Steadfast Ward

A stronger magic shield: +60 armor and blocks up to 60 points of spell damage.

Steadfast Ward adds 60 to your armor rating and absorbs up to 60 points of incoming spell damage. It doesn’t stop arrows or blades. If a strong spell shatters it, you may be knocked off your feet.

Spell details

  • School: Restoration (Apprentice)
  • Effect: Increases armor rating by 60 points and negates up to 60 points of spell damage or effects.
  • Base Magicka cost: 28 per second
  • Casting: Concentration, self
  • Spell tome: Spell Tome: Steadfast Ward – value 92 gold, ID 000A2720

More Restoration spells

Healing (Novice), Lesser Ward (Novice), Fast Healing (Apprentice), Healing Hands (Apprentice), Necromantic Healing (Apprentice), Sun Fire (Apprentice), Turn Lesser Undead (Apprentice), Close Wounds (Adept), Greater Ward (Adept), Heal Other (Adept), Heal Undead (Adept), Poison Rune (Adept), Repel Lesser Undead (Adept), Stendarr’s Aura (Adept), Turn Undead (Adept), Vampire’s Bane (Adept), Circle of Protection (Expert), Grand Healing (Expert), Repel Undead (Expert), Turn Greater Undead (Expert), Bane of the Undead (Master), Guardian Circle (Master).

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

Effect

Increases armor rating by 60 points and negates up to 60 points of spell damage or effects.

Where to buy or find the tome

  • Labyrinthian.
  • Calcelmo, Colette Marence, Falion, Farengar, Madena, Sybille Stentor, Wuunferth and Wylandriah.

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

Destruction
Magicka 51
An instant bolt of lightning – 25 shock damage to Health, half that to Magicka.
Illusion
Magicka 990
Master spell: everyone up to level 25 around you attacks each other for 60 seconds.
Restoration
Magicka 266
Makes undead up to level 21 flee for 30 seconds.
Conjuration
Magicka 168
Summons a spectral Daedric battleaxe for 120 seconds.
Alteration
Magicka 266
Third-tier Mage Armor – raises your armor rating by 80 for 60 seconds.
Restoration
Magicka 73
Heals you for 50 points in one charged cast.
Sources checked: Skyrim game files (Skyrim/Dawnguard/Dragonborn.esm + strings, read 2026-10-11); Elder Scrolls Fandom spell articles (tome locations)