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Season Zero introduces an all-new way to acquire classic collectibles, simply by playing! Learn more about the Gold Coast Bazaar.
[h2]A Golden Opportunity[/h2]
A new in-game storefront that arrives on March 25, 2026, and kicks off with Season Zero on April 2, the Gold Coast Bazaar allows you to acquire classic collectible rewards you may have missed out on in the past.

Throughout ESO’s long history, we’ve introduced a host of limited-time collectible rewards. Whether it be via in-game events, special promotions, or part of a larger release, we’ve added hundreds of unique reward items to the game. If you missed out on such items, they were often impossible to get again or were reintroduced unpredictably and inconsistently.

Rediscover returning rewards in the Bazaar

With the Gold Coast Bazaar, we’re adding a new storefront with the primary purpose of bringing back those rewards that were once only available during a specific window. You can claim these items via a new currency, called Trade Bars, which you can earn via gameplay and Tamriel Tomes.

The Gold Coast Bazaar arrives March 25, 2026, with an initial offering of items. Then, when Season Zero starts on April 2, 2026, we’re adding a host of new additions, too.
[h2]Trade Bars[/h2]
Trade Bars are a new type of in-game currency that you can spend to acquire items from the Bazaar. One of the main ways to earn Trade Bars is from the free version of the Season’s Tamriel Tome. For example, in Season Zero, up to 9,000 Trade Bars are part of the Tome’s free offerings. However, an additional 1,500 Trade Bars are available from the paid versions of the Tome, too.

Acquire rewards with Trade Bars

You can also earn Trade Bars from various other activities, including participating in in-game events. When Update 49 launches on March 9, Trade Bars will replace your Event Tickets (the conversion happens automatically) and have no cap associated with them. You will receive 100 Trade Bars for every one Event Ticket you hold. Don’t fear, event rewards (including morphing collectibles) will also be converted to maintain their value now that they are available for Trade Bars instead of Tickets, although there are more ways to earn Trade Bars than there ever was to earn Event Tickets (and a much greater total volume to earn as well).

Notably, Trade Bars will not be available for purchase with Crowns. They must be earned by playing the game and obtaining them from the Tamriel Tome. 
[h2]Bazaar Rewards[/h2]
The Bazaar arrives on March 25 with an initial offering of items. However, when Season Zero arrives April 2, the full breadth of rewards becomes available, resulting in approximately 100 collectibles in total purchasable from the store at that point.

Some Bazaar offerings will rotate in and out with the start and end of each Season, but many consistent evergreen items are offered, too. The goal with this rotation is to ensure there’s always a healthy representation of different types of rewards available at all times.

Evergreen Rewards

Evergreen rewards include items like the Grand Gallery of Tamriel home, Dibella’s Exaltation armor style, Gold Road Recall customized action, Outfit Tokens, and more.

Dibella’s Exaltation armor style

Rotating Rewards

Rotating items associated with Season Zero include items such as the Morthal Jarl Finery costume, the Dragon’s Treasure Trove furnishing, Mara’s Spring Chicken pet, and more.

The Dragon’s Treasure Trove furnishing

New Rewards

On certain occasions, you can also find brand-new items in the Bazaar, most often associated with an upcoming event (which initially the Impresario will continue to offer). For example, in April, you can buy fragments for various Jester’s Festival-themed rewards. As a reminder, Trade Bars are completely replacing Event Tickets as an in-game currency.

In addition, previous ESO Plus membership monthly free items will also make their way to the Bazaar, although you still need to have an active membership to purchase those specific rewards.

We’ll share more about the Bazaar’s Season Zero rewards closer to their release in March.
[h2]Returning Rewards[/h2]
With the Gold Coast Bazaar, you can enjoy even more variety and choice when it comes to ESO’s many (many) in-game rewards. We can’t wait to see the community’s reaction to this new store. Which returning rewards do you want most? You’ll have to wait until the Season starts on April 2 to see what is available, but we’re always on the lookout for new player requests, too! Let us know via Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook.   

Enjoy seasonal rewards with Tamriel Tomes, a new and consolidated way to earn collectibles, currencies, and in-game items.

[h2]Tamriel Tomes[/h2]
Tamriel Tomes is a new battlepass-like system coming to ESO with Season Zero that allows you to unlock in-game rewards as you play. Collecting and consolidating the Endeavors and Daily Logins reward systems, Tamriel Tomes grants all ESO’s players more variety and choice when it comes to earning in-game goodies, no matter how you choose to spend your time in Tamriel.

Each Tome arrives with and is available throughout its Season, and it includes free, premium (paid), and premium bonus options (more on all these below). The rewards found within each Season’s Tamriel Tome vary greatly, but they always include a broad selection of in-game currencies, consumables, and collectibles, plus include free options for all players.

The first Tamriel Tome arrives as part of Season Zero on April 2, 2026, for all platforms, and it is called the Tome of Dawn and Dusk.

[h2]Opening the Page[/h2]
All ESO players gain access to the free version of the Tamriel Tome for a Season and can complete its challenges to unlock rewards. For a greater breadth of available reward options, you can choose to pay to upgrade a Season’s Tome.

When Season Zero launches on April 2, there are three options:

• Free Tamriel Tome
  • Automatically available for free at the start of each Season
• Premium Tamriel Tome (paid)
  • Grants the ability to unlock the Season’s premium rewards upon purchase
  • Allows you to continue to progress and unlock rewards from the specific Tome after the Season has ended
• Premium + Bonuses Tamriel Tome (paid)
  • Grants all the unlocks and benefits of the Premium Tome
  • Grants two caches of Tome Points (each containing 2,000 Tome Points)
  • Also instantly grants a unique bonus collectible

The Premium and Premium + Bonuses Tamriel Tome selections are completely optional, and you can review the contents of a Tome before making your choice.  

Note that a Tome’s free options and its two upgrades can be acquired only during its specific Season. However, should you purchase either one of the two paid versions while it is available, you can continue to unlock its free and premium rewards after the Season ends.

[h2]Progressing Your Tome[/h2]
When Season Zero arrives, you can find the current Tamriel Tome by navigating from your main menu (the icon is next to the Crown Crate). From there, you can see the Tome’s pages, your challenges, your current Tome Points, and level of progression.

Challenges

During a Season, you can complete two different types of challenges to progress your Tome.

• Weekly Challenges
  • Five weekly challenges made available every week
• Seasonal Challenges
  • Larger challenges that take longer to complete but offer greater rewards
  • Some of these challenges take the full duration of the Season, but others are introduced mid-season or during unique events, too

Note that you don’t have to complete a Weekly Challenge within the week it becomes available, as they persist throughout the Season up to a maximum of 12 Weekly Challenges live at any one time. Learning from player feedback surrounding Endeavors and Daily Login Rewards, we designed this system to ensure you don’t feel bad when you’ve missed out on a day or two of progression.

The challenges themselves vary greatly. Some tie in thematically to the Season, while others might cover any of ESO’s common in-game activities, including slaying Daedra, capturing keeps in Cyrodiil, harvesting resources, using treasure maps or opening treasure chests, and more.  

If you don’t like your current Weekly Challenges, you can choose to reroll them. You receive five rerolls per week each week of the Season, with a maximum of 12 being available at any one time. 

Finally, when you complete Weekly and Seasonal Challenges, you are granted Tome Points.

Tome Points

Tome Points are a unique new kind of currency that are earned when completing a Season’s challenges. They serve two related purposes:

• They automatically unlock Tamriel Tome pages, granting access to each page’s rewards
• They can then be spent, in any order, on unlocking individual Tamriel Tome rewards on a page

You don’t need to spend your Tome Points on one page to get access to subsequent pages as completing Challenges and earning Tome Points does that automatically. You can save your points for whatever individual reward you wish on whatever individual page.

We want to continue to give you a choice as to which rewards you unlock, regardless of whether you have paid for a Season’s Premium version or not.

[h2]A New Volume of Rewards[/h2]
The rewards contained within each Tamriel Tome vary, but you can expect a general mix of the following reward types:

• Consumables
  • Including research scrolls, gear upgrade kits, trait research boxes, and more...
• Currencies
  • Including Gold Coast Bazaar Trade Bars, Seals (formerly Seals of Endeavor), and more…
• Collectibles
  • Including cosmetics such as new armor sets, weapon and skill styles, furnishings, and more…

With the Endeavors and Daily Login Rewards system being removed from the game in Season Zero, many of their typical rewards have been added to Tamriel Tomes, consolidating and simplifying how you earn them.

Trade Bars are a unique new currency that you can spend in the Gold Coast Bazaar store, allowing you to acquire returning and some new rewards. 

[h2]Tome of Dawn and Dusk[/h2]
Season Zero’s Tamriel Tome is called the Tome of Dawn and Dusk and is available when the Season officially launches on April 2. Within this Tome, you can find exciting gear themed to two legendary adventurers, armor from a night-stalking Khajiiti sect, and an enigmatic wolf that walks the line between night and day.

Free Rewards

Free collectibles in this Tome include the Kireth’s Dungeon Delve armor set, a new skill style for Vigor, and the Mesa Stalker weapons styles. In addition, you can unlock up to 8,000 Seals, a whopping 9,000 Trade Bars, and six returning Crown Crates from this Tome’s free offerings.

Free Kireth’s Dungeon Delve armor set

Premium Rewards

Premium rewards in this Tome include the Winterhold Empyrean Wolf mount, the Monster Slayer personality, the Duo-Dynamo Dungeon Delve Spider multi-rider mount, and more. You can also unlock an additional 1,500 Trade Bars.

Premium reward mounts

Premium + Bonuses purchases receive the Raynor’s Traveling Robes costume in addition to two Caches of Tome Points (containing 2,000 Tome Points each), helping you speed along your progress.

Raynor’s Traveling Robes Premium Bonus reward

Note that you can open caches at any point (meaning it doesn’t have to happen during the current Season), and they aren’t capped.

We’ll share more details on the Tamriel Tomes rewards and how to get your hands on them as we near April 2—stay tuned!

[h2]ESO Plus Bonuses [/h2]
If you have an ESO Plus membership, you also gain certain benefits for a Season’s Tome. These include:

• A 10% increase in Tome Points earned from challenges
• One Cache of Tome Points (containing 2,000) per month of membership
• One Premium Tome Token per month of membership
  • 12 tokens grant a free Premium + Bonuses Tamriel Tome

With ESO Plus membership, you not only progress your Tamriel Tomes quicker, but even get a free premium Tome each time you’ve had a total of 12 months of membership.

All Caches and Tokens are granted immediately up front with your ESO Plus membership purchase. For example, if you purchase six months of ESO Plus membership, you’ll immediately receive six Caches of Tome Points and six Premium Tome Tokens.

[h2]Variety and Choice[/h2]
With Tamriel Tomes, we’re adding new ways to play ESO and earn in-game rewards. With an emphasis on providing a greater diversity of reward options, how you choose to interact with a Season’s Tamriel Tome is entirely up to you.

Note that with the introduction of Tamriel Tomes, you'll continue to earn new rewards in-game as well, whether that be from a new zone, trial, PvP, events, Golden Pursuits, and more. We will also continue to offer new cosmetics on the Crown Store and via Crown Crates, exploring different themes and variety.

Are you excited to discover the Tome of Dawn and Dusk for yourself? Let us know via Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook.  Don’t forget, this first Tome goes live with the kickoff of Season Zero on April 2.

Change is coming to Tamriel’s Second Era in the form of Seasons, a new way to adventure and earn rewards in The Elder Scrolls Online.
[h2]Seasons of Change[/h2]
It has been over a decade since The Elder Scrolls Online's initial launch. With new systems, classes, zones, and stories, the game has evolved a great deal in those ten years. Now, we are thrilled to announce the next big step for our online RPG, the introduction of Seasons.

Think of a Season in ESO as an exciting box of experiences and updates. Each Season could contain new adventures to experience, realms to explore, and ways to play, all the things you expect from ESO content, but contained within a three-month period. No two Seasons will ever be the same, with each having a distinct theme and gameplay additions, some of which could be very different from what you’ve experienced in the past! Because the team is no longer working on a singular major yearly update, content will arrive continuously throughout the year (and throughout each Season), allowing for greater choice and variety.

Crucially, all new gameplay content included in a Season, be it a new zone, dungeon, storyline, system, class, or skill line, will be free for all base-game players. We want to remove the barriers to new content we’ve had in the past, and now all ESO players can enjoy all of Tamriel’s new features at no cost and at the same time, together.

In addition, Seasons introduces a new standard for the way we identify, collect, and utilize player feedback, bridging the gap between our development team and the community. We want to hear from you!
[h2]What’s in a Season?[/h2]
While the specifics and scope will change with each new and distinct Season, you can expect each one to bring new rewards, adventures, and ways to play. Generally, a Season can contain the following kinds of features:

• New gameplay content
  • This could include a new zone, storyline or questline, class, skill line, or system.
• New base-game changes and improvements
  • Such as quality-of-life additions, balance changes, or performance updates.
• New Tamriel Tome
  • A new, battlepass-like experience with free rewards and optional bonus tracks for those who wish to unlock even more.
• New Rotation of Gold Coast Bazaar items
  • A new reward store in which anybody can spend a new, freely earned currency called Trade Bars.

What’s in a Season?

Furthermore, all the above seasonal features are free for all base-game players, the only exception being the premium options available for a Season’s Tamriel Tome (more on that below).
[h2]Season Zero: Dawn and Dusk[/h2]
Season Zero: Dawn and Dusk will be the first of its kind and officially launch on April 2, 2026, and runs until July 8, 2026. Note that some of the base-game changes that are part of this Season go live a little earlier than this official date with Update 49 on March 9, just ahead of Season Zero’s debut.

Season Zero introduces a new kind of zone experience while also laying the groundwork for future seasonal additions. Here’s what Season Zero contains:

• The Night Market Event Zone
• The first wave of player experience improvements
• The first wave of class and combat refresh improvements
• The introduction of Tamriel Tomes with the Tome of Dawn and Dusk
• The introduction of the Gold Coast Bazaar

The Night Market

The Night Market is a brand-new type of zone we’re dubbing an “Event Zone” that is debuting with Season Zero. The Night Market is a new area in the Oblivion realm of Fargrave that opens April 29, 2026, and it is available for a seven-week period until June 17, 2026. There you can choose one of three unique factions, pledging your service in a gauntlet of challenging PvE encounters.

Team up in the first ever Event Zone

With new stories to experience, characters to meet, and quests to complete, the Night Market is the first of our experimental zones. Don’t forget, as part of Season Zero, access to this new zone and adventure is free for all ESO players, including a new in-game home earned only via gameplay.

While access to the Night Market closes in June, don’t fret; Event Zones are intended to return in later Seasons. Future appearances of the Market will allow you to choose a different faction and explore this weird and wonderful realm in an all-new way.

Look for more information on the Night Market, how it works, and its rewards closer to when it opens on April 29.

Player Experience Improvements

Update 49 and Season Zero also include the first wave of quality-of-life changes, developed by a dedicated internal team. Focusing on finding, evaluating, and solving player pain points, this team was built to address some of our players’ longstanding requests. This first wave of changes includes:

• The ability to respec Skills and Attributes directly from the UI at no cost
• An increase to the speed at which you train your Riding skills
• An increase to furnishing limits on half of the game’s player houses
• A return to the 30-day listing window for Guild traders
• 16 mounts of all shapes and sizes moved from the Crown Store to gold vendors
  • One of these is a brand-new gold purchasable mount: the Ebon Dwarven Horse.
• Increases to rarer Antiquities expiration times
• A change to make Outfit Slots account-wide
• And more!

These are just some of the improvements coming to the game with Update 49 in March. You can see the full list of changes coming to the Public Test Server when Update 49 arrives next week, and there’s even more changes and additions planned for later in the Season.

Gold vendor stables enjoy new mounts

The team will continue to look at and listen to suggestions for similar improvements to the player experience from the community for future Seasons, too. Keep an eye out for more details on this team and their work in the not-too-distant future.

Combat and Class Refresh

Update 49 and Season Zero also continues the work to review and improve ESO’s core combat experience, and this Season introduces changes and improvements to the Dragonknight class. This includes a visual refresh for many of its abilities and a rework of its core skill lines.

Wield reworked Dragonknight abilities

This Season also includes a visual refresh for the Two-Handed Weapon skill line, and a major revamp rework of Werewolf visuals later in the season, including a female werewolf model (a community-requested addition). Look for more details on the combat work coming with Season Zero in the future.

Tamriel Tomes

Introduced with Season Zero, Tamriel Tomes are a new way for you to earn in-game collectibles, currencies, and rewards simply by playing the game.

Each Season introduces a new Tamriel Tome, which is ESO’s version of battlepass-like systems you may be familiar with from other games. Tomes offer you the chance to complete weekly and seasonal challenges to earn a new currency called Tome Points.

Each page in the tome offers a variety of rewards for you to choose from, and as you earn more Tome Points, new pages open to offer you additional rewards. After you have unlocked a page, it’s your choice as to whether you wish to spend your Tome Points on that page’s items or save them up for specific rewards later in the experience.

Unlock and acquire collectibles

A Season’s Tome can be enjoyed by all ESO players at no cost. However, in addition to the free rewards, you can choose to pay for the ability to acquire additional premium rewards. Even better, with the paid version, you can continue to unlock rewards after the Season is over.

As stated above, Tamriel Tomes are a completely optional experience. For a deeper dive into how Tamriel Tomes works, read this announcement blog.

Gold Coast Bazaar

Also releasing as part of Season Zero is the Gold Coast Bazaar, a new in-game rewards store that gives you more opportunities to earn and unlock previously available collectibles (and a few new options, too).

In the past, the game has added many limited-time rewards via Golden Pursuits, Daily Login Rewards, Events, Anniversary Spotlights, Twitch Drops, and more. If you missed them, they were often difficult to get again or re-introduced unpredictably and inconsistently. Now, these rewards will rotate in and out of the store with each Season.

With the Gold Coast Bazaar, you can claim these items by spending Trade Bars, a new currency earned primarily from the free Tamriel Tome rewards, but also available from other sources.

Discover past rewards with the Bazaar

Trade Bars replace Event Tickets (this happens automatically) and have no cap placed on them. Critically, Trade Bars are not available for purchase with Crowns. They must be earned via Tamriel Tome rewards (with the vast majority included in the free Tome options) or other in-game activities.

At Season Zero’s launch, the Gold Coast Bazaar will have around 100 items available, giving you even more options and choice over the rewards you earn as you play. The Gold Coast Bazaar arrives March 25, 2026, with some initial offerings, and expands once Season Zero formally kicks off on April 2, 2026. For more on the Gold Coast Bazaar, check out this blog.

PvP and PvE Additions

In addition to all the above, late in Season Zero, we’ll also introduce two major gameplay additions that we know our veteran players will enjoy:

• Introducing Challenge Difficulty
  • The first step in a new system that increases overland gameplay, Challenge Difficulty allows you to opt in to a more difficult, more rewarding version of the overland content you know and love.
• Vengeance PvP Progression System
  • Rank up and progress to earn new rewards and even unique passive abilities for the Vengeance PvP campaigns.

We’re excited to reveal more about these additions closer to Season Zero’s official launch, so keep an eye out for more information soon.
[h2]Future Seasons[/h2]
Season Zero serves as the foundation for many future Seasons and the exciting new adventures, rewards, and changes they hold. As a quick preview, these new experiences include:

• New Thieves Guild questline
• The return of Sheogorath!
• A new end-game Trial
• Solo dungeons!
• A new event on the high seas!
• Additional class and combat refresh work
• Additional player experience improvements
• And more!

To get an early look at the future of Seasons in ESO, check out the roadmap below. Note that some details and features may change as development continues.

Seasons Roadmap

Of course, this is just a taste of what future Seasons contain, so keep an eye out for more information in the coming months, including a special preview livestream in March that goes much deeper into 2026.
[h2]Working with the Community[/h2]
Player trust and community feedback are a core part of our development philosophy at ZeniMax Online Studios, and there’s always room for improvement. We want the ESO community to have an even more active role in how we develop the game.

What does this mean? We intend to share our plans with you earlier and more often than we have in the past and evolve the way we communicate. This includes getting your thoughts on everything we’ve recently announced, but it also features experimental or even conceptual new content or adventures—we want you to help us grow Tamriel, together.

We need YOU to help us shape ESO’s future

Look out for more opportunities to share your views on anything past, present, and future for ESO in the coming weeks, including livestreams, surveys, and more.
[h2]More to Come![/h2]
The move to Seasons represents a new and dramatic shift in the way The Elder Scrolls Online releases new content and updates, and we can’t wait to share more about everything that’s coming throughout the next few months.

We’ve only just begun to touch on some of the key changes, additions, and improvements coming as part of this shift, so keep an eye out for more information soon. This will include details on adjustments to the ESO base game (that happens to grant all ESO owners free access to the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood DLCs) and additions to your ESO Plus membership benefits. Finally, we’re also happy to reveal that starting with Update 49’s launch in March, all base-game patches and updates will arrive and go live at the same time, regardless of platform.

What do you think about the coming changes to ESO? Are you excited that all new gameplay content will be free for ESO players moving forward? Perhaps you’re eager to learn more about what kind of rewards you can find in the first Tamriel Tome or within the Gold Coast Bazaar come April? Share your thoughts with us via Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook. 

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