The Elder Scrolls Online: High Rock explores 'The Legacy of the Bretons'

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Following a tease about a journey to a "never-before-seen world" in 2022, Zenimax Online Studios has revealed the next expansion coming to The Elder Scrolls Online: High Isle will take players to the previously unexplored Systres Archipelago, a playground for society's elite and the location of diplomatic talks aimed at ending the Three Banners War.

High Isle will be part of The Elder Scrolls Online's next year-long adventure, The Legacy of the Bretons, which will dive deep into the descendants of the Nedic and the Aldmeri who make their home on High Rock. The Systres is located some distant from High Rock, though: According to the map included with The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard—the only place the archipelago has ever been referenced in Elder Scrolls canon—it lies in the Abecean Sea, roughly equidistant from Hammerfell to the northeast and Summerset Isle to the southeast.

«The Bretons are the one race that has never really had an opportunity to shine in the sun,» Elder Scrolls Online creative director Rich Lambert told me in a recent chat. «They've never had a spotlight in any Elder Scrolls game. Even when we did bits and pieces of them in both Glenumbra and Stormhaven, we never really focused on their culture. So that was something we wanted to rectify.»

The Bretons may not be the most exotic race in Tamriel—Lambert described the High Isle setting as «traditional medieval fantasy»—but they're a good fit for the upcoming adventure, which will have a very different flavor than much of the previous content.

«This year, with the stories we're telling and the visuals that we're showing, it's going to be a nice change of pace,» Lambert said. «We've done a lot of 'cosmic threat'-type stories where Daedric princes are