Trivia / The Elder Scrolls Online

• Diagnosis of God: Ja-Reet and the Drake of Blades have been confirmed to be autistic in an interview with the developers.
• Feelies: The physical collector's editions of the expansions (except Elsweyr, which did not have a physical edition, much to the disappointment of fans.) Each comes with a map printed in color, as well as:
  • Imperial Edition (base game): Statue of Molag Bal and "The Improved Emperor's Guide to Tamriel" book
  • Morrowind: Statue of Dwarven Colossus and "Naryu's Journal" book
  • Summserset: Statue of Mephala and "The Alinor Codex" book
  • Greymoor: Statue of a vampire lord, as well as four coins (larger versions of the coins that had been given out at conventions for each expansion)
• The Other Darrin: Wes Johnson didn't reprise his role as Sheogorath this time around, with the role being given to JB Blanc instead. Naturally, the playerbase wasn't too thrilled by this change. According to a Twitter post, Johnson wasn't contacted by ZeniMax for the role, but he gave them his blessing nonetheless.
• Pre-Order Bonus:
  • Players who preordered the game got the Explorer's Pack, which gives you the ability to have your character be in any alliance regardless of race, a Scuttler vanity pet, and treasure maps.
  • If you preorder a Chapter, you are often given treasure maps, a costume, a pet, a mount, and a Crown Crate of a new or upcoming season.
• Promoted Fanboy: Malukah was a fan of The Elder Scrolls whose cover of "The Dragonborn Comes" went viral. She was commissioned to compose and perform several songs in this game.
  • The French dub of the Greymoor expansion has Bob Lennon voicing Leiborn the Bard, with Lennon being famous in the francophone world for his Skyrim playthrough that's been going on since November 2011.
• Role Reprise: Despite being Darrin'd in his role as Sheogorath, Wes Johnson returned to lend his voice to Hermaeus Mora in Necrom, having previously played the Daedric Prince in the Dragonborn expansion of Skyrim.
• Tribute to Fido: One of the illustrators snuck his cat Kingsley into an alternate version of one of the key art illustrations for Elsweyr.
• What Could Have Been: A much more detailed list of cut contents can be found here.
  • It was alluded to in a pre-release developer comment that several subspecies of Khajiit will be made playable as the development cycle progresses. This idea seemed to have been shelved relatively early on as the only type of Khajiit playable in the game as of Blackwood is the Cathay.
  • The original idea behind the main questline was to track down the fragments of the Staff of Chaos and assemble it. Major plot areas include the Isle of Balfiera, which is still visible off the coasts of High Rock and Hammerfell, alongside the Lake Canulus Refuge, and the Vaults of Genim. Additionally, a Keep on Balfiera itself would have been available as a Battleground for Alliance War-related purposes. As of the release of Blackwood, the isle of Balfiera was retooled into a tutorial zone for new characters, whether the player owns the Chapter or not.
  • Alpha gameplay footage shows a traditional minimap and a more World of Warcraft inspired visual aesthetic.
  • During the beta, a Battlemage class was originally planned to be added to the playable roster as well, with a focus on Two-Handed weaponry and skills from several different schools of magic (Destruction, Alteration, and Mysticism). It, alongside an earlier iteration of the Warden class, was ultimately canned when the game went live, though several asset files, such as icons and resource strings, can still be found in the game data. Rather interestingly, the closest representation of what a Battlemage class would be nowadays would be a Stamina Sorceror geared towards Two-Handed weapons.
  • The Imperial City also underwent considerable changes between the development phase and release. Initially, only the Arboretum, Nobles, and Market districts could be captured, and players were required to shut down special dolmens in those sectors before they could be claimed, while the other three were considered no man's land. Said dolmens were to behave like the Oblivion gates in the eponymous fourth title, in that you'd need to physically enter them and disable them from the inside, only then will the district flags below activate. And as an additional note, the Market sector was to retain its name from Oblivion, but was renamed into the Memorial district for some unknown reason.
  • As mentioned on the main page, Murkmire was supposed to be an Adventure Zone much like how Craglorn was but due to removing the Veteran format as well as retiring the Adventure Zones due to unpopularity, it was reformatted into a DLC story zone.
• You Sound Familiar: For those who have played Skyrim, especially the Dawnguard expansion, Isobel Velois will sound an awful lot like Serana. Both are voiced by Laura Bailey, though their elemental polarities are inverted, with Isobel being a light-wielding Templar, while Serana is a vampire.

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