Blizzard

Master spell: a huge ice storm around you that hurts everything for 10 seconds.

Blizzard summons a massive ice storm centred on you. Everything inside takes 20 frost damage per second for ten seconds, plus Stamina damage – including your followers and even yourself. Think of it as a giant, short-lived Frost Cloak.

Tips

Weakness to Frost poisons on your arrows make it hit even harder. If you’d rather not hurt yourself, Fire Storm is the safer choice.

Spell details

  • School: Destruction (Master)
  • Effect: Targets take 20 points of frost damage for 10 seconds, plus Stamina damage.
  • Base Magicka cost: 1106
  • Casting: Fire and Forget, self – needs both hands
  • Spell tome: Spell Tome: Blizzard – value 1350 gold, ID 000A270D

More Destruction spells

Flames (Novice), Frostbite (Novice), Sparks (Novice), Fire Rune (Apprentice), Firebolt (Apprentice), Frost Rune (Apprentice), Ice Spike (Apprentice), Lightning Bolt (Apprentice), Lightning Rune (Apprentice), Chain Lightning (Adept), Fireball (Adept), Flame Cloak (Adept), Frost Cloak (Adept), Ice Storm (Adept), Lightning Cloak (Adept), Whirlwind Cloak (Adept), Icy Spear (Expert), Incinerate (Expert), Thunderbolt (Expert), Wall of Flames (Expert), Wall of Frost (Expert), Wall of Storms (Expert), Fire Storm (Master), Lightning Storm (Master).

Cost, effect and tome value read from the Skyrim game files (base values before skill, perks and gear).

Effect

Targets take 20 points of frost damage for 10 seconds, plus Stamina damage.

Where to buy or find the tome

  • Faralda sells it after the “Destruction Ritual Spell” quest.

Lore notes

Quest reward from

Characters connected to it

Faralda is the Altmer mage guarding the bridge to the College of Winterhold – your entrance test, Master Destruction trainer and Destruction spell tome vendor.

Where to find it

More spells from this school

Destruction
Magicka 234
A trap rune that explodes for 50 fire damage when enemies come near.
Restoration
Magicka 12 per second
The basic heal-over-time spell – 10 Health per second.
Alteration
Magicka 222
Breathe underwater for 60 seconds.
Restoration
Magicka 171
Creates a circle that undead up to level 20 can’t enter.
Conjuration
Magicka 322
Summons a Storm Atronach that hurls lightning and explodes when destroyed.
Destruction
Magicka 48
A spike of ice that does 25 frost damage to Health and Stamina.
Sources checked: Skyrim game files (Skyrim/Dawnguard/Dragonborn.esm + strings, read 2026-10-11); Elder Scrolls Fandom spell articles (tome locations)