Skyrim:Atronach Forge

A mysterious link to Oblivion

The Midden's main feature is the Atronach Forge. Near it, the book Atronach Forge Manual can be found, along with the components to create the atronach recipes within. It refers to other Atronach Forge Recipes scattered about Skyrim.

Having a Conjuration skill of 90 will allow the Conjuration Ritual Spell quest from Phinis Gestor to be started, which will result in the player obtaining a Sigil Stone, which can be placed on the pedestal of the Atronach Forge. Some recipes require this object. As part of Fall of the Space Core, Vol 1, the Space Core can be placed on the pedestal and is necessary to summon a Dovahcore Helmet.

The Atronach Forge has an offering box and a lever. The lever must be pulled once for each conjured result. Before activating the lever again, previous activation animations must begin or nothing will happen. It is currently unknown how the forge prioritizes recipes from the available ingredients, however, it seems to choose the most reasonable guess for what the player wanted, e.g., it will summon staves before salts and deadly atronachs. The forge chooses to use ingredients alphabetically when multiple available types would be valid. The forge will not normally consume extra ingredients in the box, but due to a bug, each recipe which uses a soul gem will consume both a filled soul gem and an unfilled gem if both are available.

Finding a copy of the recipe in the world is not required to craft that item. If the player supplies the necessary ingredients, any of the items are available.

In the table below, "Delta" means the gold price difference between the forged object and the combined value of the cheapest items needed to create it.

Delta	Result	Ingredient	Ingredient	Ingredient	Ingredient	Notes	Associated Recipe
	Flame Atronach	Fire Salts		Ruby or Flawless Ruby or Silver Ruby Ring or Gold Ruby Necklace		Hostile to player.	Manual
	Frost Atronach	Frost Salts		Sapphire or Flawless Sapphire or Gold Sapphire Ring or Silver Sapphire Necklace		Hostile to player.	Manual
	Storm Atronach	Void Salts		Amethyst or Flawless Amethyst or Silver Amethyst Ring		Hostile to player.	Manual
	Unbound Dremora	Skull	Daedra Heart	Raw Meat (Dog Meat or Mammoth Snout or Horse Meat or Horker Meat or Leg of Goat)	Raw Meat (same 5 options; can use same meat or two different ones)	Hostile to player. Requires Sigil Stone.	2
-50	Daedra Heart		Human Heart		Black Soul Gem	Requires Sigil Stone.	1
239	Staff of the Flame Atronach	Fire Salts	Broom	Corundum Ore or Corundum Ingot	Greater Soul Gem or Grand Soul Gem or Black Soul Gem		31
565	Staff of the Frost Atronach	Frost Salts	Broom	Moonstone Ore or Refined Moonstone	Greater Soul Gem or Grand Soul Gem or Black Soul Gem		30
988	Staff of the Storm Atronach	Void Salts	Broom	Orichalcum Ore or Orichalcum Ingot	Greater Soul Gem or Grand Soul Gem or Black Soul Gem		29
-11	Spell Tome: Conjure Flame Atronach	Fire Salts	Ruined Book	Dragon's Tongue	Bear Pelt		28
226	Spell Tome: Conjure Frost Atronach	Frost Salts	Ruined Book	Frost Mirriam	Ice Wolf Pelt		27
406	Spell Tome: Conjure Storm Atronach	Void Salts	Ruined Book	Deathbell	Mammoth Tusk		26
82	Spell Tome: Soul Trap	Salt Pile	Ruined Book	Torchbug Thorax	Soul Gem (any size)		18
-6	Scroll of Conjure Flame Atronach	Fire Salts	Roll of Paper	Charcoal			25
-6	Scroll of Conjure Frost Atronach	Frost Salts	Roll of Paper	Charcoal			24
119	Scroll of Conjure Storm Atronach	Void Salts	Roll of Paper	Charcoal			23
248	Conjurer's Elixir		Empty Wine Bottle	Ectoplasm	Soul Gem (any size)		22
-162	Fire Salts	Salt Pile		Ruby or Flawless Ruby or Silver Ruby Ring or Gold Ruby Necklace	Soul Gem (any size)		21
-312	Frost Salts	Salt Pile		Sapphire or Flawless Sapphire or Gold Sapphire Ring or Silver Sapphire Necklace	Soul Gem (any size)		20
-7	Void Salts	Salt Pile		Amethyst or Flawless Amethyst or Silver Amethyst Ring	Soul Gem (any size)		19
	Random Daedric Enchanted Weapon	Silver Sword	Daedra Heart	Ebony Ingot	Greater Soul Gem (filled) or Grand Soul Gem (filled) or Black Soul Gem (filled)	Requires Sigil Stone.	3
	Random Daedric Enchanted Armor	Void Salts	Daedra Heart	Ebony Ingot	Greater Soul Gem (filled) or Grand Soul Gem (filled) or Black Soul Gem (filled)	Requires Sigil Stone.	4
379	Daedric Bow	Ebony Bow	Daedra Heart	Centurion Dynamo Core	Black Soul Gem	Requires Sigil Stone.	5
69	Daedric Mace	Ebony Mace	Daedra Heart	Centurion Dynamo Core	Black Soul Gem	Requires Sigil Stone.	6
-471	Daedric Dagger	Ebony Dagger	Daedra Heart	Centurion Dynamo Core	Black Soul Gem	Requires Sigil Stone.	7
379	Daedric Greatsword	Ebony Greatsword	Daedra Heart	Centurion Dynamo Core	Black Soul Gem	Requires Sigil Stone.	8
-151	Daedric Sword	Ebony Sword	Daedra Heart	Centurion Dynamo Core	Black Soul Gem	Requires Sigil Stone.	9
1594	Daedric Warhammer	Ebony Warhammer	Daedra Heart	Centurion Dynamo Core	Black Soul Gem	Requires Sigil Stone.	10
-46	Daedric War Axe	Ebony War Axe	Daedra Heart	Centurion Dynamo Core	Black Soul Gem	Requires Sigil Stone.	11
484	Daedric Battleaxe	Ebony Battleaxe	Daedra Heart	Centurion Dynamo Core	Black Soul Gem	Requires Sigil Stone.	12
169	Daedric Shield	Ebony Shield	Daedra Heart	Centurion Dynamo Core	Black Soul Gem	Requires Sigil Stone.	13
-331	Daedric Boots †	Ebony Boots	Daedra Heart	Centurion Dynamo Core	Black Soul Gem	Requires Sigil Stone.	14
-331	Daedric Gauntlets	Ebony Gauntlets	Daedra Heart	Centurion Dynamo Core	Black Soul Gem	Requires Sigil Stone.	15
1019	Daedric Armor	Ebony Armor	Daedra Heart	Centurion Dynamo Core	Black Soul Gem	Requires Sigil Stone.	16
169	Daedric Helmet	Ebony Helmet	Daedra Heart	Centurion Dynamo Core	Black Soul Gem	Requires Sigil Stone.	17
422	Dovahcore Helmet	Iron Helmet	Refined Moonstone or Moonstone Ore			Requires Space Core. Fall of the Space Core, Vol 1 must be installed.

† The Daedric boots produced are the Dremora-specific boots, not the standard Daedric Boots. See the bugs section below for details.

Gallery

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  The Sigil Stone on the pedestal

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  The Space Core on the pedestal

Notes

• A decent amount of profit can be made by creating dremora with the forge. The dremora will always carry an enchanted weapon and a daedra heart. You need only one daedra heart and an excess of raw meat and skulls to create numerous enchanted weapons.
• Atronach Forge Recipes 1-17 are written in the Daedric Alphabet.
• While two pieces of raw meat are necessary to summon a Dremora with a Daedric enchanted weapon, only one piece of meat is needed to summon the Dremora (and lower-quality weapon) itself. The kind of meat contributed seems to affect the weapon the Dremora carries; Dog meat always produces an iron weapon, horse and mammoth snout produce glass weapons, and goat legs and horker meat produce ebony consistently. The meat also seems to affect whether the weapon is one- or two-handed, but more research and notes will have to be taken to confirm.

Bugs

• The Daedric boots produced are the Dremora-specific boots (000f1abd) not the standard Daedric Boots (0001396a). They will not show up in your inventory but will add weight to your character. If you have already picked them up they can be removed and properly added with console commands.
  • This bug is fixed by version 1.2 of the Unofficial Skyrim Patch.

• The bug can be fixed through use of console commands. Type player.removeitem f1abd 1 to remove the invisible boots, and player.additem 1396a 1 to add the actual Daedric Boots.

• Attempting to place the Space Core on the pedestal while in possession of the Sigil Stone will duplicate the latter. ^?
  • To place the Space Core, you will need to drop all Sigil Stones from your inventory.
• The Random Daedric Enchanted Weapon recipe produces only warhammers and waraxes.
  Mod Notes: Leveled Item list LItemEnchDaedricAnyWeapon contains only warhammers and waraxes.
• By placing viable options for the same recipe in the offering box, the forge will consume one of each, rather than just one.