Flames (Skyrim)

Flames is a Novice level destruction spell in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. All characters begin the game with this spell learned. They allow the player to shoot fire out of their hand continuously, much like a flamethrower. The flame has a short range but passes through enemies, so it's possible to hit several at once if they stand in a line. When enemies are on fire, they take extra damage from other weapons, which makes it a good spell to wield alongside a one-handed weapon, though the bonus added is minor and targets don't stay on fire for very long. Flames inflicts 8 damage per second to Health.

This spell can have the best damage to magicka rating. When combined with the flame augmenting perks the damage increases to 12. Combined with the bugged illusion perk Aspect of Terror, this increases to 22 (perk adds 10 points to flames and firebolt).

Spell tome locations

 * A Spell Tome containing Flames in Labyrinthian Chasm is needed to pass through a door of ice. Because of this, the Spell Tome is fixed and will always appear in that location.
 * Faralda sells Flames, as well as other Destruction magic tomes.
 * Flames Spell Tomes can be created using the Atronach Forge.
 * All races will start out with this spell by default, so it is unknown why a Spell Tome for it exists. Equally strange is the fact that on locations where fire is needed to progress a dungeon, a spell tome is provided. Perhaps the devs prepared the locations before it was decided that the spell would be available for all races, or prepared the locations for modded races that didn't start with the spell.
 * Another strange bug is, that you can't remove the spell via the console, as well as Healing.

Videos
A video showing the spell being cast can be found here.

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