Soul Gems are special items in Elder Scrolls Online that allow to trap souls of enemies. If you played previous TES games you know that these items are used for charging magical weapons. In ESO they are also used for this. But there is one extra way of usage: you can use them for resurrecting yourself after death or for resurrecting your allies.

There are two types of Soul Gems in ESO: empty and full. Full contains someone’s soul, while empty does not. If it is full, its title is written with green. Only full gems can be used for resurrecting or charging weapons.

Here is full list of Soul Gems in Elder Scrolls Online:

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. Riverwood Trader has them regularly, but so does every other general store trader. Your Mage Guild shops have them as well as the court mage in Whiterun. They cost a lot of money, but in the end it.

Find a vendor that has a bunch of Grand Soul Gems (filled preferably) and buy them. My gf goes to bleakrock, where you can steal empty soul gems aplenty. You can get caught, but there's no guards there. And the mobs are easy.

• Petty - Trap Level 1-9 Souls
• Minor - Trap Level 10-19 Souls
• Lesser - Trap Level 20-29 Souls
• Common - Trap Level 30-39 Souls
• Greater - Trap Level 40-49 Souls
• Grand - Level 50 or better Souls
• Leveled - Soul of Any Level
• Crown - Trap any level soul and fully charge weapon of any level

Where to Take?

There are different weapons to obtain gems. The easiest way is to visit Mages Guild and purchase them there. The cost of empty gems is not high, while full usually cost a lot.

If you don’t want to spend your money, visit different public dungeons and world bosses. Every boss will reward you with a gem after you kill him. They usually drop one empty and one filled gem.

Trapping Souls

Trapping Soul is the only way to transform your empty gem into full. First of all make sure that you have an empty gem in your inventory. If there are no empty gems you will not be able to trap the soul. There are several ways to capture soul of the enemy:

• Use special skill from Soul Magic skill line called Soul Trap. This skill is DoT that deals damage and captures the soul if enemy dies while this spell is active. If the enemy dies after the effect of spell ends, there will be no result. This is the best way to fill soul gems and it works very good.
• Use Soul Lock passive from Soul Magic skill line. This passive adds a small probability to capture energy of the soul every time you kill enemy with weapons (not with magic). That’s pretty nice passive because it will sometimes fill your empty gems.

Charging Weapon

Every enchanted weapon has special effects. For example it deals frost or flame damage, grants damage shield and so on. These effects only work if the weapon is charged. There is a special scale that shows how many “magicka” is left inside that particular weapon. If there is no power, extra effects will not work.

All you need to charge the weapon is to have a filled soul gem. Right click on the weapon, select 'Charge' from dropdown menu and you will see following window:

Different gems can provide your weapon with different amount of power. If you have high level weapon Petty and Lesser gems are useless because they will not give enough power. By using them on high level weapon, you will be able to charge only about 5% of the total weapon’s pool.

High level weapon require Greater or Grand types. They will charge the pool fully and you will be able to use the weapon without recharging for relatively long time.

Farming Grand Gems

Watch the video guide below to find out how to farm grand gems at very low cost! This guide will help you a lot.

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.

• 1Types of Soul Gem
• 2Locations

Types of Soul Gem[edit]

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.

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.

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.

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Locations[edit]

These are the only guaranteed locations of empty soul gems. Any others come from random lists.

Petty[edit]

Empty Grand Soul Gems

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Lesser[edit]

Common[edit]

Where To Buy Grand Soul Gems Skyrim 1

Greater[edit]

Grand[edit]

† These soul gems are only accessible during the Vampire Cure quest.
§ Carried by an NPC