Finally, an exception to all this exists for Azura's Star, so you can continue to partially fill it and use it to charge weapons, etc. This also in effect fixes black soul gems and the black star so that they only trap the black souls of humans and elves, which is what the game lore says they should do. You can enchant items in your inventory by dragging a filled soul gem to your character doll like you would put on clothing or drink a potion, enchanting process has a chance to fail depending on your intelligence, enchant skill and luck as well as your current fatique and the strength of the. You will never 'partially fill' a gem again. Same for, say, trying to trap a petty soul with only lesser gems available to it, etc. For example, if the only empty gems you possess are grand gems and you trap a creature with a common soul, when that creature dies the soul will escape rather than fill your grand gem with a common soul (wasting it, some would say).

you will only trap souls into gems of exactly the right size.

It makes the souls 'fit' to a proper sized gem in your inventory: If used in such a way, it gets depleted over time, but is slowly recharged by the magicka travelling through sun- or starlight. It is the part of the soul that gets trapped in soul gems and is used to infuse and recharge enchantments. The Animus is the life-giving spark of magicka. PC players can also install the Acquisitive Soul Gems mod to avoid Soul Gems from being 'wasted' when the game puts in small soul in a larger gem. In Elder Scrolls, souls are made up of two parts: AE and Animus. Related patch note (v1.0 - ):Ĭompletely filled Petty, Lesser, Common, and Greater Soul Gems will no longer empty when dropped or put in a container (partially filled Lesser, Common, and Greater Soul Gems will still empty and this is by design so that they may be reused if incompletely filled) Unofficial Skyrim Patch (original / Legendary Edition - PC) / ( Special Edition - PC) / (PS4) / (Xbox One). However, this bug/feature is partially fixed by the Occurs with Common, Lesser and Petty soul gems. This is possibly because filled gems can get mixedīack in with your empty ones due to some sort of bug.

Happen if you have empty soul gems of the same size and value in your Put a petty soul into a grand soul gem) without losing the soul gemįilled soul gems can lose their souls when placed into a container, such as a bedside table for example, if you take them back out of theĬontainer and put them back into your inventory. You to clear out an unwanted soul from a soul gem (for example, if you Occasionally, dropping a soul gem you filled yourself onto the ground will cause it to lose its charge without breaking.

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