Stoneflesh

Second-tier Mage Armor – raises your armor rating by 60 for 60 seconds.

Stoneflesh hardens your skin to stone and adds 60 points to your armor rating for a minute. It sits between Oakflesh and Ironflesh in the Mage Armor line, and the Mage Armor perk doubles it if you wear only clothes or robes.

Spell details

  • School: Alteration (Apprentice)
  • Effect: Improves the caster’s armor rating by 60 points for 60 seconds.
  • Base Magicka cost: 194
  • Casting: Fire and Forget, self
  • Spell tome: Spell Tome: Stoneflesh – value 95 gold, ID 000A26E3

More Alteration spells

Candlelight (Novice), Equilibrium (Novice), Oakflesh (Novice), Magelight (Apprentice), Ash Shell (Adept), Detect Life (Adept), Ironflesh (Adept), Telekinesis (Adept), Transmute (Adept), Waterbreathing (Adept), Ash Rune (Expert), Detect Dead (Expert), Ebonyflesh (Expert), Paralyze (Expert), Dragonhide (Master), Mass Paralysis (Master).

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

Effect

Improves the caster’s armor rating by 60 points for 60 seconds.

Where to buy or find the tome

  • Tolfdir at the College of Winterhold and Farengar Secret-Fire in Dragonsreach.
  • Calcelmo (Markarth), Falion (Morthal), Madena (Dawnstar), Sybille Stentor (Solitude), Wuunferth the Unliving (Windhelm) and Wylandriah (Riften).

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.
Tolfdir is the kindly old Nord teacher at the College of Winterhold – a master of Alteration, spell vendor and your guide through the College questline.

Where to find it

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Illusion
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Alteration
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Conjuration
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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)