HISTORICAL RECORD
The TESO chapters so far: play them in any order you want
THE ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE
With stakes like a vacant throne and realm melding, the base story, which pitted you against Daedric Prince Molag Bal on a quest to recover your soul, ticked some key Elder Scrolls boxes. Story updates included the orc-focused Orsinium, and The Dark Brotherhood, which added the famous guild.
MORROWIND
Returning to the setting of The
Elder Scrolls III, players set out for the volcanic island of Vvardenfell, inhospitable home of the dark elves. In this first full new chapter of the game, they had to stop moonlet Baar Dau from crashing into the city. Updates expanded on Skyrim too, with new dungeons and a storyline centred on the Forsworn.
SUMMERSET
Put your jugs of cider and Wurzels CD down, these are Summerset Isles, not Somerset. The Altmer high elves are quite a bit different to our editor, though perhaps just as tricksy in their own ways. In an adventure spread across both Summerset and Artaeum, you had to investigate a shadowy plot that lay beneath the otherwise bright and sunny land.
ELSWEYR
The titular zone, with its deserts and jungles, appeared here for the first time since the very first Elder Scrolls, and added (a lot of) dragons as they made their return to the continent. As it’s home to the khajiit, the cat-like race got some welcome fleshing out, plus a necromancer class added a compelling new way to play with the dark arts.
GREYMOOR
What’s worse than vampires, werewolves, and witches individually? When they all team up, of course. Greymoor had you butting heads with the Vampire Lord as they laid supernatural siege to the region. Set across both the snowy land of Greymoor itself (part of Skyrim) and the Blackreach caverns below, there was plenty to get stuck into.
BLACKWOOD
An expansion couldn’t revisit the setting of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion without having you tackle Mehrunes Dagon, everyone’s favourite Daedric Prince who wants to claim Tamriel as his own. This is where PS5 support was added, which Rich Lambert says has been great for development. “It’s amazing, right? Like, just the platform in and of itself, and just how beastly that machine is.”