A character sheet for Gems of War, including generic troops. They're sorted by the kingdom the game deems them affiliated with, but in fact, it's possible to encounter them elsewhere as well. Our Dragons Are Different: She's a massive female red dragon who breathes fire and is trying to remember who.
Soul Gems are miscellaneous items which can be used to trap the soul of a dying creature or NPC. The resulting filled soul gems can be used as power sources for enchanted items, either when initially creating custom enchanted items or when recharging depleted enchanted weapons, either of which will consume the soul gem. In addition to the soul gems listed here, the Shivering Isles expansion adds a Soul Tomato that can be used as the equivalent of a grand soul gem.
They can be bought at most magical and alchemical shops.
Name | Soul | ID | Capacity | Notes | ||
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Petty Soul Gem | Empty Petty | 00023D67 000382D1 | 0.1 | 10 40 | 150 | Smallest size of soul gems. |
Lesser Soul Gem | Empty Petty Lesser | 00023D69 000382D2 000382D3 | 0.2 | 25 40 80 | 300 | Second smallest size of soul gems. One Lesser Soul Gem is required for Sheogorath's Daedric quest. |
Common Soul Gem | Empty Petty Lesser Common | 00015B8B 000382D4 000382D5 000382D6 | 0.3 | 50 40 80 150 | 800 | Middle size of soul gems. |
Greater Soul Gem | Empty Petty Lesser Common Greater | 00015B8C 000382D7 000382D8 000382D9 000382DA | 0.4 | 100 40 80 150 350 | 1200 | Second largest size of soul gems. |
Grand Soul Gem | Empty Petty Lesser Common Greater Grand | 00015B8E 000382DB 000382DC 000382DD 000382DE 000382DF | 0.5 | 200 40 80 150 350 500 | 1600 | Largest size of soul gems. Five empty Grand Soul Gems are required for the Vampire Cure quest. |
Black Soul Gem | Empty Grand Empty Empty | 00000192 000382E0 0003C7FC 0001EC14 | 0.5 0.5 0 0.5 | 500 1200 0 500 | 1600 | Special soul gems that can capture NPC souls as well as creatures; see Black Soul Gems for details.
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Note: These IDs and values are set at the time you acquire a soul gem, and do not get changed when you fill the soul gem with a soul. In other words, if you pick up an empty grand soul gem, its value will be 200 gold. That value does not change when you fill it. Therefore, you can end up with grand soul gems containing grand souls with two different values, both 200 gold and 500 gold.
Regular Soul Gems can only trap creatures, not NPCs (note that some creatures, like Dremora, are actually classed as NPCs). Necromancy has researched the rituals necessary to create Black Soul Gems that are capable of trapping the souls of NPCs. The details of those rituals are described on the page describing Black Soul Gems.
Once you have a filled Black Soul Gem, it is used exactly like a regular Soul Gem. A Black Soul Gem can hold as much as a Grand Soul Gem (1600), but it is much easier to fill since any humanoid is 1600 units.
Azura's Star is essentially the most powerful Soul Gem in the game, and can be obtained by completing Azura's Daedric Quest. Its quality is the same as a Grand Soul Gem; however, it has infinite uses and it is not used up after enchanting or recharging. It cannot be turned into a Black Soul Gem, and thus cannot hold NPC souls. See the page on Azura's Star for more details.
These are the only guaranteed locations of empty soul gems. Any others come from random lists.
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† These soul gems are only accessible during the Vampire Cure quest.
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Publisher | Marvel Comics |
First appearance | Soul Gem: Marvel Premiere #1 (April 1972); Mind Gem: Captain Marvel #41 (Nov. 1975); Power & Time Gem: Marvel Team-Up #55 (Mar. 1977); All six Gems: Avengers Annual #7 (1977). as The Infinity Gauntlet: The Silver Surfer Vol. 3 #44 (Dec. 1990) |
In story information | |
Type | Jewels |
Element of stories featuring | Adam Warlock; Thanos |
The Infinity Gems (originally referred to as Soul Gems and later as Infinity Stones) are six gems appearing in Marvel Comics. The six gems are the Mind, Power, Reality, Soul, Space, and Time Gems. In later storylines, crossovers and other media, a seventh gem has also been included. The Gems have been used by various characters in the Marvel Universe.
The gems play a prominent role in the first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where they are referred to as the Infinity Stones.
The first appearance of an Infinity Gem occurred in 1972 in Marvel Premiere #1. It was originally called a 'Soul Gem'.[1][2] In 1976, a second 'Soul Gem' appeared in a Captain Marvel story which established that there were six Soul Gems, each with different powers.[3] One year later, two more 'Soul Gems' were introduced in a Warlock crossover involving Spider-Man.[2] The full set of six Gems appeared when the death-obsessed villain Thanos attempted to use them to extinguish every star in the universe.[2][4] In a 1988 storyline in Silver Surfer vol. 3, the Elders of the Universe tried to use the 'Soul Gems' to steal the energy of the world-eating entity Galactus.[2]
In the 1990 limited series The Thanos Quest, Thanos refers to the entire set as 'Infinity Gems' for the first time. In this storyline, he steals the Gems for the second time and reveals the Gems to be the last remains of an omnipotent being.[5] Thanos then places all six gems within his left gauntlet.[6][full citation needed] In the miniseries The Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos uses the Gems to become nearly omnipotent and kills half the universe's population as a gift to his love, the cosmic embodiment of Death. Although he easily repels an attack by Earth's heroes and other cosmic entities including Eternity, the Gauntlet is eventually stolen from him by Nebula, who undoes the last 24 hours, including his mass killings. Adam Warlock then recovers the Gauntlet and, by order of the Living Tribunal, divides the Gems among a group he calls 'the Infinity Watch', consisting of himself, the superheroes Gamora, Pip the Troll, Drax the Destroyer, Moondragon, and his former adversary Thanos. The group's adventures in defending the Gems appear in the series Warlock and the Infinity Watch (1992–1995).[7]
The Gems are next gathered by Warlock's evil alter ego, the Magus, in the 1992 limited series The Infinity War, where he is defeated by Warlock and Earth's heroes, including Thanos.[8] In the 1993 limited series The Infinity Crusade, the embodiment of Warlock's goodness, the Goddess, attempts to destroy evil in the universe by destroying free will. The Gems are then once again retrieved by the Infinity Watch.[9]
In a story arc of the Thanos series (2003–2004), Galactus gathers the six Gems but accidentally allows an interdimensional entity named Hunger access to the Marvel universe. Thanos and Galactus banish the entity and the Gems are scattered again with the exception of the Soul Gem, which Thanos retains for its customary custodian Adam Warlock.[10] In New Avengers: Illuminati, a 2007–2008 limited series, a cabal of Earth's heroes gather the Gems and attempt to wish them out of existence but discover that they must exist as part of the cosmic balance. Instead, the Illuminati divide and hide the Gems.[11]
In a 2010 Avengers storyline, the human criminal known as the Hood steals several Gems but is defeated by use of the remaining Gems; the Illuminati attempt to hide them again.[12][13][14][full citation needed] The Illuminati later wield the Gems to stop another universe from collapsing into their own but the Gems are shattered by the effort.[15][full citation needed] Afterwards, the previously vanished Time Gem appears to Captain America and some of the Avengers and transports them into future realities, shattering time in the process.[16][full citation needed]
As a result of the Incursions, the entire Multiverse is destroyed. However, Doctor Doom combines fragments of several alternate realities into Battleworld. Doctor Strange gathers Infinity Gems from various realities into a new Infinity Gauntlet, which he leaves hidden until the surviving heroes of Earth-616 return.[citation needed] The Gauntlet is subsequently claimed by T'Challa (the Black Panther), who uses it to keep the Beyonder-enhanced Doom occupied until Mister Fantastic can disrupt his power source.[citation needed]
Following the recreation of the Multiverse, the Infinity Gems (now known as the Infinity Stones) are recreated and scattered across the universe, with their colors switched and some taking on uncut ingot forms. In Marvel Legacy #1, the Space Stone (now colored blue) appears on Earth where a Frost Giant working for Loki steals it from a S.H.I.E.L.D. storage facility, however he is intercepted and defeated by a resurrected Wolverine.[17]Star-Lord discovers an extra-large Power Stone (now colored purple) being protected by the Nova Corps,[18][full citation needed] and an alternate universe Peter Quill named Starkill has the Reality Stone (now colored red).[19][full citation needed] A future version of Ghost Rider is revealed to possess a shard of the Time Stone (now colored green),[20][full citation needed] while in the present the complete stone restores the ruined planet of Sakaar and is claimed by the Super-Skrull.[citation needed] The Mind Stone (now colored yellow) is found on Earth in the hands of petty crook Turk Barrett,[21] and the Soul Stone (now colored orange) is mentioned to Adam Warlock to be in the hands of his dark aspect, the Magus;[22][full citation needed] however, Ultron is able to claim it after ambushing and killing him.[21][full citation needed] The Stones are shown to have a pocket universe existing within each of them.[23] Adam Warlock uses the Soul Stone to grant sentience to each of the Stones, which then travel the universe, finding a suitable host and bonding with them.[24]
Each Gem is shaped like a small oval[25] and is named after, and represents, a different characteristic of existence.[citation needed] Possessing any single Gem grants the user the ability to command whatever aspect of existence the Gem represents.[citation needed] The Gems are not immutable.[26] For instance, on two occasions, one or more of the Gems have appeared as deep pink spheres several feet in diameter,[3][27] while on other occasions, the Gems have appeared in their small oval shape but with different coloring. (e.g. the Soul Gem being colored red when worn by the Gardener).[28] In the Ultraverse, after merging into their original form of Nemesis, the Gems were again separated after a battle with Ultraforce and the Avengers.[29] As part of the Marvel Legacy initiative, the Infinity Gems (now known as the Infinity Stones), had their colors altered to match the colors of the Infinity Stones from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.[30]The six Infinity Gems include:
Name | Original color (1972–2016) | Marvel Legacy color (2017–present) | Powers and capabilities | Known users | Pocket universe (2018–present) |
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Soul | Green | Orange | Allows the user to steal, control, manipulate, and alter living and dead souls. The Soul Gem also acts as a gateway to an idyllic pocket universe. At full potential, when backed by the Power Gem, the Soul Gem grants the user control over all life in the universe. | High Evolutionary; Adam Warlock; Gardener; In-Betweener; Thanos; Nebula; Count Abyss; Magus; Rune; Gemini; Syphonn; Galactus; Doctor Strange; Magus; Ultron; Requiem; Loki | Soul World: the final resting place for all lost spirits. Overseen by Devondra, an inter-dimensional parasite. |
Time | Orange | Green | Allows the user to see into the past and the future; stop, slow down, speed up or reverse the flow of time; travel through time; change the past and the future; age and de-age beings, and trap people or entire universes in unending loops of time. At full potential, when backed by the Power Gem, the Time Gem grants the user omniscience and total control over the past, present, and future. | Gardener; Thanos; Nebula; Adam Warlock; Gamora; Doctor Strange; Maxam; Magus; Rune; Hardcase; Galactus; Namor; Thor; Mister Fantastic; Iron Man; Black Widow; Kl'rt; Requiem; Ant-Man; Loki | Ellipsis: manipulates the flow of time for anyone within it. |
Space | Purple | Blue | Allows the user to exist in any location; move any object anywhere throughout reality; warp or rearrange space; teleport themselves and others; increase their speed, and alter the distance between objects contrary to the laws of physics. At full potential, when backed by the Power Gem, the Space Gem grants the user omnipresence. | Runner; Thanos; Nebula; Adam Warlock; Pip the Troll; Magus; Rune; Galactus; Iron Man; Hood; Namor; Black Panther; Wolverine; Black Widow; Requiem; Hulk; Loki | The Vast: an endless expanse of empty existence stretching on into forever. |
Mind | Blue | Yellow | Allows the user to enhance their mental and psionic abilities and access the thoughts and dreams of other beings. At full potential, when backed by the Power Gem, the Mind Gem can access all minds in existence simultaneously. The Mind Gem is also the manifestation of the universal subconscious. | Grandmaster; Thanos; Nebula; Adam Warlock; Moondragon; Magus; Rune; Primevil; Galactus; Professor X; Hood; Ms. Marvel; Beast; Turk Barrett; Requiem; Kamala Khan; Loki, Vision | The Mindscape: allows the user to bring anything they imagine or dream of to life. Home to the Sleepwalkers. |
Reality | Yellow | Red | Allows the user to fulfill their wishes, even if the wish is in direct contradiction with scientific laws, and do things that would normally be impossible. At full potential, when backed by the other five Gems, the Reality Gem allows the user to alter reality on a universal scale and also create any type of alternate reality the user wishes. | Stranger; Collector; Thanos; Nebula; Adam Warlock; Rune; Night Man; Galactus; Black Bolt; Hood; Iron Man; Black Widow; Vision; Carol Danvers; Requiem; Kang the Conqueror; Loki | World Pool: used to access alternate realities, which are portrayed as an endless comic book collection. Overseen by Archivus, the chronicler of the Multiverse. |
Power | Red | Purple | Allows the user to access and manipulate all forms of energy; enhance their physical strength and durability; enhance any superhuman ability; and boost the effects of the other five Gems. At full potential, the Power Gem grants the user omnipotence. | Champion of the Universe; Thanos; Nebula; Adam Warlock; Drax the Destroyer; Thor; Magus; Rune; Lord Pumpkin; Galactus; She-Hulk; Titania; Mister Fantastic; Hood; Red Hulk; Xiambor; Namor; The Juggernaut; Nova Corps; Star-Lord; Requiem; Emma Frost; Loki | The Arena: resembles a Colosseum where heroes fight each other in a contest of might. Ruled by Dynamus, the living embodiment of the Power Cosmic. |
Additional Gems have appeared in crossover media and alternate universes outside the Marvel Universe, often comedic in nature.
Name | Color | Powers and capabilities | Known owners |
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Ego | White | The Ego Gem contains the consciousness of the cosmic entity Nemesis and recreates her when united with the other six Gems. The Ego Gem is found in the Ultraverse when the Asgardian god Loki attempts to steal the other six Gems. | Sersi; Nemesis |
Rhythm | Pink | A seventh, fake 'Rhythm Gem' is created by Loki as part of a scheme in the Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet video game. | Loki; Enchantress; Thanos |
Build | Red | In the Lego Marvel Super Heroes - Guardians of the Galaxy: The Thanos Threat animated film, a seventh Build Stone exists. Thanos seeks to possess the Build Stone in order to build a weapon. | |
Death | Yellow | In The Infinity Gauntlet 2015 limited series, released as part of the Secret Wars crossover event, Anwen Bakian uses the Reality Stone to create the Death Stone. Anwen gives it to Thanos, and it corrupts him with black matter and turns him to dust. | Anwen Bakian; Thanos |
Continuity | Black | In an issue of the Deadpool comic series, Deadpool gets his hands on the Continuity Stone, which gives the characters the power to talk to the comic book writers themselves.[citation needed] | Deadpool |
The Reed Richards of Earth-616, in an attempt to 'solve everything', meets with a council of alternate universeReeds. Three of them wear Infinity Gauntlets, which only work in their respective universes.[31][full citation needed]
During the 'Incursion' storyline, the Avengers travel to a parallel Earth where a pastiche of the Justice League have replaced this Earth's Avengers who all died in a previous cataclysm. Here the Gems are all square planes which are assembled into the 'Wishing Cube', a composite of the concepts of the Infinity Gems and the Cosmic Cube.[32]
After various alternate universes are combined into Battleworld, Doctor Strange gathers Infinity Gems from other universes into a new Infinity Gauntlet that works in the area where Doom has built his palace. Strange leaves the Gauntlet hidden until he has access to someone he can trust it with. After his death, the Gauntlet is claimed by T'Challa,[33][full citation needed] who uses it against Doom in the final battle.[34][full citation needed][35][full citation needed]
A separate section of Battleworld known as New Xandar also has a Gauntlet fought over by multiple factions until the majority of the Stones, except the Reality Stone, were taken by Thanos.[36] Thanos eventually tracks the missing Stone to Nova Corps member Anwen Bakian. When Thanos confronts her to get the Stone, Anwen gives him a duplicate of the Reality Stone she created called the 'Death Stone'. When used along with the other five Stones, the Death Stone corrupts Thanos with black matter and turns him to dust.[37]
In the Ultimate Marvel universe, an Infinity Gauntlet is seen in Project Pegasus.[38] The Mind Gem (stolen by Hydra) is used by Modi (Thor's son) to control both Director Flumm and Cassie Lang, but are stopped by the Ultimates.[39][full citation needed] The Power Gem is later revealed to be in the possession of former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Sayuri Kyota, while a second Infinity Gauntlet is recovered from an A.I.M. base by Thor and Susan Storm.[40][full citation needed]Kang the Conqueror later allies himself with the Hulk, Reed Richards and Quicksilver as part of a plan to steal the two Gauntlets, which results in the destruction of the Triskelion. Quicksilver recovers two additional Gems allowing the villains to teleport away.[41][full citation needed] Richards is later able to recover another of the Gems, which is found lodged in Tony Stark's brain. He informs Stark that the Infinity Gems are needed to save the world from a coming cataclysm that will destroy the entire universe.[42][full citation needed] After brainwashing Johnny Storm and forcing him to travel to the Earth's core, the Dark Ultimates are able to recover the final gem,[43][full citation needed] but are defeated by the Ultimates. The gems then shatter, rendering the Gauntlets useless.[44][full citation needed]
In a reality where Doctor Doom retained the power of the Beyonder, Doom acquired the Infinity Gems from the Elders of the Universe and used them to defeat the Celestials in a 407-year-long war before finally forsaking his power.[45][full citation needed]
In an alternate reality where the original Fantastic Four died, a new Fantastic Four – consisting of Spider-Man, Hulk, Wolverine, and Ghost Rider – was formed. With Iron Man replacing Ghost Rider, they were the only heroes available to fight Thanos when he initially assembled the Infinity Gauntlet. Despite Iron Man's use of Negative Zone-enhanced Celestial armor, Thanos still easily defeated the team until Wolverine tricked Thanos into erasing Mephisto from existence before cutting off Thanos's left arm, and therefore the Infinity Gauntlet. With Thanos powerless, Spider-Man used the gauntlet to undo the events of Thanos's godhood.[46][full citation needed]
In the Contest of Champions miniseries, an alternate version of Tony Stark uses the Reality Gem to win the superhero civil war and affect the outcome of a presidential election. When he tries to use the Gem on Battleworld, he is killed by the Maestro, who says the Gems do not work in any universe other than their own.[47][full citation needed]
The Infinity Stones are significant in the first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), playing important roles in several films. In the film Guardians of the Galaxy, the Collector explains that the Stones are the remnants of six singularities that existed before the Big Bang, which were compressed into Stones by cosmic entities after the universe began and were dispersed throughout the cosmos. In Avengers: Infinity War, it is further explained by Wong and Stephen Strange to Tony Stark and Bruce Banner that each stone embodies and controls an essential aspect of existence.
In order of introduction, they are:
The Infinity Gauntlet appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. A right-handed gauntlet appears in the film Thor, where it is stored in Odin's vault;[49] this gauntlet was later revealed to be a fake in Thor: Ragnarok.[66] In the mid-credits scene of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Thanos acquires a left-handed gauntlet, which is the real Infinity Gauntlet.[67]Avengers: Infinity War reveals the Infinity Gauntlet was created by Eitri under duress by Thanos, before the latter killed Eitri's people and crippled his hands to prevent him from creating anything else. In Avengers: Endgame, after Thanos wipes out half of all life in the universe - in what is now known as 'The Decimation' (colloquially referred to as the 'Blip') - and destroyed the Stones, the Avengers create a new right-handed gauntlet using Stark's nanotechnology in order to use the Stones acquired from the past. Bruce Banner uses the Stones to reverse the Blip due to him being immune to the gamma radiation that the Stones' combined powers emit. Immediately afterwards, the Avengers are besieged by Thanos and his army from 2014, with Thanos now intending to use the Stones to destroy the universe and build it anew, while erasing all memory of the original. In the ensuing battle, Tony Stark sacrifices himself by using the Stones in the Stark-made gauntlet to Blip Thanos and his forces from existence. After Stark's funeral, the Avengers task Steve Rogers with returning the Stones to the times and places they'd come from. He does so with his last stop having him stay in the 1940s with Peggy Carter as they grow old together.