Clairvoyance

Shows a glowing trail to your current quest objective.

Clairvoyance draws a short trail of blue light towards your current quest objective. Cast it again as you go to light up the next stretch. It can’t see past locked gates or levers, so it shows the direct route as far as it can.

Tips

If there’s no direct path, you’ll get a “No direct path seen” message.

Spell details

  • School: Illusion (Novice)
  • Effect: Shows the path to the current goal.
  • Base Magicka cost: 25 per second
  • Casting: Concentration, self
  • Spell tome: Spell Tome: Clairvoyance – value 50 gold, ID 000FF7D1

More Illusion spells

Courage (Novice), Fury (Novice), Calm (Apprentice), 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

Shows the path to the current goal.

Where to buy or find the tome

  • Drevis Neloren at the College of Winterhold and Lucan Valerius at the Riverwood Trader.
  • General goods merchants and court wizards.
  • In Embershard Mine, on a table behind a locked cell door (key on the bandit guard, or pick the Novice lock).

Lore notes

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Where to find it

More spells from this school

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Illusion
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Conjuration
Magicka 302
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Alteration
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A rare spell that converts your Health into Magicka – 25 per second.
Destruction
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Destruction
Magicka 144
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Sources checked: Skyrim game files (Skyrim/Dawnguard/Dragonborn.esm + strings, read 2026-10-11); Elder Scrolls Fandom spell articles (tome locations)