Healing

The basic heal-over-time spell – 10 Health per second.

Healing restores 10 Health per second while you hold it. Every race starts with it, so most players never need to buy the tome. Hold it in one hand and a weapon in the other and you’ll survive a lot longer early on.

Tips

The Regeneration perk boosts it by 50%, and Respite restores Stamina too.

Spell details

  • School: Restoration (Novice)
  • Effect: Heals the caster 10 points per second.
  • Base Magicka cost: 12 per second
  • Casting: Concentration, self
  • Spell tome: Spell Tome: Healing – value 50 gold, ID 0009E2AF

More Restoration spells

Lesser Ward (Novice), Fast Healing (Apprentice), Healing Hands (Apprentice), Necromantic Healing (Apprentice), Steadfast Ward (Apprentice), Sun Fire (Apprentice), Turn Lesser Undead (Apprentice), Close Wounds (Adept), Greater Ward (Adept), Heal Other (Adept), Heal Undead (Adept), Poison Rune (Adept), Repel Lesser Undead (Adept), Stendarr’s Aura (Adept), Turn Undead (Adept), Vampire’s Bane (Adept), Circle of Protection (Expert), Grand Healing (Expert), Repel Undead (Expert), Turn Greater Undead (Expert), Bane of the Undead (Master), Guardian Circle (Master).

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

Effect

Heals the caster 10 points per second.

Where to buy or find the tome

  • Everyone starts with it. The tome is still sold by Calcelmo, Colette Marence (College), Falion, Farengar, Madena, Nelacar, Sybille Stentor, Wuunferth and Wylandriah.

Lore notes

Quest reward from

Characters connected to it

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 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

More spells from this school

Conjuration
Magicka 214
Summons a Frost Atronach – a tough melee tank that explodes in frost when it dies.
Conjuration
Magicka 103
Reanimates a weak corpse to fight for you for 60 seconds.
Restoration
Magicka 254
Heals everyone near you for 200 points.
Restoration
Magicka 126
Heals you for 100 points in one charged cast.
Restoration
Magicka 25 per second
Dawnguard spell that heals undead targets – vampires, draugr and thralls.
Conjuration
Magicka 183
Reanimates a powerful corpse to fight for you for 60 seconds.
Sources checked: Skyrim game files (Skyrim/Dawnguard/Dragonborn.esm + strings, read 2026-10-11); Elder Scrolls Fandom spell articles (tome locations)