Bring glory to your Alliance, your guild, or yourself during the Midyear Mayhem PvP event and you’ll earn double Alliance Points, XP, and unique rewards.

Update: We're extending our PvP Event to July 8 at 10:00AM EDT! Earn your last-minute Event Tickets and grab those final Berries for the Icebreath Indrik while you still can!


Midyear Mayhem returns to Cyrodiil, the Imperial City, and the battlegrounds this Thursday, June 25 at 10:00AM EDT/03:00PM BST, and will continue until Wednesday, July 8 at 10:00AM EDT/03:00PM BST. During this event, you can claim additional rewards when battling your fellow players in PvP activities, including double XP and Alliance points and event-specific collectibles, Achievements, and titles. 

Here’s how you can join the battle:

1. Visit the in-game Crown Store to acquire the “Details on the Midyear Mayhem" quest
2. Travel to your Alliance War faction's main gate in Cyrodiil using the Alliance War menu or a Battlegrounds camp outside major cities
1. You are no longer required to travel to Cyrodiil to kick off the event
3. Find the NPC named “Predicant Maera" and continue the quest
1. If you already completed the quest last year, you won't need to do it again
4. Complete the quest to receive your Scroll of Pelinal's Ferocity and a Pelinal's Midyear Boon Box
5. Use the scroll to enjoy a two-hour, 100% buff in the Alliance War, Imperial City, and Battlegrounds to:
1. Alliance Points gained
2. XP gains for PvP player kills

Celebrate Pelinal’s (violent) legacy with Predicant Maera

You can keep reusing the Scroll of Pelinal’s Ferocity throughout the event. If you happen to lose it, don’t worry: you can get another from Predicant Maera or use the nearby Basin of the Gore Virtuous instead.

Throughout the event, in addition to bonus Alliance Points and XP, you can also earn Midyear Mayhem-specific collectibles, reward boxes, and more.  

NEW Second Legion Outfit Style Pages

Wear the classically Imperial raiment of the Imperial City’s Second Legion with new tradeable Outfit Style pages, dropped by bosses within the Imperial City, including those found in the city itself and the sewers.

Legion Zero Outfit Style Pages

You can also earn tradeable Outfit Style pages for the Legion Zero’s armor, also dropped from bosses in the Imperial City and Imperial City sewers.

Standard-Bearer Emotes

Earned by collecting 10 Standard-Bearer’s Emblems, found within the first Pelinal’s Midyear Boon Box you open each day per account. Combine 10 of them with a Standard-Bearer’s License (on sale for 50,000 AP) from Predicant Maera to create a Runebox with the emote.

Dress like an Imperial!

Midyear Victor’s Laurel Wreath

As always, you can earn the Midyear Victor’s Laurel Wreath collectible by completing all of the Midyear Mayhem Achievements below:

• Mayhem Connoisseur: Receive the blessing of the Whitestrake at one of the Alliance Gates during the Midyear Mayhem.
• Echo of Pelinal's Fury: Read a Scroll of Pelinal's Ferocity during the Midyear Mayhem.
• Hand of the Whitestrake: Acquire your 25th Pelinal's Midyear Boon Box.
• Wrath of the Whitestrake: Defeat 50 opponents during the Midyear Mayhem.
• Pelinavant the Scourge: Win a Battleground match during the Midyear Mayhem.
• Pelinaline the Bloody: Capture a Keep in Cyrodiil during the Midyear Mayhem.
• Pelinerrif Insurgent: Capture an Imperial District during the Midyear Mayhem.

Note that access to the Imperial City DLC game pack is required to earn all of the above Achievements, so pick it up FREE from the in-game Crown Store!

Boon Boxes

As you battle your fellow players in Cyrodiil, the battlegrounds, and the Imperial City, you’ll also earn Pelinal’s Midyear Boon Boxes. You can get these in addition to your regular Rewards for the Worthy containers and as PvP daily quest rewards from the following:

• Battleground quests from Battlemaster Rivyn
• Scouting, Battle, Warfront, and Conquest Missions
• Elder Scroll capture and recapture quests
• Town quests in Vlastarus, Bruma, Cropsford, Cheydinhal, and Chorrol
• Imperial City daily quests

Fight to capture Cyrodiil and glory

When you receive and open one of Pelinal’s boons, you have a chance to receive the following items:

• Transmute Crystals
• Alchemy reagents
• PvP consumables such as repair kits, forward camps, and siege weapons
• Motif pages for the Alliance and Akaviri styles
• Style items for your Alliance
• Akaviri style items
• Coldharbour siege weapons
• Prismatic Runestones
• Books of Pelinal housing items

Resource Notes and “The Golden”

Finally, throughout the event, harvesting nodes within Cyrodiil and the Imperial City will drop double their regular resources, and the Cyrodiil merchant Adhazabi Aba-daro (also known as “The Golden”) stocks Alliance War Legendary-quality jewelry, with necklaces during the first weekend and rings during the second.

During the Midyear Mayhem event, you can earn up to four Event Tickets per day by completing two different PvP activities:

• Two tickets for completing any Cyrodiil or Battlegrounds daily quest
• Two tickets for completing any Imperial City district daily quests

The Event Ticket timer resets at 1:00AM EDT/6:00AM BST each morning. Note that if you earn new Event Tickets over the 12-limit cap, you’ll lose them. Good thing there’s plenty of things to spend them on at Impresario vendor during the event:

• Second Legion Outfit Style pages (can’t be traded)
• Zero Legion Outfit Style pages (can’t be traded)
• Standard-Bearer Emotes
• Group Repair Kits
• Icebreath Berries (including Bloom, Budding, Growth, and Ripeness)
• Indrik Feathers
• Rimedusk Indrik pet

Don’t forget, this event is your chance to complete the serene Icebreath Indrik!

So pretty!


For more on how Event Tickets and Indriks work, don’t hesitate to check out our guide.


Prove your worth in the Alliance War, Imperial City, and Battlegrounds, and you’ll receive bonus XP and Alliance points in addition to event-specific rewards, Achievements, and titles. There’s never been a better time to take the fight to your fellow players! Let us know if you’re ready for the return of Midyear Mayhem via @TESOnline, Instagram, and Facebook.

The Midyear Mayhem in-game event begins on Thursday, June 25 at 10:00AM EDT/03:00PM BST, and will end on Tuesday, July 7 at 10:00AM EDT/03:00PM BST.
Events Announcements

Show off your sense of style and interior design skills for a chance to win some fantastic ESO prizes!

To celebrate the release of the new Greymoor Chapter, we are happy to announce a Vampire- and Nord-themed housing contest!

During the contest period, which runs from now until Friday, July 3 at 11:59PM EDT, you can submit one screenshot (per category) of your home/room that embraces one of the following themes:

1. A Home Fit for a Vampire: Design a home fit for a single Vampire lord or an entire brood   

2. Nord Homestead: Craft a lodging that would make any true Nord proud     

To enter, simply upload your screenshot directly to the entry form at the bottom of this article.

You can read the official rules here—please note that you can submit only one screenshot per category. PC players using an add-on like Essential Housing Tools must disable any add-on generated textures and effects prior to submitting the screenshot.

After the contest period ends, members of the ESO Dev Team and Stream Team member JHartEllis will review the submissions and choose one winner and two runners-up per category. 

We will award all winners an ESO prize package, including the following items:

Two Grand Prize Winners

• 21,000 crowns to spend in the ESO Crown Store
• A house of your choice (includes previous limited-time offers)
• Vampiric Sovereign Statue (digital)*
• The Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor Digital Collector’s Edition
• Vampiric Libations Bundle*
• A Music Box of your choice (includes previous limited-time offers)

Four Runners-Up

• 5,500 crowns to spend in the ESO Crown Store
• The Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor Digital Collector’s Edition
• A Music Box of your choice (includes previous limited-time offers)

*These items are planned to be released in the Crown Store at a later date.

We will announce all winners in July. Please see the Official Rules for details and restrictions. Good luck and happy decorating!

Kyne’s Aegis needs help, and the ESO Community team and an all-star group of Stream Team members have answered the call!

Join us live on Twitch this Friday, May 29 at 4PM EDT/9PM BST as the community team recruits a host of amazing Stream Team members to run through Greymoor’s new Trial, Kyne’s Aegis.

To help take the fight to the giants, vampires, and worse assaulting the Nord holdfast, we have assembled a mighty team of streamers, including:

• Ninja614 (Tank)
  
• Bertferkins (Tank)
  
• JebroUnity (Heals)
  
• KyleDempsterStudios (Heals)
  
• Gina (DPS)
  
• Jess (DPS)
  
• Matygon (DPS)
  
• 0periodproductions (DPS)
  
• LuckyGhostTV (DPS)
  
• AlcastHQ (DPS)
  
• StarDancer (DPS)
  
• DacuTV (DPS)

Note that we’ve also included their roles above, so you know exactly who to blame when it all goes wrong. Both Jess and Gina from the community team are going in blind, so anything is possible!

We’ll have Twitch Drops enabled throughout (link your accounts), so be sure to tune in this Friday, May 29 at 4:00PM EDT/9:00PM BST on Twitch. Good luck team!

The Dark Heart of Skyrim beats from the depths in The Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor, the latest adventure in the Elder Scrolls universe.

A chilling evil from the First Era awakens, and Skyrim needs heroes. Explore the snow-swept region of Western Skyrim, discover Tamriel's hidden history, and face an ancient vampiric threat as part of a year-long story.

Greymoor is available on Steam right now!

Tune in to see Loremaster Leamon Tuttle and Art Director CJ Grebb unbox the Greymoor Physical Collector’s Edition and answer your Greymoor art and lore questions!

Join us this Friday at 4PM EDT/9PM BST on Twitch as community team members Gina Bruno and Jessica Folsom invite Loremaster Leamon Tuttle and Art Director CJ Grebb on the show to unbox the amazing Greymoor Physical Collector’s Edition and chat about Greymoor’s art and lore.

Firstly, they’ll take a closer look at each item in the Collector’s Edition box, including the incredible Vampire Lord statue, Greymoor map, collector’s coins, digital items, and more, talking about the design and lore that went into their creation.

Then, the team will answer your questions live on the show regarding Western Skyrim’s world building and history, its people and politics, and the design and lore behind ESO’s monstrous Vampires. If you have a question you’d like our two developers to answer concerning the above topics, you can submit them for consideration in this forum thread. We’d love to hear from you!

Finally, tune in and you'll also have a chance to win (some restrictions may apply) your own Greymoor Physical Collector's Edition!

As always, we’ll have Drops enabled during the show, so don’t forget to link your accounts and check us out on Twitch this Friday, May 22 at 4:00PM EDT/9:00 PM BST.

Learn about the updated Vampire Skill Line and Greymoor’s new Trial during the next #BethesdaAtHome edition of ESO Live!

Join us this Friday at 4PM EDT/9PM BST on Twitch as community team members Gina Bruno and Jessica Folsom sink their teeth into the upcoming Vampire re-vamp and the new Trial with members of the ESO development team!

Firstly, Combat Designer Kyle Nowak and Lead Gameplay Designer Rob Garrett will discuss Update 26’s new and improved Vampires. They’ll cover the design philosophy behind these improvements and talk about how it’ll change the way you play your Vampire characters, both in combat and when exploring Tamriel!

Then, Lead Encounter Designer Mike Finnigan joins the team to talk about the new 12-player Trial coming with the Greymoor Chapter, Kyne’s Aegis, and discuss its design, mechanics, and rewards.  

This week, we'll also be supporting the Save the Children organization as part of our ongoing #BethesdaAtHome charity drive, and we appreciate any donations you're able to generously provide.

We’ll have Drops enabled throughout the show, so be sure to link your accounts and tune in to Twitch this Friday, May 15 at 4:00PM EDT/9:00PM BST. Fangs for watching!

Discover new lore on the Antiquities system as Senior Systems Designer Michael Schroeder, Lead Gameplay Designer Rob Garrett, and Combat Designer Nadav Pechthold joins the team for a special #BethesdaAtHome ESO Live!


Firstly, Senior Systems Designer Michael Schroeder and Lead Gameplay Designer Rob Garrett will walk Jessica Folsom and Gina Bruno from the ESO community team through all the intricacies of the new system, discussing getting started, the development of the new minigames, and its treasures. Then, Combat Designer Nadav Pechthold will also join the team to introduce “Mythic” items (powerful new rewards coming with the Antiquities system) and what makes them so unique compared to other item sets.  

As usual, we’ll have Twitch Drops enabled throughout the show, so don’t forget to link your accounts! There’ll be no shortage of fun as the team gets their hands dirty and really digs into the new system from the comfort of their homes, so join us on Twitch this Friday, May 1 at 4:00PM EDT/9:00PM BST. We’ll see you there!

Preview Greymoor’s two unique realms as Zone Lead Ed Stark the ESO community team for a special “Bethesda at Home” edition of ESO Live!

Beginning this Tuesday at 4PM EDT, tune in to ESO Live on Twitch as Greymoor Zone Lead Ed Stark joins Jessica Folsom and Gina Bruno from the ESO community team for a tour of both Western Skyrim and Blackreach.

During the show, you’ll learn about how the team went about building these two unique worlds and the adventures they contain (no spoilers!) as they explore some of the new Chapter’s locations, both familiar and new.

There’ll also be news, Twitch Drops (don’t forget to link your accounts), and no shortage of fun from the relative comfort of our homes, so join us this Tuesday, April 21, at 4:00PM EDT/9:00PM BST on Twitch!

You can try The Elder Scrolls Online and save on the game and Crown Packs during our Free Play Event and April Sale!

The Elder Scrolls Online Free Play Event on Steam begins Wednesday, April 1 at 1PM EDT/6PM BST, and will run through Monday, April 6.

During this period, anybody on PC/Mac, Xbox One (Xbox Live Gold required), and PlayStation®4 can download and play The Elder Scrolls Online base game free and experience a whole world of adventure.

To participate in the Free Play Event, 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, 23 massive unique zones, and an epic main storyline. Note that depending on your platform, the Free Play Event and April Sale may have different start and end dates.

Because the Free Play Event includes access to the base game, you can descend into your Dark Heart of Skyrim adventure with the Greymoor Prologue. In addition to this, you can also take part in the Anniversary Jubilee in-game event, allowing you to earn double XP, gain bonus rewards, and eat cake to celebrate ESO’s sixth birthday!

If you’ve already played ESO during a previous event, you can continue your adventures as normal. In addition to this, all new ESO accounts created will also receive 500 crowns to spend in the in-game Crown Store.


Explore Tamriel alone or with friends

That’s a ton of great reasons to try out ESO during this new Free Play period, so head on over to our Free Play page now!

If you want to continue your adventures in Tamriel beyond the Free Play event, you can pick up the game at a steep discount during our April Sale. Throughout the sale, you can save up to 60% on The Elder Scrolls Online Standard Edition and up to 70% on The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr.


Discover the home of the Khajiit

The April Sale will run between different time periods, based on your platform:

• Xbox One
• Standard Edition—March 31 until April 15
• Elsweyr Chapter—April 3 until April 15
• PlayStation®4
• Standard Edition—April 1 until April 15
• Elsweyr Chapter—April 1 until April 15
• PC/Mac
• Standard Edition—March 31 until April 15
• Elsweyr Chapter—March 31 until April 15

This is the biggest discount for the Elsweyr Chapter we’ve ever had, so be sure to visit our Buy Now page to make the most out of these deals.


Finally, during the April Sale period, we’re also putting Crown Packs on sale with the following discounts:

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

You can use crowns to grab many different types of items from the Crown Store, such as mounts, pets, costumes, consumables, Crown Crates, and more. These include starter bundles such as the Starter Pack, Adept, which includes three costumes, a mount, and a ton of goodies (pictured below). Even better, this bundle is on sale starting tomorrow, March 31!


There’s a host of useful and fun items in the Crown Store

Check out what is currently available in the Crown Store on our website. These major savings are available only on the following dates:

• Xbox One—March 31 until April 6
• PlayStation®4—April 1 until April 15
• PC/Mac—March 31 until April 6

During the Free Play Event and April Sale, you can explore Tamriel for the first time or pick up the game and Crown Packs at steep discounts. Whether you’re a new, returning, or veteran player, there’s something for you this April—don’t miss out!

The Elder Scrolls Online is six years young, and that means you can enjoy bonus XP, special rewards, and cake during our Anniversary Jubilee event!

ESO’s six-year Anniversary Jubilee in-game event begins Thursday, April 2 at 10:00AM EDT, and runs until Tuesday, April 14 at 10:00AM EDT. To join the celebration, select the free Jubilee Cake Voucher quest starter from the Crown Store (listed under Quest Starters) to find the world-famous Chef Donolon.

Complete Chef Donolon’s quest to receive the new Jubilee Cake 2020 memento, which you can use to summon the new dessert. Each time you eat a slice during the celebration, you’ll enjoy a two-hour, 100% XP boost!


Eat cake and enjoy bonus XP!

During the event, complete any of the game’s daily quests and you’ll earn special Anniversary Jubilee Gift Boxes! These daily quests include but are not limited to:

• Daily crafting writs
• Daily Delve and World Boss quests
• Daily Alliance War and Battlegrounds quests
• Daily Dungeon and Trial quests
• Daily Heist and Sacrament quests

Within the Jubilee Gift Boxes, you have a chance to acquire a ton of unique items, including:

• Crafting Materials
• Motif Pages for assorted crafting styles
• Too many to list here!
• Furniture Recipes
• Outfit Style pages for one of the “Five Companions”
• Worm Cult Motif pages
• NEW Outfit Style pages for the Jephrine Paladin weapon or armor style
• Transmutation Crystals

Become a protector of the wilds with the Jephrine style

The first time you eat a slice of the Jubilee Cake 2020 each day of the event, in addition to the XP buff, you also receive three Event Tickets. Because there will be fewer events this quarter, you can also receive bonus tickets by defeating any boss in the game (Delve, World, Dungeon, etc.). You can earn two additional tickets per day from this method. This means you can earn a max of five tickets per day, for up to 65 tickets total if you play every day of the event. Don’t forget, you have to loot your tickets and be credited for defeating the boss!

You can find the Impresario in Daggerfall in Glenumbra, Davon's Watch in Stonefalls, and Vulkhel Guard in Auridon, and she will have the following items in stock:

• All four Indrik Feathers
• Icebreath Berries of Bloom and Icebreath Berries of Budding
• For an all-new Indrik evolution!
• Jephrine Paladin Outfit Style pages
• Group Repair Kits
• Replica Jubilee Cake furnishings
• Furnishing versions of all five anniversary cakes
• Note: Each cake furnishing is available for purchase only if you earned their respective mementos during previous Anniversary events

The Anniversary Jubilee features this quarter’s first two berries for the all-new, very cool Icebreath Indrik.


The tranquil Icebreath Indrik


For more on how Event Tickets and Indriks work, don’t hesitate to check out our guide.

Celebrate ESO’s sixth birthday with us with an amazing new cake and rewards. With dailies for almost every unique activity, how you earn your Jubilee Gift Boxes is completely up to you. Don’t forget to grab a slice and enjoy that XP boost, too! Let us know how you’ll be celebrating this new milestone via @TESOnline, Instagram, and Facebook.

ESO’s six-year Anniversary Jubilee in-game event begins Thursday, April 2 at 10:00AM EDT, and runs until Tuesday, April 14 at 10:00AM EDT.