Can Lydia fill soul gems?

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition Yes. I always give Lydia a weapon with Soul Trap on it and she does a good job of keeping me supplied with Soul Gems. Just make sure that it is your companion's only weapon, as they don't care whether or not it's enchanted.
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Can a follower fill soul gems?

Taken from the follower article: Followers can fill soul gems on the Dragonborn's behalf - provided they have soul gems in their inventory and a weapon with the Soul Trap enchantment.
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Which creatures fill which soul gems?

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  • Any weak hostile animal or passive animal will go into a petty gem (rabbit, fox, goat, wolf, dog, chicken, mudcrab, slaughterfish, cow, elk, skeever).
  • Any moderately powerful animal or rare passive animal will go into a lesser gem (sabre cat, horse, snow fox, pit wolf, ice wolf, charus).
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Can Lydia use soul trap?

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.
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What is the easiest way to fill soul gems in Skyrim?

Filling Soul Gems necessitates the use of the spell Soul Trap or its similar enchantments on items and weapons. With the spell, you need to cast it on the non-humanoid target before its death so that its soul can be plucked and transferred into the smallest available Soul Gem in your inventory.
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How to Fill Soul Gems in "Skyrim"

Where can I fill soul gems fast?

Enchant your favorite weapon with either Soul Trap of Fiery Soul trap, and then go on a murder spree. Of course, if you don't like killing innocents, I guess you could just go into a bandit camp. Their souls fit into the black gem as well.
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What is the most powerful soul gem in Skyrim?

In descending order from weakest to strongest are the following:
  • Petty Soul Gem.
  • Lesser Soul Gem.
  • Common Soul Gem.
  • Greater Soul Gem.
  • Grand Soul Gem.
  • Black Soul Gem.
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What kills Lydia Skyrim?

Same as any other companion: she can only get killed by three things: your own attacks, an enemy with DoT damage inflicting poison or something on her when she hits 1 HP, or accidentally getting plastered by an attack meant for you.
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What is Lydia best at in Skyrim?

Lydia is primarily a melee-type character and uses no spells. As with some other melee-oriented followers, she has tendency to simply rush into combat, possibly leading to her death.
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Can you turn Lydia into a vampire?

It's possible for the Dragonborn to turn some NPC followers, including Lydia, into a vampire in Skyrim, but it has its upsides and downsides. If players want to turn one of their followers like the housecarl Lydia into a vampire in Skyrim, they should be aware of a few of the process' pros and cons.
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Will a giant fill a black soul gem?

Petty, Lesser, Greater and Grand (white) soul gems are filled by killing various creatures and enemies around Skyrim from skeevers to mammoths and various leveled drauger, etc. Black soul gems can only be filled by killing humans, elves, khajiit or Argonians.
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Who fills a black soul gem Skyrim?

Black soul gems can only be filled with human souls. So you'll have to cast the trap soul gem on a human npc and then kill them. His soul will go in the black soul.
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Are black soul gems better than grand?

Duvain is right, the only advantage Black soul gems have over Grand is that they're more versatile and easy to fill - bandits are everywhere but mammoths and other powerful beasts are rarer, not to mention hard to kill.
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Can you fill empty soul gems Skyrim?

If you've picked up a Soul Gem it's not super intuitive how you're supposed to fill it, or what you're supposed to do with it once it's filled. Soul Gems can be filled with the Soul Trap spell, and you use these gems to enchant weapons, or recharge expended enchanted weapons.
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Can I empty soul gems?

Completely filled Petty, Lesser, Common, and Greater Soul Gems will no longer empty when dropped or put in a container (partially filled Lesser, Common, and Greater Soul Gems will still empty and this is by design so that they may be reused if incompletely filled).
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Does soul tear fill a soul gem?

Effects. This shout may cause a lot of damage by ripping the soul out of an opponent. If the shout kills the opponent, it fills a soul gem, and the opponent is raised from the dead as an ally.
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Who is better Lydia or Serana?

They're both equally terrible for stealth builds, as both will attack the enemy whenever they feel like it. Lydia can get killed doing this; Serana can't (the game deems her essential), but I would advise you to pick up the tome of Necromantic Healing in Dimhallow Crypt so that you can heal her in the future.
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How to make Lydia stronger?

Give her better gear. She'll wear the best armour she has, so it's not hard to get her into dwarven plate, or ebony, or dragonbone. A powerful weapon to match her build (check UESP for her perks) and she'll be much more solid. Is Lydia the best companion in Skyrim?
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Does Lydia prefer heavy or light armor?

She takes anything heavy armor that's better than steel. First, the armor must be better than her default armor. If it is better, you need to make sure it is heavy, because she won't equip light armor, even if it's miles better than the armor she currently has.
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Can I revive Lydia if she dies?

Revive her using a console command.

Open the console and click on her body. A code will appear. Simply type “resurrect” into the console, press enter, and close the console. She will be resurrected.
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Is Lydia dead forever if she dies?

TC, if she dies, she dies. Unless you want to resurrect her each and every time via cheats. If you can find her, and want to keep her, hit the ~ (tilda) key, click her body, and type "resurrect" without the parenthesis.
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How to make Lydia immortal?

Once you have the base ID, enter the command using either 1 to set him/her immortal or 0 to set him/her mortal. For example, setessential a2c8e 1 would set Lydia as immortal.
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What does a black soul gem do?

The main benefit of a black soul gem is that it can capture grand leveled souls from humanoids, whereas those souls cannot normally be captured. These sources tend to be plentiful and easier to kill, compared with common grand level white soul sources, such as mammoths.
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Who should I give Azura's star to?

After acquiring the broken Azura's Star, the Dragonborn can bring it to either Aranea Ienith or Nelacar, both of whom will task them with evicting Malyn Varen's soul from the artifact.
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Where is the best place to fill up soul gems in Skyrim?

Anyone who sells soul gems will sell filled ones. But mages — the Whiterun court wizard is a good first stop — have more of them. Eventually the gems dropped as loot will also be filled some of the time. The greater Dwemer mechanisms tend towards having filled soul gems as loot.
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