The Ritual Stone
Map
Constellation
Hold	Whiterun
Location	East of Whiterun
Description	Once a day, those under the sign of The Ritual can reanimate nearby corpses to fight for them.
Effect	Raise all nearby dead enemies to fight for you for once a day

The Ritual Stone is a Guardian Stone located in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Contents 1 Effects 2 Location 3 Armor and item duplication exploit 4 Trivia

EffectsEdit

This stone allows the Dragonborn to re-animate any nearby corpses to fight for them once a day.

The ability granted by the stone is not actually a simple resurrection spell that reanimates a single dead body, but rather a large resurrection field that expands out from around the player, resurrecting all corpses in its radius for 60 seconds.

Once the time has elapsed, the re-animated will behave similar to a Dead Thrall and fall to the ground.

LocationEdit

The Ritual Stone is found east of Whiterun, between Whiterun and the Valtheim Towers (south of the river), possibly guarded by a hostile necromancer and two Skeletons.

Armor and item duplication exploitEdit

An exploit to duplicate almost all items and armor on almost any corpse is available by using The Ritual Stone. The following steps explain how this can be achieved:

1. Remove all items from a corpse.
2. Cast the Ritual Stone power.
3. Once the corpse is reanimated either walk into to a different zone or fast travel to a new location.
4. Upon arrival at the new location the reanimated corpse will have all items/apparel that they originally had in their inventory.
5. Kill the reanimated and retrieve the duplicated items from the corpse.

This exploit is confirmed to also work on Unique Armors such as General Tullius' Armor. Furthermore, weapons do not seem to respawn on corpses when transitioning between zones.

This exploit is also possible via the Dead Thrall spell.

TriviaEdit

• Reanimated Corpses can fast travel with their summoner, but will usually die immediately upon arrival.