Explore ESO’s Early Adventures during the Year One Celebration Event
Explore some of ESO’s post-launch adventures and you can earn bonus rewards, unique collectibles, and Event Tickets.
Sand, Snow, & Blood
Kicking off this Thursday, August 26 at 10AM EDT, and running until Tuesday, September 7 at 10AM EDT, you can earn bonus rewards, event-specific collectibles, and Event Tickets while adventuring within the Wrothgar, Craglorn, and Imperial City zones.
To get started, pick up the introductory quest titled “Sand, Snow, and Blood” from the Crown Store or Impresario tent and then travel directly to one of the three zones. As part of the ESO base game, Craglorn can be accessed by all ESO players, and the Imperial City DLC can be purchased for zero crowns from the in-game Crown Store. You can get access to the Orsinium DLC with ESO Plus™ membership or buy it directly from the Crown Store on sale for 1,500 crowns (50% off the DLC’s regular price). In addition to this, you can pick up the Orsinium Collector’s Bundle from the in-game Crown Store for 2,000 crowns (also 50% off its regular price), containing the Cave Bear mount, the Cave Bear Cub pet, and five Crown Experience Scrolls.
Finally, you can also pick up the 4-DLC Mega Pack (containing the Orsinium, Imperial City, Thieves Guild, and Dark Brotherhood DLCs) for 2,000 crowns (50% off) or the Imperial City Collector’s Bundle for 2,000 crowns (also 50% off) containing the Mind-Shriven Horse mount, Mind-Shriven skin, Daedrat pet, and five Crown Experience scrolls.
These discounts are available only during the Year One Celebration, and there’s a host of event-specific items also arriving in the in-game Crown Store during the event period, too—don’t miss out!
Ancient Worlds, New Rewards
When you complete quests within Wrothgar, Craglorn, or Imperial City zones, you can receive event-specific bonus rewards and loot.
Year One Coffers
When you complete various activities in any of the event’s three zones, you have a chance to receive a Year One Coffer in addition to your regular rewards. These activities include:
When you receive a Year One Coffer, they have a chance to contain the following valuable items:
Take heed: Each day, the first time you complete a Daily Quest in Wrothgar, Craglorn, or the Imperial City, you’ll receive a Glorious Year One Coffer, which is guaranteed to contain either a Motif Chapter style page or a page for the new Old Orsinium weapon style.
Bonus Rewards
In addition to the Year One Coffers, during the event period, the following activities have bonus rewards:
That’s a ton of great reasons to explore some of ESO’s earliest adventures!
Impresario & Event Tickets
During the Year One Celebration, you can earn up to two Event Tickets per day by completing the following:
Note that Wrothgar’s Daily Quests are split between the city of Orsinium and Morkul Stronghold. The Event Ticket timer resets at 2:00AM EDT each morning. If you earn new Event Tickets over the 12-limit cap, you’ll lose them.
Here’s what the Impresario event merchant stocks during the event period:
This event is your second opportunity to acquire fragments required to upgrade your Unstable Morpholith into the new Dagonic Quasigriff mount!
Don’t forget, you’ll need to own an Unstable Morpholith and all three upgrade fragments to unlock this mount, so keep an eye out for future event announcements to snatch up the third and final fragment.
Orcs, Imperials, & Buried Secrets
Return to some of ESO’s earliest adventures and you’ll have a chance to earn a host of unique rewards and bonus loot during the Year One Celebration in-game event. Which zone will you travel to first? Let us know via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
The Year One Celebration in-game event begins at 10:00AM EDT on Thursday, August 26, and it will end at 10:00AM EDT on Tuesday, September 7.
Waking Flame DLC & Update 31 Now Live on PC/Mac
Continue your Gates of Oblivion adventure with the Waking Flame dungeon DLC and Update 31 base-game patch.
The Elder Scrolls Online:Waking Flame DLC game pack is now live on PC/Mac and Stadia, and it challenges players with two new dungeons, each with their own unique Gates of Oblivion stories. If you play on console, don’t fret—Waking Flame arrives on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 on September 8.
This release also includes the free Update 31 base-game patch, which provides all ESO players with a series of additions and improvements to the game.
[previewyoutube="EeGZQS4ebxE;full"] You can access the DLC via ESO Plus™ membership or purchase it with crowns from the in-game Crown Store. Additionally, check out the patch notes for both Waking Flame and Update 31 on our official forums.
Waking Flame DLC Game Pack
Uncover evils in The Elder Scrolls Online: Waking Flame with two amazing new dungeons: Red Petal Bastion and the Dread Cellar. While both PvE challenges explore unique stand-alone stories, they also expand upon the year-long Gates of Oblivion adventure and set up the events of the upcoming Deadlands DLC (arriving later in 2021).
Red Petal Bastion
For centuries, the noble Knights of the Silver Rose had protected the people from Tamriel from the forces of Oblivion, but recently, the order has begun indiscriminately looting nearby shrines to collect holy relics, which they add to their fortress, the Red Petal Bastion.
A devotee of Azura needs your help to confront this once-noble order, reclaim his stolen artifacts, and discover the secret behind the order’s sudden and violent turn.
The Dread Cellar
Whispered to be one of the Empire’s most-feared prisons, the Dread Cellar, long thought abandoned, has begun emanating mysterious magical energies. Now home to the cultists of the Waking Flame and their Daedric minions, this once-feared site holds new evils for any would-be adventurers.
A pair of Imperial Battlemages needs your assistance in their investigation of the prison’s activity, but what role does the Dread Cellar’s own past have in the cultists’ fiendish plans? And to what lengths might the Battlespire go to protect the Empire’s secrets?
Both dungeons are filled with a host of challenging boss battles to overcome and mysteries to uncover, and both are available in Normal, Veteran, and Hard Mode difficulties for groups seeking difficult opposition. Finally, each dungeon also holds a series unique item sets, Achievements, and collectibles for you to loot and earn, ensuring the rewards are equal to the risks—good luck!
Getting Started
You canaccess The Elder Scrolls Online:Waking Flame DLC game pack via ESO Plus membership or purchase it for 1,500 crowns from the in-game Crown Store (listed under DLC). Note that if your ESO Plus membership lapses, you will lose access to the DLC until you renew your membership or purchase it with crowns, but you won’t lose any items, Achievements, or other rewards you earned while you had access.
The Waking Flame Collector’s Bundle is also available for 4,000 crowns and includes access to the DLC game pack, the Silver Rose Senche-Serval mount, the Ironclad Senche-Serval Kitten pet, and five Crown Experience Scrolls. You can purchase the Collector’s Bundle from the Featured section of the in-game Crown Store. With access to the Waking Flame DLC, you can continue your Gates of Oblivion adventure by the following methods:
Finally, simply by entering either of these two new dungeons, you’ll receive the Scorion Pyreling pet!
Update 31
In addition to Waking Flame, the Update 31 base-game patch will arrive in tandem with the DLC as a free update for all ESO players. This update includes assorted bug fixes, balance changes, performance improvements, and a series of quality-of-life additions.
This includes the ability to toggle between HDR modes on consoles in your Settings menu, the addition of Dynamic Resolution Scaling (creating a more responsive framerate experience and providing generally higher resolutions when running in Performance Mode on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5), a beta for Multithreaded Rendering on PC (potentially improving framerates), and a Reply function for your in-game mail. In addition to this, an assortment of new houses, furnishings, and houseguests will arrive in in-game Crown store in the coming months.
For more on the graphical improvements arriving with Update 31, check out this article, and be sure to visit our official forums to review the complete patch notes for both Waking Flame and Update 31 to get the whole picture.
The Waking Flame Rises
With two exciting dungeons that expand upon the Gates of Oblivion adventures and a slew of graphical enhancements and changes, the Waking Flame DLC and Update 31 base-game patch bring new challenges, rewards, and improvements for all of Tamriel’s adventurers. Are you ready to continue the fight against the forces of Mehrunes Dagon? Tell us via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
Play ESO Free During the QuakeCon 2021 Free Play Event
You can explore Tamriel for free during the QuakeCon 2021 Free Play Event!
The Elder Scrolls Online QuakeCon 2021 Free Play Event is now live and runs until Monday, August 30 at 10AM EDT. During the free-play period, anybody on PC/Mac, Xbox consoles (Xbox Live Gold required), PlayStation consoles, and Stadia (Stadia Pro required) can download and play The Elder Scrolls Online for free!
To join over 18 million players and discover this award-winning RPG for yourself, simply visit our Free Play page and select your platform. This event gives you access to Morrowind's zone (Vvardenfell) and ESO base game, which includes four of the game’s original classes, 23 unique zones, and countless hours of adventure.
Because the Free Play Event includes the base game, you can begin your Gates of Oblivion adventure with access to the Blackwood Prologue questline. If you’d like to continue your story beyond the Free Play Event, pick up The Elder Scrolls Online Collection: Blackwood from our Buy Now page to get immediate access to the game and previous Chapters.
If you’ve already played ESO during a previous event, you can continue your adventures as normal. Even better, all new ESO accounts created also receive 500 crowns to spend in the in-game Crown Store!
Tamriel Awaits
A whole world of adventure awaits during QuakeCon 2021, so visit our Free Play page and get ready to discover the biggest next-gen RPG in the world. Even better, if you’re an Xbox Series X|S or PlayStation 5 player, you’re able to experience the Console Enhanced version of the game for free for the first time ever—now is the time to finally check out The Elder Scrolls Online!
Watch the ESO Community Team Explore Blackwood with Xbox!
ESO Community Managers Jessica Folsom and Gina Bruno are hosted by TheMavShow on Twitch.tv/Xbox for a special Blackwood World Plays ESO adventure!
It’s the final week of the massive World Plays ESO promotion, and we’re thrilled to team up with @TheMavShow from Xbox for a special Blackwood Chapter stream. Kicking off this Wednesday, August 18 at 5:30PM EDT on Twitch.tv/Xbox, together, we’ll explore the wilds of Blackwood and take on its many challenges, including delves, world bosses, Oblivion Portals, and more. The forces of Mehrunes Dagon won’t know what hit them!
As part of The World Plays ESO, you could earn Twitch Drops simply by watching, and the team will be running some giveaways throughout the show that include a chance to win a Pink Torchbug pet or a copy of The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood.
This special stream begins this Wednesday, August 18 at 5:30PM EDT on Twitch.tv/Xbox—don’t miss it!
Get 35% off ESO: Blackwood on PC/Mac during QuakeCon 2021
Pick up a deal on The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood and Standard Edition for Xbox consoles and PC/Mac during the QuakeCon 2021 Sale!
Blackwood On Sale Now
Starting right now, you can save up to 35% offThe Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood or up to 60% offThe Elder Scrolls Online Standard Edition on Xbox consoles (Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S) and PC/Mac (including the official Elder Scrolls Online Store, Steam, and Stadia).
This sale is live for all four Blackwood editions, including:
If you are a new player, the Blackwood Collection (including the Collector’s Edition version) features access to the new Blackwood Chapter, the base game, and all previous ESO Chapters, including The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset, The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr, and The Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor. That’s almost everything the game has to offer!
Existing ESO players who just want the latest Chapter can pick up the Blackwood Upgrade (or the Collector’s Edition Upgrade) to get access to the new zone, Companions system, and adventure—easy!
This is the first time Blackwood has been available at a discount, so if you’d like to jump on these deals, visit our Buy Now page, select your edition, and go! Note that these QuakeCon sale prices are available for a limited time only and, depending on your platform and edition, will end on different times:
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In addition, the individual sale end times might differ by platform, so be sure to check your preferred retailer to confirm and don’t miss out!
Walk Warm Sands & Earn Bonus Rewards During the Pan-Elsweyr Celebration
Adventure in Northern and Southern Elsweyr during the Pan-Elsweyr Celebration in-game event and you’ll unlock new rewards, bonus loot, and Event Tickets.
Return to Elsweyr
The Pan-Elsweyr Celebration in-game event begins Thursday, July 22 at 10AM EDT, and will run until August 3 at 10AM EDT. During this event period, you can receive bonus loot, unique event rewards, and Event Tickets by exploring and adventuring in the regions of Northern and Southern Elsweyr (from the Elsweyr and Dragonhold DLCs, respectively).
To get started, simply grab the introductory quest titled “A Visit to Elsweyr” from the in-game Crown Store or travel directly to the two unique zones.
If you don’t own Elsweyr or Dragonhold, you can acquire both from the in-game Crown Store on sale during the event period, with 50% off the Elsweyr DLC (and 50% off the Elsweyr Collector’s Pack!) as well as the new addition of the Season of the Dragon mega-pack, which includes the Dragonhold, Wrathstone, and Scalebreaker DLCs.
Get Elsweyr and explore the home of the Khajiit
Don’t forget, you can get access to all of the above DLCs with an active ESO Plus™ membership, too!
A Dragon’s Hoard
As you complete quests, explore, and adventure in the two zones during the Pan-Elsweyr Celebration, you can receive event-specific rewards.
Elsweyr Coffers
When you complete certain activities in either Northern or Southern Elsweyr during the event, you’ll have a chance to receive an Elsweyr Coffer as an additional bonus reward. These activities include:
When you happen to receive a new Elsweyr Coffer, these colorful cartons have a chance to include a host of valuable items, such as:
Even better, the first time you complete a Daily Quest in either Northern or Southern Elsweyr each day, you’ll receive a Glorious Elsweyr Coffer, which is guaranteed to contain either a Motif Chapter style page or a page for the new Ja’zennji Siir style.
The new Ja’zennji Siirstyle
Bonus Rewards
In addition to the new coffers, during the event period, the following activities will have bonus rewards:
As you can see, rampaging Dragons aside, there are a ton of great reasons to explore the home of the Khajiit during this event!
The Impresario & Event Tickets
During the Pan-Elsweyr Celebration, you can earn up to two Event Tickets per day by completing the following:
Note that to acquire the Dragonguard-specific Daily Quests in Southern Elsweyr, you must progress the Dragonhold main storyline. The Event Ticket timer resets at 2:00AM EDT each morning. If you earn new Event Tickets over the 12-limit cap, you’ll lose them.
Here’s what the Impresario event merchant will stock during the event period:
This event will be your first opportunity to acquire fragments required to upgrade your Unstable Morpholith into the new Dagonic Quasigriff mount!
The fearsome Dagonic Quasigriff mount
You’ll need to own an Unstable Morpholith and all three upgrade fragments to unlock this mount, so keep an eye out on future events for more information.
The Home of the Khajiit
Full of bizarre and wonderful characters, stunning environments, and fearsome winged monsters, the regions of Northern and Southern Elsweyr are some of ESO’s most unique zones, and there’s no better time to experience them than during the Pan-Elsweyr Celebration event! Let us know what your plans are for visiting the home of the Khajiit via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
The Pan-Elsweyr Celebration in-game event begins at 10:00AM EDT on Thursday, July 22, and it will end at 10:00AM EDT on Tuesday, August 3.
ESO Live: July 9 at 6PM EDT—Waking Flame Dungeon Preview
Get your first look this Friday at the two new dungeons arriving with the upcoming Waking Flame DLC on Twitch.tv/Bethesda!
Tune in to ESO Live on Twitch.tv/Bethesda this Friday, July 9 at 6PM EDT/11pm BST, as Community Managers Jess Folsom and Gina Bruno are joined by Encounters Lead Mike Finnigan to preview the latest adventure in the Gates of Oblivion saga: The Elder Scrolls Online: Waking Flame.
Together, they’ll delve into both Waking Flame dungeons, talk about the settings and stories (without spoilers!), showcase the rewards, and preview some of the challenges you and your party will face when this DLC launches later this year.
They’ll also talk about the latest ESO news, discuss The World Plays ESO promotion, and host a giveaway. Be sure to link your accounts for the opportunity to also earn Twitch Drops! This first-look preview show will go live on Twitch.tv/Bethesda this coming Friday, July 9 at 6PM EDT/11PM BST. Don’t forget to stick around after the show to see MMA champion Robert Whittaker and a crack team of ESO developers take on one of Tamriel’s dungeons for a special The World Plays ESO stream.
ESO Live is your official Elder Scrolls Online stream, hosted on Twitch.tv/Bethesda by ESO’s Community Manager Gina Bruno and Senior Community Manager Jess Folsom.
Experience Every Part of Tamriel During the World Plays ESO Promotion
Discover two months of unique livestreams from streamers, developers, and special guests as we showcase and celebrate everything Tamriel has to offer.
The World Plays ESO
The Elder Scrolls Online’s Tamriel is an ever-growing world of adventure, filled with dangerous realms to explore, mysterious quests and stories to uncover, a host of unique activities and challenges to overcome, and over 18 million fellow players—it’s massive, and it’s only getting bigger!
With the recent launch of our fifth Chapter, The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood, and the Console Enhanced version of the game, starting tomorrow, June 22 and continuing all the up to QuakeCon 2021 (starting August 19), we’re challenging a host of special guests, streamers, developers, and you (the fans!) to livestream ESO over two action-packed months, showcasing absolutely everything the game has to offer new and veteran players alike.
Unlimited Adventures
The World Plays ESO’s participants will include our very own Creative Director Rich Lambert, pro wrestler Nicole Savoy, members of the ESO Stream Team, and many more surprise guests along the way—all incredible ESO fans, ready to take on Tamriel. Keep an eye out for a complete list of all the participants tomorrow when the promotion formally kicks off.
Together, they’ll tackle everything from the game’s base-game, DLC zones, and Chapter storylines, and activities such as Dungeons, Trials, PvP (Alliance War and Battlegrounds), crafting, Antiquities, Housing, and more. Phew!
We’re streaming almost everything you can see and do in the game
Check out the schedule below for our first week of The World Plays ESO streams.
Tamriel All Together
Tune in to any of the streams, and you could pick up some fantastic in-game goodies that our participants will be giving away during their shows, including game codes for the latest Blackwood Chapter, collectibles such as the Pink Torchbug pet, and more.
You could win this pet or the Blackwood Chapter by watching!
Of course, we can’t celebrate everything ESO without involving our players and community, so we’re also inviting you to share your own adventures as we showcase the game’s different zones, activities, and challenges on Twitter and Facebook using the #WorldPlaysESO hashtag. Share your stories with us, and we’ll share your trials and triumphs with the rest of the #ESOFam.
18 Million Strong & Growing
Over 18 million adventurers have begun their adventures in ESO, exploring almost every part of Tamriel and worlds beyond. We’re so excited to celebrate everything ESO has to offer with this massive new global celebration, and we can’t wait to see our streamers dive into the ever-growing, ever-surprising world of Tamriel. For information on the latest streams and World Plays ESO news, visit the official website using the button below.
Finally, don’t forget to share your own adventures with us using the #WorldPlaysESO hashtag on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook—we’ll see you in Tamriel!
Beginning Tuesday, June 22, and continuing until QuakeCon 2021 on August 19, The World Plays ESO is a massive celebration of everything you can experience in The Elder Scrolls Online, shared via a non-stop series of livestreams hosted by developers, special guests, and Stream Team members.
Grab the ESO Plus Free Trial for DLC Access, Craft Bag, & More!
Experience ESO Plus™ membership during our free trial running from now until June 21 with no credit card info required and no strings attached!
The ESO Plus Free Trial Returns
The ESO Plus Free Trial is now live until Monday, June 21, at 10:00AM EDT/03:00PM BST. During the trial period, you can enjoy the following ESO Plus benefits:
In case you missed out on last year’s Chapter, both Greymoor AND Antiquities are now in the in-game Crown Store and available via ESO Plus membership, giving you access to the new zone and system for the Trial period! For more on the benefits of membership, check out our ESO Plus guide.
Note: The monthly crown stipend and ESO Plus deals are available only to paid members (not free trial members).
Eager to get started? Here’s what you need to do: No credit card info is required to preview ESO Plus during the free trial.
Enjoy the Benefits of Membership
With boosts to things like XP and gold gains, access to the beloved Craft Bag, and the chance to experience the first part of the Gates of Oblivion adventure for free, now is the time to preview ESO Plus for yourself. Are you planning to enjoy the benefits of membership during this latest free trial? Let us know via @Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.
The ESO Plus Free Trial begins today and will run until Monday, June 21, at 10:00AM EDT/03:00PM BST.
Watch the ESO Community Team Explore Blackwood with Alienware
Join the ESO Community Team as they take part in the next Alienware Community Meetup and explore Blackwood!
Tune in to Twitch.tv/Alienware this Friday, June 11 at 4PM EDT/9PM BST as Jess Folsom and Gina Bruno from the ESO Community Team join forces with Alienware Community Manager Amy Schlueter for a fun-filled Community Meetup! Together, they’ll dive into the new Blackwood zone and take the fight to Mehrunes Dagon by completing Oblivion Portals and the zone’s two Public Dungeons.
During the show, they’ll give out codes for both The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood Chapter and the fan-favorite Pink Torchbugs pet, and thanks to Alienware, there’ll also be a giveaway for a brand-new Alienware AW510H headset, too!
Win this amazing Alienware headset!
There’ll be Twitch Drops enabled during the show, so be sure to link your accounts. Don’t forget, this Alienware Community Meetup will go live on Twitch.tv/Alienware this Friday at 4PM EDT/9PM BST—we’ll see you there!
Can’t make the show? Alienware will host two additional Meetups on June 15 and June 18 at 4PM EDT/9PM BST on their Twitch channel for additional chances to win.
