Restoration Spell Effects

Restoration is the school of magic that keeps you alive and kicking. The spell effects come in a few basic varieties:

• Absorb: transfer whatever it is from the target to you for a limited time. For example, lower the Blade skill of whatever is attacking you by 10 points and boost your Blade skill by 10 points.
• Cure: removes Poison, Parlysis and Disease effects
• Fortify: temporarily boost whatever it is. For example, you can fortify your Strength so that you have more than what you normally would, which allows you to more quickly smack down whatever is attacking you.
• Heal: repairs whatever it is that is damaged.

Many of these Restoration effects can be dulplicated through Alchemy, but with Restoration you don't have the added weight of potions and ingredients. Note, also, that while the Absorb, Fortify and Restore spells are tied to particular things, you only need one of each if you're going to use the Spellmaker. You can buy a Fortify Agility spell, for example, and you will have the Fortify Attribue effect available in the Spellmaker or Item Maker. From there you can Fortify any attribute.

Unlike the other schools of Magic, you're probably going to have to head for the Chapels to get many of these spells. Each city has a chapel and one person inside who will sell spells. The spell vendor for the Chapel of Arkay in Cheydinhal is only in the chapel for a couple of hours each day and even at that is behind a locked door for most of that time. You'll be more successul at finding her by searching the streets because she wanders outside during the day.

Note also that you should not need to buy Heal Minor Wounds - this should be one of your character's starting spells (which may explain why there is no vendor with this spell).

If there is a difference between this page and the Prima Guide, you can take what you see here as being accurate. If you have installed any mods, though, all bets are off. The information here is straight Oblivion.esm.