In my experience followers CAN trap souls successfully if you equip them with soul gems and a weapon with that enchantment.
Can a follower fill soul gems?
Now, followers can make it way easier to fill soul gems (unless this has been patched) by filling an entire stack when they capture a soul, but they won’t recharge depleted weapons. In other words, Soul Trap-enchanted weapons will let followers trap souls, but the followers won’t use those soul gems to recharge.
Can you soul trap?
No, not all creatures can be trapped using Soul Trap. For example Dragon’s will always resist being soul trapped. The dragon souls will instead be absorbed by you directly.
Can Lydia soul trap?
1 Answer. Yes they can! This is an easy way to take some of the hassle and headache out of the whole soul-management process. Just be sure to keep the weapon you’ve given them recharged.
Where can I get a soul trap weapon?
Ironbind Barrow
Fiery Soul Trap is a weapon enchantment which, as the name suggests, adds both a Soul Trap and a Fire Damage effect. It can be obtained by disenchanting the Steel Battleaxe of Fiery Souls found in Ironbind Barrow.
Can Lydia use spells?
Lydia will use magic staffs, although I’ve yet to teach any of my companions spells from a book. You can add a spell to a NPC’s spell arsenal, but your NPC will not use it, unless the specified NPC is programmed to. It depents if your NPC really is a spellcaster.
Can you give a follower a soul trap enchant?
You can give your follower a weapon with the Soul Trap enchant, so they fill up gems in their inventory. – Krazer Dec 4 ’11 at 23:13 Yes followers weapons lose charge when they use them. (source) However some say they they lose charge at a slower rate than normal. (source)
Can a Dragon Soul Trap a centurion sphere?
The dragon souls will instead be absorbed by you directly. Dwarven creations (Centurion’s Sphere’s etc.) are driven by souls captured in soul gems, so they don’t have a soul themselves. So you can’t re-trap these souls, instead the creations will drop filled soul gems themselves.
Can a follower recharge their own soul gems?
In other words, Soul Trap-enchanted weapons will let followers trap souls, but the followers won’t use those soul gems to recharge. Aranea depleting every staff I gave her in my first game while possessing boatloads of soul gems. I also needed to periodically recharge Aela’s Bow of Really Fiery Souls (fire + fiery soul trap) manually.
