You can enjoy ESO Plus™ membership free from now until October 25 with no strings attached!

The ESO Plus Free Trial is now live until Monday, October 25, at 10:00AM EDT. During the trial period, you can enjoy the following ESO Plus benefits:

•  Full access to DLC game packs—new zones, quests, dungeons, and more 
• 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, Greymoor (zone, story, and Antiquities system), Stonethorn, Markarth, Flames of Ambition, and Waking Flame (our most-recent DLC and part of the Gates of Oblivion adventure)
• 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 

In case you missed out, both the Flames of Ambition and Waking Flame DLCs are available via ESO Plus membership, giving you access to all four Gates of Oblivion dungeons (The Cauldron, Black Drake Villa, Red Petal Bastion, and the Dread Cellar) during the trial period!

For more on the benefits of membership, check out our ESO Plus guide. Note: The monthly crown stipend and ESO Plus deals are available only to paid members (not free trial members).

Eager to get started? Here’s what you need to do:

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 preview ESO Plus during the free trial.
With boosts to XP and gold, access to the beloved Craft Bag, and the chance to experience both Gates of Oblivion dungeon DLCs for free, it’s time to finally check out ESO Plus. Are you planning to enjoy the benefits of membership during this latest free trial? Let us know via @Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.

The ESO Plus Free Trial is now live and will run until Monday, October 25, at 10:00AM EDT.

Unlock unique collectibles and goodies by slaying Tamriel’s monsters during the Witches Festival in-game event!

The Witches Festival begins next Thursday, October 21 at 10AM EDT, and will run until Tuesday, November 2 at 10AM EDT. During this spoopy spectacle, you can acquire unique event-specific rewards including Plunder Skulls, boosts to XP, Event Tickets, and collectibles.

To take part in the frightful festivities:

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.
1. 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.
3. Use the whistle to receive a two-hour 100% XP buff and summon the “Witchmother's Cauldron.”
4. Use the Witchmother's Cauldron to transform your character into one of the undead.
1. Note that you do not have to use the Witchmother's Cauldron to gain the XP buff, just the whistle. The Cauldron cannot be summoned in Cyrodiil.

During the Witches Festival, when you defeat a boss monster, you’ll receive a Plunder Skull container in addition to your regular rewards. These bloodcurdling boxes have a chance to contain some of the following items:

• Fragments of the new Witch-Tamed Bear Dog pet called Bonedust Pigments
• Combine 10 fragments to craft this collectible
• Hollowjack style items
• Dremora style items
• Witches Festival-themed recipes
• Witches Festival-themed furnishings and furnishing recipes
• Bewitching Alchemy reagents
• … and an assortment of creepy and valuable items!

Drink from the cauldron to transform into the undead

Even better, the first time you slay each different type of boss, you’ll receive a special Dremora Plunder Skull that can contain the above items and has a chance to also include these additional rewards, too:

• Dremora Motif chapter pages
• ·Witches Festival Writs
• Complete these writs to unlock an Achievement that’ll grant you the 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
• Grave Dancer Weapon Style pages
• A new Marshmallow Toasty Treat emote Runebox
• A new Bonefire memento Runebox

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

No matter what monsters you hunt during the Witches Festival event period, you’ll always receive bonus rewards for your efforts!

In addition to the above goodies, this year’s event also introduces a new daily quest, titled Plucking the Crow. This new quest is available each day from Witchmother Taerma, who is within Olyve’s Brewery AND at every Impresario tent in Tamriel. Her daily quest charges you with collecting 50 Cursed Feathers, found within Plunder Skull containers. Once you have collected all 50, you can transform them into an effigy that you can then use to transport yourself into a special realm to battle a new world boss monster—good luck!

Throughout the Witches Festival event, you can earn up to two Event Tickets from the first boss monster you defeat each day, allowing you to earn up to 26 tickets total. Don’t forget to loot those dropped tickets or you might lose them! For this event, the Impresario will stock the following items:

• All three Unstable Morpholith pet fragments
• The Deadlands Flint, Rune-Etched Striker, and Smoldering Bloodgrass Tinder
• The first TWO fragments for Doomchar Plateau, the morphing collectible house
• The Scorching Pillar and Searing Column
• Marshmallow Toasty Treat Emote
• Witch's Bonfire Dust Memento
• Fragments for the Witch-Tamed Bear-Dog pet
• Called Bonedust Pigments
• A host of spooky furnishings
• Group Repair Kits
• Witches Grab Bags
• Containing collectibles from previous Witches Festival events

This is your first opportunity to begin collecting the fragments for the Doomchar Plateau house, the Q4 event morphing collectible.


Claim a plot of land in Dagon’s own realm!

Don’t forget, to acquire this house by the end of the year, you’ll need to have an Unstable Morpholith pet to morph AND all four upgrade fragments. Keep an eye out on announcements for 2021’s remaining events! Learn more about how morphing collectibles and upgrade fragments work in our guide article.

Do you have a haunted house or ghastly outfit that you love to show off during Tamriel’s spooky season? Share your creations with us via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook and we might share some of our favorites with the rest of the community and on https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/!

Stalk all the creatures that go bump in the night during the Witches Festival, and you’ll earn a host of exciting event-specific goodies, collectibles, and Achievements. So get ready to hunt monsters, collect Plunder Skulls, and earn some freaky new rewards—we’ll see you in Tamriel!

The Witches Festival in-game event begins Thursday, October 21 at 10AM EDT, and will run until Tuesday, November 2 at 10AM EDT.

The voices of Mehrunes Dagon, Destron, and more join the community team to talk about bringing their characters to life in The Elder Scrolls Online!

Watch ESO Live on https://www.twitch.tv/bethesda this Friday, October 15 at 4PM EDT/9PM BST, as Community Managers Jess Folsom and Gina Bruno are joined by actor Jake Stormoen (voice of Destron and the Adoring Admirer) and voice actor Steve French (voice of Mehrunes Dagon) to talk about their careers, voice acting in the games industry, and their characters in The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood and The Elder Scrolls Online: Deadlands. If you’d like to learn more about how we work with our amazing voice actors to bring ESO’s many characters to life in game—don’t miss this show!

As always, we’ll also discuss the latest ESO news, host a giveaway (including a Mehrunes Dagon statue signed by Steve!), and have Twitch Drops enabled during the show, so don’t forget to link your account. This special ESO Live is going live on https://www.twitch.tv/bethesda this Friday, October 15 at 4PM EDT/9PM BST.

ESO Live is your official Elder Scrolls Online stream, hosted on https://www.twitch.tv/bethesda by ESO’s Community Manager Gina Bruno and Senior Community Manager Jess Folsom.

Thanks to the community’s efforts during the Bounties of Blackwood event, you can enjoy bonus XP, resource node drops, and gold in any zone in Tamriel for a limited time.

Kicking off today, October 12 at 10AM EDT, and running until Wednesday, October 20 at 10AM EDT, the limited-time Explorer’s Celebration grants you additional rewards for the following in-game activities:

• Increased drops from harvest nodes (not fishing!)
• Increased XP gains from every source
• This stacks with other XP boosts such as scrolls or group multipliers
• Increased gold earned from monster kills, quest rewards, and similar sources

These bonuses are available to all players in any zone in Tamriel!

Note that the Explorer’s Celebration doesn’t grant Event Tickets and doesn’t have its own unique quests, Achievements, or collectibles associated with it. Additionally, the Impresario isn’t available during this limited period.

This Explorer’s Celebration is thanks to the hard work of the community during the Bounties of Blackwood event, but it runs for this limited time only, so don’t miss out on your chance to get extra XP, gold, and resource node drops—have fun.

Finally, if you own the Blackwood Chapter, there’s still time to claim your Bounties of Blackwood rewards from the in-game Crown Store—don’t miss out!



The Explorer’s Celebration is now live and will run until October 20 at 10AM EDT. 

You can save big on The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood and the base game during our limited-time Bounties of Blackwood Sale.

The Bounties of Blackwood Sale is now live, giving you the opportunity to save up to 50% on The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood and up to 60% on The Elder Scrolls Online Standard Edition on all platforms, including Xbox (Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S), PlayStation (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5), and PC/Mac (Elder Scrolls Online Store, Bethesda.net, Steam, and Stadia).


Are you a new player? The Blackwood Collection (including the Collector’s Edition version) provides access to the Blackwood Chapter, base game, and all previous ESO Chapters. If you’re an existing player looking to jump into ESO’s latest adventure, you can grab the Blackwood Upgrade (or the Collector’s Edition Upgrade) to get instant access to the new zone, Companions system, and story. 

To jump on these deals, visit our Buy Now page and select your edition. Note that these sale prices are available for a limited time only and end on different dates depending on your platform and territory:

Elder Scrolls Online Store

• Standard Edition—September 30-October 12
• Blackwood—September 30-October 12

Bethesda.net

• Standard Edition—September 30-October 12
• Blackwood—September 30-October 12

Steam Store

• Standard Edition—September 30-October 12
• Blackwood—September 30-October 12

Stadia

• Standard Edition—September 30-October 13
• Blackwood—September 30-October 13

Xbox

• Standard Edition—September 30-October 12 
• Blackwood—September 30-October 12 

PlayStation

• Standard Edition—September 29-October 13 
• Blackwood—September 29-October 13 

The Bounties of Blackwood in-game event is now live, giving you bonus rewards when exploring and adventuring in the new Chapter zone plus allowing you and your fellow players to work together to unlock exclusive new rewards. This event and its goodies are available only for those who own the Blackwood Chapter, so there’s never been a better time to continue your Gates of Oblivion adventure.


For more on the Bounties of Blackwood event, check out our announcement article and visit our official page to view the community’s progress—we’ll see you in Blackwood!

Work together with your fellow players to unlock new rewards during the Bounties of Blackwood in-game event.

The Bounties of Blackwood in-game event kicks off this Thursday, September 30 at 10:00AM EDT, and it runs until Tuesday, October 12 at 10:00AM EDT. During the event period, you and your fellow ESO players can work together to unlock incredible new rewards by earning the Blackwood Pathfinder achievement.

To do so, simply visit the six unique striking locales in the zone, and every day, we’ll update the meter found on the Bounties of Blackwood page with the community’s ongoing progress. Once the meter reaches 100% or the event ends, we’ll add the unlocked rewards to the Crown Store (in a single bundle) for ALL Blackwood owners to claim. These rewards can include:  

• The Pellucid Swamp Jelly pet, unlocked at 33%
• The Shadows of Blackwood markings, unlocked at 66%
•  A cascading bounty box, unlocked at 100%
• With a chance to include items such as Undaunted Plunder, rare materials, or item sets, and guaranteed to include attunable crafting stations and a unique Ogrim target dummy
• An incredible Mystery Prize we’ll reveal during the Gates of Oblivion Year-End Stream, also unlocked at 100%

You’ll have to wait until the Gates of Oblivion Year-End Stream to learn about the fourth and final prize, but trust us, it’s amazing, and well worth risking the dangerous wilds of Blackwood—so get exploring!

We’ll first update the meter on the Bounties of Blackwood page on the 30^th to include everybody who has already earned the Blackwood Pathfinder achievement, so don’t worry if you already have it—you’ve helped. We’re adding progress to the meter for each time the achievement is earned for each character, not account, so even if you’re already earned it before, you can always earn it again with a different adventurer.
In addition to the community challenge, you can also earn bonus rewards during this event while adventuring in the Blackwood zone. To get started, pick up the Bounties of Blackwood introductory quest from the in-game Crown Store or Impresario tent.



Blackwood Legates’ Coffers

During the event period, the first time you complete a daily quest in Blackwood (or the Rockgrove Trial weekly quest instead) you receive a Glorious Blackwood Legates’ Coffer. This new reward box has a chance to contain some of the following items:

• Crafting materials
• Valuables you can trade to merchants for gold
• Style items for Blackwood motifs
• Blackwood gear items
• Treasure maps or Survey reports
• Blackwood motif chapters
• A fragment of the new Voriplasm pet
• Combine seven fragments to summon your own Voriplasm pet!
• Blackwood-themed furnishings and furnishing recipes
• If you have Bastian or Mirri active, a piece of Companion gear

If you continue to complete daily quests after the first, you can earn regular Blackwood Legates’ Coffers, which have a lower chance to contain the rarer rewards. You can also find regular Blackwood Legates’ Coffers in the following ways:

• As drops from Delve and World Bosses
• Earned when completing Oblivion Portals
• As drops from Blackwood monsters
• Found in treasure chests, safeboxes, thieves troves, Psijic Portals, or other containers
• Found when harvesting crafting resource nodes

Additional Rewards

In addition to the above, all Blackwood daily quests and the weekly Rockgrove Trial quest have their regular reward boxes doubled, harvest note yields are increased, and World, Public Dungeon, Trial, and Delve bosses drop additional rewards. That’s a ton of great reasons to quest, explore, and battle in Blackwood!
During the Bounties of Blackwood event, you can earn up to two Event Tickets per day the first time you complete a Blackwood daily, meaning you can earn up to 26 tickets over the entire event. Don’t forget the Event Ticket timer resets at 2:00AM EDT each morning and that if you earn new Event Tickets over the 12-limit cap, you’ll lose them.

Here’s what the Impresario event merchant will have in stock during the event:

• Unstable Morpholith base fragments
• Including the Deadlands Flint, Rune-Etched Striker, and Smoldering Bloodgrass Tinder
• All three fragments for the Dagonic Quasigriff (to upgrade your Unstable Morpholith with)
• The Smoke-Wreathed Gryphon Feather, Black Iron Bit and Bridle, and the new Black Iron Stirrups
• Voriplasm pet fragments
• Assorted Blackwood-themed furnishings
• Group Repair Kits

This is your first and only opportunity to acquire all the fragments you need to upgrade your Unstable Morpholith into the new Dagonic Quasigriff mount—don’t miss it!
Discover all of Blackwood’s striking locales and you’ll help the #ESOFam unlock new collectibles for everybody who owns the Chapter, all the while earning bonus rewards as you explore and adventure! Don’t forget, we’re going to announce the final mystery reward during the upcoming Year-End Stream, and be sure to check the official page often to see the community’s progress. Let us know if you’re excited to unlock new rewards with your fellow players during Bounties of Blackwood via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

The Bounties of Blackwood in-game event begins this Thursday, September 30 at 10:00AM EDT, and runs until Tuesday, October 12 at 10:00AM EDT.

Watch ESO Live this Friday to discover the new Deadlands zone and get a first look at some of the new features arriving with the Update 32 base-game patch!

Watch ESO Live on https://www.twitch.tv/bethesda this Friday, September 17 at 4PM EDT/9PM BST, as Community Managers Jess Folsom and Gina Bruno are first joined by Zone Lead Tom Murphy to preview some of the areas you’ll discover in the new Deadlands DLC zone. Then, Gameplay Lead Rob Garrett and Creative Director Rich Lambert will share and showcase the upcoming additions in the Update 32 base-game patch.

If you want to get sneak peek at the zone and adventure that’ll conclude the year-long Gates of Oblivion saga, this is a must-watch show. Don’t skip out on the segment about the U32 patch, though, since this update includes some new features that we know the #ESOFam will appreciate—but no spoilers. Tune in and you’ll also have a chance to win these amazing prizes, provided by our friends at Alienware:

• 1 Alienware 510k keyboard (Dark Side of the Moon)
• 1 Alienware 510h headset (Dark Side of the Moon)
• 1 Alienware 610m mouse (Dark Side of the Moon)
• 1 Alienware backpack
• 2 Alienware XL mouse pads
• 1 Alienware snapback hat
• 2 Alienware keychains

We’ll also discuss the latest ESO news, and Twitch Drops will be enabled during the show, so don’t forget to link your account. This exciting ESO Live preview special is going live on https://www.twitch.tv/bethesda this Friday, September 17 at 4PM EDT/9PM BST. We’ll see you there!

ESO Live is your official Elder Scrolls Online stream, hosted on https://www.twitch.tv/bethesda by ESO’s Community Manager Gina Bruno and Senior Community Manager Jess Folsom.

Explore some of ESO’s post-launch adventures and you can earn bonus rewards, unique collectibles, and Event Tickets.

Kicking off this Thursday, August 26 at 10AM EDT, and running until Tuesday, September 7 at 10AM EDT, you can earn bonus rewards, event-specific collectibles, and Event Tickets while adventuring within the Wrothgar, Craglorn, and Imperial City zones.

To get started, pick up the introductory quest titled “Sand, Snow, and Blood” from the Crown Store or Impresario tent and then travel directly to one of the three zones.

As part of the ESO base game, Craglorn can be accessed by all ESO players, and the Imperial City DLC can be purchased for zero crowns from the in-game Crown Store. You can get access to the Orsinium DLC with ESO Plus™ membership or buy it directly from the Crown Store on sale for 1,500 crowns (50% off the DLC’s regular price). In addition to this, you can pick up the Orsinium Collector’s Bundle from the in-game Crown Store for 2,000 crowns (also 50% off its regular price), containing the Cave Bear mount, the Cave Bear Cub pet, and five Crown Experience Scrolls.

Finally, you can also pick up the 4-DLC Mega Pack (containing the Orsinium, Imperial City, Thieves Guild, and Dark Brotherhood DLCs) for 2,000 crowns (50% off) or the Imperial City Collector’s Bundle for 2,000 crowns (also 50% off) containing the Mind-Shriven Horse mount, Mind-Shriven skin, Daedrat pet, and five Crown Experience scrolls.



These discounts are available only during the Year One Celebration, and there’s a host of event-specific items also arriving in the in-game Crown Store during the event period, too—don’t miss out!
When you complete quests within Wrothgar, Craglorn, or Imperial City zones, you can receive event-specific bonus rewards and loot.

Year One Coffers

When you complete various activities in any of the event’s three zones, you have a chance to receive a Year One Coffer in addition to your regular rewards. These activities include:

• Completing the Year One Celebration intro quest
• Completing daily quests
• Defeating Delve and World Bosses
• Opening treasure chests, safeboxes, or Thieves Troves
• Claiming a Psijic Portal
• Harvesting a Harvest Node
• Defeating a boss in a Craglorn Trial
• Defeating a boss in the Dragonstar Arena
• Defeating a boss in the Maelstrom Arena
• Defeating a boss in either the White-Gold Tower or Imperial City Prison
• Looting monsters or objects (such as barrels, crates, etc.)

When you receive a Year One Coffer, they have a chance to contain the following valuable items:

• Crafting materials
• Imperial City key fragments
• Style items for the styles found within Wrothgar, Imperial City, and Craglorn
• Zone gear set items
• Transmutation Crystals
• Valuables you can sell to vendors for gold
• Motif Chapters style pages from the Wrothgar, Imperial City, and Craglorn zones
• Including Yokudan, Celestial, Ra Gada, Trinimac, Ancient Orc, Malacath, and Xivkyn
• Pages for the new Old Orsinium weapon styles
• Pages for Maelstrom Arena weapon styles
• Pages for the Legion Zero Vigiles armor styles

Take heed: Each day, the first time you complete a Daily Quest in Wrothgar, Craglorn, or the Imperial City, you’ll receive a Glorious Year One Coffer, which is guaranteed to contain either a Motif Chapter style page or a page for the new Old Orsinium weapon style.

Bonus Rewards

In addition to the Year One Coffers, during the event period, the following activities have bonus rewards:

• Double reward boxes for all Daily Quests in Wrothgar, Imperial City, and Craglorn
• Increased resource node rewards (not including those from fishing holes or crafting materials obtained from creatures)
• Bonus loot from World Bosses, Dungeon Bosses, and Delve Bosses
• Bonus loot from chests in the Maelstrom and Dragonstar Arenas
• Bonus loot from the bosses in the Craglorn Trials (in addition to earning two coffers for the Trial’s Weekly Quest)
• Bonus Tel Var stones earned in the Imperial City

That’s a ton of great reasons to explore some of ESO’s earliest adventures!

During the Year One Celebration, you can earn up to two Event Tickets per day by completing the following:

• One Event Ticket for completing a Daily Quest in Wrothgar or Craglorn
• One Event Ticket for completing a District Daily Quest in the Imperial City

Note that Wrothgar’s Daily Quests are split between the city of Orsinium and Morkul Stronghold. The Event Ticket timer resets at 2:00AM EDT each morning. If you earn new Event Tickets over the 12-limit cap, you’ll lose them.

Here’s what the Impresario event merchant stocks during the event period:

• Unstable Morpholith base fragments
• Including the Deadlands Flint, Rune-Etched Striker, and Smoldering Bloodgrass Tinder
• The first and second fragment for the Dagonic Quasigriff (to upgrade your Unstable Morpholith with)
• The Smoke-Wreathed Gryphon Feather and Black Iron Bit and Bridle
• Old Orsinium Weapon Style pages (can’t be traded)
• Group Repair Kits

This event is your second opportunity to acquire fragments required to upgrade your Unstable Morpholith into the new Dagonic Quasigriff mount!


Don’t forget, you’ll need to own an Unstable Morpholith and all three upgrade fragments to unlock this mount, so keep an eye out for future event announcements to snatch up the third and final fragment.
Return to some of ESO’s earliest adventures and you’ll have a chance to earn a host of unique rewards and bonus loot during the Year One Celebration in-game event. Which zone will you travel to first? Let us know via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. 

The Year One Celebration in-game event begins at 10:00AM EDT on Thursday, August 26, and it will end at 10:00AM EDT on Tuesday, September 7.

Continue your Gates of Oblivion adventure with the Waking Flame dungeon DLC and Update 31 base-game patch.

The Elder Scrolls Online: Waking Flame DLC game pack is now live on PC/Mac and Stadia, and it challenges players with two new dungeons, each with their own unique Gates of Oblivion stories. If you play on console, don’t fret—Waking Flame arrives on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 on September 8.

This release also includes the free Update 31 base-game patch, which provides all ESO players with a series of additions and improvements to the game.


You can access the DLC via ESO Plus™ membership or purchase it with crowns from the in-game Crown Store. Additionally, check out the patch notes for both Waking Flame and Update 31 on our official forums.

Uncover evils in The Elder Scrolls Online: Waking Flame with two amazing new dungeons: Red Petal Bastion and the Dread Cellar. While both PvE challenges explore unique stand-alone stories, they also expand upon the year-long Gates of Oblivion adventure and set up the events of the upcoming Deadlands DLC (arriving later in 2021).

Red Petal Bastion

For centuries, the noble Knights of the Silver Rose had protected the people from Tamriel from the forces of Oblivion, but recently, the order has begun indiscriminately looting nearby shrines to collect holy relics, which they add to their fortress, the Red Petal Bastion.


A devotee of Azura needs your help to confront this once-noble order, reclaim his stolen artifacts, and discover the secret behind the order’s sudden and violent turn.

The Dread Cellar

Whispered to be one of the Empire’s most-feared prisons, the Dread Cellar, long thought abandoned, has begun emanating mysterious magical energies. Now home to the cultists of the Waking Flame and their Daedric minions, this once-feared site holds new evils for any would-be adventurers.


A pair of Imperial Battlemages needs your assistance in their investigation of the prison’s activity, but what role does the Dread Cellar’s own past have in the cultists’ fiendish plans? And to what lengths might the Battlespire go to protect the Empire’s secrets?

Both dungeons are filled with a host of challenging boss battles to overcome and mysteries to uncover, and both are available in Normal, Veteran, and Hard Mode difficulties for groups seeking difficult opposition. Finally, each dungeon also holds a series unique item sets, Achievements, and collectibles for you to loot and earn, ensuring the rewards are equal to the risks—good luck!   

You can access The Elder Scrolls Online: Waking Flame DLC game pack via ESO Plus membership or purchase it for 1,500 crowns from the in-game Crown Store (listed under DLC). Note that if your ESO Plus membership lapses, you will lose access to the DLC until you renew your membership or purchase it with crowns, but you won’t lose any items, Achievements, or other rewards you earned while you had access.

The Waking Flame Collector’s Bundle is also available for 4,000 crowns and includes access to the DLC game pack, the Silver Rose Senche-Serval mount, the Ironclad Senche-Serval Kitten pet, and five Crown Experience Scrolls. You can purchase the Collector’s Bundle from the Featured section of the in-game Crown Store.

With access to the Waking Flame DLC, you can continue your Gates of Oblivion adventure by the following methods:

• By teleporting directly into the two dungeons from your map
• By using the Dungeon Finder tool
• By walking up to the dungeon entrances within Blackwood (Dread Cellar) and within Glenumbra (Red Petal Bastion)

Finally, simply by entering either of these two new dungeons, you’ll receive the Scorion Pyreling pet!

In addition to Waking Flame, the Update 31 base-game patch will arrive in tandem with the DLC as a free update for all ESO players. This update includes assorted bug fixes, balance changes, performance improvements, and a series of quality-of-life additions.

This includes the ability to toggle between HDR modes on consoles in your Settings menu, the addition of Dynamic Resolution Scaling (creating a more responsive framerate experience and providing generally higher resolutions when running in Performance Mode on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5), a beta for Multithreaded Rendering on PC (potentially improving framerates), and a Reply function for your in-game mail. In addition to this, an assortment of new houses, furnishings, and houseguests will arrive in in-game Crown store in the coming months.  

For more on the graphical improvements arriving with Update 31, check out this article, and be sure to visit our official forums to review the complete patch notes for both Waking Flame and Update 31 to get the whole picture.

With two exciting dungeons that expand upon the Gates of Oblivion adventures and a slew of graphical enhancements and changes, the Waking Flame DLC and Update 31 base-game patch bring new challenges, rewards, and improvements for all of Tamriel’s adventurers. Are you ready to continue the fight against the forces of Mehrunes Dagon? Tell us via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

You can explore Tamriel for free during the QuakeCon 2021 Free Play Event!

The Elder Scrolls Online QuakeCon 2021 Free Play Event is now live and runs until Monday, August 30 at 10AM EDT. During the free-play period, anybody on PC/Mac, Xbox consoles (Xbox Live Gold required), PlayStation consoles, and Stadia (Stadia Pro required) can download and play The Elder Scrolls Online for free!

To join over 18 million players and discover this award-winning RPG for yourself, simply visit our Free Play page and select your platform. This event gives you access to Morrowind's zone (Vvardenfell) and ESO base game, which includes four of the game’s original classes, 23 unique zones, and countless hours of adventure.

Because the Free Play Event includes the base game, you can begin your Gates of Oblivion adventure with access to the Blackwood Prologue questline. If you’d like to continue your story beyond the Free Play Event, pick up The Elder Scrolls Online Collection: Blackwood from our Buy Now page to get immediate access to the game and previous Chapters.

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

A whole world of adventure awaits during QuakeCon 2021, so visit our Free Play page and get ready to discover the biggest next-gen RPG in the world. Even better, if you’re an Xbox Series X|S or PlayStation 5 player, you’re able to experience the Console Enhanced version of the game for free for the first time ever—now is the time to finally check out The Elder Scrolls Online!