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Get into the holiday spirit and gift Event Tickets to your friends and guildmates, and we’ll give you four Frost Atronach Crown Crates, completely free!

Starting right now and running throughout the entirety of the New Life Festival (ending on January 2 at 10:00AM EST), if you gift Event Tickets from the in-game Crown Store, you will receive four free Frost Atronach Crown Crates in the new year!

Here’s how it works:

• From the Crown Store, gift five or more Event Tickets to anybody in game
  • You can find Event Tickets within the Events section
  • You can split the gifts between multiple recipients (all five don’t have to go to one lucky player)
• Once the New Life Festival is over, we’ll send you four Frost Atronach Crown Crates
  • Crown Crate delivery date is TBD, but it will occur by the end of January 2020

That’s it! Don’t forget, you can store up to 12 Event Tickets at a time, so you may need to spend some before you can claim Event Tickets that have been gifted to you!

With Event Tickets, you can acquire many different items from the in-game Impresario event merchant. For a complete listing of what she has available during the New Life Festival, check out our announcement article. Spoiler: It includes every set of berries you could earn this year!

Within the Frost Atronach Crown Crates, you will discover a cool collection of items including unique and returning mounts, pets, costumes, and much more.

You can find these items and more in Frost Atronach Crown Crates

New Life is the time to spread holiday cheer and goodwill—so what better way to get into the spirit of the season than to give and to receive? Let us know if you’ll be taking advantage of this limited-time offer via Twitter @TESOnline, Instagram, and Facebook!

Celebrate an amazing year of adventure and comradery with the return of the New Life Festival. Earn bonus XP, event-unique rewards, and more during this merry fete!


The New Life Festival in-game event beings this Thursday, December 19 at 10:00AM EST and runs until Thursday, January 2, 2020, at 10:00AM EST. If you’d like to take part in this joyous jubilee, acquire the New Life Festival quest from the in-game Crown Store and use it to find the New Life Herald, Breda, located south of the city of Windhelm, Eastmarch. Even if you’ve already completed this intro quest during a previous event, you can do it again!

Find Breda to begin the celebration

Complete the quest “The New Life Festival” and unlock a ton of unique New Life-themed daily quests (nine total) that help spread cheer and merriment to all the people of Tamriel. The first time you complete your first New Life Festival quest, you also unlock the Breda’s Bottomless Mead Mug collectible, which provides a two-hour 100% boost to XP gains when consumed. You can use this festive flagon and enjoy the XP boost throughout the entire event period, and even better, its benefits stack with other XP bonuses.


The first time you complete a New Life Festival daily quest each day, you earn two Event Tickets in addition to your Gift Box. These celebratory coffers can contain all manner of festival-themed goods, including Motif chapters, recipes, collectibles, furnishings, and more:

• Skinchanger Motif chapters
• New Life recipes
• New Life collectibles (packaged in Runeboxes and tradeable):
  • Sword-Swallower's Blade memento
  • Juggler's Knives memento
  • Fire-Breather's Torches memento
  • Mud Ball Pouch memento
  • Nordic Bather's Towel costume
  • Colovian Filigreed Hood hat
  • Colovian Fur Hood hat
• A selection of lights, lamps, and lanterns for your home to celebrate the Signal Fire Sprint
• Draughts of Stealth and Escape to celebrate the Trial of Five-Clawed Guile

The Skaal Explorer Outfit Style

Charity Writs!
Of course, this festive season is all about spreading holiday cheer and goodwill, and throughout the event, when you open a New Life Festival Gift Box, you have a chance to receive a Charity Writ. This year, you can discover two different Charity Writs within Reward Boxes:

• New Life Charity Writs–Complete 12 of these to unlock the “Newly Charitable” Achievement and Crystalfrost skin.
• New Deep Winter Charity Writs–Complete to unlock pages from the new Skaal Explorer outfit style!

The first two times you complete a New Life Festival daily quest, you earn an Event Ticket in addition to your Gift Box for each. You can earn only two Event Ticket this way per day, with the timer resetting at 1:00AM EST each morning.

However, because of the postponement of the Undaunted Celebration in November, we decided to reward Event Tickets for bosses slain throughout the entirety of the New Life Festival. Each day, when you defeat your first boss you receive three Event Tickets in addition to that boss’ regular rewards.

Here’s the bosses that’ll count:

• World bosses
• Delve bosses
• Final dungeon bosses
• Final trial bosses
• Final arena bosses
• Dragon hunt, Dolmen, and Abyssal Geyser bosses

That means each day, you could earn up to five tickets. Don’t forget to loot!

Complete your Pure-Snow Indrik during New Life!

The Impresario has opened her warehouse during the New Life Festival, and has a ton of new and returning items you can spend your Event Tickets on, including:

• All four Indrik Feathers
• New Pure-Snow Berries of Ripeness
• All previous Pure-Snow Indrik Berries
• ALL previous Indrik Berries (!)
• New Skaal Explorer Outfit Style pages

That’s right, during the New Life Festival, you can acquire ANY of the year’s Indrik Berries! Before now, these berries were available only during previous in-game events, so if you’re missing one or two berries from past evolutions, now is your chance to catch up.

As usual, Impresario items are bound to your account upon purchase.


Spread joy to all of Tamriel during the New Life Festival and enjoy bonus XP, special holiday-themed rewards, and more. Are you ready to throw some mudballs and take the Snow Bear plunge? Let us know on Twitter @TESOnline, Instagram, and Facebook!

We were thrilled to be able to share the final Elsweyr cinematic trailer during The Game Awards. If you missed it, don’t worry, you can check out the extended version here!

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Yes, you saw right. We have teased next year’s big adventure right at the end there, too, taking you back to the snow-swept region of Skyrim! You’ll have to wait until our announcement show (streaming live via Twitch.tv/Bethesda from the Hyper X arena) to learn more.

If you’ve never played The Elder Scrolls Online and are wondering what all the fuss is about, you can get The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr here and begin your year-long adventure into the province of Elsweyr.

You can pick up a deal on in-game Assistants, Season of the Dragon dungeon DLCs, tokens, and a special Black Fredas bundle in our limited-time Crown Store sale.

Black Fredas has returned, and starting today, you can pick up some of the Crown Store’s hottest items at a great discount, including:

• Fezez the Merchant Assistant
• Nuzhimeh the Merchant Assistant
• Scalebreaker dungeon DLC
• Wrathstone dungeon DLC
• Name and Race Change Tokens

In addition to these sale items, we’ve also introduced a new bundle just for this sale period. The Black Fredas Bundle 2019 is available for 1,900 crowns and includes the exclusive Oak-Ember Forge Wolf mount, 10 Experience Scrolls, 10 Riding Speed Lessons, 10 Riding Capacity Lessons, 10 Fortifying Meals, 10 Soul Gems, and 50 Tri-Restoration Potions. That’s 8,100 crowns of value!

The Black Fredas Bundle 2019

The above items are on sale only until Monday, December 2 at 10:00AM EST. However, when the sale for the above item ends, a new one begins for these individual items:

• Ezabi the Banker Assistant
• Tythis Andromo the Banker Assistant
• Mundus Stones (acquired from the Housing Editor)

These items will be on sale until Thursday, December 5 at 10:00AM EST.

With a value-packed bundle and deals on Assistants, furnishings, and the Season of the Dragon’s dungeon DLCs, there’s something for everyone this Black Fredas. Don’t forget—both The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr AND The Elder Scrolls Online: Standard Edition are also on sale now until December—it’s a great time to grab a deal both on and in The Elder Scrolls Online!

Save up to 67% on The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr during our Black Friday sale!

The Black Friday sale is now live for PC/Mac via The Elder Scrolls Online and the Steam Store.

During this period, you can pick up all versions of the Elsweyr Chapter on sale, including:

• The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr
  
• The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr Upgrade
  
• The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr Collector’s Edition
  
• The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr Collector’s Edition Upgrade
  

In the Elsweyr Chapter, you can venture into the Khajiiti homeland, explore a massive zone filled with amazing stories and people, gain mastery over death itself with the Necromancer class, and take part in the epic Season of the Dragon adventure!

The Elsweyr Chapter isn’t the only version of ESO on sale during this period, however, since you can also pick up The Elder Scrolls Online: Standard Edition at up to 50%.

This sale is now live, but it lasts only until December 3, 2019, for PC/Mac, so don’t miss out on this amazing deal—visit our Buy Now page or the Steam Store now!