Grabbing these gems is considered a crime. In Anuriel's room in Mistveil Keep, there is a sapphire, ruby, and a lesser value gem.

Each gem has approximately a 50% chance to be flawless. In Mercer Frey's house, there is a bowl filled with one of each type of gem.A ruby or flawless ruby can also be found in the throne room in South Shriekwind Bastion.A flawless ruby can be found in the Emperor's bedchambers on board The Katariah.The gems rewarded can be of the flawless quality if the player character's level is high enough. The miscellaneous quest received at Merryfair Farm rewards randomly generated gemstones.Follow the map to the mine and follow the stream across from the cave downstream a bit and it will be on the right. There is a flawless diamond, three flawless garnets, a flawless ruby and a lockbox on a boat directly north of Reachwater Rock just southwest of Sky Haven Temple.Amaund Motierre carries a sapphire, an emerald, and a diamond.It is located sitting on a plate which rests on a shelf in a room that can be accessed from the first room that Hevnoraak's spirit is seen.

A flawless emerald can be found within the ruins of Valthume.

One has the amethyst next to a pile of coins. Another flawless amethyst can be found in Dustman's Cairn during the quest ' Proving Honor.' There are two pedestals in the corridor after the Silver Hand attack.If you did not get these gems when you collected the crown, you can return to Korvanjund and they will still be there. Make sure you save first in case you cannot find them after they fall. Stand facing the bookcase on to the left of the throne and use Unrelenting Force (or Voice of the Emperor if you are playing an Imperial) and the gems (along with a Honed Ancient Nord Sword of Cold and a spell tome for Conjure Flame Atronach) will fall from the roof. When you have collected the Jagged Crown in Korvanjund, there are two flawless diamonds, two emeralds, two flawless garnets, a flawless amethyst, flawless ruby and a flawless sapphire in bowls above the bookcases and in the rafters to the left of the throne.Taking or moving the dagger opens a secret passage through which is the amethyst next to a chest and a health potion. Upon entering the open area where you need to find the switch on the second floor (just after the Nordic puzzle door), look for a table on the second floor with a pedestal and a dagger next to two garnets. There is a flawless amethyst inside a hidden passage in Korvanjund.These gems will respawn after a week in-game. There is a flawless sapphire and a flawless amethyst in the Temple of Dibella in Markarth, inside the inner sanctum on a shelf.On Solstheim there are a number of amethyst, emerald, ruby and sapphire geodes that produce their namesake gemstone.The chests at the top of the guardtowers near the Riften Stables always possess a random gem.Boss chests, miscellaneous chests, chests found in homes and other areas around Skyrim have a good chance to carry at least one gem, regardless of the NPC that owns or guards the chest.Sometimes bandit leaders will carry precious gems, very rarely of the flawless quality.With the addition of Dragonborn, stalhrim deposits contain draugr when mined out, and are a good source for both the valuable crafting material and gems. Draugr that are static containers (I.e., the only possible interaction is to loot them) also have a chance to carry gems. The corpses of draugr sometimes have them.Found in Nordic ruins and various tombs and dungeons, urns are the most common replenishable supply of gems and small amount of. Burial urns will supply a lot of these gems, along with a small amount of.Legendary dragons DG have the highest chance of dropping flawless diamonds. Giants will always carry gems, mostly sapphires and emeralds it seems.The Prowler's Profit ability spawns gems of varying qualities in any container permanently, from only one gem to rarely up to 10 gems in boss chests and dragons. With the acquisition of the Prowler's Profit ability, precious gems of all sorts and all qualities will appear in a large number of places, 100% of the time.There is roughly a 10% chance of receiving a gemstone per piece of extracted ore.

Precious gems