Raise Zombie

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

Raise Zombie brings a low-level corpse back to fight for you for 60 seconds – people and animals alike. When the zombie dies again or the time runs out, it crumbles into ash, so enemy necromancers can’t raise it back. Headless or dismembered bodies don’t work.

Tips

Leave a good weapon on the corpse before raising it – the zombie fights with what it carries, and you can take the weapon back afterwards.

Spell details

  • School: Conjuration (Novice)
  • Effect: Reanimate a weak dead body to fight for you for 60 seconds.
  • Base Magicka cost: 103
  • Casting: Fire and Forget, aimed
  • Spell tome: Spell Tome: Raise Zombie – value 49 gold, ID 0009E2AA

More Conjuration spells

Bound Dagger (Novice), Bound Sword (Novice), Conjure Familiar (Novice), Bound Battleaxe (Apprentice), Conjure Boneman (Apprentice), Conjure Flame Atronach (Apprentice), Flaming Familiar (Apprentice), Reanimate Corpse (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 weak dead body to fight for you for 60 seconds.

Where to buy or find the tome

  • Calcelmo, Drevis Neloren (College), Falion (Morthal), Farengar, Lucan Valerius (Riverwood), Madena, Sybille Stentor, Wuunferth and Wylandriah.
  • On a pedestal in Fellglow Keep, and sometimes on Restless Draugr.

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

Conjuration
Magicka 900
Master spell that summons a Flame Atronach permanently.
Alteration
Magicka 84
An orb of light you throw – it sticks where it lands and lights the area for 60 seconds.
Restoration
Magicka 168
Makes undead up to level 13 flee for 30 seconds.
Alteration
Magicka 266
Third-tier Mage Armor – raises your armor rating by 80 for 60 seconds.
Alteration
Magicka 170 per second
Pull items to you from a distance – or throw them at people.
Destruction
Magicka 293
A trap rune that explodes for 50 frost damage and slows enemies.
Sources checked: Skyrim game files (Skyrim/Dawnguard/Dragonborn.esm + strings, read 2026-10-11); Elder Scrolls Fandom spell articles (tome locations)