1.0 of the Unofficial Skyrim Patch; only partially filled soul gems will be emptied, in order to allow you to fix any errors in filling them.
- Wylandriah's soul gem is fillable and can be used to recharge enchanted weapons, despite being a quest item. Consuming the gem through recharging enchanted weapons or enchanting items.
- This bug is fixed by version 1.0 of the Unofficial Skyrim Patch.