A Petty soul will never be placed in a Lesser or Common (or larger) gem unless you literally have no empty Petty gems in your inventory at the moment of capture. Specifically it checks (a) whether you have actually any soul gems of that type, and then (b) whether the soul is small enough to fit into it, and if EITHER check fails, it moves on to the next larger size of gem until it finds a soul gem that you own which is actually large enough. In other words, when soul-trapping a creature, the game checks through all the soul gem sizes, from Petty to Lesser to Common to Greater to Grand to Black. The previous poster is incorrect about "the vanilla system doesn't always route souls to the appropriate gems": in fact it always does, the captured soul will go to the SMALLEST SOUL GEM IN YOUR POSSESSION CAPABLE OF HOLDING IT.
This is unlike Morrowind, where you could enchant items while travelling (and, admittedly, most likely fail unless you selected a very simple and very weak enchantment.) Azura's Star is primarily useful for being able to perpetually recharge an enchanted weapon that you keep on using, while out in the field: not for bringing tons of souls of all kinds back to the enchanting table to actually gain enchanting experience (and, while at it, extra gold and Speechcraft experience from selling the enchanted items.) For that, you're going to need to carry a variety of soul gems at all times. That's why the game doesn't let you disenchant something whose enchantment you already know: you wouldn't gain anything from it.Īlso, trying to use Azura's Star all the time to enchant stuff, while not owning any other soul gems, runs into the problem that this means you can only carry one soul back to the enchanting table in any one visit. If you were able to disenchant an item whose enchantment you already knew, you would of course not be learning anything new, so it would be correct for the game to give you no XP for it. When you disenchant an item, the XP gain is not from the fact of disenchanting the item, but from the fact of learning a new enchantment from it.
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