Broken Azura's Star (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)

First Appearance: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Taken by Malyn Varen, Azura's star was used for his experiments to find a method to prolong his life from a disease he was dying from. 

Getting more desperate in his experiments and the transfer from the College of Winterhold to Illinalta's Deep the star was broken and damaged, being left in the Illinalta's Deluge when he was finally successful in soul trapping himself- lying near the remains of Varen that had turned into a skeleton. 


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Recovering the Broken Star from the Deluge, the Dragonborn returned the Star to Nelacar at the Frozen Hearth. Openly surprised that they had managed to retrieve it, Nelacar examines the Star expressing his concerns about the state the star was in, which had "fissures and cracks" throughout the artifact. He also discovers the artifact had managed to contain Varen's soul and concludes that the Star is sustaining his "life", but stopping it from it's primary function to being used in enchanting.

Nelacar fixes the star and tasks the Dragonborn to rid the artifact of Malyn's soul- fully repairing the star almost to the state it once was.


Alternate Reality:

Upon finding the Broken Azura's Star the Dragonborn returns it to the Shrine of Azura, where Aranea Ienith happily takes the star from them with the declaration that she knew "the Lady of Twilight had sent you for a reason." She tells them that she will commune with Azura and have her repair the Star to it's former state.

Placing it on the alter of the Shrine, Azura fixes the star, but says that she can't make it whole without the exorcism of Malyn's soul from within. Tasking him to go inside and defeat Varen to remove the enchantments that the mage had put up within that made it capable of capturing mortal souls. 

The Black Star (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)

First Appearance: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Formally the Daedric artifact- Azura's Star- of the "Queen of Dusk and Dawn", the Star a refillable soul gem that was altered by Malyn Varen's experiments. These resulted in the Star having the ability to only absorb "Black Souls" (the souls of mortals). The Black Star was cut off from Azura temporarily, while it was in Varen's possession and was permanently cut off by the Dragonborn when Nelacar soul trapped him into the star and allowed them to kill Varen.


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After the Dragonborn killed Malyn Varen within his "sanctuary" of the interior of Azura's Star and returns to the Frozen Hearth Inn, Nelacar congratulates them for cutting off the link between the Star and Azura, altering "the fate of a Daedric item and live" (which is a very event to happen). The Dragonborn asks what they should do with Black Star now and Nelacar replies that they can keep it and use the Black Star to both collect and manipulate black souls for the enchanting process. He tells them that the Black Star "will never decay", but reminds them that they can no longer absorb "White Souls." 


(In game powers of The Black Star)

A soul gem that is capable of being reused after each enchantment involving the soul within the gem is completed.

The Ring of Hircine (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)

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A ring that belonged to the Lord of the Hunt, Hircine's ring was stolen from him by the werewolf Sinding, who had hoped to use it's powers to control his lyncanthropic transformations. However Hircine discovered the theft and planted a curse on the ring, causing it to have the opposite effect on him and cause him to transform into a werewolf at random.

Sinding was trying to return the ring when he murdered Lavinia and was thrown into Falkreath jail.

Although the Dragonborn was tasked to kill Sinding, they returned to Hircine to report that they spared him and killed the hunters. Thinking this amusing, Hircine gave the Ring to him as a gift.


"The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim"

Sinding explains that the death of Lavinia was the fault of the ring (the cursed ring) and reveals that the Ring of Hircine was no longer the Daedric Artifact it had been since Hircine cast his curse upon it. 

The Dragonborn excepts the ring and says he will return it to Hircine. Upon their meeting, the Apsect of Hircine considers removing the curse if he complied with his favor to kill Sinding.

However after teaming up with Sinding and saving him from Hircine's hunters, the Dragonborn meets with the Aspect of Hircine again and declares that he has failed to complete the task. But Hircine replies that he found the fact the Dragonborn had killed the hunters instead of the hunt to be amusing. As a reward he removes the curse from the ring and grants the Dragonborn the ring as a gift.


(In game powers of The Ring of Hiricne)

Grants the wearer more than once per day transformations as a werewolf or beast form.