Magelight is Candlelight‘s more practical cousin: instead of hovering over you, the orb flies where you aim and sticks to the first thing it hits. Light up a cave ceiling from across the room, or tag a moving enemy so the orb follows them around.
Tips
It’s a cheap way to level Alteration because you can cast it anywhere. In the Dawnguard add-on it’s also used to open some doors in the Soul Cairn by hitting the light orbs.
Spell details
- School: Alteration (Apprentice)
- Effect: Ball of light that lasts 60 seconds and sticks where it strikes.
- Base Magicka cost: 84
- Casting: Fire and Forget, aimed
- Spell tome: Spell Tome: Magelight – value 87 gold, ID 000A26E2
More Alteration spells
Candlelight (Novice), Equilibrium (Novice), Oakflesh (Novice), Stoneflesh (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).