Close Wounds

School	Restoration
Level	Adept
Magicka Cost	126
Casting	Fire and Forget
Delivery	Self
Effect	Heals the caster 100 points.
Duration	-
Perk	Adept Restoration (1)
Spell Tome	Spell Tome: Close Wounds
Game/DLC	Skyrim

Close Wounds is the Adept healing spell in Restoration. It restores 100 points of health in one burst after a short charge. It heals more for its cost than Fast Healing.

Close Wounds belongs to the middle of the game, once Restoration reaches the Adept rank. Colette Marence at the College of Winterhold sells the tome. It can also be a reward for the quest Pilgrimage.

Spell Tome

Close Wounds is learned by reading Spell Tome: Close Wounds. Colette Marence sells the tome. The spell is also taught during Pilgrimage.

How It Plays

Close Wounds is a fire and forget spell cast on the caster. It needs a short charge, then the whole heal lands at once. One cast restores a large chunk of health, which can turn a losing fight around.

The other hand stays free while the spell sits ready. A warrior can keep a sword or a shield in one hand and Close Wounds in the other. A mage can pair it with a Destruction spell.

Compared with Other Healing Spells

Close Wounds is the most efficient healing spell for most characters. It gives more health for each point of magicka than Fast Healing.

Grand Healing, the Expert spell, heals twice as much and also heals every ally nearby. It costs about twice as much magicka. A caster who travels alone often keeps Close Wounds as the main heal for the rest of the game.

Perks and Builds

The Adept Restoration perk halves the cost of Close Wounds. Regeneration makes every healing spell stronger, and Respite lets healing spells restore stamina too. Restoration Dual Casting overcharges the spell into a much bigger heal when it sits in both hands.

A vampire with the Necromage perk gets a stronger heal from Close Wounds, since spells cast on an undead caster grow stronger. Sailor's Repose, the reward for the Frostflow Abyss quest, adds 10% to every healing spell.

Training Restoration

Restoration only rises when a healing spell restores health that was really lost. Close Wounds restores a lot at once, so each cast after real damage gives a good amount of experience. Pairing it with Equilibrium, which turns health into magicka, gives a steady training loop.

Cost and Efficiency

Close Wounds costs 126 magicka at a skill of zero for 100 points of health. Healing costs 12 magicka per second for 10 points per second. Once a caster has more than a small magicka bar, Close Wounds gives the most health for each point of magicka of any self heal.

The spell takes only half a second to charge. Its one weakness next to Healing is that it must be charged before each cast, so it cannot run on in the background. With the Regeneration perk, each cast restores 150 points.

Quest Background

The quest Pilgrimage can award the tome. Alessandra, the priestess of Arkay who tends the Hall of the Dead in Riften, asks for help in making peace with her late father. She hands over her ceremonial dagger and asks for it to be taken to Andurs at the Hall of the Dead in Whiterun, where her father lies.

Andurs promises to place the dagger with the father's remains. Back in Riften, Alessandra rewards the helper with a Restoration spell tome. A character with Restoration of 40 or more can receive Close Wounds this way.

Followers Who Cast It

Marcurio, the hired mage at the Bee and Barb in Riften, knows Close Wounds along with Fast Healing.

Gameplay Tips

The Regeneration perk raises the healing to 150 points.
The Respite perk makes the spell restore stamina as well.

Spell Categories

All Restoration Spells

Novice

Novice spells are the first a mage learns and cost the least magicka.

Name	Image	Cost	Casting	Effect
Healing		12 per second	Concentration	Heals the caster 10 points per second.
Lesser Ward		34 per second	Concentration	Increases armor rating by 40 points and negates up to 40 points of spell damage or effects.

Apprentice

Apprentice spells need a little practice in the school.

Name	Cost	Casting	Effect
Fast Healing	73	Fire and Forget	Heals the caster 50 points.
Healing Hands	25 per second	Concentration	Heals the target 10 points per second, but not undead, atronachs or machines.
Steadfast Ward	58 per second	Concentration	Increases armor rating by 60 points and negates up to 60 points of spell damage or effects.
Turn Lesser Undead	84	Fire and Forget	Undead up to level 6 flee for 30 seconds.
Necromantic Healing	37 per second	Concentration	Heals the undead target 10 points per second, but not the living, atronachs or machines.
Sun Fire	24	Fire and Forget	Ball of sunlight that does 25 points of damage to undead.

Adept

Adept spells are the middle rank and hit noticeably harder.

Name	Cost	Casting	Effect
Close Wounds	126	Fire and Forget	Heals the caster 100 points.
Greater Ward	86 per second	Concentration	Increases armor rating by 80 points and negates up to 80 points of spell damage or effects.
Heal Other	80	Fire and Forget	Heals the target 75 points, but not undead, atronachs or machines.
Repel Lesser Undead	115	Fire and Forget	All affected undead up to level 8 flee for 30 seconds.
Turn Undead	168	Fire and Forget	Undead up to level 13 flee for 30 seconds.
Heal Undead	115	Fire and Forget	Heals the undead target 75 points, but not the living, atronachs or machines.
Stendarr's Aura	248	Fire and Forget	For 60 seconds, undead in melee range take 10 points sun damage per second.
Vampire's Bane	72	Fire and Forget	Sunlight explosion that does 40 points of damage in a 15 foot radius to undead.
Poison Rune	246	Fire and Forget	Targets that fail to resist take 3 points of poison damage per second for 30 seconds.

Expert

Expert spells are powerful and expensive to cast.

Name	Cost	Casting	Effect
Circle of Protection	171	Fire and Forget	Undead up to level 20 entering the circle will flee.
Grand Healing	254	Fire and Forget	Heals everyone close to the caster 200 points.
Repel Undead	353	Fire and Forget	All affected undead up to level 16 flee for 30 seconds.
Turn Greater Undead	267	Fire and Forget	Undead up to level 21 flee for 30 seconds.

Master

Master spells are the strongest in the school and need the most skill.

Name	Image	Cost	Casting	Effect
Bane of the Undead		988	Fire and Forget	Sets undead up to level 30 on fire and makes them flee for 30 seconds.
Guardian Circle		716	Fire and Forget	Undead up to level 35 entering the circle will flee. Caster heals 20 health per second inside it.