How do I use my Racial Power?
By Sophia Vance
How do I use Racial Powers in Skyrim? My Dark Elf quickly got ambushed by wolves after the tutorial dungeon, and as the three of them surrounded me, I thought it would be awesome to light myself with the fires of my Ancestors, burning the wolves around me!
I equipped the spell from the magic menu, but it didn't seem to go into either my left or right hand -- so how exactly are we supposed to use them?
13 Answers
To unleash your awesome racial powers, first go to your magic menu. Then, select your power. Finally, unleash it with the Z key . The Z key is also the key that shouts are mapped to, so you can only have one shout or racial selected at a time.
Console equivalents are RB on the Xbox 360, and R2 on the PS3.
1When playing on an xbox with the Kinect you need to depress both the LB and RB.
The shout is mapped to the Z key (on some keyboards like the german one, it's the Y key), you don't need to equip it onto a specific hand. You do however need to activate a shout by absorbing a dragon soul, if you haven't done so yet.
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