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Help rid Elsweyr of its Dragon problem and support two amazing pet welfare charities during #SlayDragonsSaveCats. Learn everything you need to know about this end-of-year promotion including upcoming in-game events, sweepstakes, and rewards!

The Elder Scrolls Online has its fair share of heroes, both in and outside of the game, and during the #SlayDragonsSaveCats promotion, you and all of Tamriel’s heroes can come together for a great cause by taking part in the following activities:

• Slay Dragons to help raise money for two great charities: Best Friends Animal Society and FOUR PAWS International.
• Enter a massive Season of the Dragon Sweepstakes that features multiple drawings and the chance to win amazing prizes.
• Earn tons of new loot and collectibles with in-game events.
• Share your stories of triumph and pet care with the ESO community.

We are thrilled to work with GlobalGiving to support Best Friends Animal Society and FOUR PAWS. Want to do your part? Become a Dragon slayer!

The ESO community has already brought down over a million beasts since The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr launched in June, but from now until December 9, 2019, for every five Dragons slain, we’ll donate $1 to the cause up to a maximum of $200,000!

You can find Dragons to defeat in the Northern and Southern Elsweyr zones (accessible via the Elsweyr Chapter or Dragonhold DLC) or in the Scalebreaker DLC dungeon “Lair of Maarselok.” This includes the Dragons in the Sunspire Trial, too!


Help protect pets inside the game and out

Visit the #SlayDragonsSaveCats website to see the charity fund progress and donate directly yourself!


Theis period also features a ton of fun in-game events, bringing new rewards for you and your fellow adventurers. Here’s what’s coming up from now until the end of the year:

• Dragon Rise (10/3-10/13)—Explore the home of the Khajiit and complete the Northern Elsweyr Pathfinder Achievement to unlock new collectibles for all Elsweyr owners. Check your progress on the Dragon Rise website and find more info in the announcement article.
• Witches Festival (10/24-11/3)—Tamriel’s grim celebration returns with ghastly quests and spooky new rewards—boo!
• Undaunted Celebration (11/14-11/17)—Take on ESO’s challenging dungeons to receive reward boxes.
• Dawn of the Dragonguard (11/26-12/8)—Fell Dragons to earn bonus loot and earn double rewards from the Wrathstone DLC, Elsweyr Chapter, Scalebreaker DLC, and Dragonhold DLC.
• New Life Festival (12/19-1/1/2020)—Celebrate the end of another great year and the beginning of the new one with fun quests and mud balls. Lots of mud balls.

Each event brings both new and returning rewards, including collectibles such as pets, costumes, styles, and furnishings. During each event, you can also earn Event Tickets, allowing you to purchase the Indrik Feathers and Berries you’ll need to acquire the exclusive Pure-Snow Indrik!


Unlock this magnificent new Indrik mount

Even better, each time you acquire Indrik Feathers or Berries with Event Tickets earned via in-game activities (as in, not the ones you can purchase from the Crown Store), you’ll get one bonus entry to the Season of the Dragon Sweepstakes (more on that below), up to a maximum of 10!

Finally, don’t forget that slaying Dragons helps increase the donation tally on the #SlayDragonsSaveCats website, making the Dragon Rise and Dawn of the Dragonguard events the perfect opportunities to support the cause!


In addition to the charity support and events, you can also win in-game and real-world prizes with our Season of the Dragon Sweepstakes. We’re giving away of ton of amazing loot this year, including ESO merchandise such as the Horn of Ja'darri drinking horn and in-game rewards such as pets, mounts, or Crown Packs.

We’ll have multiple prize drawings throughout the next few months, culminating in a final draw for the grand prize: a wall-mounted Kaalgrontiid Dragon Head Trophy! The ultra-talented team at Volpin Props will craft this amazing real-world furnishing for the grand prize winner, forever celebrating their ultimate victory over the Dragons in Elsweyr.


There’s tons of in-game items to win and unlock!

To enter the Sweepstakes and find a complete list of prizes, visit the official #SlayDragonSaveCats website. You can also check out the official rules. As mentioned above, you can earn up to 10 bonus entries by trading Indrik Feathers and Indrik Berries for Event Tickets, so don’t miss out on your chance to win one of the hundreds of amazing prizes!


During the #SlayDragonsSaveCats promotion, we want to hear and share your tales of adventure and personal stories of pet welfare. Have you taken up arms and spells to slay a mighty Dragon solo? Do you have a beloved rescue pet? Do you yourself work with or for animals in need? We’d love to share those experiences with the rest of the ESO community via Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook, so don’t hesitate to send them our way using the #SlayDragonsSaveCats hashtag.

Finally, we’ll be running a ton of unique real-world events and livestreams during the promotion all over the globe to support the cause. If you’d like to join in on the fun, keep an eye out on our social channels for future announcements!


During the #SlayDragonsSaveCats promotion, you can help the Khaiiti people rid their homeland of the Dragon menace while also supporting pets in need in real life! Do your part for this great cause and help raise up to $200,000 for Best Friends Animal Society and FOUR PAWS. Remember, there’s also five amazing in-game events to take part in and a massive Sweepstakes competition to enter, too. Phew!

Are you going to take part in ESO’s end-of-year fun? Let us know via @TESOnline, Instagram, or Facebook, and don’t forget to use the #SlayDragonsSaveCats hashtag!

Explore Elsweyr, slay Dragons, and complete the upcoming Dragonhold Prologue quest and you’ll unlock amazing new rewards for all Elsweyr players including collectibles, XP buffs, and more!


The Dragon Rise event kicks off on Thursday, October 3, at 10:00AM EDT and runs until Monday, October 14, at 10:00AM EDT. During the event, there are three exclusive rewards up for grabs:

• Green Dragon Imp pet
• Grim Harvester Costume
• Dragon’s Treasure Trove furnishing

A new pet, costume, and furnishing can be unlocked!

The final reward is more than an audacious display of wealth you can place in your home, however. It also features a series of lootable bags that provide all kinds of amazing items, including a new target dummy. However, that’s not all, as during Dragon Rise you can also unlock bonus XP and gold acquisition for the whole Northern Elsweyr zone!

To unlock these rewards, all Elsweyr players must work together to complete different activities and fill the three Dragon Rise meters:

• Explore Elsweyr and earn the Northern Elsweyr Pathfinder Achievement to unlock the primary rewards
  • Check your in-game Journal for help completing this Achievement
• Slay Dragons to unlock a zone-wide XP boost (Northern Elsweyr only)
  • Since the Elsweyr Chapter’s release, you’ve already bested over 1 million Dragons, so what’s a few more?
• Complete the Dragonhold Prologue quests (from October 8) to unlock a zone-wide gold acquisition boost (Northern Elsweyr only)

As you complete the different objectives, you can check everybody’s progress by visiting the Dragon Rise page. If you’ve already unlocked the Northern Elsweyr Pathfinder Achievement, don’t worry, it’ll still count, and you can continue to do your part by participating in the other two objectives.

In addition to unlocking a zone-wide XP boost, slaying Dragons also help increase the donation amount for the #SlayDragonsSaveCats campaign. Help pets in need while you help yourself to bonus XP—a win-win scenario!

Finally, as you defeat Northern Elsweyr’s Dragons and bosses, you have a chance to acquire a Nafaalilargus’s Strongbox as a bonus reward, including items such as crafting materials, style pages, gear sets, and more!


If you’ve yet to explore the home of the Khajiit, now is the perfect time to grab the Chapter with a 50% sale on all editions of The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr, including the Standard Edition, Standard Edition Digital Upgrade, Digital Collector’s Edition, and Digital Collector’s Edition Upgrade.

Elsweyr brings a massive new zone to explore, the deadly Necromancer Class to master, and continues the year-long Season of the Dragon adventure.

This sale is live now and lasts only until October 8 (October 16 if on PlayStation®4), so visit our Buy Now page to get started.


We are thrilled to announce that the Dragonhold Prologue quests will be live on Tuesday, October 8, at 10:00AM EDT. Because it’s part of the base game, you don’t need to have owned or completed any of the previous Chapter or DLCs to check them out.

In these two new quests, you must assist the returning Sai Sahan explore the lost histories of the Dragonguard in the hopes of acquiring an ancient relic to help turn the tides of battle against the Dragons that threaten all of Elsweyr.


Join forces with Sai Sahan to find an ancient relic

As you complete the prologue questline, you’ll earn rewards such as the Dragonhorn Curio memento and Dragonguard Banner furnishing, and as part of the Dragon Rise event, you’ll be one step closer to unlocking the gold buff for the Northern Elsweyr zone. By the way, you can get your very own Horn of Ja’Darri on the Bethesda Gear Store right now!


During the Dragon Rise event, all regular monsters in the Northern Elsweyr zone have a rare chance to drop Event Tickets when defeated. However, should you slay a boss monster in the same zone, an Event Ticket drop is guaranteed! Don’t forget to loot everything you defeat. You can earn two Event Tickets this way each day of the event.

During the event period, the Impresario will stock the following items:

The Season of the Dragon saga reaches its epic conclusion with Dragonhold, The Elder Scrolls Online’s latest DLC story zone. Learn about this new adventure and all the changes coming with Update 24 in this preview article!

The Dragonhold DLC game pack provides a new zone to explore, a new main questline to complete, new mechanics and challenges to experience, and more. Update 24 is a free game update that arrives alongside the DLC and includes the first wave of our announced performance improvements, Twitch Drops for consoles, and additional fixes and balance changes.


The ancient Khajiiti kingdom known as Pellitine lies in shambles. Devastated by a terrible plague and its purging fire decades ago, Southern Elsweyr devolved into a lawless region beset by slavers, pirates, and brigands. As refugees from the surrounding land slowly make their way to the zone’s capital of Senchal, the city’s few remaining defenders muster for their last stand against the chaos.

However, worse things threaten the people of Pellitine. The Dragons, free from the Halls of Colossus, have brought their rage south. Bolstered by a cult of worshipers known as the Order of the New Moon, they devastate the region and continue their secret schemes.


All manner of rogues thrive in the ruined kingdom

These challenges and more await those willing to venture into the scorched confines of Southern Elsweyr. Consisting of three unique biomes (including scorched-but-recovering wilds, old-growth forests, and tropical grasslands) and packed with new delves, world bosses, quests, and Dragon hunts, this new zone contains plenty to keep you engaged.

The odds are stacked against you, but rest assured, the benefits gained by exploring Southern Elsweyr make it all worth it. The Dragonhold DLC boasts more rewards than any previous DLC story zone, including new titles (such as the much-requested “Pirate” title), tons of new collectibles (including a mix of costumes, mementos, and outfit styles), item sets, and more. Pellitine might be in ruins, but untold riches await those who know where to look!


In the Dragonhold main questline, you work with fan-favorite character Sai Sahan (returning for this storyline) to gather a rag-tag group of pirates and adventurers and restore the ancient order known as the Dragonguard. Once thought lost to history, this ancient organization of Dragon hunters must return to aid the Khajiit of Elsweyr against the Dragon threat.


Face the Dragon threat with new and returning allies

The Redguard swordmaster is not your only companion in this endeavor, however. When you start the zone’s main story, a powerful and famous ally from Elder Scrolls lore joins you. No spoilers, sorry! Together, you and your new allies must seek out the secrets of the lost Dragonguard order and fight against the machinations of the mighty Dragon Laatvulon and his New Moon cultists.


Dragonhold also brings the year-long Season of the Dragon saga to its epic conclusion. Starting with the Wrathstone DLC and continuing with the Elsweyr Chapter and Scalebreaker DLC, the story that began at the start of the year reaches its climax in this final 2019 DLC.

In addition to its typical main-story quest content, Dragonhold features bonus quests that let you and your allies put an end to the machinations of the Dragon Kaalgrontiid (from the Elsweyr Chapter main story). You delayed the terrible Dragon’s plans in Elsweyr. Now, in Southern Elsweyr, his schemes must be stopped for good before he can gain the power of the gods!


Kaalgrontiid returns in fury

To unlock the Season of the Dragon finale quests, you must complete both the Elsweyr and Dragonhold main story questlines. You don’t have to complete the stories from this year’s two Dungeon DLCs, but you should if you want to see the whole picture!


In addition to the new DLC game pack, we are also launching a massive base-game patch, free to all players, that features the first wave of the previously announced performance improvements. This first batch of changes includes a memory management overhaul, the first phase of combat ability performance improvements, and a complete redesign of the Looking for Group system.

These changes will reduce the amount of crashes/dashboarding, improve combat responsiveness, and improve the reliability and speed of the Group Finder. We know that the ESO community has long requested a performance update, so we are thrilled to launch the first part of what will be a massive, year-long series of improvements with Update 24!


Update 24 also features the introduction of Twitch Drops for console players, allowing you to earn Twitch Drops for your Xbox One or PlayStation®4 account simply by watching Drop-enabled ESO streams! Note that while this addition is scheduled for Q4 2019, it might not be immediately available upon U24 console launch, so stay tuned for announcements in the future!

Soon, PlayStation®4 and Xbox One players will be able to receive Twitch Drops!


With Dragonhold and Update 24, your incredible year-long adventure reaches its exciting conclusion with an incredible new zone, story, and a host of improvements that’ll keep ESO going strong for years to come! It’s time to travel to the scorched lands of Southern Elsweyr, reforge the ancient order of Dragon hunters, and bring hope back to the people of Pellitine. Keep an eye on elderscrollsonline.com and our social channels for more information on the DLC and your chance to check it all out early when it comes to the Public Test Server on Monday, September 16!

Are you excited to explore the new zone and finally put an end to Kaalgrontiid’s schemes? Let us know on Twitter @TESOnline, Instagram, and Facebook!

Bringing the year-long Season of the Dragon adventure to its stunning conclusion, the Dragonhold DLC game pack is coming soon to PC/Mac, PlayStation®4, and Xbox One. It will be available in the in-game Crown Store or free as part of an ESO Plus™ membership. Included with the new DLC will be Update 24, a free base-game update for all ESO players.

Tune in this Friday, September 13 at 4PM EDT as Zone Lead Jason Barnes and Lead Writer Bill Slavicsek join us to preview Dragonhold, the new zone and story DLC coming in Q4.

During the show, the team will discuss the DLCs new zone, story, and how it ties in with the year-long Season of the Dragon adventure. If you’re excited to take a closer look at the scorched land of Southern Elsweyr, new Dragons, and Khajiiti pirates (!), this is the show for you!

The team will also answer your Dragonhold-themed questions throughout and we’ll have Twitch Drops enabled, so don’t forget to link your PC/Mac accounts. To catch all this, tune in a little earlier than usual at 4:00PM EDT this Friday, September 13, on Twitch, YouTube, Mixer, and Steam.

Take the fight to the heart of the Empire during the Imperial City Celebration Event and you can acquire the DLC game pack free from the in-game Crown Store while earning bonus rewards!


The Imperial Celebration Event begins on Thursday, September 5, at 10:00AM EDT and runs until Monday, September 16, at 10:00AM EDT.

To take part in the “liberation” of the Imperial City, you must first own the Imperial City DLC game pack or have access to it via ESO Plus™ membership. Lucky for you, beginning in tandem with the event, this DLC game pack will be completely free! That’s right, from now on (and for the foreseeable future), you can acquire the Imperial City DLC game pack for zero crowns from the DLC section of the Crown Store. This includes access to the Imperial City zone and story, including the sewers, city districts, and both the White-Gold Tower and Imperial City Prison dungeons.

In addition to this, we’re also putting the Imperial City Collector’s Bundle on sale in the in-game Crown Store for 3,000 crowns.


The Imperial City Collector’s Bundle

The Imperial City Collector’s Bundle includes the Mind-Shriven Horse mount, the Mind-Shriven skin, the Daedrat pet, and five Crown Experience Scrolls in addition to the DLC game pack itself.

To enter the city, open your Alliance War menu, select the Imperial City category, choose either a Champion Point or non-Champion Point server, and select “Enter Campaign.”


As you explore, quest, and battle throughout the Imperial City, you’ll earn bonus rewards for many of the DLC’s activities, including:

• Double the amount of Tel Var Stones dropped from all monsters
• Double the chance of picking up either the Stonefire Scamp pet or the Soul-Shriven skin
• Double the amount of Key Fragments
• Double the amount of materials dropped by Trove Scamps
• Double Tel Var Stones from sacks obtained from Cunning Scamps
• Double the amount of drops from bosses (including within the Imperial City itself and its dungeons)

Free the capital from the Daedric influence and earn bonus rewards

You can earn these rewards by participating in all aspects of the Imperial City DLC, including the sewers, city districts, and dungeons.


During the Imperial City Celebration Event, you can earn new Event Tickets by completing the following activities:

• Defeating the final boss of either the Imperial City Prison dungeon or White-Gold Tower dungeon

OR

• Slaying a patrolling monster in the Imperial City streets or mini-boss within the Imperial City sewers.

When completing one of the above activities, you’ll earn two Event Tickets per day. The Imperial City Celebration Event is your first opportunity to acquire the Onyx Berries of Growth for 10 Event Tickets from the Impresario vendor. When you combine this berry with the other three from the other Q3 events (one still to be announced!), you can evolve your Nascent Indrik mount into the Onyx Indrik.


The majestic Onyx Indrik mount

In addition to Indrik berries and feathers, the Impresario will also trade the following items for Event Tickets:

• A selection of Imperial- and Daedric-themed Furnishings
• The Stonefire Scamp pet
• The Soul-Shriven skin

Besieged by monstrous Daedra and under constant assault from the three Alliances, now is the time to storm the Imperial City and make your claim to the Ruby Throne. Don’t forget, once the event begins on Thursday, September 5, the Imperial City DLC will be free in the in-game Crown Store! Are you planning to invade the capital during the upcoming Celebration Event? Let us know on @TESOnline, Instagram, or Facebook!