Calm

Stops creatures and people up to level 9 from fighting for 30 seconds.

Calm makes creatures and people up to level 9 stop fighting for 30 seconds. Handy when you accidentally anger someone, need a breather to heal, or want to talk to someone who won’t stop swinging. Undead, Daedra and automatons need the Master of the Mind perk.

Tips

Attacking a calmed target makes it hostile again.

Spell details

  • School: Illusion (Apprentice)
  • Effect: Creatures and people up to level 9 won’t fight for 30 seconds.
  • Base Magicka cost: 146
  • Casting: Fire and Forget, aimed
  • Spell tome: Spell Tome: Calm – value 91 gold, ID 000A2711

More Illusion spells

Clairvoyance (Novice), Courage (Novice), Fury (Novice), Fear (Apprentice), Muffle (Apprentice), Frenzy (Adept), Frenzy Rune (Adept), Rally (Adept), Invisibility (Expert), Pacify (Expert), Rout (Expert), Call to Arms (Master), Harmony (Master), Hysteria (Master), Mayhem (Master).

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

Effect

Creatures and people up to level 9 won’t fight for 30 seconds.

Where to buy or find the tome

  • Calcelmo, Drevis Neloren, Falion, Farengar, Madena, Sybille Stentor, Wuunferth and Wylandriah.

Lore notes

Quest reward from

Characters connected to it

Calcelmo

Calcelmo is the elderly Altmer Dwemer scholar of Markarth’s Understone Keep – keeper of the Dwemer Museum, the Falmer stone and the key to Hard Answers.

Farengar Secret-Fire

Farengar Secret-Fire is Jarl Balgruuf’s court wizard in Dragonsreach – a dragon-obsessed scholar who sends you to Bleak Falls Barrow for the Dragonstone.

Where to find it

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Raise Zombie

Magicka 103
Reanimates a weak corpse to fight for you for 60 seconds.
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Harmony

Magicka 1052
Master spell: creatures and people up to level 25 around you stop fighting.
Sources checked: Skyrim game files (Skyrim/Dawnguard/Dragonborn.esm + strings, read 2026-10-11); Elder Scrolls Fandom spell articles (tome locations)

Calm

School
Level
Casting
Fire and Forget
Magicka cost
146
Magnitude
Duration
Dual-cast
Tome value
91 gold
Tome ID
000A2711
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