Skyrim:Blessings

This page documents the blessings that you can receive, typically by activating altars in temples. These are short-term blessings which act separately from long-term Standing Stone effects, and do not overwrite or interact with them. Typically, you will want any blessings you come across, unless you are specifically trying to bolster one effect.

Shrine Blessings

Blessings are bestowed by praying at (activating) a shrine to the specified deity.

• Locations of the shrines of the Eight (or Nine) Divines, including those for Auriel added by Dawnguard, are listed at Shrines.
• The Shrine of Nocturnal is located inside the Ragged Flagon Cistern, once you are midway through the Thieves Guild quest line.

You can only have one shrine blessing at a time. If you choose to pray at a second shrine, it will overwrite the previous blessing. Shrine blessings are active for a period of time measured in real time, not in-game time. So a blessing lasting 12 hours will be active during 12 playing hours.

Name	ID	Description	Detailed Effects
Blessing of Akatosh	000fb988	Magicka regenerates 10% faster.	Regenerate Magicka, 10 pts for 8 hours Cure Disease, 25 pts
Blessing of Arkay	000fb994	Increases your health by 25 points.	Fortify Health, 25 pts for 8 hours Cure Disease, 25 pts
Blessing of AurielDG	xx011360	You are 10% more effective with missile weapons.	Fortify Marksman, 10 pts for 12 hours Cure Disease, 25 pts
Blessing of Dibella	000fb995	+10 Speechcraft.	Fortify Persuasion, 10 pts for 8 hours Cure Disease, 25 pts
Blessing of Julianos	000fb996	Increases your Magicka by 25 points.	Fortify Magicka, 25 pts for 8 hours Cure Disease, 25 pts
Blessing of Kynareth	000fb997	Increases your stamina by 25 points.	Fortify Stamina, 25 pts for 8 hours Cure Disease, 25 pts
Blessing of Mara	000fb998	Healing spells restore 10% more.	Fortify Restoration, 10 pts for 8 hours Cure Disease, 25 pts
Blessing of Nocturnal	0010e8ae	You are 10% harder to detect.	Fortify Sneak, 10 pts for 8 hours Cure Disease, 25 pts
Blessing of Stendarr	000fb999	Block 10% more damage with your shield.	Fortify Blocking, 10 pts for 8 hours Cure Disease, 25 pts
Blessing of Talos	000fb99a	Time between shouts is reduced 20%.	Fortify Shouts, 0.2 pts for 8 hours Cure Disease, 1 pt
Blessing of Zenithar	000fb99b	Prices are 10% better.	Fortify Barter, 10 pts for 8 hours Cure Disease, 25 pts

In addition, the Dragonborn expansion adds three Daedric blessings, all available from the temple in Raven Rock.

Name	ID	Description	Detailed Effects
Blessing of Azura	xx03bcfb	Resist 10% of magic.	Resist Magic, 10 pts for 8 hours Cure Disease, 25 pts
Blessing of Boethiah	xx03bcfc	One-handed weapons do 10% more damage.	Fortify One-handed, 10 pts for 8 hours Cure Disease, 25 pts
Blessing of Mephala	xx03bcfd	Prices are 10% better.	Fortify Barter, 10 pts for 8 hours Cure Disease, 25 pts

The Ghosts of the Tribunal creation further adds three blessings of the Tribunal, all of which are available in Ashfall's Tear, at the outskirts of Raven Rock.

Name	ID	Description	Detailed Effects
Blessing of Almalexia	xx000b1a	Increases Heavy Armor skill by 10 points. One-handed weapons do 10% more damage.	Fortify Heavy Armor, 10 pts for 8 hours Fortify One-handed, 10% for 8 hours
Blessing of Sotha Sil	xx349c32	Increases your Magicka by 10 points. Magicka regenerates 5% faster.	Fortify Magicka, 10 pts for 8 hours Regenerate Magicka, 5% for 8 hours
Blessing of Vivec	xx0ef257	Prices are 5% better. You are 5% harder to detect.	Fortify Barter, 5% for 8 hours Fortify Sneak, 5% for 8 hours

The Gallows Hall creation adds another Daedric blessing available at the Shrine of Vaermina in Gallows Hall.

Name	ID	Description	Detailed Effects
Blessing of Vaermina	fexxx952	Conjuration spells cost 5% less to cast. Illusion spells cost 5% less to cast.	Fortify Conjuration, 5% for 8 hours Fortify Illusion, 5% for 8 hours Cure Disease, 25 pts

^1The description of this blessing is misleading; the actual effect is that Restoration spells cost 10% less magicka to cast.

^2The details of the Blessing of Talos are bugged when viewed in-game. The magnitude is displayed as "0%" (truncated from 0.2). Nevertheless, the blessing does still have an effect.

• The Official Skyrim Special Edition Patch, version 1.6.1130.0, fixes this bug.

Other Blessings

These blessings will stack with each other and shrine blessings.

Name	ID	Description	Detailed Effects	Source
Blessing of the Stag PrinceDB	xx01bfec	Receive an additional x Health and Stamina while Bow of the Stag Prince is equipped.	Fortify Health, x pts Fortify Stamina, x pts The value of x depends on the number of animals you've killed with the Bow: x = 5 + floor(kills/20)*5 <20 kills = 5 20 kills = 10 40 kills = 15 60 kills = 20 80+ kills = 25	Obtained by equipping the Glass Bow of the Stag Prince.
Blood of the AncientsDG	xx01419b	Your Vampiric Drain spell absorbs Magicka and Stamina from your victims for 1 days; Your Vampiric Drain spell absorbs Magicka and Stamina from your victims for 3 days; Your Vampiric Drain spell absorbs Magicka and Stamina from your victims for 5 days; Your Vampiric Drain spell absorbs Magicka and Stamina from your victims for 7 days; Your Vampiric Drain spell absorbs Magicka and Stamina from your victims for 9 days.	Blood of the Ancients, 1 pt Blood of the Ancients, 3 pts Blood of the Ancients, 5 pts Blood of the Ancients, 7 pts Blood of the Ancients, 9 pts	Drink from the Bloodstone Chalice. Duration increases with each Ancient Power quest completed, to a maximum of 9 days.
Dragonslayer's Blessing	000e76e0	10% increased Critical Hit Chance vs. Dragons for 5 days.	Dragonslayer's Blessing, for 5 days	Speaking to Esbern after Alduin's Wall.
Tainted Blood of the AncientsDG	xx0149a7	Your Vampiric Drain spell absorbs Magicka and Stamina from your victims for 1 day, but at the cost of 30 less health.	Tainted Blood of the Ancients, 30 pts	Drink from the Bloodspring.
The Gift of Charity	000eef58	+10 Speechcraft for 3600 seconds.	Fortify Persuasion, 10 pts for 1 hour	Giving a coin to a beggar. Giving a gift to your child.HF
Voice of the Sky	0010a2da	Animals will neither attack nor flee from you.	Voice of the Sky, for 24 hours	Reading all ten etched tablets on the way leading to High Hrothgar. Effect is removed if you kill a non-hostile animal. Does not protect your horse from being attacked. Works on vampires but not on trolls, ice wraiths or venomfang skeevers.[verification needed — Are there any other creatures that aren't affected?]

^3The in-game description of the 'Blood of the Ancients' spell is not directly linked to its duration. The duration of the spell is calculated based on scripts and affixed to a specific day, while the description shows the effectively meaningless magnitude of the spell. This means that the Necromage perk, which increases the magnitude and duration of spells cast on undead (such as your vampiric self), causes the description in your 'spells - active effects' menu to display that its duration is increased by 25% (which in turn is caused by the perk's effect on magnitude, not duration), but the spell actually lasts only as long as calculated by the Chalice's Level. ^?

Notes

• Even if you betrayed Azura during The Black Star, you will still be able to gain her blessing.
• "Voice of the Sky"'s effect works on you and your follower, but not on your horse! Aggressive animals like Bears and Wolves still attack your horse (even with you mounted), but deer and elk don't flee.
• Unlike other sources of Fortify Health, the Blessing of Arkay will not default the player to a minimum 1HP when the effect ends, so if you're under 25HP when the effect ends (either by passing enough time or replacing it with another blessing), you die.
• Blessings are considered to be "potion" effects with Survival Mode^CC enabled, and are thus modified by your level of Fatigue.

Bugs

• For the player, all shrine blessings and the Blessing of the Stag Prince are scaled by any active Fortify Restoration alchemy effect at the moment the blessing is applied. Scaled magnitudes stick until the blessing is removed or refreshed. In the 'Active Effects' list, the description will show the increased effect magnitude.
  Mod Notes: This is caused by the fact that the associated magic effects have their 'Magic Skill' field set to 'Restoration', which allows perk AlchemySkillBoosts to scale the spell magnitudes by (1 + RestorationPowerMod/100).
  • The Unofficial Skyrim Patch, version 2.1.3, fixes this bug. (details)

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