Has anyone noticed that trapping living beings souls and then using them to enhance armor and weapons seems rather immoral? *Do do do, just walking along, AH I'm dead shot buy a soul capture bow. Ach, my soul is in a gem... *10 minutes later* hey now I'm a sword! Nice! Wait, everytime the sword hits something I feel I'm losing something, ZOMG MY SOUL IS LOSING CHARGE! *30 minutes later* the soul is gone and destroyed... killed.....*

Yeah, that's why I don't use enchanting. It's sick and diabolical. What do you think

It depends who you're soul trapping

I think that you are stupid. The soul wouldn't be thinking that, it doesn't even think.

Ya'll need to read up on your lore.

I think that you have had a sense of humour bypass.

It depends on whose soul is trapped. If it's a dangerous beast or a murderous bandit then why not?

There should be no humour in the Skyrim forums.

What if you enchant them into armor/clothing? They don't have charges at all.

In Dagggerfall when enchanted item break it release vengeful soul of trapped creature thats attack owner of enchanted item.

:icecream:

That's awesome.

If you have the right perk your weapons won't lose their charge. Happy soul!

Everything is scarier in Daggerfall.

I have the Soul of the Emperor sitting on my shelf...still considering what to do with it

Yes its evil and no one care about it though, its good to be evil -woohoo

Ever seen the enchanting altar? Look so lovely

I have a serial killer character who collects his victims souls in the gems, much cleaner than cutting off a finger as a trophy or something.

Funny because I thought of that back in Morrowind and Oblivion. I thought that while it was ok to kill monsters indiscriminately, I hesitated to use their souls because surely they deserved a better fate.

But you can set your conscience at ease. Souls from animals and monsters are fair game, because it's pretty much like killing animals for food and killing monsters to protect the world.

Although humans like bandits do deserve to die for attacking you, trapping their souls can be akin to illegal war crimes. Sure soldiers have no problem killing people in wars, but there are still war crimes like using biological weapons and illegal torture that you cannot do. In the same way, killing bandits is ok, but trapping their souls is considered an act of evil.

Lorewise, humans that trap other human souls are often evil people who have no moral values, like necromancers. I'm sure when going through their hideouts, you find a lot of evidence of murder and torture going on.

In Oblivion, the Mages Guild has outlawed necromancy. In one of the quests in Cheydinhal, you found black soul gems belonging to Falcarm which is considered necromancy.
Black soul gems = can trap human and daedra souls.
Black soul gems = necromancy.
Necromancy = evil.

Therefore, trapping human souls is evil.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Cheydinhal_Recommendation

So in conclusion, soul trapping animals and monsters like trolls are ok, but soul trapping humans is the one that is actually immoral.

I wish black soul gems had more character. You should be able to see a poe-like face inside. Then you could shake it up and down really fast and make it ghost vomit. Now THAT'S cruel.

my character is evil so it fits well!

I don't think skyrim has a version of the geneva conventions.

Same here. Also, if its a named character I dont like, I will select an appropriate enchantment and name the item after them.

Like that loud Talos priest in Whiterun, he is currently a pair of boots with a muffle enchantment

What if you get enchanted into a hot person's clothings?