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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!

[h2]Join the Battle![/h2]

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.

[h2]Claim the Spoils of War[/h2]
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.

[h2]Earn Event Tickets[/h2]
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.

[h2]Fight for Glory![/h2]
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.