Telekinesis

Pull items to you from a distance – or throw them at people.

Telekinesis lets you grab objects from afar, pull them closer, throw them or take them straight into your inventory. It’s practical for loot on hard-to-reach ledges, and a sneaky thief can lift a merchant’s goods from a safe distance. Throwing things at people hurts them a little – and makes them angry.

Tips

It’s also a known fix for a missing-note problem in Shalidor’s Maze.

Spell details

  • School: Alteration (Adept)
  • Effect: Can pull an object to you from a distance. Add it to your inventory or throw it.
  • Base Magicka cost: 170 per second
  • Casting: Concentration, self
  • Spell tome: Spell Tome: Telekinesis – value 326 gold, ID 000A26E5

More Alteration spells

Candlelight (Novice), Equilibrium (Novice), Oakflesh (Novice), Magelight (Apprentice), Stoneflesh (Apprentice), Ash Shell (Adept), Detect Life (Adept), Ironflesh (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).

Effect

Can pull an object to you from a distance. Add it to your inventory or throw it.

Where to buy or find the tome

  • Tolfdir at the College and Wylandriah in Mistveil Keep, from Alteration 40.
  • Fixed or likely finds: Labyrinthian, the safe in Proudspire Manor, Autumnwatch Tower near the Word Wall, Uttering Hills Cave.
  • Dawnguard: in a cell in Redwater Den. Dragonborn: under a pile of Lusty Argonian Maid books in Benkongerike’s Great Hall.
  • Rarely in the master chest in the Thieves Guild, Dwarven chests, giant camps and dragon lairs.

Lore notes

Quest reward from

Characters connected to it

Tolfdir is the kindly old Nord teacher at the College of Winterhold – a master of Alteration, spell vendor and your guide through the College questline.

Where to find it

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Sources checked: Skyrim game files (Skyrim/Dawnguard/Dragonborn.esm + strings, read 2026-10-11); Elder Scrolls Fandom spell articles (tome locations)