Waterbreathing does exactly what it says: you can breathe underwater for 60 seconds. It opens up sunken wrecks, flooded caves and underwater ingredients like Nordic Barnacles. You can’t cast it while swimming, so cast it on the shore first.
Tips
Casting it over and over while standing in water is an easy way to train Alteration. Argonians breathe underwater naturally, so they can skip this one.
Spell details
- School: Alteration (Adept)
- Effect: Can breathe water for 60 seconds.
- Base Magicka cost: 222
- Casting: Fire and Forget, self
- Spell tome: Spell Tome: Waterbreathing – value 340 gold, ID 000A26E6
More Alteration spells
Candlelight (Novice), Equilibrium (Novice), Oakflesh (Novice), Magelight (Apprentice), Stoneflesh (Apprentice), Ash Shell (Adept), Detect Life (Adept), Ironflesh (Adept), Telekinesis (Adept), Transmute (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).