For example, you can’t hold a Black soul in anything other than a Black soul gem, or The Black Star.īlack soul gems will hold any Black soul (bandits, npc’s, etc) as well as any other White soul as well. Typical failures will come from not having a soul gem large enough.

Whichever method you use, when you are successful in killing a creature using Soul Trap, it will show a message at the top saying if it was successful or not. This will give you a lot more charges than normal, and you just need to get the killing blow with that weapon in order to fill your soul gems. Pick a weapon you want to enchant with Soul Trap, and take the duration down to 1 second. Once you have found a weapon with Soul Trap, disenchant it at the Arcane Enchanter. If you’re having problems finding a weapon with the Soul Trap enchant on it, check out my guide to reset a merchant’s inventory.

Obviously you can use the weapon you find or purchase, but enchanting your own will typically yield better results. If you would rather use the Soul Trap weapon enchant, then first you must find a weapon with the Soul Trap enchant on it in order to disenchant. You can not have more than one active Soul Trap at a time. Once Soul Trap is placed onto an enemy, it lasts for 60 seconds. If you’re going to use the Soul Trap spell method, then you just need to purchase the spell book from a magic vendor. Personally, I think having weapons with the Soul Trap enchant is the best way to go. You can either cast the spell yourself, or enchant a weapon with the Soul Trap enchant. In order to fill a soul gem, you need to use a form of the Soul Trap spell.

In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360, Black soul gems are needed in order to trap the souls of humanoids that can’t go into regular soul gems.

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