Reanimate Corpse

Reanimates a stronger corpse to fight for you for 60 seconds.

Reanimate Corpse is the step up from Raise Zombie: it can raise more powerful bodies, people or animals, for 60 seconds. Only one zombie at a time unless you have Twin Souls – raising a second turns the first to dust.

Tips

Horses, dragons and dismembered corpses can’t be raised.

Spell details

  • School: Conjuration (Apprentice)
  • Effect: Reanimate a more powerful dead body to fight for you for 60 seconds.
  • Base Magicka cost: 144
  • Casting: Fire and Forget, aimed
  • Spell tome: Spell Tome: Reanimate Corpse – value 99 gold, ID 000A26EB

More Conjuration spells

Bound Dagger (Novice), Bound Sword (Novice), Conjure Familiar (Novice), Raise Zombie (Novice), Bound Battleaxe (Apprentice), Conjure Boneman (Apprentice), Conjure Flame Atronach (Apprentice), Flaming Familiar (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

Reanimate a more powerful dead body to fight for you for 60 seconds.

Where to buy or find the tome

  • Calcelmo, Falion, Farengar, Madena, Nelacar (after The Black Star), Niranye in Windhelm, Phinis Gestor, Sybille Stentor, Wuunferth and Wylandriah.
  • Looted from Warlord Gathrik.

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

Alteration
Magicka 450
Paralyzes a target for 10 seconds if they fail to resist.
Illusion
Magicka 209
Makes creatures and people up to level 14 attack anyone nearby for 60 seconds.
Conjuration
Magicka 196
Sends weaker summoned Daedra back to Oblivion.
Destruction
Magicka 1106
Master spell: a huge ice storm around you that hurts everything for 10 seconds.
Restoration
Magicka 254
Heals everyone near you for 200 points.
Illusion
Magicka 290
Area spell: creatures and people up to level 20 won’t fight for 60 seconds.
Sources checked: Skyrim game files (Skyrim/Dawnguard/Dragonborn.esm + strings, read 2026-10-11); Elder Scrolls Fandom spell articles (tome locations)