Wall of Storms

Spray the ground to create a wall of lightning – 50 damage per second.

Wall of Storms creates a crackling barrier of lightning: 50 shock damage per second to anyone passing through. A favourite trick is to lay it in a doorway and wait.

Tips

Three Dragon Priests carry staves with the same effect: Otar the Mad, Hevnoraak and Nahkriin.

Spell details

  • School: Destruction (Expert)
  • Effect: Sprayed on the ground, it creates a wall of lightning that does 50 points of shock damage per second.
  • Base Magicka cost: 145 per second
  • Casting: Concentration, aimed
  • Spell tome: Spell Tome: Wall of Storms – value 725 gold, ID 000A270B

More Destruction spells

Flames (Novice), Frostbite (Novice), Sparks (Novice), Fire Rune (Apprentice), Firebolt (Apprentice), Frost Rune (Apprentice), Ice Spike (Apprentice), Lightning Bolt (Apprentice), Lightning Rune (Apprentice), Chain Lightning (Adept), Fireball (Adept), Flame Cloak (Adept), Frost Cloak (Adept), Ice Storm (Adept), Lightning Cloak (Adept), Whirlwind Cloak (Adept), Icy Spear (Expert), Incinerate (Expert), Thunderbolt (Expert), Wall of Flames (Expert), Wall of Frost (Expert), Blizzard (Master), Fire Storm (Master), Lightning Storm (Master).

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

Effect

Sprayed on the ground, it creates a wall of lightning that does 50 points of shock damage per second.

Where to buy or find the tome

  • Faralda at the College.
  • Dragonborn: Talvas Fathryon in Tel Mithryn. Dawnguard: Morven Stroud may give it.
  • Random loot at higher levels.

Lore notes

Quest reward from

Characters connected to it

Faralda is the Altmer mage guarding the bridge to the College of Winterhold – your entrance test, Master Destruction trainer and Destruction spell tome vendor.

Where to find it

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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)