Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25990593-20150302073126/@comment-26150634-20150302073652

(Yeah this is Xylas.)

Ok, the basic structure for the gun is simple, a chamber to draw out the raw magical energy from a fully charged soulgem, connected to an inter-changable catalyst to channel and shape the energies and then a system to fire it to a certain setting. would also probaby have some sorta kenetic force launching some metal shard at high velocities outta the barrel. I mean, there is a telekinesis spell after all, so throwing things at high speeds should be an easy thing to figure out. The type of catalyst would determine the additional effect the metal ball/bullet would have on impact, if any.

... well that's the basics of it. the soulgems themselves provide raw magical energies, the enchanting proccess is what gives a regular weapon it's effects, not the soulgem itself, though after an enchant is set a soulgem can be used to recharge the enchantment.

This concept of my basically removes the entire recharge stage, and just draws power directly from the gem instead, so while all soulgems, other than the two speical ones in skyrim Azura's star and it's corrupted counterpart, are one use only, people do collect a bunch of them in their travels now don't they?