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In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360, there is some debate as to what is better, The Black Star or Azura’s Star.

Black Soul Gems are a special type of soul gem that, unlike conventional ones, can contain both black and white souls. Black souls are those of sentient, humanoid beings such as Men, Mer, Argonians, Khajiit, and Dremora, whereas white souls are those of animals and certain lesser Daedra. Black Soul Gems and Grand Soul Gems are essentially the same thing. One just captures White Souls (Grand Soul Gem) while the other captures Black Souls (Black Soul Gem.) Here are my personal enchants. If you have a empty grand and lesser soul gem, a lesser soul will always be put in the lesser soul gem. If by chance you accidentally fill a larger soul gem with a lesser soul, you can drop it to the ground and pick it back up. Dropping soul gems to the ground causes them to lose the stored soul and this prevents the waste of larger gems filled.

Both of these special soul gems can trap any size of creature, and is never broken or consumed when you fill an item with it, essentially giving you infinite grand soul gems, however The Black Star is only supposed to trap humanoid creatures, and Azura’s Star is only supposed to trap non-humanoids.

The major difference however is that The Black Star is currently bugged and will trap any soul for all creatures, including non-humanoids. This makes The Black Star immensely better than Azura’s Star, at least until it is patched (which may be a while since it’s not exactly game breaking).

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Personally though, even without the bug, I would prefer The Black Star since there is an abundance of humanoids in the game, and any human trapped in The Black Star regardless of level is an automatic Grand Soul Gem.

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To get The Black Star or Azura’s Star, you need to start the quest called The Black Star. Speak to Araneas at the Shrine of Azura, which is in the mountains directly south of Winterhold. Once the quest is complete, you will have the choice to return the broken Azura’s Star to Araneas or to a man named Nelacar in Winterhold. Returning it to Araneas yields Azura’s Star, and returning it to Nelacar will yield The Black Star.