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Get Into the Holiday Spirit by Watching Vanquish Perform An ESO Christmas Carol


Join us for a special livestream as Vanquish perform their annual ESO-inspired interpretation of the holiday classic!

We cordially invite you to join us on Twitch.tv/Bethesda this December 20 at 9PM EST to watch the guild Vanquish perform their latest take on Charles Dickens’s acclaimed holiday tale, A Christmas Carol. You can enjoy their production of this classic yuletide story as hosted by us on the official Bethesda Twitch channel and performed in a customized in-game home in the style of a traditional amphitheater. Additionally, there will be Twitch Drops enabled throughout the livestream, so be sure to link your ESO and Twitch accounts here before tuning in!

This annual performance has become a tradition for Vanquish, as this year will mark the fourth anniversary of the social guild’s wintertime stage play. Want to know more? Check out everything Vanquish does for its members and the #ESOFam on their official guild site. You can even watch previous performances of “An ESO Christmas Carolhere.

If you’re ready to rediscover the magic of the holiday season ESO style, this special show begins on Twitch.tv/Bethesda this December 20 at 9PM EST. We hope to see you there!

Give to Receive During the New Life Festival & Get Free Crown Crates


You can receive four free Crown Crates when you gift Event Tickets during the New Life Festival in-game event.

Get into the spirit this holiday season by gifting your fellow players five Event Tickets from now until January 3, 2023 at 10AM EST, and you’ll receive four Stonelore Crown Crates free from us! To acquire these druid-blessed containers after the event, follow these simple steps:
  • From the Crown Store, gift five or more Event Tickets to anybody in-game during the New Life Festival event.
    • You can find Event Tickets within the Events section.
    • You can split the gifts between multiple recipients, meaning all five tickets don’t necessarily have to go to the same player.
  •  Once the New Life Festival event has concluded, we’ll grant you four Stonelore Crown Crates.
    • The Crown Crate delivery will occur by January 31, 2023.
    • Within these crates, you will find an assortment of Y’ffre-touched items and collectibles.

Some of the items you can acquire from Stonelore Crown Crates

With Event Tickets, you can get your hands on all kinds of event-specific rewards from the Impresario merchant. You can check out the complete list of items she will have in stock during the New Life Festival in our announcement blog. With a host of returning and new event items now available from the Impresario and the promise of free Crown Crates as additional rewards, there’s no better way to kick off the holiday season than by gifting your fellow players Event Tickets.

Let us know whether you’ll be surprising your friends and guildmates with the gift that gives back via TwitterInstagram, and Facebook. Don’t forget, this offer is available only during the New Life Festival and ends January 3, 2023—happy gifting!

ESO Live: December 16 @ 2PM EST—Holiday Cooking Special


Tune in to ESO Live this Friday as Community Managers Gina Bruno and Jess Folsom prepare holiday treats from the Elder Scrolls Official Cookbook!

Join us at Twitch.tv/Bethesda this Friday, December 16 at 2PM EST, as Lead Community Manager Jessica Folsom and Senior Community Manager Gina Bruno take the show to their kitchens for the annual holiday cooking livestream. From the comfort of their own homes, they’ll bake tasty treats from the Elder Scrolls Official Cookbook that are sure to get your tastebuds tingling—all while chatting about another great year in Tamriel.

Twitch Drops will be enabled throughout the show (link your ESO and Twitch accounts here), so if you’re looking for inspiration for your own holiday treats, join us on Twitch.tv/Bethesda this Friday, December 16 at 2PM EST.

ESO Live is your official Elder Scrolls Online stream, hosted on Twitch.tv/Bethesda by ESO’s Lead Community Manager Jess Folsom and Senior Community Manager Gina Bruno.

Celebrate a Big 2022 with these End-of-Year Official ESO Livestreams


Tune in as ESO Community Managers from across the world make merry and usher in the new year through a variety of light-hearted livestreams!

After a year of foiling sinister plots, restoring peace to the Systres Archipelago, and playing a few hands of Tales of Tribute along the way, it’s time we bring 2022 to a close. Before we do, we’d like to cordially invite you to join us in a series of fun official livestreams, hosted by our awesome Community Managers (and special guests) from all over the globe.

Check out the list of worldwide livestreams below for dates and times:

DE—Bethesda MainStream—Cooking for Tavern & Tales

Senior Community Manager Kai Schober and Senior Communications Manager Franziska Lehnert host a comfy evening with warm tales, tasty cookies, and ESO gameplay!


EN-Nordics—ESO with Female Legends and Bethesda Nordic

Community Manager Anna Erlandsson and Senior Community Manager Ella Wnuk join forces with the organization Female Legends to bring you this entertaining, women-led livestream!


EN-US—ESO Live Annual Cooking Special

Lead Community Manager Jess Folsom and Senior Community Manager Gina Bruno open their kitchens to the #ESOFam to cook up some tasty holiday treats directly from the pages of The Elder Scrolls: The Official Cookbook.



FR—We End the Year in ESO with Desastre and Artesio!

Community Managers Clara Terrats and Geoffrey Chapron are joined by ESO Stream Team Partners Desastre and Artesio for some New Life Festival fun as well as a few matches of Tales of Tribute!


EN-US—An ESO Christmas Carol & Trial of the Ages

Vanquish Guild performs “An ESO Christmas Carol and Trial of the Ages” on the official Bethesda Twitch channel! Tune in to check out this two-hour production that will take you back to the Victorian Age with a twist of ESO.



Are you planning to tune into any of the above official livestreams? How are you celebrating the end of another amazing year in Tamriel? Share your plans with us via TwitterInstagram, and Facebook!