Conjure Familiar

Summons a spectral wolf to fight for you for 60 seconds.

Conjure Familiar calls up a ghostly wolf that fights by your side for 60 seconds – no corpse required. It’s the first summon most mages learn, and Bretons start the game knowing it.

Tips

Twin Souls lets you keep two familiars at once. There’s also an explosive version, Flaming Familiar.

Spell details

  • School: Conjuration (Novice)
  • Effect: Summons a Familiar for 60 seconds wherever the caster is pointing.
  • Base Magicka cost: 107
  • Casting: Fire and Forget, target location
  • Spell tome: Spell Tome: Conjure Familiar – value 49 gold, ID 0009E2AB

More Conjuration spells

Bound Dagger (Novice), Bound Sword (Novice), Raise Zombie (Novice), Bound Battleaxe (Apprentice), Conjure Boneman (Apprentice), Conjure Flame Atronach (Apprentice), Flaming Familiar (Apprentice), Reanimate Corpse (Apprentice), Soul Trap (Apprentice), Banish Daedra (Adept), Bound Bow (Adept), Conjure Ash Spawn (Adept), Conjure Frost Atronach (Adept), Conjure Mistman (Adept), Conjure Seeker (Adept), Revenant (Adept), Command Daedra (Expert), Conjure Ash Guardian (Expert), Conjure Dremora Lord (Expert), Conjure Storm Atronach (Expert), Conjure Wrathman (Expert), Dread Zombie (Expert), Expel Daedra (Expert), Dead Thrall (Master), Flame Thrall (Master), Frost Thrall (Master), Storm Thrall (Master).

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

Effect

Summons a Familiar for 60 seconds wherever the caster is pointing.

Where to buy or find the tome

  • Court wizards and Phinis Gestor at the College of Winterhold.
  • Nelacar at the Frozen Hearth in Winterhold if you side with him in The Black Star.
  • Ansilvund, general merchants, chests and hostile mages.

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More spells from this school

Restoration
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Illusion
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Master spell: everyone up to level 25 around you attacks each other for 60 seconds.
Restoration
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Makes undead up to level 21 flee for 30 seconds.
Restoration
Magicka 73
Heals you for 50 points in one charged cast.
Conjuration
Magicka 183
Reanimates a powerful corpse to fight for you for 60 seconds.
Illusion
Magicka 316
Makes creatures and people up to level 20 flee for 30 seconds.
Sources checked: Skyrim game files (Skyrim/Dawnguard/Dragonborn.esm + strings, read 2026-10-11); Elder Scrolls Fandom spell articles (tome locations)