Skill: Conjuration |
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Specialization: Magic |
Conjuration, one of the five schools of magic in Skyrim, is the school dedicated to summoning creatures or objects the caster desires. Increasing this skill reduces the magicka cost when casting Conjuration spells. Historical information about the School of Conjuration is provided in the lore article. The Conjuration skill tree has a total of 15 perks, requiring a total of 16 perk points to fill.
In-game Description: The School of Conjuration governs raising the dead or summoning creations from Oblivion. This skill makes it easier to cast these spells as well as Soul Trap and bindings.
Summary
Conjuration is strongly focused on combat, but in a rather different way to other schools. It has six main areas:
- Summon spells conjure a creature such as a Daedra to fight for the caster. Characters can only have one summoned creature or reanimated zombie at a time, two with the Twin Souls perk.
- Reanimation spells animate the corpse of dead NPCs to fight for the caster. Characters can only have one summoned creature or reanimated zombie at a time, two with the Twin Souls perk.
- Banish spells return summoned Daedra to Oblivion.
- Command spells place summoned Daedra under the caster's control.
- Bound Weapon spells conjure an ethereal weapon to your hand. With a few perks that are available at even a low level, bound weapons become very powerful.
- The Soul Trap spell, important to anyone who wishes to enchant items or recharge magic weapons. While filled soul gems can be bought, and weapons enchanted with Soul Trap can be found, this is a low-level spell and it is often easier to capture your own souls even if you do not otherwise use Conjuration magic much.
Skill Perks
Perk | Rank | Description | ID | Skill Req. | Perk Req. |
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Novice Conjuration | Cast Novice level Conjuration spells for half magicka. | 000f2ca7 | |||
Apprentice Conjuration | Cast Apprentice level Conjuration spells for half magicka. | 000c44bb | 25 Conjuration | Novice Conjuration | |
Adept Conjuration | Cast Adept level Conjuration spells for half magicka. | 000c44bc | 50 Conjuration | Apprentice Conjuration | |
Expert Conjuration | Cast Expert level Conjuration spells for half magicka. | 000c44bd | 75 Conjuration | Adept Conjuration | |
Master Conjuration | Cast Master level Conjuration spells for half magicka. | 000c44be | 100 Conjuration | Expert Conjuration | |
Conjuration Dual Casting | Dual casting a Conjuration spell overcharges the spell, allowing it to last longer. | 000153ce | 20 Conjuration | Novice Conjuration | |
Mystic Binding | Bound weapons do more damage. | 000640b3 | 20 Conjuration | Novice Conjuration | |
Soul Stealer | Bound weapons cast Soul Trap on targets. | 000d799e | 30 Conjuration | Mystic Binding | |
Oblivion Binding | Bound weapons will banish summoned creatures and turn raised ones. | 000d799c | 50 Conjuration | Soul Stealer | |
Necromancy | Greater duration for reanimated undead. | 000581dd | 40 Conjuration | Novice Conjuration | |
Dark Souls | Reanimated undead have 100 points more health. | 000581de | 70 Conjuration | Necromancy | |
Summoner | 1 | Can summon atronachs or raise undead twice as far away.[1] | 00105f30 | 30 Conjuration | Novice Conjuration |
2 | Can summon atronachs or raise undead three times as far away.[1] | 00105f31 | 70 Conjuration | ||
Atromancy | Double duration for conjured Atronachs.[1] | 000cb419 | 40 Conjuration | Summoner | |
Elemental Potency | Conjured Atronachs are 50% more powerful. | 000cb41a | 80 Conjuration | Atromancy | |
Twin Souls | You can have two atronachs or reanimated zombies.[1] | 000d5f1c | 100 Conjuration | Dark Souls or Elemental Potency |
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Spells
Spell Name (IDs) |
Skill Level | Tome Value |
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Bound DaggerDB
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0 Novice |
38 | 53 | 269 | Creates a magic dagger for 120 seconds. Sheathe it to dispel:
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Bound Sword
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0 Novice |
49 | 93 | 469 | Creates a magic sword for 120 seconds. Sheathe it to dispel:
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Conjure Familiar
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0 Novice |
49 | 107 | 64 | Summons a Familiar for 60 seconds wherever the caster is pointing:
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Raise Zombie
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0 Novice |
49 | 103 | 515 | Reanimate a weak dead body to fight for you for 60 seconds:
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Bound Battleaxe
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25 Apprentice |
99 | 169 | 84 | Creates a magic battle axe for 120 seconds. Sheathe it to dispel:
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Conjure BonemanDG
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25 Apprentice |
75 | 129 | 64 | Summons a Boneman Archer from the Soul Cairn for 60 seconds wherever the caster is pointing:
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Conjure Flame Atronach
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25 Apprentice |
99 | 150 | 37 | Summons a Flame Atronach for 60 seconds wherever the caster is pointing:
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Flaming Familiar
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25 Apprentice |
250 | 57 | 57 | Summons a flaming familiar which will charge into battle and explode:
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Reanimate Corpse
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25 Apprentice |
99 | 144 | 434 | Reanimate a more powerful dead body to fight for you for 60 seconds:
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Soul Trap
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25 Apprentice |
100 | 107 | 215 | If target dies within 60 seconds, fills a soul gem:
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Summon ArvakDG
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25 Apprentice |
N/A | 136 | 0 | Summons Arvak in the Soul Cairn or Tamriel wilderness to act as your steed:
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Banish Daedra
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50 Adept |
346 | 196 | 196 | Weaker summoned daedra are sent back to Oblivion:
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Bound Bow
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50 Adept |
335 | 207 | 103 | Creates a magic bow and 100 magic arrows for 120 seconds. Sheathe it to dispel:
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75px | Conjure Ash SpawnDB
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50 Adept |
338 | 186 | 139 | Summons an Ash Spawn for 60 seconds wherever the caster is pointing:
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Conjure Frost Atronach
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50 Adept |
347 | 215 | 80 | Summons a Frost Atronach for 60 seconds wherever the caster is pointing:
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Conjure MistmanDG
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50 Adept |
75 | 193 | 96 | Summons a Mistman from the Soul Cairn for 60 seconds wherever the caster is pointing:
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Conjure SeekerDB
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50 Adept |
307 | 157 | 118 | Summons a Seeker for 60 seconds wherever the caster is pointing:
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Revenant
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50 Adept |
340 | 183 | 183 | Reanimate a powerful dead body to fight for you for 60 seconds:
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75px | Conjure Ash GuardianDB
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75 Expert |
720 | 340 | 221 | Creates an Ash Guardian that guards that location until destroyed. Consumes a Heart stone from your inventory, without which it will be hostile. |
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Command Daedra
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75 Expert |
660 | 243 | 242 | Powerful summoned and raised creatures are put under your control:
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Conjure Dragon Priest
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75 Expert |
N/A | 358 | 717 | Summons a Dragon Priest for 60 seconds.
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Conjure Dremora Lord
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75 Expert |
730 | 358 | 717 | Summons a Dremora Lord for 60 seconds:
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Conjure Storm Atronach
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75 Expert |
690 | 322 | 161 | Summons a Storm Atronach for 60 seconds wherever the caster is pointing:
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Conjure WrathmanDG
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75 Expert |
75 | 301 | 150 | Summons a Wrathman from the Soul Cairn for 60 seconds wherever the caster is pointing:
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Dread Zombie
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75 Expert |
630 | 302 | 302 | Reanimate a very powerful dead body to fight for you for 60 seconds:
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Expel Daedra
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75 Expert |
620 | 215 | 215 | Powerful summoned daedra creatures are are [sic] sent back to Oblivion:
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Flame Thrall
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100 Master |
1260 | 900 | 0 | Summons a Flame Atronach permanently:
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Dead Thrall
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100 Master |
1270 | 1000 | 1000 | Reanimate a dead body permanently to fight for you. Only works on people:
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Frost Thrall
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100 Master |
1300 | 1100 | 3850 | Summons a Frost Atronach permanently:
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Storm Thrall
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100 Master |
1350 | 1200 | 4800[1] | Summons a Storm Atronach permanently:
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Spectral Arrow
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N/A | 250 | 50 | 50 | Fires a Spectral Arrow at the target doing 30 points of damage and staggering the target:
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Summon Arniel's Shade
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N/A | N/A | 0 | 0 | Summons the Shade of Arniel Gane for 60 seconds wherever the caster is pointing.
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Summon Unbound Dremora
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N/A | N/A | 100 | 0 (scripted) | Summons an unbound Dremora for 999 seconds
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- ^ Skill XP is reduced to 0 with Elemental Potency.
Spell List Notes
- The base cost for spells is the amount of magicka that would be necessary to cast the spell at 0 skill without any perks. The magicka cost at 100 skill is 41% less than the base cost; the cost can also be reduced via enchanted apparel and by unlocking various perks. See Spell Cost for the full magicka cost equation.
- Skill level indicates which skill perk needs to be unlocked to decrease the spell's magicka cost. "N/A" is used for special spells whose cost is not affected by any perks.
- The "Where to Get" column only lists guaranteed locations for obtaining the spell tomes. Most spell tomes are also available in random loot; see Spell Tome Locations for details.
- For higher-level spell tomes to become available for purchase, your skill in the school must be high enough. Also, master-level spell tomes can only be acquired once that school's ritual spell quest has been completed.
- All spell tomes have a weight of 1.
- Skill XP can be modified by scripts and by the game engine itself under various circumstances. The exact XP you receive may vary from the numbers listed here.
- Magicka cost and skill XP are rounded down, both in game and on this page. Because of this, you may find that you cannot cast a spell even though it appears you have exactly enough magicka to do so.
Magical Effects
A list of standard Conjuration spells can be found on the Spells page. The following individual effects are all considered to be part of the school of Conjuration (see the individual effect pages for full details on availability; the Magical Effects article also provides a summary):
Skill Increases
Character Creation
The following races have an initial skill bonus to Conjuration:
Trainers
- Runil in Falkreath (Common)
- Phinis Gestor in the College of Winterhold (Expert)
- Falion of Morthal (Master)
- Talvas FathryonDB in Tel Mithryn (Master)
Skill Books
- 2920, Frostfall, v10
- 2920, Hearth Fire, v9
- The Doors of Oblivion
- Liminal Bridges
- The Warrior's Charge
Free Skill Boosts
- +1 Conjuration reward (and other magic skills) from Pantea Ateia (Bards College) for completing the quest Pantea's Flute.
- +5 Conjuration (+5 every magic skill) by selecting "The Path of Magic" when reading the Oghma Infinium after completing the quest Discerning the Transmundane.
Gaining Skill XP
- Summoning or reanimating anything and fighting it grants experience.
- Casting higher level spells gives generally faster skill increases (Novice<Apprentice<Adept<Expert<Master).
- Regenerate Magicka effects help reduce downtimes while training.
- It is possible to reduce or even completely eliminate the magicka cost of spells by stacking Fortify Conjuration enchanting effects, which is very helpful when leveling Conjuration. The Secret of ArcanaDB power does the same thing, but only for 30 seconds.
- When summoning creatures, you don't have to be engaged in combat at the time of casting to gain experience in Conjuration, as long as you encounter a hostile enemy before the summons vanishes.
- The quickest way to level up your conjuration is by getting the spell Bound Weapon, starting a fight (Mudcrabs are the best opponents for this), casting the spell (one or two hands), when hearing the sound which comes right after you've launched the spell, cancel (so you don't have to wait for the weapons to appear), repeat.
- Banishing your own summoned Daedra grants experience.
Casting with Enemies Nearby
Repeatedly casting high-duration, low-magicka Conjuration spells (Bound Sword for example) while in a combat situation will also quickly increase your Conjuration skill (some spells such as Bound Sword can be equipped in both hands for quicker leveling). An effective method for doing so very quickly:
- Find a place with enemies that also has a place where you can retreat to that is out of reach of melee attacks (places with caged enemies are a useful alternative, as does encountering a slaughterfish but staying on shore). Kill all but one melee fighter and proceed to cast your spells. Often the enemy will run away in an attempt to find a position to get closer to you. They may retreat far enough to allow you to use the wait function to instantly replenish the magicka bar.
- Have a follower, conjured atronach, or thrall engage in combat, or cast a Fury or Frenzy spell and then repeatedly cast Bound Sword. This allows you to accomplish objectives while leveling, without the need for grinding.
- After clearing out a dungeon or a fort, resurrect each dead NPC, and then hit them four times to turn them hostile. Do not kill them, simply reanimate the next NPC and the first will drop dead, and then repeat the process.
Soul Trapping a Corpse
An even faster way to level, although one that exploits a bug, would be to find any sort of dead body and repeatedly cast Soul Trap on it with dual-cast; you can go from level 40 to 91 in less than 10 minutes. If you stand near the big magic well in the College of Winterhold, you will gain additional magicka regeneration. If this is combined with the Altmer's Highborn racial power, your magicka will regenerate extremely quickly.
- PC Only This bug is fixed by the Unofficial Skyrim Patch.
Soul Trap on your Horse
Alternatively, repeatedly cast Soul Trap on your horse - unlike followers, your horse will not become hostile (or run away) no matter how many times you attack it.
Notes
- Bound Sword's damage without Mystic Binding is equivalent to an Orcish sword, and with Mystic Binding is equivalent to a Daedric sword.
- Bound Battleaxe's damage without Mystic Binding lies between iron and steel battleaxes, and with Mystic Binding is equivalent to a glass battleaxe.
- Bound Bow's damage without Mystic Binding has the bow's damage between ebony and Daedric and arrow damage equivalent to a Daedric[verification needed], and with Mystic Binding the bow's damage is equivalent to a Daedric (Exquisite) and arrows equivalent to Daedric.
- Bound Dagger's damage without Mystic Binding is equivalent to an Orcish dagger, and with Mystic Binding is equal to an ebony dagger.
- Bound Dagger will not cause critical damage.[verification needed — CK says it's so, needs in-game verification.]
- Bound Sword can cause critical damage
- If you have the Soul Stealer perk and plan to use Bound Weapons much, souls can be removed from soul gems by dropping them, which can help avoid "wasting" the capacity of the bigger soul gems with smaller souls. This only works on soul gems that you filled yourself, not pre-filled gems purchased from vendors.
- Bound weapons cannot be disarmed.
- Unlike in previous games, there are no Bound Armor spells. They have been substituted with the Alteration line of flesh spells.
- Guards will comment on your abilities if you're proficient in the school of Conjuration: "Hail, Summoner! Conjure me up a warm bed, would you?"
- If you cast any of the damaging Cloak spells while you have a conjured creature active, the creature will be dismissed. The reverse is not true; if you conjure a creature while a Cloak is active, both spells remain in effect. If you have the Twin Souls perk and two thralls or summoned creatures, then both summons will be dismissed. With the Elemental Potency perk all Elemental summons (Fire, Frost, Shock) are not affected by this issue (Dremora Lord is affected even with the perk).
- Decapitated NPCs cannot be reanimated no matter what spell you use.
- Creatures and NPCs brought back from the dead with Novice, Apprentice, Adept, and Expert-level spells will disintegrate into a pile of ash upon death, banishment, or once the effect wears off. NPCs reanimated with the Master-level spell, Dead Thrall, will not disintegrate and can be reanimated indefinitely. The level cap of reanimated undead targets can be raised by 25% with the Restoration perk Necromage.
- NPCs reanimated with Dead Thrall can be used as a pack mule. Store whatever you want them to carry on their corpse and then reanimate them. If you wish to access your items afterwards or add more for the thrall to carry, kill it or summon/reanimate something else (this will cause the thrall to die) then take your things from the corpse or add more. The NPC can be reanimated again afterwards. You can also use this method to re-equip your thrall with any extra equipment you may have, although some may not equip heavy armor, and they usually wait until entering a new area to update their equipment.
- There is the potential, though, that certain circumstances will cause the thrall to stop following you, and if left in a cell that resets, your items may be lost.
- Ficheiro:Pc22.pngFicheiro:PS22.pngThralls will refuse to come out of Broken Oar Grotto for some reason, and dead thralls will resurrect after a certain amount of time.
- Conjured Ash Guardians do not count as active summoned creatures, meaning that they will not conflict with other summoned creatures.
- The Necromancy, Atromancy, Dark Souls and Elemental Potency perks have no effect on conjured Ash Spawn, Ash Guardians or Seekers.
- The Soul Trap effect from Soul Stealer lasts 5 seconds.
Bugs
- Attempting to summon something while being affected by a Spell Absorption effect can cause the summoned creature to not appear, "refunding" the casting cost for no net loss.
- PC Only This bug is fixed by version 1.0 of the Unofficial Skyrim Patch.
- When in third-person view, summoning a bound weapon in caves or dungeons may cause you to become frozen with an invisible weapon in your hands.
- This can sometimes be fixed by going in and out of third-person and first-person views several times.
- Summon Thrall spells can occasionally become "stuck" on your character, causing NPCs to constantly remark, "That spell looks dangerous!"
- Ficheiro:Pc22.png Use the console command
player.dispelallspells
to remove all temporary effects. - If you can turn into a werewolf, it will remove the effect and thus stop the comments.
- Alternately, going to jail can get rid of this effect, as it dispels any active effects on you that are time-based. Because the Thrall effect is on your character for a certain amount of hours (that never count down), it is dispelled when sent to jail.
- Ficheiro:Pc22.png Use the console command
- Summoning staves (e.g. Staff of Fire Atronach or Sanguine Rose) won't work if you have the Elemental Potency perk.
- This bug is fixed by version 1.5 of the Official Skyrim Patch.
- As a werewolf, corpses that you have already devoured can be essentially 'tapped' again with a low level raise dead spell and will grant extra werewolf experience even if you are unable to resurrect them. This effect also applies to animals if you have the werewolf perk Savage Feeding.
- The Elemental Potency perk causes the Storm Thrall spell to stop raising your Conjuration skill.
- PC Only This bug is fixed by the Unofficial Skyrim Patch.