Revenant

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

Revenant is the third step in Skyrim’s necromancy ladder, after Raise Zombie and Reanimate Corpse. It raises stronger bodies for 60 seconds, and they turn to ash afterwards.

Tips

Fun fact: “draugr” means revenant in Old Norse.

Spell details

  • School: Conjuration (Adept)
  • Effect: Reanimate a powerful dead body to fight for you for 60 seconds.
  • Base Magicka cost: 183
  • Casting: Fire and Forget, aimed
  • Spell tome: Spell Tome: Revenant – value 340 gold, ID 000A26F2

More Conjuration spells

Bound Dagger (Novice), Bound Sword (Novice), Conjure Familiar (Novice), Raise Zombie (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), 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).

Where to get the spell tome

  • Falion in Morthal, Phinis Gestor at the College and Calcelmo in Markarth.
  • Random loot across Skyrim.

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