The Elder Scrolls Online heads to High Isle – a never-before-seen region

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The Elder Scrolls Online’s next year-long chapter has been unveiled. Zenimax Online Studios has lifted the lid on High Isle during the MMORPG’s big 2022 reveal livestream, and the coming year will take us to a place that’s never yet been explored in the Elder Scrolls series. This year’s adventure is called Legacy of the Bretons, which means a leap into the High Rock descendants’ lore and culture – as well as a return to the series’ storytelling “roots”.

Following the pattern of recent years, 2022’s year-long adventure will be chunked into four major updates, starting with the Ascending Tide DLC on March 14, which adds two new dungeons and sets the scene for the year ahead. On June 6 (June 21 for consoles), the major High Isle chapter will arrive, with a dungeon and then a story DLC coming as parts three and four after that. Unlike the game’s more recent chapters, however, High Isle will hinge less on demonic invasions and more on “political intrigue and subterfuge”, as Bethesda comms chief Pete Hines and Zenimax creative director Rich Lambert explain in the stream.

“This is going to feel like a classic Elder Scrolls game,” Lambert says. “The Bretons are this traditional, medieval, feudal society with knights, noble houses, and of course all the politics that surround that.” So, think Athurian knights, dastardly knaves, and everything in between. The adventure takes place in the midst of the Three Banners War, which is fracturing the region of High Isle – and players will need to act to bring about peace, and an end to the conflict.

Speaking of High Isle, this is a place most fans won’t even have heard of, and that none have yet seen in an Elder Scrolls game. It’s one of four islands found in The Systres archipelago,