The Elder Scrolls is 25 years old, and you can celebrate this amazing milestone with us by unleashing Dragons upon Elsweyr, picking up ESO on sale, or even joining our Free Play Event!



It has been 25 years since The Elder Scrolls: Arena’s release in 1994, and we are thrilled to be part of this incredible milestone with The Elder Scrolls Online. To celebrate this amazing anniversary, you can begin your journey to the Khajiiti homeland with the Elsweyr Prologue, enjoy sales on the ESO base game and Summerset Chapter, and try the game out free, no strings attached, during our Free Play Event. Check out all the details below!

In the Wrathstone DLC game pack, you began your Season of the Dragon adventure by delving into two challenging dungeons and collecting both halves of the mysterious Wrathstone tablet. With the Elsweyr Prologue, going live later today, you can discover the true purpose of the Wrathstone, and, as shown in our Elsweyr Cinematic Trailer, unleash Dragons upon the unsuspecting Khajiit of Elsweyr.


Explore the Halls of Colossus in the Elsweyr Prologue

The Prologue is part of The Elder Scrolls Online base game, meaning you don’t need the Wrathstone DLC or a The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr pre-purchase to experience this part of the story.

You can begin this new adventure in two ways:

• Get the FREE Crown Store Quest Starter item, the Sealed Imperial Summons, and use it from your inventory.
• You can find this within the Quest Starter category.
• Venture to the first major city of your alliance and look for the Imperial messenger, Anais Davaux, near the Impresario’s tent.
• Aldmeri players can find her outside the northern gates of Vulkhel Guard.
• Daggerfall players can find her on approach to Daggerfall City from the east.
• Ebonheart players can find her at Davon’s Watch near the east gate.

Completing the Prologue quests grants you the Dragon Flight Illusion Gem memento reward, allowing you to summon a spectral group of mini-dragons!

If you wish to continue aiding the Khajiiti effort against the Dragons, you may undertake daily quests from Zahiri, who sets up camp near Abnur Tharn's camp at the Grahtwood entrance to Elsweyr. You may do every quest she offers once per day, and each rewards you with a cache of treasures from the Northern Elsweyr Defense Force. These caches can include Runebox fragments for the Guar Stomp emote!


Summon spectral dragons!

Starting this Thursday, March 28, and running until Wednesday, April 3, you can play The Elder Scrolls Online free on all platforms.

Because the Free Play Event includes access to the base game, this means that as a free play player, you can check out the Elsweyr Prologue Quest and begin the adventure that eventually takes you to the home of the Khajiit in The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr (now available for pre-purchase)!

In addition to access to the ESO base game, the Free Play Event also allows you to visit the Morrowind zone, giving you the opportunity to explore Tamriel and the island home of the Dark Elves.


Travel to the home of the Dark Elves

Once the event starts, visit our Free Play page to select your platform and enter Tamriel. Note that a PlayStation®Plus membership is required to participate on PlayStation®4, and an Xbox Live Gold membership is required for Xbox One.

In addition to the Free Play Event and Prologue Quest, later today, we’ve also putting The Elder Scrolls Online base game and The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset on sale for all platforms. Visit our Buy Now page or your preferred retailer for details (sales should go live as the day continues). Note that the sale ends at a different time depending on the product:

• The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset is on sale until April 2
• The Elder Scrolls Online Standard Edition (the base game) is on sale until April 9

We’re thrilled to take part in this amazing milestone for The Elder Scrolls and continue to bring new and exciting adventures to Tamriel. If you’ve never had the chance to check out ESO for yourself, thanks to this Free Play Event and sale, there’s never been a better time to visit Tamriel’s 2nd Era and explore a world without limits.

Don’t forget, you can continue the adventure you start with the Elsweyr Prologue Quest by pre-purchasing The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr, coming June 4. The Season of the Dragon is just heating up!

Celebrate the absurd during the next Jester’s Festival event and reap ridiculous rewards, including new collectibles, bonus XP, and more! Find out everything you need to know right here. There’s pie!



The Jester's Festival kicks off on Thursday, March 21, at 10:00AM EDT and will run until Tuesday, April 2, at 10:00AM EDT. If you’d like to take part in this frivolous event, travel to the pavilions located outside the cities of Ebonheart, Vulkhel Guard, and Daggerfall. Once you find a pavilion, talk to one of the three Jesters convincingly dressed as Jorunn the Skald-King, Queen Ayrenn, or High King Emeric to get started.

Complete the intro quest titled “The Jester's Festival" to acquire the delicacy known as the Pie of Misrule. (If you completed the quest last year, you won't need to do so again.) When you use this mouthwatering Memento during the event, you'll receive a two-hour 100% XP buff. You can continue to enjoy the pie once the event is over, but you will no longer receive the bonus.


Save Princess from a perniciously porky fate!

Throughout the event, your characters can receive a daily quest from a Jester at each of the three different locations, allowing them to complete three preposterous quests per day.

When you complete a Jester’s daily quest, you’ll receive a Jester’s Festival Reward Box, containing fun consumables, recipes, valuable items, and furnishings. The first time you complete the daily quest for each Jester each day (regardless of character), you’ll receive a Jester’s Festival Stupendous Box instead!

This Jester’s Festival Stupendous Box has a chance to contain unique rewards, including:

• Cadwell’s Kitchen Arms Style Pages
• Arm yourself with the weapons of the rag-tag knight himself!
• Parts of New Mementos!
• Collect the different parts for two new Mementos: the Festive Noise Maker or Jester’s Festival Joke Popper.
• Jokey Stealies
• Valuable-but-silly items you can sell to vendors for gold.
• Runeboxes
• Tradeable runeboxes containing last year’s Mementos: the Jester’s Scintillator and Cherry Blossom Branch.

If you’ve earned all three Stupendous Reward Boxes in a day and you decide to do the quests again with a different character, you’ll receive the regular Jester’s Festival Reward Box. You can keep earning three regular Jester’s Festival Reward Boxes with your different characters throughout the day, with both the Stupendous Reward Boxes and the regular Reward Boxes resetting daily at 2:00AM EDT.

Finally, Jester Festival Reward Boxes will always contain one last reward: the Jester’s Festival Pie.

Although the pies you receive from Reward Boxes certainly look delicious, in the right hands, they’re one of Tamriel’s most-feared projectiles!

By adding these tasty missiles to your Quickbar, they become instruments of maniacal merriment, allowing you to throw them at any of Tamriel’s inhabitants, including NPCs, guards, or even your fellow players. Spare none your sticky, delicious wrath! Warning: Some targets, such as city guards, might object to your revelry.


“Take that! And that! EAT IT!”

Of course, while covering your friends, enemies, and hapless bystanders in dessert is its own reward, we’ve also added a host of new pie-related Achievements to this year’s event:

• The Three Fillings War – Throw 10 Pies at players that are in a different Alliance
• The Upper Crust – Throw a pie at each of the Alliance Leaders
• More Than You Can Chew – Throw 10 Pies at Guards
• Dessert Domination – Complete the above Achievements
• Messy Business – Kill 10 players while they are covered in pie in Cyrodiil

With these Achievements come special rewards. By completing the Messy Business and The Upper Crust Achievements, you’ll earn the “Empieror” and “Tin Soldier” titles respectively. Finally, by acquiring Dessert Domination, you’ll receive the Obnoxious Mute Face Paint collectible!

The Achievements from previous events will still be available this year for everybody, too, including the Lord or Lady of Misrule Achievement, rewarding you with a title and hat, and the Royal Jester Achievement, rewarding you with a title and unlocking the ability to acquire unique furnishings. Check your in-game Journal for everything.

As you take part in the Jester’s Festival, you’ll earn two Event Tickets the first time you complete a Jester’s daily quest each day, with a total of 24 tickets available to be earned by the event’s end.

During the event, you can buy Indrik Feathers, Dawnwood Berries of Bloom, Dawnwood Berries of Budding, Dawnwood Berries of Growth, and the new Dawnwood Berries of Ripeness from the Impresario merchant. This is the final berry you’ll need to evolve your existing Nascent Indrik into the Dawnwood Indrik! To summon your new, fancy Indrik, simply have all four berries in your inventory and use one of them.


The even-more majestic Dawnwood Indrik

When spending Event Tickets, please double-check the name of the berries you’re about to purchase. You need only one of each to evolve your Indrik. Please also note that this is your last chance to acquire all the berries required to make this specific evolution. Once this event ends, the Impresario will no longer stock these berries – don’t miss out!

If you’ve earned more than enough Event Tickets this quarter, you can also acquire the Springtide Indrik pet for 10 Event Tickets – the first pet Indrik available in game! In addition, you can acquire any of Cadwell’s Kitchen Arms Style pages for five Event Tickets each, giving you an alternate way to earn them other than the Stupendous Boxes (or simply snatch up any you are missing). You’ll find both of these new types of items for sale from the Impresario.



With the Jester’s Festival event, we’re bringing back a host of fan-favorite items including the Madcap Jester Monkey and Jester Personality in addition to adding new items such as the Pebble Pal (yes, it’s a pet rock), Cadwell’s Kitchen Style pack, and a selection of novelty stick mounts.


The Novelty Stick Horse mount & Pebble Pal Pet

Additionally, during this event, we’re adding Event Tickets to the in-game Crown Store. You can find them in the Events category. Check out this month’s Crown Store Showcase for more information on when all of these fantastic items will be available.

Enjoy bonuses to XP, acquire Event Tickets, earn exclusive rewards, AND cover your enemies (and friends) in delicious, sticky pie—what’s not to love this Jester’s Festival? Are you planning to join in on the raucous revelries this year? Head on over to Twitter @TESOnline, Instagram, and Facebook and tell us how you’ll be celebrating!

This Jester's Festival kicks off on Thursday, March 21, at 10:00AM EDT and will run until Tuesday, April 2, at 10:00AM EDT. Have fun!

Learn how the team designed Update 21’s quality-of-life improvements and get to know the new Loremaster in our latest ESO Live.



Join us this Friday at 6PM EDT as Senior Systems Designer Michael Edwards and Lead UI Designer Bobby Weir drop by to talk with Community Managers Jessica Folsom and Gina Bruno about two of Update 21’s most-loved features: the Zone Guide and Guild Trader UI update. Then, ZOS’s new Loremaster Leamon Tuttle joins them to chat about his background, what it means to be a Loremaster, and his thoughts on Elder Scrolls lore in general. If you love Elder Scrolls lore AND quality-of-life improvements, this is the show for you!

The show will also feature ESO news and have Twitch Drops activated, so if you haven’t already, don’t hesitate to link your PC/Mac accounts. The show will go live this Friday at 6PM EDT on Twitch, YouTube, Mixer, and Steam—see you there!

There’s never been a better time to be bad! Earn bonus rewards when you commit crimes in the name of the Dark Brotherhood or Thieves Guild during our celebration event.



The Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood Celebration Event starts Thursday, March 7, at 10:00AM EST and runs until Monday, March 18, at 10:00AM EDT. During this period, you can earn the following bonus rewards for certain criminal activities in both Hew's Bane and the Gold Coast:

• Double reward drops for defeating World Bosses
• Double reward drops for defeating Delve bosses
• Double Defiled Whiskers drops from Maw of Lorkhaj bosses
• Increased rewards for completing Heists
• Increased rewards for completing Sacraments
• Double harvesting resources from regular crafting nodes (not nodes from Survey Reports)

Note that the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood repeatable quests do not have bonus rewards during the event period.

Throughout this dark event, you can acquire both the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood DLC game packs for a steal, with both available in the in-game Crown Store for 1,000 crowns.

Even better, you can snatch up the Dark Brotherhood Collector’s Bundle and the Thieves Guild Collector’s Bundle for 2,000 crowns each.



The Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild Collector’s Bundles

The Thieves Guild Collector's Bundle includes the Thieves Guild DLC game pack, the Hammerfell Camel mount, the Kindlespit Dragon Frog pet, and five Crown Experience Scrolls. The Dark Brotherhood Collector's Bundle includes the DLC game pack, Highland Wolf mount, the Sylvan Nixad pet, and five Crown Experience Scrolls.

Finally, we’re also putting a collection of Thieves Guild- and Dark Brotherhood-themed Crown Store items up for sale, including furnishings, homes, and Motif Styles. Check out the Crown Store starting on March 7 to grab a bargain.

As you participate in the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood Celebration, you’ll also earn Event Tickets for the following activities:

• One Event Ticket for the first Sacrament completed each day
• Sacraments are unlocked by reaching Dark Brotherhood Rank 2 and completing the quest “A Lesson in Silence”
• One Event Ticket for the first Heist completed each day
• Heists are unlocked by reaching Thieves Guild Rank 3 and completing the quest “The Long Game"

You can earn a total of two Event Tickets per day per account, with a possible total of 24 by the end.

Throughout the event, you can buy Indrik Feathers, Dawnwood Berries of Bloom (introduced with January’s Midyear Mayhem), Dawnwood Berries of Budding (introduced with the Morrowind Celebration), and new Dawnwood Berries of Growth from the Impresario merchant. When spending Event Tickets, please double-check the name of the berries you’re about to purchase. You need only one of each to evolve your Indrik.

The risks are great, but during the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood Celebration, the rewards are even greater, meaning there’s never been a better time to begin your life of crime! Are you excited to return to the Gold Coast and Hew’s Bane? Let us know on Twitter @TESOnline, Instagram, or Facebook.

The Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood Celebration event begins on Thursday, March 7, at 10:00AM EST and will end on Monday, March 18, at 10:00AM EDT.

Begin your Season of the Dragon story with Wrathstone, a new DLC game pack for The Elder Scrolls Online. Learn about this challenging new dungeon content and the free Update 21 base-game patch, now live on PC/Mac!



The Wrathstone DLC dungeon pack and update brings new adventures and improvements to ESO:

• Two dungeons: Frostvault & Depths of Malatar
• The start of the Season of the Dragon adventure
• A new Battleground: Eld Angvar
• Updated PvP rewards
• The Zone Guide
• A Guild Trader UI update

This DLC is free for all current ESO Plus™ members or available for purchase with crowns from the in-game Crown Store.

Check out the official Wrathstone Launch Trailer here!

The Wrathstone DLC Game Pack introduces two challenging, brand-new dungeons that take your team through Tamriel’s hidden ruins to collect both halves of the mysterious Wrathstone tablet. This DLC also kicks off the year-long Season of the Dragon storyline that continues with the upcoming Elsweyr Chapter, arriving this June, and runs throughout 2019.

Frostvault

In Frostvault, you must work with the Redguard treasure hunter Tharayya to explore a lost Dwarven vault, embedded deep within Eastmarch’s frozen glaciers. Standing in your way is a menacing Goblin tribe, ageless Dwarven automatons, and deadly traps. You need to make use of long-deactivated machines to break into the vault and claim its secrets for yourself.

Depths of Malatar

What dangers lurk within the Depths of Malatar? Venture deep into this lost Ayleid ruin and discover the fate of an Imperial cohort that first discovered its entrance centuries ago. However, more than soldiers await you deep within the sunken city of Garlas Malatar, as shining Daedric guardians protect the ancient relics within!


Explore the sunken ruins of Malatar

Both dungeons are available in Normal and Veteran difficulties, with a Veteran Hard Mode option if you truly wish to challenge your team. Should you complete these dungeons, in addition to claiming both halves of the Wrathstone tablet, you can earn powerful armor sets, Monster Masks, and unique collectibles, including a new skin and pet.

For more, check out our in-depth previews of both Depths of Malatar and Frostvault.

The Wrathstone DLC game pack is free for all ESO Plus members or can be purchased for 1,500 crowns from the in-game Crown Store, where it’s listed under DLC.

Note that if your ESO Plus membership lapses, you will 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.

Wrathstone Collector’s Bundle

The Wrathstone Collector’s Bundle is also available for 4,000 crowns. This includes access to the DLC game pack, the Treasure Hunter’s Horse mount, the Carnelian Theodolite pet, and five Crown Experience Scrolls. You can find and purchase the Wrathstone Collector’s Bundle from the Featured section of the in-game Crown Store.


The Wrathstone Collector’s Bundle

After you gain access to the Wrathstone dungeons, you can explore both Frostvault and Depths of Malatar 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 both the Gold Coast (Depths of Malatar) and Eastmarch (Frostvault)

Upon entering one of the two new dungeons, you receive an Ayleid Royal Crown hat, completely free.

This courtly crest is perfect for the ancient aristocrat within you!

The Update 21 base-game patch (free for all ESO players) brings a new Battleground to conquer and new rewards for PvP activities. For starters, the Battlegrounds map Eld Angvar pits you against your fellow players in a mysterious Ayleid world between worlds. This arena puts you into the fight quickly by using a series of portals, and it has two unique variants depending on the game mode.


Battle in the void

In addition to the Battlegrounds map, Update 21 also provides additional PvP rewards, including a unique pet for those who fight for control of Cyrodiil and colorful, team-based weapon Outfit styles for Battlegrounds brawlers.

Find out more about the new Battleground and PvP rewards in our preview article.

Update 21 also introduces some big changes and quality-of-life improvements for Tamriel’s explorers and traders. The Zone Guide tool helps you track your progress in any of Tamriel’s zones, including Zone Story Quests completed, Wayshrines unlocked, Points of Interest visited, and much more. It can even help you find almost everything in a zone via quest markers. This tool is perfect if you need help completing a zone or simply want to find something interesting to do.


If you have coin, you can find wares

If you enjoy trading goods with your fellow players in ESO, Update 21’s Guild Trader UI improvement dramatically overhauls how you find and purchase items. The biggest addition is the ability to search a Guild Trader for specific items rather than having to navigate through multiple menus, and it allows you to effortlessly find the items or materials you wish to acquire. In addition to this, we’ve also revamped the Guild Trader categories, making for a much smoother trading experience.

You can read more about these Update 21 base-game changes in our preview article.

With the Wrathstone DLC game pack, your epic, year-long Season of the Dragon storyline begins now. Starting today, you can enter these two challenging new dungeons and claim both halves of the powerful and mysterious Wrathstone, but be warned: what you uncover could have consequences for all of Tamriel! For more on everything coming with Wrathstone and Update 21, check out the Patch Notes forum. Are you planning to venture deep into the Frostvault or Depths of Malatar dungeons? Let us know on Twitter @TESOnline, Instagram, and Facebook – don’t forget to use the #SeasonOfTheDragon hashtag!

The Wrathstone DLC game pack is now live on PC/Mac and is coming to PlayStation®4 and Xbox One on March 12. It is available free for ESO Plus members or can be purchased with crowns from the in-game Crown Store.

Check out ESO Plus membership for yourself during our free trial event – no strings attached!



The ESO Plus Free Trial begins on Thursday, February 7 at 10:00AM EST and will run until Tuesday, February 12 at 10:00AM EST. Throughout the trial period, you can enjoy the following ESO Plus membership benefits, completely free:

• Full access to DLC game packs – new zones, quests, dungeons, and more
• Includes the Imperial City, Orsinium, Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood, Shadows of the Hist, Horns of the Reach, Clockwork City, Dragon Bones, Morrowind (zone and story), Wolfhunter, and Murkmire
• A Craft Bag offering you unlimited storage for all of your crafting materials
• Double Bank space for all the 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 don’t have access to the Morrowind zone to participate in the recently announced Morrowind Celebration Event, you’ll get free access to it during the ESO Plus trial period.

Note that the monthly crown stipend and ESO Plus deals are only available to fully paid members. You can check out everything that comes with ESO Plus on our website.

Sounds good? Here’s how you unlock trial and get started:

• Log into The Elder Scrolls Online.
• Navigate to the Crown Store.
• Select the ESO Plus tab.
• Select “Free Trial!”

You don’t need to provide credit card or any other account info to check out ESO Plus. All you need to do is go to the in-game Crown Store and activate it.

From the Craft Bag, to bonuses to Experience and Gold accumulation, to the massive library of DLCs ready to be explored, ESO Plus membership certainly has its benefits. If you’ve never tested out ESO Plus membership before, you can now, completely free! Let us know if you’ll be checking out ESO Plus during this trial promotion on Twitter @TESOnline, Instagram, or Facebook.

The ESO Plus Trial begins on Thursday, February 7 at 10:00AM EST and will run until Tuesday, February 12 at 10:00AM EST.

Explore the home of the Dark Elves during the Morrowind Celebration Event and you can earn additional rewards for dailies, Event Tickets, and more!



The Morrowind Celebration Event begins on Thursday, February 7 at 10:00AM EST and will run until Monday, February 18 at 10:00AM EST. During this time, as you explore the island of Vvardenfell, you’ll earn double the rewards for certain activities, including:

• Double drops from resource nodes
• Including Jewelry seams, but does not include nodes spawned from Survey Reports and Fishing Holes
• Double drops from all bosses (including the Halls of Fabrication Trial)
• Double reward boxes from all Daily Quests in the zone

Explore a Vivec City still under construction

To get started exploring the home of the Dark Elves, you can pick up the zone quest and travel to Vvardenfell by accessing the Stories section of your Collections UI, selecting Morrowind under Zone DLC, and finally clicking the “Accept Quest” button. Alternatively, you can use a Wayshrine to teleport directly to Seyda Neen.

If you don’t have access to the zone, the Morrowind DLC will be on sale in the Crown Store throughout the event period for 1750 crowns (a 50% discount). This includes access to the Morrowind zone and story content (note, not the Warden Class).

In addition to this, the Morrowind Collector’s Pack Bundle will be on sale for 1050 crowns (also a 50% discount). The Morrowind Collector’s Pack Bundle does not include the zone DLC, but features a bunch of useful and fun items, including all of the following Morrowind-themed collectibles:

• Mount: Dwarven War Horse - This loyal horse has been trained for warfare and will stick with you through every kind of conflict.
• Pet: Dwarven Spider - A loyal Dwarven Spider liberated from a Dwemer ruin and converted using the "Neramo Method."
• Bear Skin: Slate-Gray Summoned Bear - The greatest Wardens summon the mightiest animals.
• Emotes: PvP Taunts - Celebrate your victory in the battlegrounds with this bundle of exclusive emotes: Belly Laugh, Kiss This, Teatime, Go Quietly.
• Outfit Style: Morag Tong - Allows you to convert your gear to the Morag Tong style.

The mighty Dwarven War Horse

In addition to the above, the adorable Vvardvark pet will be on sale, and both the Lord Vivec Furnishing Bundle and Telvanni Tower home (both furnished and unfurnished versions) will be returning to the Crown Store for a limited time.

As you participate in the Morrowind Celebration Event, you’ll also earn Event Tickets for the following activities:

• One Event Ticket for the first World Boss Daily Quest completed each day
• One Event Ticket for the first Delve Daily Quest completed each day

You can earn a total of two Event Tickets per day per account, with a possible total of 26 by the event’s end.


Earn Event Tickets by completing Daily Quests

Throughout the event, you will be able to buy Indrik Feathers, Dawnwood Berries of Bloom (introduced with January’s Midyear Mayhem event), and the new Dawnwood Berries of Budding from the Impresario merchant. When spending your Event Tickets, be sure to double-check the name of the berries you’re about to purchase. You only need one of each in order to evolve your Indrik.

The Warrior-Poet himself, the demi-god known as Vivec, needs your help to reclaim his lost strength and uncover the mysterious forces working against him and the island of Vvardenfell. Will you come to the aid of all of Morrowind and return to the home of the Dark Elves? Let us know on Twitter @TESOnline, Instagram, or Facebook.

The Morrowind Celebration event begins on Thursday, February 7 at 10:00AM EST and will end on Monday, February 18 at 10:00AM EST.

The Season of the Dragon starts here! Preview the exciting new dungeons arriving with the Wrathstone DLC pack and learn about the big base-game changes coming as part of Update 21.



The Wrathstone DLC game pack is coming soon, and it will be available free to all ESO Plus members and for purchase for Crowns from the in-game Crown Store. This new DLC dungeon pack sends you and your team deep into Tamriel’s hidden past with two brand-new dungeons: Depths of Malatar and Frostvault.

Update 21 arrives alongside the new dungeon pack and brings a series of improvements and new features free for all players, including a new Battlegrounds map and PvP rewards, Passive Ability changes, a Guild Trader update, and much more!

As revealed in our Elsweyr cinematic trailer, the Imperial Chancellor Abnur Tharn, using the Wrathstone tablet, has opened the Halls of Colossus and unleashed a horde of merciless Dragons upon Elsweyr and beyond. But how did he get his hands on both halves of the powerful relic? These two new dungeons tell the first part of the Season of the Dragon story and show how you and the famous Redguard scholar Tharayya (returning for both dungeons!) discover these long-hidden relics.

The entrance to the Frostvault has been uncovered, and this previously lost Dwarven vault is open for explorers and treasure hunters alike. While your reasons for venturing deep into this frozen dungeon might differ from Tharayya’s, you must both contend with a local Goblin tribe that has made the ruins their home. Be warned, it’s still a Dwarven complex, and dangerous automatons and deadly traps await those who manage to delve into the heart of this ancient facility.


Beware the guardians of Malatar

What secrets lie within the sunken Depths of Malatar? In this dungeon, you, the ever-inquisitive Tharayya, and the spirit of her lost husband must venture into a secret Imperial fort and discover the ancient Ayleid ruin beneath it. You and your team, however, are not the first to try to uncover the secrets of Malatar. A Lost Imperial legion and shining Daedric agents stand between you and an ancient power that brought ruin upon its original inhabitants.

Both Frostvault and Depths of Malatar can be completed in Normal, Veteran, and Veteran Hard Mode difficulties, and should you complete these 4-player challenges, you’ll be rewarded with powerful new item sets and unique collectibles, including a new skin and a non-combat pet! Finally, simply by entering either of these two new dungeons, you’ll earn the Ayleid Royal Crown hat.


Fit for a king!

Update 21 also brings a host of changes to ESO’s PvP as part of its base-game update. Most notably, this includes an incredible new battleground: Eld Angvar. This new arena is located somewhere in a place between worlds, so be sure to watch your feet as you move between the map’s platforms!


Fight in a world outside of Tamriel

This update also introduces new PvP rewards, including the Elinhir Arena Lion pet (earned with Arena Gladiator’s Proofs) and weapon Outfit Styles that resemble the three Battlegrounds teams: Pit Daemons, Stormlords, and Firedrakes.

In order to help you find and complete more of ESO’s zone content, Update 21 introduces the new Zone Guide system. This new tool can be accessed from your Group & Activity Finder or map, and it allows you to see your progress in any of Tamriel’s zones or beyond, tracking activities such as Zone Story Quests, Wayshrines, Delves, Striking Locals, Skyshards, and much more. You can even use this new tool to give you a quest marker to your next objective in order, starting with the zone’s quests. With this new system, everybody that enters Tamriel can easily find their next adventure or help them finally 100% complete a zone. 

Update 21 will also introduce improvements to the Guild Trader UI, giving you the ability to search for specific item names, see an item’s price per unit, and view your previous searches. We’ve also overhauled the UI in general and reworded item categories to better reflect what people are looking for, making the overall experience much more user-friendly. Finally, this update also introduces a host of changes to Racial Passive Abilities. These Abilities have been updated to allow more playstyles to benefit from the bonuses they provide, as well as ensuring each Race has a unique gameplay advantage. For more information, you can read about the Combat Team’s changes to Racial Passives on the forums.

There are tons more updates, fixes, and additions coming with Update 21, and both the update and Wrathstone are available on PTS (PC/Mac only) right now, so why not log in and test it all out for yourself?

With the exciting new Wrathstone dungeon pack and a host of new additions and quality-of-life gameplay improvements coming in Update 21, the year-long Season of the Dragon begins to take flight. Are you ready to brave the dungeons of Frostvault and Depths of Malatar and acquire both parts of the Wrathstone? Let us know on Twitter @TESOnline, Facebook, and Instagram using the #SeasonOfTheDragon hashtag!

Part of the Season of the Dragon year-long adventure, the Wrathstone DLC game pack is coming soon for ESO Plus members and the in-game Crown Store. This new DLC game pack arrives with Update 21, a free base-game update for all ESO players.