Complete Merry Quests & Earn Special Rewards During the New Life Festival Event!
Spread holiday cheer while enjoying bonus XP gains and seasonal rewards during this year’s New Life Festival.
Warm Wishes for a Happy Holiday
The 2023 New Life Festival in-game event begins Thursday, December 21, 2023, at 10AM EST, and continues until Wednesday, January 9, 2024, at 10AM EST. During this year’s festivities, you can earn a variety of jolly rewards including New Life Boxes, XP boosts, Event Tickets, and more. Find Breda in Eastmarch to begin
During the New Life Festival, you will automatically enjoy a 100% boost to XP gain whenever you log into the game, with no extra steps required! If you’d like to join the party and toast the passing of another year, complete the New Life Festival’s introductory quest and collect Breda’s Bottomless Mead Mug memento via the following steps:
Open the Crown Store and acquire the free quest, “The New Life Festival.”
You can also pick up this quest by speaking with Breda at the New Life Festival tent in Eastmarch.
You can instantly transport yourself to Breda by using the portal located at any Impresario tent location.
<*>Complete the introductory quest to receive the Breda’s Bottomless Mead Mug memento.
You won’t need to acquire Breda’s Bottomless Mead Mug if you finished the quest during a previous year.
<*>Enjoy your endless supply of winter spiced mead! After wrapping up the event’s introductory quest, you’ll unlock 10 special New Life Festival daily quests: nine from Breda and one from Petronius Galenus. The pair will task you to travel across the vastness of Tamriel and share seasonal merriment with its denizens.
Good Deeds, Great Rewards
Whenever you complete one of the 10 daily quests, you’ll be rewarded with a New Life Festival Box. Contained inside these seasonal cases is the chance to receive the following rewards:
Assortments of alchemy crafting materials
New Life Festival Toys:
Sword Swallower Kit
Juggling Knives
Fire-Breather’s Torches
Mudballs
Wolfsbane Incense
One of the following:
A Skinchanger motif page
New Life Festival Recipes
New Life Furnishings
Deep Winter Charity Writs
Imperial Charity Writs
A chance for one of the following:
An Evergreen outfit style page
NEW A Morningstar Frostwear outfit style page
If you’ve already earned a Morningstar Frostwear page that day, an Evergreen outfit style page or a Nord Carved armor outfit style page will be given instead
Earn a new armor style
Impresario & Event Tickets
The first New Life Festival daily quest you complete each day rewards three Event Tickets in addition to the reward box. You can earn up to a colossal 60 Event Tickets by the event’s end! Don’t forget that you can only ever hold up to 12 Event Tickets in your inventory at once.
During the New Life Festival, the Impresario will update her stock with the following items:
All three Passion Dancer Blossom pet fragments
All components for this year’s morphing collectibles:
Passion’s Muse personality
Meadowbreeze Memories skin
Passion Dancer Garment costume
All three Hoardhunter Ursauk mount fragments
Blessed Honeycomb
Gilded and Dyed Saddle
Sorcerous Golden Ink
Bound style pages for the following:
NEW Morningstar Frostwear pages
New Life Festival Grab Bag
Mud Ball Pouch memento
Nordic Bather’s Towel costume
Colovian Fur Hood hat
Colovian Filigreed Hood hat
Sword-Swallower’s Blade memento
Juggler’s Knives memento
Fire-Breather’s Torches memento
Snowball Buddy pet
Powderwhite Coney pet
Impresario Group Repair Kits
Companion Guild Commendations
The New Life Festival is also your last chance to pick up the third fragment needed to construct this year’s final event Morphing Collectible, the Hoardhunter Ursauk mount! The Hoardhunter Ursauk
Additionally, the Impresario’s colleague, Nenulaure the Indrik Vendor, has the following items available for purchase with Event Tickets:
Nascent Indrik Feathers
Pure Snow Indrik Berries
Crimson Indrik Berries
Frost-Light Indrik Pet
Rosethorn Indrik Pet
Lastly, the Impresario’s Assistant is offering the following, which you can also acquire with Event Tickets:
Unstable Morpholith fragments
Deadlands Flint
Rune-Etched Striker
Smoldering Bloodgrass Tinder
Dagonic Quasigriff fragments
Smoke-Wreathed Gryphon Feather
Black Iron Bit
Bridle Black Iron Stirrups
Tamriel Rings in the New Year
As this year draws to a close, you can send 2023 off in merry style during the New Life Festival and collect some special event rewards as you do. How do you plan to spend the holidays in ESO? Let us know and be sure to share any fun New Life-themed creations with us via X (Formerly Twitter), Instagram, or Facebook.
The New Life Festival in-game event begins this Thursday, December 21 at 10AM EST, and continues until Wednesday, January 9 at 10AM EST.
Studio Director’s Letter: ESO’s 2023 Retrospective & the Future
Matt Firor, ZeniMax Online Studio’s Studio Director, breaks down a special year for The Elder Scrolls Online and discusses its future.
Greetings everyone—it’s time to look back at ESO in 2023 and look forward to 2024.
In 2023, our #1 priority—besides shipping Necrom and Infinite Archive—was to make the service more stable. The hardware refresh of all game servers finished in 2023, and even though we have some more non-player-facing hardware swaps to go, we are all reaping the benefits of more modern and powerful servers powering ESO’s infrastructure. We also have refined our processes to ensure that updates launch with fewer issues, and for the great majority of situations, we achieved that. We did have longer downtimes than usual a few times due to the hardware refresh, but looking back, I’m pretty happy with where things are—especially after our Epic Games Store launch in July, where we saw our highest monthly active user numbers since 2015.
Necrom was our highest-rated Chapter (in some ratings, highest since Summerset), and shows our commitment to amazing storytelling. I’m especially happy with how the Apocrypha zone turned out. Adding to the Elder Scrolls lore on Daedric realms is something we take great pride in, and I think we nailed the combination of obsession with knowledge and creepy visuals that are the hallmark of Hermaeus Mora. And for the first time in a few years, the story will continue in 2024, as the 2023 story (no spoilers here!) ended on a cliffhanger.
And wrapping up 2023, we launched Infinite Archive, adding a challenging, repeatable game mode to ESO. This is a type of content that we want to do more of in the future: really fun, challenging experiences with great rewards that players can enjoy for a long time. ESO is always about great storytelling, so we won’t abandon story quests and content, but we will balance it out with more systems like dungeons, trials, and special new content like Infinite Archive.
Looking forward to 2024, the obvious first thing to note is that April 4, 2024, is ESO’s 10-year anniversary, marking a decade since we launched on PC/Mac. Reaching this milestone with the game in such great shape will be an amazing achievement—and we will celebrate with both in-game and real-life events. You already know about the first two: our 10-Year Anniversary community event in Amsterdam in April and a 10-Year Anniversary-themed ESO Tavern in Germany from July 13-14. Stay tuned for more information about all these events, and I certainly hope to see you in person at one or more of them!
Also, I remind you that April 4, 2024, is the 10-year anniversary of the PC/Mac launch, but many of you didn’t join the community until June 2015, at ESO's massive console launch. As such, we are considering the entirety of April 2024 through July 2025 as our 10-year anniversary period, and we will fill it as much as we can with special events, retrospectives, and lots of other fun stuff to celebrate you, our community, and the ESO dev team. We can’t wait to share all of this with you when we are ready.
Next year will kick off with a Global Reveal show in January, and we are excited to continue the story from last year but in a different part of Tamriel. It's going to be great, and we have some new systems that I think everyone will want to hear about. I'm not going to spoil it now, but you should definitely look out for the Global Reveal announcement and mark your calendars!
Finally, I'd like to take a moment to talk about all of us in the ESO community. Now that we are a year or so past the pandemic, it's good to take stock of where we are and where we want to go.
ESO is in a great place—enjoyed by millions. In fact, almost two million of you joined ESO last year, not counting the players enjoying the game for free from the Epic Games Store. We have been massively successful for many years now, and we are very thankful for all of you who have helped make this happen. As we approach the 10th anniversary of this amazing experience, I would just like everyone to acknowledge the path we've been on and appreciate the hard work we have all done to keep ESO amazing. It takes a village to develop and operate a game like this, and that village absolutely includes everyone reading this right now. Thanks so much for everything you do for ESO.
See you in Tamriel!
ESO’s 10th Anniversary Is Coming–Join Us for a Very Special In-Person Event!
Commemorate a decade of The Elder Scrolls Online and our amazing community with a special in-person event that kicks off our massive 10th Anniversary Celebration!
Celebrating 10 Amazing Years
Next year, The Elder Scrolls Online will reach its 10th anniversary since it first launched on PC/Mac in April 2014. To celebrate this incredible milestone, we’re kicking off a massive 10th Anniversary Celebration in April.
During the celebration, we’ll look back on ESO’s history and celebrate the game itself, its dedicated group of developers, its passionate, ever-growing community, and its bright future.
Whether you’ve been a member of the #ESOFam since early beta, have recently begun your journey into Tamriel, or are looking for a new epic online roleplaying game—you won’t want to miss this incredible celebration. It all kicks off next year in Amsterdam!
Join Us in Amsterdam
The fun begins next year with the first ESO 10-Year Celebration Event, a two-day in-person event we’re hosting at the SugarFactory just outside of Amsterdam, Netherlands, from Friday, April 5, until Saturday, April 6. You can grab your tickets now by visiting the official signup website below.
At the event, you can mix and mingle with your fellow ESO adventurers and developers while enjoying two days of fun. This will include developer panels and roundtable discussions (with some livestreamed), hands-on gameplay, food and drink, live music, community activities, and more. In addition, the April 2024 event will host our first-ever in-person ESO cosplay competition, so if you’ve got an amazing ESO costume in mind that you think the community will love and are planning to attend, get crafting!
We'll share more specifics on the event with the community in the future, so keep an eye out on elderscrollsonline.com and our social channels.
Celebrate ESO with Us!
We’re planning to make this the biggest in-person community event we’ve ever had, but it’s not the only one we plan to host during this massive anniversary celebration. There’s going to be a ton of special 10th Anniversary in-person events all over the globe throughout, including a big one in the United States in 2025. Celebrate ESO’s anniversary with us!
Stay tuned for additional announcements in April 2024 when we unveil more.
Are you excited to celebrate 10 years of adventure in Tamriel’s Second Era with us? Let us know if you’re planning to make your way to the Netherlands for this initial event via X (Formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook—we hope to see you there!
Cyrodiil Population Cap Testing
Hi All! We have a message from our Lead Combat Designer, Brian Wheeler, about our upcoming Cyrodiil Population Cap Testing, starting Dec. 6. See the message below:
Heyo all!
Over the course of the next few days, we will be running some tests in Cyrodiil where we’ll be periodically adjusting the population caps. The first realm being tested is PC EU on Wednesday, December 6. During this time, we will increase population caps and monitor throughout the day through prime-time hours; if all goes well, we will do the same on PC NA and consoles later in the week.
We encourage everyone willing to fight for their Alliance to hop into their respective Campaigns because throughout the testing period until December 12, everyone in Cyrodiil will earn Double AP!
Thanks in advance for joining this population test for Cyrodiil and enjoy the double AP while the test is active. See you on the field!
-Brian Wheeler
Crown Store Showcase—December 2023
Treat yourself to a holiday delight from among December’s new and returning Crown Store items.
You cancheck out all the new and returning items arriving to the Crown Store in December 2023. Don’t forget, you can head over to the Crown Store page right now to view all offers currently available. And be sure to drop by the Buy Crowns page to purchase however many crowns you might need this month!
Additionally, a variety of Crown Crates are returning this holiday season, including Ragebound and Unfeathered Crown Crates with the renewal of Gifting, alongside the cosmic Celestial Crates. Some items and offers are available for a limited time only, so be sure to read their individual details and don't miss out.
Click below to view the full Crown Store Showcase for December 2023.
Take a look at some of the free rewards available to you simply by logging in to ESO this December 2023!
Though 2023 may be winding down, the daily rewards are only picking up this coming December. A few examples of the rewards on offer are listed below, including a new pet. You can claim them from the Daily Rewards section of the Crown Store, as described in this help article.
Gold Coast Grand Experience Scroll—Day 1 Experience more holiday spirit this year!
Start the month off strong by improving your experience gains with this Grand Experience Scroll. Level up, gain Champion Points, and improve your Skill Lines with a 150% boost.
Herald the return of the Second Empire with Akaviri Potentate Crown Crates, first introduced way back in 2020. Get one crate each day from day two until day six.
Crown Lessons: Riding Capacity ×5—Day 7
How many presents can you carry?
Fill your saddlebags with loot—or holiday presents—after expanding them using these Riding Lessons. Sleigh not included.
Seals of Endeavor ×250—Day 14 Gift yourself fine Crown Crate goods.
Stock up on Seals of Endeavor for choice Crown Crate items, perhaps even from the new All-Maker Crates. You can also earn Seals from Daily and Weekly Endeavors in-game and use them to buy goods contained in Crown Crates or normally purchased with Crown Gems. Learn more about Seals of Endeavor in this blog.
Anchorborn Pony Pet—Day 21 Probably not a Daedra. Probably.
Is this part of Molag Bal’s plot to dominate Tamriel, or just an unfortunate beast of burden geared up with the recycled debris of collapsed Dark Anchors? Whatever its origins, it’s adorable! Log in for 21 days to claim the Anchorborn Pony pet. We’re (mostly) sure it won’t betray you to the God of Schemes.
Remember, these aren’t all the rewards you can claim when you log in to the game this December 2023. To see the full list, log in on the first day of the month! If one of these rewards speaks to you, be sure to tell us about it on X (Formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook. Of course, if it’s the Anchorborn Pony speaking, you might also want to tell a priest of the Divines!
Drive Back the Adversary with Items from the New All-Maker Crown Crates
Pay homage to the deity of the ancient Skaal faith with the items and collectibles found in the new All-Maker Crown Crates.
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The people of the Skaal bow their head in reverence to the All-Maker. For through the All-Maker all are One. Will you join them in their distant land, to stand against the Adversary? Don their stalhrim armors, take up their rune-carved blades. Uphold the Wind and the Earth and the Sun as you seek harmony without and within. The great river of life flows, traveler. Will you flow with it back to the arms of the All-Maker?
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The new All-Maker Crown Crates arrive in the Crown Store this Thursday, November 30 at 10AM EST. Opening these crates might grant you a sign of the All-Maker’s favor in the form of new and returning items and collectibles.
These goods include unique mounts, pets, furnishings, and much more. You can see just some of the items available within All-Maker Crown Crates below. Clear Ice Boulder furnishing & Frostfall Recall customized action Windcaller Garb costume and Orphan of the Stars skin
Those who are fortunate enough to truly catch the All-Maker’s eye might find one of the below extremely rare Radiant Apex mounts. Solstheim Shiver Wolf and Star-Orphan Elk mounts Blessed Highmane Lion mount
All-Maker Crown Crates will be available in one-, four-, and 15-crate bundles in addition to a unique 25-crate offering that is available as a one-time purchase only. In addition to the crates, this special bundle also includes the Solstheimstone Incarnate polymorph. Enjoy a bundle of All-Maker Crown Crates alongside the Solstheimstone Incarnate Polymorph
This polymorph will be unlocked automatically and added to your collectibles when the one-off bundle is first purchased. It is not part of the All-Maker crates themselves.
Of course, the above are just some of the gifts the All-Maker can bestow upon his children. If you wish to see the full list of items you have a chance to receive when opening an All-Maker Crown Crate, check out this thread on our official forums.
Be warned, when the new crates go live, the currently available Buoyant Armiger Crown Crates will be removed from the Crown Store in turn, so don’t forget to pick them up while they’re still available!
All-Maker Crown Crates arrive this Thursday, November 30 at 10AM EST, and can be acquired from the Crown Crate section of the in-game Crown Store. Do you hope to prove yourself to the All-Maker and oppose the Adversary? Let us know about your wintry devotions via X (Formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook. AnnouncementsCrown Store
Ride This New Mount Toward Great Savings with the 2023 Black Fredas Bundle
Grab the 2023 Black Fredas bundle and get your hands on both great savings and the reins of a new mount!
A special Black Fredas bundle is now available for purchase from the in-game Crown Store, providing you with an opportunity to save big while acquiring a brand-new mount! This bundle contains a host of items for a fraction of what they would cost individually—a mere 1,900 Crowns for 8,100 Crowns of value.
Check out the full list of the bundle’s contents here:
Black Fredas Senche-Lizard mount
10 Crown Experience Scrolls
10 Crown Lessons: Riding Speed
10 Crown Lessons: Riding Capacity
10 Crown Fortifying Meals
10 Crown Soul Gems
50 Crown Tri-Restoration Potions
You’ll find so much to enjoy in this great Crown Store bundle. Not only does it come with a unique mount, but it also has an array of useful consumables that can speed you along in your adventures in Tamriel.
This special offer is now available in the in-game Crown store and will remain until November 30 at 10AM EST. Be sure to take advantage of this fantastic deal! Are you going to ride out atop the Black Fredas Senche-Lizard? Let us know via X (Formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook.
Enjoy Savings on ESO: Necrom and Base Game during the 2023 Black Friday Sale!
Save big on The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom Chapter and base game during this year’s Black Friday Sale!
Experience The Elder Scrolls Online’s latest Chapter by picking up Necrom at up to 67% off across all platforms during the 2023 Black Friday Sale. Explore the vast Telvanni Peninsula and uncover the secrets of Apocrypha as you fight to protect the fabric of reality itself.
All editions of the Necrom Chapter, including the Necrom Collection, Upgrade, Deluxe Collection, and Deluxe Upgrade, will benefit from this discount, so you can pick whichever version suits you best!
During the Black Friday Sale, you can also acquire The Elder Scrolls Online Standard Edition at up to 70% off on all platforms.
Check out the dates listed below to know when this year’s Black Friday Sale will be live on your platform of choice:
Xbox
Standard Edition—November 16-December 1
Necrom—November 16-December 1
PlayStation
Standard Edition—November 17-28
Necrom—November 17-28
PlayStation Europe
Standard Edition—November 17-27
Necrom—November 17-27
PlayStation Asia
Standard Edition—November 16-27
Necrom—November 16-27
Elder Scrolls Online Store
Standard Edition—November 17-30
Necrom—November 17-30
Steam Store
Standard Edition—November 21-28
Necrom—November 21-28
Be sure to head over to our Buy Now page to secure these discounts and kick off your Shadow Over Morrowind adventure!
The 2023 Black Friday Sale is a fantastic opportunity to dive into The Elder Scrolls Online and begin your journey throughout Tamriel and the realms beyond. Don’t miss your chance to secure any of these huge deals for both the Necrom Chapter and the base game experience!
The Gates of Oblivion Celebration begins Thursday, November 16 at 10AM EST, and runs until Tuesday, November 28 at 10AM EST. During the festivities, players will enjoy an assortment of goodies including special Reward Boxes, Event Tickets, and increased drops to Daily Quests, Dungeons, Resource Nodes, as well as World Bosses and Delves throughout the Blackwood and the Deadlands zones.
To participate, you'll need access to Blackwood, Flames of Ambition, Waking Flame, or Deadlands, all of which are obtainable through ESO Plus™ or available for purchase from the in-game Crown Store.
[center]Find Plokun in Gideon to begin![/center]
You can then kick things off by picking up the introductory quest "Burdensome Beasts" available for free within the in-game Crown Store or from Plokun, a Dremora found northwest of Gideon in the Blackwood zone.
Amass Incredible Rewards
Throughout the event, you can earn a Glorious Reward Box once per day each time you complete your first Daily Quest in either the Blackwood or Deadlands zones, or from the first Rockgrove Weekly Quest completed. You can also obtain a second Glorious Reward Box once per day by looting the final boss of any Flames of Ambition and Waking Flame dungeons.
Glorious Reward Boxes may contain the following items:
Random crafting materials
A Fine or Superior rarity sellable treasure
One of the following Blackwood/Deadlands motif style items:
If the reward box was obtained in the Overland:
Sul-Xan
Black Fin
Ivory Brigade
House Hexos
Godgrave Guardian
Annihilarch's Chosen
If the reward box was obtained in a Dungeon:
True-Sworn
Waking Flame
Knights of the Silver Rose
Crimson Oath
A Fine, Superior, or Epic rarity Blackwood or Deadlands overland set item
A Dungeon set item will be given instead if you obtained the Reward Box in a Dungeon
Companion Gear
One of the following drops
Blackwood or Deadlands furnishing recipes
Blackwood or Deadlands Treasure Maps or Survey Reports
Motif Chapters
If the reward box was obtained in the Overland:
Sul-Xan
Black Fin
Ivory Brigade
House Hexos
Godgrave Guardian
Annihilarch's Chosen
If the reward box was obtained in a Dungeon:
True-Sworn
Waking Flame
Knights of the Silver Rose
Crimson Oath
A chance for a style page for the NEW Y'ffre's Fallen-Wood armor
[center]The new Y'ffre's Fallen-Wood armor style[/center]
In addition, you can collect the more common Regular Reward Boxes by participating in the following activities:
Slaying Delve and World Bosses in the Blackwood and Deadland zones
Defeating Flames of Ambition and Waking Flame dungeon bosses
Opening treasure chests
Opening safeboxes
Looting objects such as barrels, crates, etc.
Looting Psijic portals
Cracking open Thieves Troves
Harvesting crafting resource nodes
These reward boxes may contain the following items:
Random crafting materials
A chance for a Fine or Superior rarity sellable treasure
A chance for one of the following Blackwood/Deadlands motif style items:
Sul-Xan
Black Fin
Ivory Brigade
House Hexos
Godgrave Guardian
Annihilarch's Chosen
A Fine, Superior, or Epic rarity Blackwood or Deadlands Overland set item
A Dungeon set item will be given instead if you obtained the reward box in a Dungeon
A chance for Companion gear
A chance for one of the following drops
Blackwood or Deadlands furnishing recipes
Blackwood or Deadlands Treasure Maps or Survey Reports
Motif Chapters
Sul-Xan
Black Fin
Ivory Brigade
House Hexos
Godgrave Guardian
Annihilarch's Chosen
A small chance for a style page for the NEW Y'ffre's Fallen-Wood armor
[center]Complete daily quests to earn bonus rewards[/center]
Impresario & Event Tickets
But that's not all! Throughout the duration of the celebration, players will receive two Event Tickets for the first of the following activities completed each day:
First Daily Quest completed in the Blackwood zone
First Daily Quest completed in the Deadlands zone
Weekly trial quest completed in Rockgrove
Slaying and looting the final boss in either Flames of Ambition or Waking Flame dungeons
In total, you can amass a whopping 26 Event Tickets during this event! Don't forget that you can carry only 12 Tickets at one time.
Here's what the Impresario has in stock:
All three Passion Dancer Blossom pet fragments
Chartreuse Lily Petals
Enchanted Silver Flute
Mystical Sheet Music
The first and second Hoardhunter Ursauk mount fragment
Blessed Honeycomb
NEW Gilded and Dyed Saddle
Bound style pages for the following:
NEW Y'ffre's Fallen-Wood
Impresario Group Repair Kits
Companion Guild Commendations
The Gates of Oblivion Celebration is your first chance to purchase the Gilded and Dyed Saddle, the second of three morphing fragments for the Hoardhunter Ursauk mount!
[center]The Hoardhunter Ursauk mount[/center]
Learn more about morphing collectibles and upgrade fragments by checking out this guide. Be sure to keep your eyes peeled for the reveal of the final morphing fragment later this year!
Additionally, the Impresario's Assistant, Philius Dormier, is offering these valuable treasures in exchange for your hard-earned tickets:
Unstable Morpholith Fragments
Dagonic Quasigriff Fragments
Finally, Nenulaure the Indrik Vendor is stocking her shop with the following goodies:
Nascent Indrik Feathers
Crimson Indrik Berries
Pure-Snow Indrik Berries
Frost-Light Indrik Pet
Rosethorn Indrik Pet
Ward Off Destruction
Dismantle Daedric schemes while enjoying an assortment of tantalizing rewards and useful bonuses as you explore Blackwood and the Deadlands during the Gates of Oblivion Celebration. Are you prepared to free these lands from the corrupting influence of Mehrunes Dagon? Let us know via Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook!
The Gates of Oblivion Celebration in-game event begins next Thursday, November 16 at 10AM EST, and continues until Tuesday, November 28 at 10AM EST.
