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Get a closer look at 2025’s new zone and storyline, plus discover the Worm Cult’s return to their vile schemes in this preview!

ESO’s next big adventure is here as part of the new 2025 Content Pass, and it returns to the root of it all for a storyline 10 years in the making! The villainous Worm Cult from the game’s original main story questline is back, and it’s eager to resume their plans of domination.

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You can experience your first taste of the Worm Cult’s revenge in-game right now with the free prologue quest. Prepare for the challenges ahead and face off against the cult’s new weapons, the Soul Reapers, in a story that leads directly into Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1.
[h2]Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1[/h2]
Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1 launches on June 2 for PC/Mac and June 18 for Xbox and PlayStation consoles and is included as part of the 2025 Content Pass. In this new storyline and zone, you must uncover and investigate the Worm Cult’s new base of operations on the tropical island of Solstice.

The city of Sunport in Solstice

In Part 1, as you explore Western Solstice, you will quickly discover that the Worm Cult is far from defenseless. They’ve erected a massive arcane barrier using soul magic—the Writhing Wall—that divides the island, and for now, Eastern Solstice (and its secrets) is sealed off by this arcane edifice.

The Worm Cult has gathered great strength

Despite being a zone divided, you will find that Western Solstice is full of challenges and rewards, including new World Bosses, Delves, a Public Dungeon, and a brand-new Trial, the Ossein Cage. There are 16 Antiquities (including three new Mythic items), four new Trial item sets (including Perfected versions), and a host of other rewards, including even more item sets, and a ton of Collectibles, from crafting motifs to pets. You’ll also receive a 10% experience boost from adventuring in Solstice all year!

Seasons of the Worm Cult Parts 1 and 2 Rewards

[h2]Writhing Wall Event[/h2]
As exciting as all that is, Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1 is only the beginning, with more unlocking over 2025 as part of the same purchase. In Q3/Q4 (exact timing TBD), you can band together with other players across Tamriel to bring down the Writhing Wall in a world-changing one-time event.

Bring down the Writhing Wall

Using the advantages gained in your Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1 adventures, the forces opposing the Worm Cult have a plan to pierce the barrier and prepare for a true assault on the Worm Cult’s base in Eastern Solstice.

They’ll need help to do it though—help from all across Tamriel. Join with other players for activities in Solstice and beyond to complete the event and unbar the way forward. You can even help the war effort with just base game access, as people all across Tamriel can gather resources to help fuel the assault.

[h2]Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 2[/h2]
Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 2 arrives in Q4 and gives you the opportunity to finally uncover just what these villains have been hiding behind the arcane barrier. Be warned, Eastern Solstice is far less welcoming than the previous territory, thanks to the Worm Cult’s malign influence.

What lurks in Eastern Solstice?

Solstice’s second half introduces yet more challenges and rewards, with additional World Bosses, Delves, another Public Dungeon, and new rewards both exclusive to the new content and shared across the unified Solstice zone. You can expect three new overland item sets (giving Solstice six in total once Part 2 unlocks), three more Mythic items, and many more items and collectibles to earn.

[h2]Dungeon Packs[/h2]
The year’s new content isn’t limited to Solstice, as the 2025 Content Pass also includes access to a host of four-player dungeons in 2025. Two of them—Exiled Redoubt and Lep Seclusa—are already available as part of the Fallen Banners dungeon pack.

Tamriel is beset with strife on all sides

In Q3, you’ll also face new threats in the Feast of Shadows dungeon pack, which contains the dungeons Black Gem Foundry and Naj Caldeesh. Assault a Daedric forge supplying the Worm Cult from Coldharbour and fight to stop their corruption of an ancient Xanmeer as you battle through these new four-player challenges, each with their own unique rewards!

[h2]Seasons of Adventure & Danger [/h2]
With four major releases, including both Western and Eastern Solstice, four dungeons, and a special one-time event, there's a full year of adventures, challenges, and changes coming your way with the 2025 Content Pass. How do you plan to make your stand against the Worm Cult’s return? Are you excited to begin your journey into Solstice? Let us know via Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook. 

Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1 is included within the 2025 Content Pass and 2025 Premium Edition and arrives on June 2, 2025, for PC/Mac and June 18, 2025, for Xbox and PlayStation consoles.

The Elder Scrolls Online is celebrating its 10th anniversary soon—and there are some big changes coming up in the pipeline. The biggest shake-up to this MMO, which has pretty admirably stood the test of time alongside its competition, is the introduction of subclassing—as announced in the latest ESO direct...
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I was invited to a preview of The Elder Scrolls Online's 10th anniversary Direct showcase earlier this week—and it looks like it's pulling out all the stops. TESO has spent the last 10 years hopping from setting to setting, taking players on a world tour of Tamriel—to Morrowind, Elsweyr, Blackwood, Telvanni—you name it, players have probably gone there...
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Savor a slice and claim exclusive rewards while celebrating ESO’s birthday during the Anniversary Jubilee in-game event!

[h2]ESO Turns Eleven![/h2]
Celebrate another year of adventures in Tamriel during the 2025 Anniversary Jubilee in-game event from April 3 at 10AM EDT and until April 22 at 10AM EDT. Throughout the jubilee period, you can earn various bonus rewards while enjoying a passive 100% XP buff. Veteran players might recall that this buff was once obtained by eating slices of anniversary cake, and while the cake is no longer necessary to obtain the bonus XP, that doesn’t mean you shouldn't secure a slice of this sweet treat!

To earn this year’s anniversary treat, complete the quest “For Cake’s Sake,” which you can acquire by either speaking with the young Khajiit chef, Apprentice Mogh, near the docks of Vulkhel Guard, Davon’s Watch, and Daggerfall, or by picking it up for free in the Quest Starters section of the in-game Crown Store.

Help Mogh and share a slice!

After securing the 2025 Jubilee Cake memento, you can use the item once per day to earn three Event Tickets each day of the event. Eat a slice of cake every day, and you’ll collect up to a whopping 60 Event Tickets by the festival’s conclusion!

[h2]Collect Celebratory Prizes[/h2]
XP gains, event tickets, and cake aren’t the only things to look forward to, since during the event, you can also earn exclusive Anniversary Jubilee Gift Boxes, offering multitudes of exciting rewards you won’t want to miss out on. Even better, the first Gift Box you collect each day will be a Glorious Anniversary Jubilee Gift Box containing even more incredible rewards!

You can obtain Gift Boxes from any of the following sources (bear in mind that only the first Gift Box earned each day will be a Glorious box, no matter where you get it):

• Any daily quest in the game, as in previous years, including:
  • Daily crafting writs
  • Daily Delve, World Boss, and Incursion event quests
  • Daily Alliance War and Battlegrounds quests
  • Daily Dungeon and Trial quests
  • Daily Heist and Sacrament quests
• Killing and looting any final Dungeon boss
• Killing and looting any final Trial boss
• Killing and looting any World boss
• Killing and looting any final Arena boss
• Killing and looting Tho'at Replicanum in Infinite Archive
• Completing any Incursion event, such as a Dark Anchor, Abyssal Geyser, Bastion Nymic, or similar
• Rewards for the Worthy reward mails (the box will appear inside the parcel received)
  • Note that you must open the Rewards for the Worthy mail reward container before the end of the event if you wish to obtain an Anniversary Jubilee Gift Box inside it.
• A chance from Tales of Tribute reward mails, with a higher chance to receive one based on the challenge of the opponent or the number of opponents face during a daily (the box will appear inside the parcel received)
  • Note that you must open the Tales of Tribute mail reward container before the end of the event if you wish to obtain an Anniversary Jubilee Gift Box inside it.

Interested in the goodies you can find within these boxes? Check them out below.

Glorious Anniversary Jubilee Gift Box rewards

• Crafting materials
• A motif chapter, furnishing recipe, or style item
• NEW: A tradeable outfit style page for the Worm Cult Hunter armor style
• A fragment for the Jubilee Steed mount (please note that you need 25 total fragments to make the steed)
• 1 to 10 Transmute Crystals
• Desecrated Grave Soil, the Worm Cult motif style item

Regular Anniversary Jubilee Gift Boxes rewards

• Crafting materials
• A small chance for a motif chapter, furnishing recipe, or style item
• A chance for 1 to 10 Transmute Crystals
• A chance for Desecrated Grave Soil, the Worm Cult motif style item
• Another small chance for a tradeable style page from any of the Bonemold, Earthbone Ayleid, or Worm Cult outfit styles

Hunt down Mannimarco’s Minions

In conjunction with these Gift Boxes, you can also receive some special cosmetic rewards you might recognize from last year’s Anniversary Jubilee, but this time you have an even higher chance of acquiring them:

• Fishing nodes have a small chance of dropping outfit style pages for the Trueflame Sword Replica.
  • Your chances of obtaining this drop are higher if you have the Dominion, Covenant, or Pact Fisherman achievement, and even higher still if you have all base-game Master Angler achievements.
• Dolmen reward chests have a small chance to contain a style page for the Staff of Worms Replica
  • Your chances of obtaining this drop are higher if you have the Dominion, Covenant, or Pact Anchor Shatterer achievement and even higher still if you have the Anchors Away achievement.
• World Bosses in Vvardenfell have a small chance to drop a style page for either the Sunna’rah Replica or the Barbas Helmet Replica.
  • Your chances of obtaining this drop are higher if you have the Defender of Morrowind achievement and are even higher still if you have the Savior of Morrowind achievement.
• Abyssal Geyser trove clams in Summerset have a small chance to drop a style page for the Ul’vor Staff.
  • Your chances of obtaining this drop are higher if you have the Abyssal Devastator achievement and even higher still if you have the Savior of Summerset achievement.

[h2]Event Tickets & The Impresario [/h2]
Earned too many Event Tickets and nearing the cap? Head over to your local Impresario bazaar! In preparation for ESO’s big day, the Impresario has refreshed her store’s stock with a host of rewards. Don’t forget you can only ever hold up to 12 tickets at a time, so be sure to spend them before you go over the cap or you’ll lose them.

Here's what the Impresario will stock during the jubilee:

• All three Stonewisp of Truth and Law pet fragments
  • Axiomatic Runestones
  • Glyph of Law
  • Powdered Wisp Remains
• The first two fragments for the Robes of Truth and Law costume
  • Golden Fabric
  • Sapphire Fabric
• Bound style pages for the Worm Cult Hunter armor style
• Anniversary Cake furnishings
  • Note that these require you to own the respective year’s cake memento to buy
• Anniversary Cake Slice furnishings
  • Unlike the full cakes, you do not need to own the respective year’s cake memento to buy these
  • Collect seven Anniversary Cake Slice furnishings from 2016 – 2024 to claim the Cake Devourer Achievement!
• Bags of Jubilee Yesteryear, containing the following and providing only items you do not currently own:
  • Bound Worm Cult motif chapters
  • Jephrine Paladin armor style pages
  • Imperial Champion armor style pages
  • Prophet armor style pages
  • Lyris armor style pages
  • Sai Sahan armor style pages
  • Abnur Tharn armor style pages
  • Bound Earthbone Ayleid armor style pages
  • Bound Bonemold armor style pages
  • Aurora Firepot Spider parts (excluding the instructions, which are available from the Impresario’s assistant, Philius Dormier)
  • Desecrated Grave Soil, the Worm Cult motif style item (note that this is a chance in addition to whatever else the bag contains)
• Group Repair Kits
• Companion Guild Commendations

During the 2025 Anniversary Jubilee, you can pick up the first two fragments needed for the Robes of Truth and Law costume. Be sure to watch for updates on when you can acquire the remaining fragments soon.

Uphold Justice with the Law and Truth costume

After you’ve finished checking out the Impresario’s shop, be sure to stop by her assistant, Philius Dormier’s store and take advantage of his unique offers:

• All three Unstable Morpholith pet fragments
• All three Deadlands Scorcher skin fragments
• All three Soulfire Dragon Illusion pet fragments
• All three Scales of Akatosh skin fragments
• Jubilee Steed mount fragments
• Bound pages for Replica Trueflame, Replica Barbas Helmet, Replica Sunna’rah, Replica Staff of Worms, and Replica Ul’Vor Staff outfit styles

Lastly, Nenuluare the Indrik Vendor will have the following items available to purchase with Event Tickets throughout the event:

• Nascent Indrik Feathers
• Luminous Indrik Berries
• Icebreath Indrik Berries
• Shimmering Indrik Pet
• Rimedusk Indrik Pet

[h2]Raise a Glass to Another Year of ESO![/h2]
Indulge in a delectable slice while enjoying a massive boost to XP gains and exclusive event rewards with the Anniversary Jubilee in-game event! How do you plan on celebrating ESO’s 11th birthday? Let us and the #ESOFam know via X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, Bluesky and Facebook. 

The Anniversary Jubilee in-game event starts at 10 AM EDT on April 3 and runs until 10 AM EDT on April 22.

The ESO Direct livestream, an anniversary event, and more highlight an exciting month for The Elder Scrolls Online. Here’s everything you need to know.

Don’t forget, some of the dates and details below may change after publication. Keep an eye out for updates and additional surprises on the official website and social channels in the coming weeks!

 

Jester’s Festival In-Game Event (Mar. 27-Apr. 3)

Tamriel’s silly season continues into April, meaning there’s still time for you to get your hands on the Alliance Mimicry outfit styles and Jester’s Deadly Headband adornment.


April 2025 Daily Login Rewards (Apr. 1-30)

Log in to ESO this April and you can claim a bevy of in-game reward items, including the Murkmire Harvest customized action on day 10!

Log in to claim this customized action

Anniversary Jubilee In-Game Event (Apr. 3-22)

ESO’s annual in-game celebration returns with a new cake, bonus rewards, and more! Share a slice and celebrate ESO’s 11th(!) birthday with us! 


Golden Pursuits—Anniversary Adventures! (Apr. 3-24)

There’s even more to celebrate this April with a new Golden Pursuits campaign. Complete activities to unlock the Breton Hero Statue, the 10-Year Anniversary Breton Hero costume, and a pile of gold!


2025 ESO Direct (Apr. 10)

Tune in to Twitch.TV/Bethesda on Thursday, April 10 at 3PM ET, to discover the future of ESO and the exciting adventures to come. Stick around for the post show after for even more!

Watch the show to acquire a new pet reward code

Kinda Funny x ESO Podcast (Apr. 11)

Our special limited-series podcast series with the Kinda Funny gang kicks off with the first of four episodes. Don’t miss this dive into ESO’s decade-long history. 


Domination Battlegrounds Weekend (Apr. 24-29)

Take to the Battlegrounds and engage in Domination matches to earn a 25% bonus to Alliance Points—easy!


Unfortunately, we can’t share everything coming to ESO this April just yet, but keep an eye out for more news and announcements in the coming weeks as things heat up for the adventures of Tamriel. Are you excited for the ESO Direct? Let us know via X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, Bluesky, and Facebook.