Soul Gem (Enderal)

## Soul gems

**Soul gems**, or **Pyrean crystals,** are used to trap the soul of any creature with a white soul. Like in Skyrim, white souls vary in strength from petty to grand, with five soul gems of different capacity in total and they can be acquired from creatures. For example, it's possible to fill a common soul gem with either an lesser or petty soul, while a greater or a grand soul can't be stored in common or soul gem of lesser quality. The empty soul gems have to be filled a soul by the player, while filled ones are ready to be used for enchanting equipment, recharging enchanted weapons or creating phasmalist amulets, which will consume the soul and the gem in the process.

Apart from white souls, there are also black souls, which are souls only posessed by men and mer in Enderal. These can only be captured with a Black Soul Gem.

Empty soul gems can be acquired by either buying them, finding them or mining blue-glowing shadow ore veins. Most glowing shadows give a random soul gem whenever one vein is mined. Filled soul gems can be acquired by buying them from stores or finding them around the world.

The souls needed for the Phasmalism skill can be found here. That is not part of this topic.

## Soul gem statistics

In the table below you can find all relevant statistics for all white soul gems and their item ID's. The value of a filled soul gem depends on the soul filled with it. For example: A grand soul filled with a common soul will be worth 100 coins, while it will be worth 500 coins when filled with a grand soul.

## Acquiring soul gems

Soul gems can be bought from the following stores:

* Emberlord and Fireflash in the Noble Quarters. 4 petty and lesser souls filled and empty.
* Alchemist & Magic in the Sun Temple. 2 petty and lesser filled and empty and two empty common souls gems.
* Ora Stonehand in the Marketplace. Varying amount of soul gems from petty to grand, with the higher quality soul not available for sale until higher levels.
* Shrouded Mages in either the Undercity, Duneville and Frostcliff tavern. Varying amount of soul gems from lesser to grand.

Finding around the world.

* Mining glowing Shadow Steel veins, either around the Excavation site and the unnamed hut with Vatyrs near Deep Digger's Settlement.

### Stealing

* Grand soul gem (grand soul) in the back of Emberlord and Fireflash on the ground floor.
* Sun Temple Chronicum, the highest room with the portals, empty grand soul gem.

## Soul harvesting

Souls can be harvest from creatures by casting Soul Trap on them (or using a weapon enchanted with that effect), and then killing them before the effect expires. You must have an empty soul gem big enough to hold the soul. If the only available soul gem is larger than the soul, it will be only partially filled, and cannot be filled further.

Higher level creatures have higher level souls. Many creatures do not have souls that can be harvested. Soul Trap will have no effect on these. Below are examples of locations where creatures of each level of soul can be found.

### Petty

The easiest way to fill soul gems with petty souls is by going to the Ark Undercity. In the Main Cavern and Barracks area, there are a lot of sewer rats who die with one hit and can't harm the player. Bring a light source and a preferable a sword to harvest 10-20 petty souls. Be careful not to hit the residents during the hunt.

### Petty and lesser souls

A mix of lesser and petty souls can be acquired from river crabs and king crabs near the coasts, such as the Suncoast and the coast from Ark to Foamville. The seagulls around the coastline can also be hunted for petty souls.

### Common souls

All Arps in the Fogville region have a common soul and there quite numerous there. Another one is hunting undead skeletons. Steppe horses in the Powder Desert can also be a good harvest creatures due to their attacks being quite easy to avoid, but there aren't in large numbers at any place in this harsh region.

### Greater Souls

Felines in the Powder Desert have greater souls.

### Grand souls

A creature that is quite numerous and really easy to fight are Glacier Hounds on the northern coast of the Frostcliff Mountain region. More dangerous creatures, such as Bonerippers in the Powder Desert or Vatyrs in the Frostcliff region fill the bill as well.

All humans have grand souls, but they can only be stored in Black Soul Gems, which are very rare.