I assume this is somehow obvious but I can't seem to conjure a familiar.

You select it as a spell, charge the spell for about a second, then cast. Unless you have the perk that allows you to summon 5x farther away, you need to point no farther than around 3-4 meters away from your feet when releasing the charged spell or it will fail.

Whoa... spell failure is back?

I knew it had to be easy. My familiar was a wolf/fox. is everyone have the same or is it random?

No, that's not at all what I said. The spell failure system of Morrowind is not in the game. The spell fails to cast if you attempt to cast it farther than your maximum summoning range. There's no percentage chance. While charging, it shows your magicka being drained for the cost of the spell, but if the spell fails to cast, you immediately get that magicka refunded.



It's always a wolf. If you attack it four times it will attack you back, and it does have a small chance of giving you the Rockjoint disease (-25% melee damage) like other wolves.

Note: you get conjuration experience whenever you cast a conjuration spell, but also whenever your conjured creatures take damage. A fun way to level up an attacking skill and conjuration at once is to summon something and beat it to death. Because they start with Summon Familiar, bretons have a unique chance among races to level up several skills while still in the tutorial area.

Thank you for clearing that up for me. I have to wait untill tomarrow to get the game, so I've been creepin the forums all night because I am so excited, I cant sleep.

Well I've been sitting in the tutorial section beating my familiar to death repeatedly, so I'm pretty familiar with that spell so far.

Hahahahaha ohhh you just made my night with that! Funniest thing I've read on here, thank you.

I don't have the heart to beat up my familiar. or maybe he would like it, some sort of ghost masochist.