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!) :: An aspect of Skyrim's game play is the use of soul gems, and item enchantment.

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