Skyrim:Sun Fire

	Sun Fire
Added by	Dawnguard
School	Restoration	Difficulty	Apprentice
Type	Offensive	Casting	Fire and Forget
Delivery	Aimed	Equip	Either Hand
Spell ID	xx003f52	Editor ID	DLC1SunFire
Base Cost	24	Charge Time	0.5
Duration	2	Range	469 ft
Speed	75 ft/s	Max Life	~6.3 sec
Magnitude	25	Area	0
Tome ID	xx003f51	Tome Value	80
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Sorine Jurard

Sun Fire

Ball of sunlight that does 25 points of damage to undead.

Sun Fire is an apprentice level Restoration spell added by Dawnguard, which will do 25 damage to any undead target over 2 seconds. It has no effect on non-undead.

Effects

• Sun Bane, 25 pts

Perks

• Necromage increases magnitude by 25% and duration by 50%.
• Restoration Dual Casting increases duration by 120%, but does not increase effect level.

Notes

• As a counterbalance to only affecting undead, Sun Fire has a significantly lessened cost per damage ratio compared to Firebolt. Even with two points of Augmented Flames and all other things equal, Firebolt cannot match the efficiency that Sun Fire has, especially after accounting for the high degree of afterburn damage that Sun Fire inflicts.
  • Due to plenty of enemies in Skyrim being undead - namely, the Draugr - this makes Sun Fire very valuable for any mage character to do much more damage than they normally could with Destruction spells.
• This spell is normally unavailable if you join the vampires, as Sorine Jurard will be hostile to you. However, if you use a Pacify spell or item, you can calm her down so that she'll sell it to you. You must obviously do this before you destroy the Dawnguard.
• Florentius Baenius has dialogue that indicates the Sun Fire spell can be used to open old Dawnguard caches. While the caches exist, there is nothing linking them to Sun Fire in any way.

Bugs

• This spell will not damage reanimated enemies unless they were classed as undead before being killed. This is due to a missing condition check in the spell's settings (the spell only checks for the ActorTypeUndead keyword instead of also checking the IsUndead condition).
  • The Unofficial Dawnguard Patch, version 2.0.5, fixes this bug.