Tamriel’s most ghoulish gala returns! Put monsters to the sword to receive ghastly goodies and double XP during the Witches Festival in-game event!

The Witches Festival begins next Thursday, October 22 at 10:00AM EDT/03:00PM BST, and will run until Tuesday, November 3 at 10:00AM EST/03:00PM GMT. Throughout this terror-filled term, you can receive repulsive rewards in the form of spoopy Plunder Skull containers, a 100% XP boost, Event Tickets, and collectibles.

To take part in this ghoulish gala:

1. Navigate to the Holiday section of the Crown Store and acquire the free quest.
2. Complete the quest “The Witchmother's Bargain" to receive the Witchmother's Whistle memento.

• If you completed the quest in previous events, you don’t need to acquire the Witchmother’s Whistle or complete the quest again, and you can use the whistle already found in your Collections menu.

• Use the whistle to receive a two-hour 100% XP buff and summon the “Witchmother's Cauldron.”
• Use the Witchmother's Cauldron to transform your character into one of the undead.
• Note that you do not have to use the Witchmother's Cauldron to gain the XP buff, just the whistle.
  
  
  Gah! The Witches Festival has returned!
  
  
  Earn Eerie Endowments
  During the Witches Festival, when you defeat a boss monster, you’ll receive a Plunder Skull in addition to its regular loot. These creepy containers have a chance to award you with the following items:
  
  • New Pieces of the Throwing Bones memento
  • Combine 10 pieces to craft this collectible
  • Hollowjack style items
  • Dremora style items
  • Witches Festival-themed recipes
  • Witchest Festival-themed furnishings and furnishing recipes
  • Bewitching Alchemy reagents
  •  …and an assortment of creepy items!
  But hold on to your (witches) hats, there’s more! The first time you slay each different type of boss each day, you’ll receive a Dremora Plunder Skull. This reward contains the same kind of items in the regular Plunder Skulls, but has some additional rewards, too. Here’s what you have a chance to find in Dremora Plunder Skulls:
  
  • Dremora Motif chapters
  • Witches Festival Writs
  • Complete these writs to unlock an Achievement that’ll earn you a new Witch hat collectible AND the “Witch” title!
  • Glenmoril Treasure Maps
  • Use the map to find Glenmoril Weapon Style pages scattered all over Tamriel
  • Glenmoril Armor Outfit Style pages
  • NEW Grave Dancer Weapon Style pages
  
  
  
  Earn a menacing new weapon style
  
  Depending on the type of boss you defeat, you’ll receive one of two different Dremora Motif pages:
  
  • Final Arena Bosses drop Dremora Motif pages for Bows and Legs
  • Dark Anchor, Geyser Bosses, Craglorn Focus Points, Harrowstorms, and zone Dragons drop Dremora Motif pages for Daggers and Gloves
  • Delve Bosses drop Dremora Motif pages for Staves and Belts
  • Final Dungeon Bosses drop Dremora Motif pages for Helmets and Maces
  • Public Dungeon, Imperial City Bosses, and Quest Bosses drop Dremora Motif pages for Shields and Boots
  • Final Trial Bosses drop Dremora Motif pages for Swords and Chests
  • World Bosses drop Dremora Motif pages for Shoulders and Axes
  Whether you’re clearing Harrowstorms, exploring the Labyrinthian public dungeon, or hunting down Hordrek’s savage werewolf pack, you’ll earn these bonus rewards for slaying Tamriel’s monsters throughout the event period.
  
  
  Impresario’s Offerings
  During the Witches Festival, the first time a boss drops a Dremora Plunder Skull each day, it’ll also drop three Event Tickets—don’t forget to loot it. This event also introduces the final Indrik evolution, the Crimson Indrik.
  
  
  Light up Tamriel with the Crimson Indrik!
  
  Throughout the event, the Impresario will also stock the following items for Event Tickets:
  
  • All four Indrik Feathers
  • The first two Crimson Indrik Berries (Budding and Bloom)
  • Group Repair Kits
  • The Throw Bones memento
  • Grave Dancer Weapon Style pages
  • NEW Grab Bags!
  What are Grab Bags? These curious containers have a chance to contain a collectible from a previous Witches Festival event. When you open a Grab Bag, it will only ever contain items you don’t already own or know, and once you’ve acquired every possible item within them, they’ll no longer be available for purchase. Be sure to open each bag and remove its items as soon as you acquire it (to avoid duplicate items from subsequent bags).
  
  If you have acquired every collectible but still have Grab Bags to open, they’ll contain Group Repair Kits instead—useful! For this event, a Grab Bag can contain Hollowjack Motif pages, the Skeletal Marionette memento, Apple-bobbing Cauldron fragments, and the Spectre Mask collectibles.
  
  Crown Store Deals
  There’s a host of ghastly goodies making their way to the Crown Store this month, including these frightening items:
  
  
  
  Dark Passions Regalia costume & Witches Coven furnishing pack
  
  
  
  Nightmare Firestalker Cub pet & Sister Gellenna houseguest
  
  To grab some crowns and pick up these items, head over to the Crown Store page. For everything coming to the Crown Store in October, including even more creepy collectibles, check out our recent Crown Store Showcase. 
  
  
  A Ghoulish Gala
  Revel in Tamriel’s spookiest celebration and enjoy bonus XP and rewards for slaying all the things that go bump in the night. Are you excited to take part in the Witches Festival? Let us know via @TESOnline, Instagram, and Facebook—boo!
  
  The Witches Festival begins Thursday, October 22 at 10:00AM EDT/03:00PM BST, and will run until Tuesday, November 3 at 10:00AM EST/03:00PM GMT. Part of our #TamrielTogether celebration, the Witches Festival is the next event in a series of end-of-year events coming to The Elder Scrolls Online. For more on #TamrielTogether, including the massive Sweepstakes competition and information on how you can join us in our celebration of ESO’s many amazing communities, check out this article.
  

Celebrate and showcase your guild by crafting a recruitment poster or video and you could win amazing in-game prizes for your whole guild, including a custom-made mount and furnishings. 

#TamrielTogether is all about teaming up to do good in Tamriel, and one of the best ways to do that is to be a part of a Guild. To help showcase and celebrate some of ESO’s amazing guilds, we’re thrilled to announce the Tamriel Together Guild Contest.

Does your guild run Veteran Trials? Or do you like to put on fashion shows or roleplaying events? Maybe you have an amazing guild house that you think deserves to be seen. Whatever makes your guild a unique and welcoming place for its members, we want to see it captured in a recruitment-styled poster or video.

Your entry should celebrate and promote your guild to the larger ESO community. Here’s what you need to do to enter:

1. Create a recruitment-styled poster or video that showcases your guild

• If you’re recruiting, don’t forget to include information that’ll help players find your Guild!
• Video submissions must be no longer than two minutes and be uploaded to YouTube
• Poster submissions must be in JPG or PNG format

• Enter your poster or video using this form by Friday, November 6 at 11:59PM EST
Please review the official rules before submitting your entry. Your guild can submit an entry for each category, but you should only enter each category once, so be sure to submit your best entry for each category to have the greatest chance of winning. Once you’ve successfully submitted, feel free to share it with us on social (@TESOnline, Instagram, or Facebook) using the #TamrielTogether hashtag, too! We need YOU to showcase your guild
Win for Your Guild
Once the entry period has closed, the ESO development team will review entries based on their quality, creativity, and adherence to the theme (guild recruitment), and select two grand and four runners-up prize winners. Two Grand Prize Winners (one per category—poster or video)
• 3,000 crowns Crown Pack for each active guild member
• For each active guild member, a unique mount based on the existing Alliance War Horse, decorated with the winning guild’s tabard colors and crest
• A wall banner for the interior of the guild’s chosen base-game tavern bearing the winning guild’s tabard colors and crest, and a book retelling one of their favorite in-game memories together
• For each active guild member, a house furnishing banner (for the wall) bearing the winning guild’s tabard colors and crest, matching the one that is in the tavern
• For each active guild member, a house furnishing book that is a replica of the one we place in the tavern
• A Guild Spotlight article on https://www.elderscrollsonline.com showcasing your community!
Four Runners-up (two per category—poster or video)
• A 1,500 crown Crown Pack for each active guild member
• For each active guild member, a house furnishing banner (for the wall) bearing the winning guild’s tabard colors and crest
• A small nod to the guild in an in-game “one-sheet note” asset (a note, song, recipe, etc.) based on a favorite in-game memory that the guild experienced together
• A “one-sheet note” collectible for each active guild member (matching the one above) that can be placed in their homes
Phew! That’s a lot of prizes for everybody in your guild. As mentioned above, only active guild members will receive these prizes should their guild win, which means they need to have logged into the game at least once from the contest start and be a member of the winning guild by Friday, November 6, 2020 at 11:59 PM EST. Please check the official rules for more information. Note that winners will not receive all their prizes at once, and the ESO team will reach out to the submitters of the winning entries to discuss the creation of the custom collectibles and inform them as to when they can expect them in game.
#TamrielTogether Guild Contest
We can’t wait to see what kind of creative and wacky posters and videos the ESO community comes up with for this new contest. Don’t forget to share your entries with us using #TamrielTogether on social via @[/url]TESOnline, Instagram, and Facebook—we’d love to also share them with the rest of the community and maybe get you some new recruits in the process! #TamrielTogether is ESO’s end-of-year promotion, celebrating all the ways the ESO community jointly experiences the world of Tamriel. During this period, you can participate in in-game events, share your stories of camaraderie using the #TamrielTogether hashtag on social, and sign up for our massive sweepstakes—have fun!

The ESO Plus Free Trial is live and will run until Monday, October 19, at 10:00AM EDT/03:00PM BST. During the trial period, you gain access to the following ESO Plus benefits:

·        Full access to DLC game packs—new zones, quests, dungeons, and more 

o   Includes Orsinium, Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood, Shadows of the Hist, Morrowind (zone and story), Horns of the Reach, Clockwork City, Dragon Bones, Summerset (zone and story), Wolfhunter, Murkmire, Wrathstone, Elsweyr (zone and story), Scalebreaker, Dragonhold, Harrowstorm, and Stonethorn (our most-recent DLC!)

·        A Craft Bag offering you unlimited storage for all your crafting materials 

·        Double Bank space for all characters on your account 

·        10% increase to Experience and Gold acquisition, Crafting Inspiration, and Trait Research rates 

·        Double Furnishings and Collectibles space in player housing  

·        Exclusive ability to dye costumes  

·        Double Transmute Crystal storage 

If you haven’t had a chance to check out the Dark Heart of Skyrim’s dungeon DLCs, Harrowstorm and Stonethorn, now you can, completely free! For more on the above benefits, 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). Review everything that comes with ESO Plus on our website.

Here’s how you can get started:

1.      Log into The Elder Scrolls Online.

2.      Navigate to the Crown Store.

3.      Select the ESO Plus tab.

4.      Select “Free Trial!”

No credit card info is required to try out ESO Plus. Just visit the in-game Crown Store and activate it.

Make the most out of boosts to XP, gold, crafting inspiration, plus venture out on new adventures and stuff your Craft Bag full of all the materials it can carry with the ESO Plus Free Trial. If you’re planning to make the most out of this new trial period, let us know via @TESOnline, Instagram, or Facebook.

 

The ESO Plus Free Trial begins today and will run until Monday, October 19, at 10:00AM EDT/03:00PM BST.

Pick up the Greymoor Chapter at up to 50% off during the Lost Treasures of Skyrim sale.
The Lost Treasures of Skyrim sale is now live, giving you the opportunity to pick up ESO’s latest Chapter, The Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor, at up to 50% off and the ESO base game at up to 60% off.

In Greymoor, you can explore the region of Western Skyrim and help the besieged Nords in their struggle against an ancient darkness that rises from the depths of Blackreach. Part of the Dark Heart of Skyrim year-long adventure, Greymoor is an important chapter of a story that began in February of this year and will conclude with the upcoming Markarth DLC.

Even better, the Lost Treasures of Skyrim in-game event also began today, giving you and your fellow players the opportunity to unlock bonus collectibles (including cosmetics, a pet, a massive house, and a houseguest) free for all Greymoor players, simply by playing the new Antiquities system. This event (and its rewards) is available only to people who own Greymoor. Find out more in our announcement article and page.

Uncover antiquities and unlock bonus collectibles (including an incredible new house) for ALL Greymoor players during the Lost Treasures of Skyrim event!

The Lost Treasures of Skyrim event begins Wednesday, September 23 at 10:00AM EDT, and will run until October 5 at 10:00AM EDT. During the event period, you can earn bonus rewards for completing Western Skyrim daily quests and unlock unique collectibles for all Greymoor players with the Antiquities system.

During the Lost Treasures of Skyrim event, you can earn unique collectibles for ALL Greymoor players by digging up antiquities throughout the entirety of Tamriel. As you and your fellow players seek out, excavate, and discover Tamriel’s hidden histories, you’ll slowly unlock up to three tiers of rewards:

• Tier 1: Horror Within Face and Body Markings
• Tier 2: Orchidfall Vale Fawn Pet
• Tier 3: Antiquarian’s Alpine Gallery home AND Antiquarian Phedre Houseguest
• This is the first Houseguest ever introduced to ESO!

Unlock these rewards by completing antiquities

What are Houseguests? Houseguests are a new type of collectible character you can add to your home in much the same way you add any other collectible. Each Houseguest is unique with a distinct appearance and can be interacted with, adding more life to your home. You can unlock this first Houseguest, Antiquarian Phedre, for free as part of this event, but look for additional Houseguests in the Crown Store in the future.

To check the community’s overall progress and see which rewards players have unlocked so far, visit the Lost Treasures of Skyrim page and review the meter. Each day, we’ll update the meter based on the community’s progress. The faster you dig, the faster the reward will be unlocked!

After the community has unlocked all three rewards (or the time runs out), all Greymoor players can claim the unlocked items from the in-game Crown Store for free. Note that only players who own the Greymoor Chapter can claim the rewards.

As you explore, quest, and battle throughout Western Skyrim during the Lost Treasures of Skyrim event, you’ll also have the opportunity to earn bonus rewards and new collectibles.

For starters, all Western Skyrim resource nodes will provide double rewards (not including fishing holes or crafting materials obtained from monsters). Also, all Western Skyrim world bosses, delve bosses, and Kyne’s Aegis trial bosses will have a chance to drop additional loot when defeated, and all Western Skyrim daily quests will award double reward boxes when completed.



In addition to these, the first time you complete a Western Skyrim daily quest each day, you’ll receive a Bulging Box of Gray Host Pillage reward box. These well-stuffed containers have a chance to hold the following items:

• Crafting materials
• Valuables to be sold to vendors
• Style items for the Blackreach Vanguard or Gray Host styles
• Zone set items
• Treasure maps and survey reports
• Chaurus Eggs, Vile Coagulant, or Crimson Nirnroot
• Blackreach Vanguard Motif Chapter
• Greymoor Motif Chapter
• NEW Sovngarde Style pages
• Greymoor furnishing recipes

Phew! Once you’ve earned your Bulging Box each day, you will then have a chance to earn regular Boxes of Gray Host Pillage from subsequent daily quests or by completing various activities around Western Skyrim or Blackreach (such as defeating delve and world bosses, completing Harrowstorms, opening chests, and much more).

While a regular Box of Gray Host Pillage might not contain as many rewards as a Bulging one, they still have a chance to hold any of the above items, including the Sovngarde style pages, so keep adventuring!

To earn Event Tickets during the Lost Treasures of Skyrim event, simply turn in either a Western Skyrim daily quest or a Kyne’s Aegis weekly quest—you’ll receive three Event Tickets for doing so each day of the event.

The Impresario will stock the following goods during the event:

• All four Indrik Feathers (to get a Nascent Indrik)
• Mossheart Berries of Bloom, Budding, Growth, and Ripeness
• All you need to evolve your Nascent Indrik into a Mossheart Indrik!
• Group repair kits
• Sapling Indrik pet
• Sovngarde Style pages (bound to your character on purchase)

Explore Western Skyrim, complete quests, and acquire ancient relics of a bygone age during the Lost Treasures of Skyrim event and you’ll earn bonus rewards and unlock prizes for all Greymoor players. Don’t forget to check the community’s progress on our tracking page—get digging! This event is part of our massive end-of-year promotion, Tamriel Together, so be sure to keep an eye on our social channels at @TESOnline, Instagram, or Facebook for more information on how you can create a community and win amazing in-game prizes.

The Lost Treasures of Skyrim in-game event begins Wednesday, September 23 at 10:00AM EDT, and will end on Monday, October 5 at 10:00AM EDT.

Discover what adventures await in the finale of the Dark Heart of Skyrim epic as we preview the new DLC game pack, outline the upcoming in-game events, and share our end-of-year promotion, all in one amazing digital event!

• What: ESO Dark Heart of Skyrim Year-End Preview Digital Event
• Where: https://www.twitch.tv/bethesda
• When: Saturday, September 19 at 3PM EDT

Tune in to Twitch.tv/Bethesda on Saturday, September 19 at 3PM EDT, to watch a special digital event and ESO Live from the Elder Scrolls Online team that showcases everything coming to ESO in the final months of 2020. This includes the latest DLC, which we’re happy to announce has a new name: The Elder Scrolls Online: Markarth*!

We’ll preview the Markarth DLC game pack and talk about its zone, storyline, and place in the Dark Heart of Skyrim year-long epic. In addition to this, the team will outline 2020’s remaining in-game events and share information on the exciting end-of-year promotion we’ll be running throughout. After the digital event, we’ll host a special ESO Live to talk about the recent announcements and dive deep into some of the new DLC’s features.

We’ll have Twitch Drops enabled throughout the show, and anybody who watches the digital event with a linked account will also receive a free Purple Torchbug pet (to be delivered by Monday, September 21).


Get a free Purple Torchbug pet

It’s sure to be an exciting show, so tune in this Saturday, September 19 at 3PM EDT on Twitch—we’ll see you there!

*Why the new name? We just like it better!

Join us as the Community Team tackles one of Stonethorn’s exciting new dungeons with special guests.

Check out ESO Live on https://www.twitch.tv/bethesda this Friday, August 28 at 4PM EDT/9PM BST as community managers Jessica Folsom and Gina Bruno delve into one of the two new dungeons just released with the Stonethorn DLC. Don’t worry, they won’t have to do it alone, as they’ll be joined by special guests content creator NefasQS and Stream Team member Prestonality!

You can vote on which of the two dungeons, Stone Garden or Castle Thorn, you want to see them run via a poll on our official Twitter account, so keep an eye out for it. Will it be the dread laboratory of Arkasis? Or the grim ramparts of Lady Thorn’s castle? You decide!

We’ll have Twitch Drops enabled throughout  (link your accounts), so tune in to https://www.twitch.tv/bethesda this Friday, August 28 at 4PM EDT/9PM BST.

Battle your fellow players and Daedra under the shadow of the White-Gold Tower during the Imperial City Celebration and you’ll earn bonus rewards and collectibles.


The Imperial City Celebration begins Thursday, September 3 at 10:00AM EDT, and will run until Tuesday, September 15 at 10:00AM EDT. During this in-game event, you can earn bonus rewards within both the Imperial City PvP zone and its two PvE dungeons: White-Gold Tower and Imperial City Prison.

To begin your fight for the capital, you must have access to the Imperial City DLC game pack either via ESO Plus™ membership or free from the DLC section of the in-game Crown Store.


Battle in the city

To enter the Imperial City PvP zone, open your Alliance War menu, select the Imperial City category, choose either Champion Point or non-Champion point Campaign, and select “Enter Campaign.” (It’ll take you to the Imperial City Sewers to begin.)

To take on the Imperial City’s four-player dungeons, you can queue for them via the Dungeon Finder or by finding their entrances in the Imperial City districts (White-Gold Tower) or Imperial City Sewers (Imperial City Prison).

During the Imperial City Celebration event, you can loot the lost riches of a city under perpetual siege as you earn the following bonus rewards:

• Double the amount of Tel Var Stones dropped from all monsters
• Bonus chance of picking up either the Stonefire Scamp pet or the Soul-Shriven skin
• Double the amount of Key Fragments
• Bonus loot dropped by Trove Scamps and Cunning Scamps
• Bonus drops from bosses (including within the Imperial City itself and its dungeons)

To earn the above, take part in any of the regular Imperial City activities, including battling in the Imperial Sewers and city districts, and taking on either the White-Gold Tower or Imperial City Prison dungeons.

Legion Zero Strongboxes

Those willing to fight shield-to-shield in the heart of the lost empire are a special breed of warrior. To reward those few braving the dangers of Cyrodiil’s close-combat warfare, Legion Zero Strongboxes have been added to this event.

The first time you complete (turn in) an Imperial City district daily quest or defeat the final boss within the Imperial City Prison or White-Gold Tower dungeons, you’ll receive a Glorious Legion Zero Strongbox. These reward boxes can contain valuable and useful items, such as:

• Tel Var Stones
• Crafting Materials
• Xivkyn Motif style items
• Key Fragments
• Valuables to be sold to vendors
• Pages from the Legion Zero Vigiles armor style
• Pages from the Tools of Domination weapon style
• Xivkyn Motif chapters

The Legion Zero Vigiles armor style

After you’ve received your daily Glorious Legion Zero Strongbox, you have a chance to earn regular versions of this box by completing Imperial City activities such as defeating patrolling or sewer bosses, opening chests or safeboxes, defeating bosses in White-Gold Tower or Imperial City Prison, and from subsequent Imperial City district daily quests.

While the rewards found within regular Legion Zero Strongboxes are not as plentiful as those found in their Glorious counterpart, they still have a chance to contain useful and rare items, including the new style pages if you’re lucky!

During the Imperial City Celebration, you can earn three Event Tickets per day, awarded the first time you either complete a daily quest in the Imperial City districts or sewers or defeat the final boss in the White-Gold Tower or Imperial City Prison dungeons—make sure you loot your kills! 

Throughout the event period, the Impresario will stock the following items:

• Legion Zero Vigiles armor style pages (bound to your character on purchase)
• Tools of Domination weapon style pages (bound to your character on purchase)
• All four Indrik Feathers (to get a Nascent Indrik)
• Mossheart Berries of Bloom, Budding, and Growth
• Group repair kits
• Assorted Imperial- and Daedric-themed furnishings
• Daedric Chandelier, Ritual
• Imperial Bed, Canopy
• Imperial Dresser, Scrollwork
• Imperial Mirror, Standing
• Imperial Divider, Folding
• Imperial Wardrobe, Scrollwork
• Imperial Footlocker, Scrollwork
• Imperial Tapestry, Akatosh
• Imperial Simple Wall Lantern
• Imperial Shrine of the Bay
• Imperial Brazier, Caged
• Imperial Nightstand, Scrollwork
• Daedric Brazier, Standing

Throughout the event, you can pick up special Imperial City-themed items from the Crown Store, too. This includes ESO Plus membership deals on the Imperial Battlemage Pack, the Imperial Officers Pack, the Imperial War Mastiff pet, and an exclusive free Wolf and Warrior Statuette. In addition to these, the Legion Zero Charger mount will be available for gems for a limited time only.

The unstoppable Legion Zero Charger mount

Even better, starting Thursday, September 10, you can pick up the Imperial City Collector’s Bundle at up to 33% off—phew!

Glory awaits those who fight in the heart of the capital during the Imperial City Celebration event. Whether you’re battling to capture Cyrodiil’s districts for your faction or striving to rid the Ruby Throne of Daedric influence, there’s a host of great reasons to take part in this PvE/PvP event! Will you be joining us in the shadow of the White-Gold Tower? Let us know via @TESOnline, Instagram, and Facebook.

Continue your Dark Heart of Skyrim adventure with The Elder Scrolls Online: Stonethorn. Explore Castle Thorn and the Stone Garden in this all-new dungeon DLC.

The Stonethorn DLC game pack and Update 27 is now available on PC/Mac, Steam, and Stadia* and brings a host of new stories, challenges, tools, and improvements to ESO, including:

• Two new four-player dungeons: Castle Thorn and Stone Garden
• The continuation of the Dark Heart of Skyrim year-long storyline
• New rewards, including unique gear sets, Achievements, and collectibles
• The new Character Pathing tool for the Housing System
• Performance improvements and bug fixes
• And more!

This DLC game pack is available free for all current ESO Plus™ members or available for purchase with crowns from the in-game Crown Store. Read the patch notes for both Stonethorn and Update 27 on our official forums.

If you play on Xbox One or PlayStation®4, get ready, as Stonethorn and Update 27 will be making their way to consoles September 1!
</h3>"> The threat of the Gray Host did not end with the events of Greymoor, and new dangers arise from ancient holds and deep, hidden places. In The Elder Scrolls Online: Stonethorn, you can challenge yourself and your team with two exciting new dungeons: Castle Thorn and Stone Garden. As part of the Dark Heart of Skyrim, Stonethorn leads into the events of the upcoming Q4 DLC and final part of this year-long adventure!

Stone Garden

What horrifying new evils is the mad alchemist Arkasis crafting within the hidden laboratory of Stone Garden? Venture into Blackreach, discover the terrible creations of this twisted genius, battle your way through his empowered minions, and put a stop to his dread experiments before he births a new terror for the people of Western Skyrim. Check out our Stone Garden preview for more.

Battle your way through empowered beasts in Stone Garden

Castle Thorn

Isolated within the mountains of Western Skyrim, Lady Thorn raises a fearsome new vampire army behind the strong walls of her keep and prepares to march on Tamriel. You must infiltrate Castle Thorn, seek out the horrifying secret behind this rising force, and confront the ancient Vampire Lord at its heart. Discover more about Castle Thorn in our preview.

These two new dungeons will challenge your team in exciting ways and provide rewards in the form of unique gear sets, monster masks, collectibles, and Achievements.

Earn brand-new rewards

Both can be completed in Normal and Veteran Difficulties, and should you truly wish to challenge your party’s skills and teamwork, Stone Garden allows you to attempt a Hard Mode version of each of its three bosses—good luck!
The Stonethorn DLC game pack is free for all ESO Plus members and available for purchase for 1,500 crowns from the in-game Crown Store (listed under DLC).

Note that if your ESO Plus membership lapses, you lose access to the DLC dungeons until you renew or purchase the DLC with crowns. You won’t lose any items or rewards you earned while you had access.

Stonethorn Collector’s Bundle

The Stonethorn Collector’s Bundle is also available for 4,000 crowns. This includes access to the DLC game pack, the Frostborn Durzog Mangler mount, the Snowsnarl Durzog pet, and five Crown Experience Scrolls. You can find and purchase the Stonethorn Collector’s Bundle from the Featured section of the in-game Crown Store.

The Stonethorn Collector’s Bundle
Once you have access to the Stonethorn dungeons, you can continue your Dark Heart of Skyrim adventure by the following methods:

• By teleporting directly into the two dungeons from your map
• By using the Dungeon Finder tool
• By walking up to the dungeon entrances in Western Skyrim (Castle Thorn) and Blackreach (Stone Garden)

By simply entering these two new dungeons, you receive the Energetic Dwarven Shock-Spider pet!

The perfect companion for Tamriel’s adventurers!
Releasing with Stonethorn, Update 27 brings new features and improvements for all ESO players, free!

Character Pathing

With the new Character Pathing tool added to the Homestead System, you can now give your pets, mounts, and assistants unique paths for them to follow throughout your home, helping it feel more alive than ever. By simply assigning your companions nodes, you can have them move all around your home along a set path. You can even define speed, set wait times, and choose whether you want them to return along the same path or loop. For more on this new tool, check out our preview.

Create unique paths for your pets, mounts, and assistants

Performance Improvements

The team has been working hard on various performance improvements in this update. These include improvements to how persistent AoEs work (starting with the Dragonknight Standard), an item set scripting update, new Critical Memory systems, physic engine improvements, server load handling improvements, database caching, and some intermittent load screen fixes—phew! With these updates, you’ll see fewer crashes, improvements to overall server stability/performance, and fewer random load screens.

For everything arriving in Update 27, check out the Patch Notes section on our official forums.
Continue your Dark Heart of Skyrim adventure with Stonethorn and put a stop to two deadly new threats before they are unleashed upon the Nords of Western Skyrim. Shut down a terrible experiment and defeat an unholy army with two exciting and challenging dungeons that expand upon the year-long narrative that began with Harrowstorm and will continue throughout the rest of 2020! Are you excited to enter Castle Thorn or the Stone Garden? Tell us via @TESOnline, Instagram, and Facebook.

Part of the Dark Heart of Skyrim year-long adventure, the Stonethorn DLC game pack is now live for PC/Mac and Stadia* and arrives September 1 for Xbox One and PlayStation®4. This new DLC game pack arrives in tandem with Update 27, a free base-game update for all ESO players.

*Available only in select territories. Find out if Stadia is available in your region here.

Play ESO free and pick up the game and Crown Packs at up to 50% off during QuakeCon 2020!

QuakeCon 2020 is here, and that means you can save big on both the game and Crown Packs while trying out the game free during our limited-time sale and Free Play event.


If you’d like to take your first steps into the world of Tamriel, you can play ESO free from now through August 19 at 10AM EDT for Xbox One and PC/Mac and August 20 at 10AM EDT for PlayStation®4.

To get started, visit our Free Play page and select your platform. This event gives you access to the ESO base game, which includes four of the game’s original classes, 24 unique zones (including Morrowind), a huge main storyline, and, if you’re a new player, 500 crowns to spend in the in-game Crown Store.

Even better, this event gives you the opportunity to begin your Dark Heart of Skyrim year-long story with the free Greymoor Prologue (part of the ESO base game).


Discover Skyrim’s dark heart with the Greymoor Prologue

If you’ve played ESO during a previous event, you can continue your adventures as normal. Happy adventuring!

During QuakeCon, you can also save up to 35% on ESO’s latest Chapter, The Elder Scrolls Online Greymoor (including the Greymoor Standard Edition, Upgrade, and Collector’s Editions).

If you’re an existing player ready to explore the city of Solitude and surrounding holds, the Greymoor Upgrade gives you access to the new zone (Western Skyrim), the Antiquities system, and the Dark Heart of Skyrim questline. However, if you’re new to ESO, the Greymoor Standard Edition includes the Chapter detailed above and the full base game, Morrowind Chapter, Summerset Chapter, and Elsweyr Chapter. That’s hundreds of hours of quests, exploration, and stories—all 35% off!

Finally, as a new player, you can also pick up The Elder Scrolls Online Standard Edition at up to 50% off during the sale period, giving you access to the full base game and Morrowind Chapter—a great first step into the ever-expanding world of Tamriel.


Explore Western Skyrim in the Greymoor Chapter

This sale is now live, but depending on your platform and territory, it ends at different times:

• Greymoor PC/Mac
• North America—August 11 @ 1PM EDT
• Europe—August 11 @ 1PM EDT
• Standard Edition PC/Mac
• North America—August 25 @ 1PM EDT
• Europe—August 25 @ 1PM EDT
• Greymoor Stadia
• North America—August 19 @ 3AM EDT
• Europe— August 19 @ 3AM EDT
• Standard Edition Stadia
• North America— August 19 @ 3AM EDT
• Europe— August 19 @ 3AM EDT
• Greymoor Xbox One
• North America—August 11 @ 6AM EDT
• Europe—August 11 @ 6AM EDT
• Standard Edition Xbox One
• North America—August 24 @ 6AM EDT
• Europe—August 24 @ 6AM EDT
• Greymoor PlayStation®4
• North America—August 19 @ 3AM EDT
• Europe—August 18 @ 7PM EDT
• Standard Edition PlayStation®4
• North America—August 19 @ 3AM EDT
• Europe—August 18 @ 7PM EDT

Visit our Buy Now page right now to make the most out of this sale.

Also starting now, you can enjoy big-time discounts on Crown Packs for all platforms during the event period, including:

• 21,000—40% off
• 14,000—35% off
• 5,500—30% off
• 3,000—25% off
• 1,500—20% off

To grab this deal, visit our Buy Crowns page. Don’t forget, with Crowns, you can pick up a ton of useful and fun items from the in-game Crown Store, including collectibles such as pets, mounts, costumes, and more. Check out everything currently on offer on our Crown Store page.

This Crown Pack sale is now live, and it will continue through August 10 for PC/Mac, Steam, and Xbox One, through August 11 for Stadia, and through August 17 for PlayStation®4—don’t miss out!

Whether you’re a brand-new player looking to try out ESO for the first time, or a veteran who wants to pick up a deal on Crown Packs or the latest Chapter, there’s something for you during the QuakeCon 2020 Free Play and sale period. A ton of amazing livestreams and giveaways are going on during QuakeCon this year, so be sure to check them out as well!