Earn bonus rewards, get double XP, and celebrate the end of the year in style during the New Life Festival. Learn about all the quests, collectibles, Achievements, and more you can enjoy during this end-of-year event!



The New Life Festival begins this Thursday, December 13, at 10:00AM EST and will run until Wednesday, January 2, at 10:00AM EST. If you’d like to take part in the festivities, pick up the New Life Festival Scroll from the in-game Crown Store and use it to find the New Life Herald, Breda, located south of Windhelm, Eastmarch.

Share a mead with Breda, the New Life Herald

Complete the initial quest titled “The New Life Festival” to unlock a host of New Life-themed and festive daily quests (nine in total) that have you bring cheer to every corner of Tamriel. Once you’ve completed your first New Life Festival quest, you’ll also have unlocked the Breda’s Bottomless Mead Mug collectible, which, in addition to greatly improving the mirth of those who imbibe, provides a two-hour, 100% boost to XP gains during the event period. This boon will stack with any other XP bonuses your character currently has, including those from XP scrolls or ESO Plus membership.

By taking part in the New Life Festival and completing the Herald’s quests, you’ll earn New Life Festival Gift Boxes. These celebratory containers house random items, including crafting materials, consumables, and style items. If you’re fortunate, you might also receive one of these rarer rewards, too:

• Skinchanger Motif chapters
• New Life recipes
• New Life collectibles (packaged in Runeboxes and tradeable):
• Sword-Swallower's Blade memento
• Juggler's Knives memento
• Fire-Breather's Torches memento
• Mud Ball Pouch memento
• Nordic Bather's Towel costume
• Colovian Filigreed Hood hat
• Colovian Fur Hood hat
• A selection of lights, lamps, and lanterns for your home to celebrate the Signal Fire Sprint
• Draughts of Stealth and Escape to celebrate the Trial of Five-Clawed Guile

New Life Charity Writs

In addition to the above rewards, New Life Festival Gift Boxes can now also include New Life Charity Writs! These new, event-exclusive writs task you with creating simple furnishing items to donate in the spirit of the season. Once you’ve completed one of these new writs, you can turn it into any writ return location for its item type. If you don’t have the recipe required to craft the writ, visit the relevant crafting vendor to pick it up.

Of course, performing this good deed is its own reward, but in addition to a philanthropic sense of satisfaction, if you complete 12 Charity Writs on a single character, you’ll unlock the “Newly Charitable” Achievement, granting you the incredible Crystalfrost skin!


The Crystalfrost skin

Starting December 13, you can turn your house into a festive holiday home with exclusive furnishing items from Heralda Garscroft, the Holiday Achievement Furnisher. You can find her in Grahtwood, Stormhaven, and Deshaan. Here’s how you can unlock these uniquely merry furnishings:

• The New Life Bonfire – Available for 10,000 gold once you complete the “Snow Bare Plunge" achievement
• The New Life Celebrant's Standard – Available for 2,500 gold once you complete the “New Life Celebrant" achievement

Check the Achievement section of your Journal to review progress.

During the event, you can also earn Event Tickets and purchase the final Indrik Feather required to unlock the Nascent Indrik mount (along with a #OurElderScrolls Sweepstakes bonus entry). This event’s feather is called the Opaline Indrik Feather.

To earn Event Tickets during this event, simply complete one of the nine New Life Festival daily quests. In addition to the New Life Festival Gift Box, you’ll receive one Event Ticket. Note that you can earn only one ticket per day per account, and they’ll reset at 1:00AM EST each morning.


Get the last Indrik Feather to unlock this beautiful mount

Once you have acquired 10 Event Tickets, you can trade them in to the Impresario (located at a special booth in Daggerfall in Glenumbra, Davon's Watch in Stonefalls, and Vulkhel Guard in Auridon) for the Opaline Indrik Feather. You can acquire 20 Event Tickets during this event, and the Impresario will continue to sell all previous Feathers throughout, meaning if you’ve missed some, you have a chance to catch up during the New Life Festival! For more information on acquiring the Nascent Indrik mount, check out our announcement article.

As with previous events, you can earn bonus entries into the #OurElderScrolls Sweepstakes by acquiring Indrik Feathers. For your chance to win amazing prizes, including a Grand Prize trip to BE3 2019, make sure you’ve entered by filling out this form. For more information and official rules, visit the #OurElderScrolls page.

Finally, in addition to your Event Ticket, when you turn in your first New Life Festival daily quest, you will also receive a Mysterious Reward Box. Originally part of the earlier Undaunted Celebration, these boxes have a chance to include rare styles and collectibles.

Throughout the event period, you can also acquire some merry seasonal items from the in-game Crown Store, including the beloved Garland Dapple Gray mount, the Winter Broadbrim Hat Pack, Sun’s Dusk Winter Hood, and Winter Scout’s Pack. These returning items are now on sale and can only be found in the Crown Store for a limited time.

Don’t forget, you can now acquire the Enchanted Snow Globe Home, too. The entrance to this magical, wintery home can actually be found within the New Life tent, so don’t hesitate to check it out for yourself.


The amazing Enchanted Snow Globe Home

In addition to the sale, from now until 2:00AM EST on January 1, 2019, you can earn a Snowcap Fledgling Gryphon pet when you gift Crown Store items this month. Check out our announcement article for all the details.

The New Life Festival begins soon, and it brings the spirit of the holiday season to all of Tamriel. How are you planning to bring in the New Year? Let us know if you’re going to make merry this holiday season on Twitter @TESOnline and Facebook.

The New Life Festival begins this Thursday, December 13, at 10:00AM EST and will run until Wednesday, January 2, at 10:00AM EST.

Play The Elder Scrolls Online and experience Tamriel like never before during our Free Play Event!



The Free Play Event will begin on Thursday, December 6 and will run through Tuesday, December 11. During this period, you can join millions of other adventurers in exploring Tamriel free on PC/Mac with no strings attached.

Here’s how you can take part in this event:

• Navigate to the Free Play page
• Select your platform
• Download the game for your desired platform
• Create an ESO account and play!

During the Free Play Event, you’ll get access to ESO’s base game and Morrowind DLC, allowing you to explore a massive world filled with beauty and adventure as you fight to restore the demi-god Vivec’s lost powers and reclaim your stolen soul from the Daedric Prince Molag Bal. In addition to this, ESO’s base game also includes access to Cyrodiil, a massive open-world PvP zone, and the Battlegrounds, a fast-paced 4v4v4 PvP arena. Even if you already own ESO but never acquired the Morrowind DLC or Chapter, you’ll be able to travel to Vvardenfell and experience the home of the Dark Elves during the event period.

All new ESO accounts receive 500 free crowns for use in the in-game Crown Store, allowing you to pick up some useful items that include XP Scrolls, consumables, or even collectibles. Any characters and progression earned from previous trial events will remain, and if you decide to buy ESO after the event, you’ll be able to continue your adventures without interruption.

The ESO game client is approximately 80 GB in size, so ensure you have enough space on your machine's hard drive for the download.

A whole world of adventure awaits you in The Elder Scrolls Online, so be sure to visit our Free Play page to get started. During the event, you can also sign up for the #OurElderScrollsSweepstakes for a chance to win some amazing prizes, including a Grand Prize trip to BE3 2019. For more information and official rules, check out the #OurElderScrolls page. Are you going to visit Tamriel during the Free Play Event? Let us know on Twitter @TESOnline and Facebook! 

In the spirit of the holiday season, you will receive an in-game pet as a gift from us when you use the Crown Store Gifting system to bring joy to others.



Has your guildie or friend had their eye on a fancy pet or mount? Perhaps you want to help a new player get off to a fast start with some XP Scrolls? During the month of December, we’re rewarding everybody who loves to gift their fellow players Crown Store items with a brand-new pet!

This holiday season, when you gift 1000 Crowns or more worth of items to two or more different Elder Scrolls Online players, we’ll send you an adorable Snowcap Fledgling Gryphon pet!



Here’s everything you need to know:

• Gifting must occur between 2:00 AM EST on December 1, 2018 and 2:00AM EST on January 1, 2019
• You must send a gift to at least two different individual accounts
• The total value of all gifts must be at least 1000 Crowns or more on the same platform and region
• Note: NOT 1000 Crowns per gift, but 1000 Crowns total. Two individual gifts that are valued at 500 Crowns each would count, as would three gifts each valued at 400 Crowns. However, if you sent a gift worth 500 Crowns on the PC NA server and another worth 500 Crowns on the Xbox One NA server, it would not count. 
• You will receive your Snowcap Fledgling Gryphon pet after the promotion’s end by January 4, 2019.

To send your friend a gift, navigate to the item you wish to buy in the Crown Store and select the “Purchase as Gift" option, then enter their UserID, Gamertag, or PSN ID, depending on your platform. You can then personalize your gift with a custom-made or a pre-selected message. Note that homes cannot be gifted.


Gift consumables, collectibles, and more!

You can view all the currently available items, including pets, mounts, costumes, and more on our Crown Store page, and you can stock up on Crowns on our Buy Crowns page.

Don’t forget, this promotion kicks off on December 1, 2019 at 2:00AM EST and it will run until January 1, 2019 at 2:00AM EST. Happy gifting!

Take on Tamriel’s dungeons and earn bonus rewards during the Undaunted Celebration Event. Learn everything you need to know to get started, including how to earn more Event Tickets!



The Undaunted Celebration Event kicks off on Thursday, November 29 at 10:00AM EST and will run until Wednesday, December 5 at 10:00AM EST. During the event period, you can complete a random dungeon using the Dungeon Finder (Normal or Veteran) to earn Mysterious Reward Boxes, with a max of one box rewarded per character per day.

A Mysterious Reward Box has a chance to include some useful items and collectibles, including style pages, costumes, pets, mounts, and (in some rare cases) homes.


Frostbane Saber Cat mount & Grand Topal Hideaway home

If you’re lucky enough, you might even win the ultra-rare jackpot prize and receive over 130 mounts at once! This jackpot reward even includes mounts from previous Crown Crate seasons.


Dwarven Horse & Hollowjack Daedra-Skull Wolf mounts (available as part of the jackpot prize)

Here’s what you need to do to participate:

• Navigate to the Group & Activity Finder
• Select Dungeon Finder
• Select either Random Normal Dungeon or Random Veteran Dungeon
• Select your role (DPS, healing, or tanking) and queue up

In order to earn a Mysterious Reward Box, you will need to complete the dungeon by defeating its final boss.

Note: You receive Mysterious Reward Boxes as part of your character's daily random dungeon rewards. Once one of your characters has completed their dungeon daily and has received the rewards, you will not be able to get additional ones for that same character for 20 hours (the typical dungeon daily cooldown).

During the Undaunted Celebration Event, you can earn additional Event Tickets and pick up the third of the four Indrik Features (along with a #OurElderScrolls Sweepstakes bonus entry) required to summon the Nascent Indrik Mount. This event’s feather is called the Onyx Indrik Feather.

To earn Event Tickets during this event, complete a dungeon by defeating its final boss. In addition to the regular rewards the boss drops, you’ll receive three Event Tickets. Note that you can only earn these three tickets once per day per account and they’ll reset at 1:00AM EST each morning.


Don’t miss out on your Indrik Mount!

Once you have acquired 10 Event Tickets, you can trade them in to the Impresario (located at a special booth in Daggerfall in Glenumbra, Davon's Watch in Stonefalls, and Vulkhel Guard in Auridon) for the Onyx Indrik Feather. For more information on acquiring the Nascent Indrik mount, check out our announcement article.

Don’t forget, you can earn bonus entries into the #OurElderScrolls Sweepstakes by collecting Indrik Feathers. For your chance to win some amazing prizes, including a Grand Prize trip to BE3 2019, make sure you’ve entered by filling out this form. For more information and official rules, check out the #OurElderScrolls page for everything you need to know. Good luck!

Ready your party and prepare your supplies, the Undaunted Celebration Event is about to begin. Tamriel’s dungeons are fraught with danger, but the rewards for delving into these 4-player challenges have never been greater. Are you excited for the Undaunted Celebration? Let us know on Twitter @TESOnline and Facebook! 

The Undaunted Celebration Event begins on Thursday, November 29 at 10:00AM EST and will run until Wednesday, December 5 at 10:00AM EST.

Return to Sotha Sil’s greatest creation during the Clockwork City Celebration Event and earn double rewards from daily quests, bosses, and resource nodes. This is also your next opportunity to earn Event Tickets and Indrik Feathers – read more here!



The Clockwork City Celebration Event begins on Thursday, November 15 at 10:00AM EST and will run until Monday, November 26 at 10:00AM EST. During this period, you can earn additional rewards for the following activities within the zone:

• Double items harvested from crafting nodes
• Including Jewelry seams, but does not include nodes spawned from Survey Reports and Fishing Holes
• Double the reward boxes from completing Daily Quests
• Double the drops from bosses
• Including World Bosses, Delve Bosses, Trials Bosses, and Quest Bosses

Battle the Imperfect for double rewards!

To enter the city and begin your adventure:

• Find Divayth Fyr's messenger in Mournhold's City Center and acquire the quest “To The Clockwork City"
• Travel to the Clockwork City and the Brass Fortress directly via your map

• Like Coldharbour, it is located “outside" Tamriel on the world map

Finally, if you’re entering the Brass Fortress for the first time, you’ll also receive the Scintillant Dovah-Fly pet completely free – even if you’ve gained access via the ESO Plus Free Trial!

During the Clockwork City Celebration Event, you have another chance to pick up Event Tickets and acquire the second of the four Indrik Feathers needed to summon your very own Indrik mount.

To earn Event Tickets during the event, complete the zone’s Daily Quests (located within the Brass Fortress). You will receive two Event Tickets from the first Daily Quest you complete each day in addition to the other regular rewards. Note that the Event Tickets are tied to the Daily Quest timer, meaning they’ll reset at 1:00AM EST.

Don’t forget, once you have acquired 10 Event Tickets, you can trade them in to the Impresario (located at a special booth in Daggerfall in Glenumbra, Davon's Watch in Stonefalls, and Vulkhel Guard in Auridon) for an Indrik Feather. For more information on acquiring the Nascent Indrik mount, check out our announcement article.

If you don’t already own the Clockwork City DLC game pack, you can acquire it during the event for a discounted price. The standard DLC game pack will be on sale for 1400 crowns (30% off) from November 15 until November 27, and the Clockwork City Collector’s Bundle will be available for 2400 crowns (40% off) from November 15 until November 21.


The Clockwork City Collector’s Bundle

The Clockwork City Collector’s Bundle includes the DLC game pack, the Clockwork Skeevaton pet, the Kagouti Fabricant mount, and Five Crown Experience Scrolls. You can find both the base DLC game pack and the Collector’s Bundle in the Featured section of the Crown Store.

Don’t forget, the ESO Plus Trial Event will also begin on November 15, giving you an opportunity to try out ESO Plus membership and gain access to the Clockwork City DLC game pack completely free! Find everything you need to know about the ESO Plus Trial Event in our announcement article.

Hidden from the prying eyes of both mortals and Daedra alike, the Clockwork City is a realm outside of Tamriel designed and built by Sotha Sil himself. It is a place as mysterious as it is dangerous, filled with factotum servants and vicious fabricant monsters. Are you planning to return to the Clockwork City? Let us know on Twitter @TESOnline and Facebook!

The Clockwork City Celebration Event begins on Thursday, November 15 at 10:00AM EST and will run until Monday, November 26 at 10:00AM EST.