History VideoGame / TheElderScrollsOnline

* ''Firesong'': The final installment in the Legacy of the Bretons storyline, taking place in the remaining Systres isles of Galen and Y'ffelon. Centuries of peace between the Systres' Druidic Circles is threatened when the reclusive Firesong Circle Druids suddenly make a power play.

** Gates of Oblivion Epilogue: [[spoiler:Mehrunes Dagon's final plot is foiled and the remaining Ambitions are forever beyond his reach, but in order to accomplish this, you had to kill your old friend and ally Sombren, who had been driven mad by the power of the Mysterium Xarxes.]]

* BalefulPolymorph:
** [[spoiler:Prince Naemon from the Aldmeri Dominion turns into a monster when he tries to usurp Queen Ayrenn for the throne.]]
** In a quest in Sentinel, a Khajiit sells potions that turn people into animals, much to the surprise of those who drink it. One man gets turned into a rat. Another, who'd asked for a potion that could make him nimbler and faster, gets transformed into a monkey. One woman orders one to trick her husband into transforming into a dog.

* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:Lyris and Sai finally get together during a sidequest in the Markarth DLC. Later dialogue heavily implies they are [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex making the most]] of their free time before some other crisis kicks off.]]

** Your character level is capped at 50, and you'll start gaining Champion ranks beyond that point (Veteran Ranks prior to the ''Dark Brotherhood'' update). Champion levels are respectively soft-capped at 810 at the time of writing, where you ''can'' surmount it, but it won't do you any good since you can't get any more points to spend. Accordingly, your gear stops scaling at CP 160, so that's the safe point where you can start worrying about getting the best endgame sets as they can't get any better stats-wise.

** Some currency types have rather low upper limits to how many of them you can carry with you at any given time. Event tickets are limited to 12 units, tops, and you can only have a maximum of 100 Transmutation Crystals on you at any given time, increased to 200 with an active [=ESO+=] subscription. The other currency types don't seem to have a hard cap, especially gold, but considering how ''Online'' still uses a 32-bit memory system, one can make an educated guess that it maxes out at a staggering ''2,147,483,647g''.

* AbsurdlyHighLevelCap: Aside from the standard 50 levels per character, the Champion Points system cranks this UpToEleven with at least ''3600'' more. That being said, CP levels are shared across all of your characters, so in practical terms, only your ''first'' Vestige has to surmount this Absurdly High Level Cap, the others do not have to.

** Taken UpToEleven in the trial Sunspire in Northern Elsweyr, where there is a BreatherLevel of sorts between the side-bosses, and the trial chests are hidden behind walls, by cliffs and such.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Taken UpToEleven, since this takes place in nearly every province in Tamriel:

* UpToEleven: Khajiit often refer to someone/something good as "five-claw(ed)". The bard song about Khunzar-ri insists that he was not just a five-claw, but a ''ten''.

** He is not safe even from the downloadable content. In ''Orsinium'', he is frozen by an artifact, in ''Morrowind'' he is encased by a spider web after reading a Daedric scroll, ''Murkmire'' has him transform into an egg after performing an Argonian mating ritual, and ''Blackwood'' has him captured by a necromancer and being duplicated into dumber version of him. Poor guy cannot seem to catch a break.

** Legacy of the Bretons is the upcoming story for 2022, consisting of Ascending Tide, High Isle, and two other [=DLCs=].

* ''Firesong'': The final installment in the Legacy of the Bretons storyline, taking place in the remaining Systres isles of Galen and Y'ffelon.

** ''Firesong'': The final installment in the Legacy of the Bretons storyline, taking place in the remaining Systres isles of Galen and Y'ffelon.

* ''Waking Flame'': The third installment of the Gates of Oblivion questline, released on August 2021, with two new dungeons being introduced to the game, an expansion of the Cyrodiil PvP Campaign system, as well as some considerable meta changes.

* ''High Isle'': The sixth chapter in the game and the second installment of the Legacy of the Bretons storyline. Taking place in the never before seen Systres archipelago, talks of peace between the Three Alliances is threatened by political intrigue. This chapter contains an in game card game called Tales of Tribute and new companions.

* ''Waking Flame'': The third installment of the Gates of Oblivion questline, released on August 23 2021, with two new dungeons being introduced to the game, an expansion of the Cyrodiil PvP Campaign system, as well as some considerable meta changes.

* ''Ascending Tide'': A dungeon pack and the first installment of the Legacy of the Bretons storyline. Scheduled for a Q1 2022 release.

* NiceHat: The Appearance collectibles has a category only for hats. Some DLC-dungeons reward you with a hat by entering the first time, or complete it on normal or veteran.

* AnimatedArmor: ''High Isle'' introduces Soulrazer Knights, giant, burning suits of armor possessed by vengeful spirits.

** On veteran mode, if a player dies during any boss fight in Cloudrest, they will be afflicted with a debuff called "Shadow of the Fallen". What this does is that it creates a shadow clone of the deceased player, which will then teleport randomly around the arena to harrass their teammates. While your shadow is alive, teammates trying to revive you will take extremely high damage, enough to kill a ~40k HP tank in less than five seconds.
** Then there's the uncommon but significantly dangerous heal absorption mechanic. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It does exactly what the name suggests]], in that a set value of healing done to your character will be negated, and passive health regeneration will not work while it's still up. The only way to strip heal absorption is to be healed through it, which makes it not very critical on its own, but will leave you vulnerable to being killed by the actually dangerous attacks that will follow it instead, since it tends to target the tank(s) of the group whenever it appears.

* DaywalkingVampire: Vampires of the Second Era are different from their later counterparts by the lack of a vulnerability to sunlight, allowing them to walk about during daytime with no ill effects. Their transfigured victims, commonly known as Bloodfiends and Harrowfiends, are also likewise vampiric and share their resistance to sunlight.

* DaywalkingVampire: Vampires of the Second Era are different from their later counterparts by the lack of a vulnerability to sunlight, allowing them to walk about during daytime with no ill effects. Their transfigured victims, commonly known as Harrowfiends, are also likewise vampiric and share their resistance to sunlight.

* ''High Isle'': The sixth chapter in the game and the second installment of the Legacy of the Bretons storyline. Taking place in the never before seen High Isle archipelago, talks of peace between the Three Alliances is threatened by political intrigue. This chapter contains an in game card game called Tales of Tribute and new companions.

* PlugTheVolcano: In ''High Isle'' expansion, Volcanic Vents are the zone's new world event. When the vent's boss is defeated, a druid closes the main vent by plugging it with a boulder. They claim that they're sealing it for good, so it's not clear whether the event respawning is just a game mechanic or a sign that plugging it failed.

** The initial ending for ''Markath'', before the "epilogue" that unlocks when you clear both it and ''Greymoor's'' main quests. [[spoiler:Lady Belain is defeated and Rada al-Saran's plan to use the Dark Heart is foiled, saving the Reach, but Arana is mortally wounded in the final battle and dies shortly after Belain's defeat, and hundreds of Markarth's people were killed by the Dark Heart before it was shut down.]]

* NonIndicativeName: Despite their names, none of the three main alliances are headquartered in their namesake areas. The Daggerfall Covenant's capital city is not Daggerfall itself, but rather Wayrest, which is in Shornhelm. Similarly, the leading forces of the Ebonheart Pact are the Nords, who are based out of Windhelm, and their capital is Mournhold, not Ebonheart. Less egregiously, the Aldmeri Dominion really ''is'' chiefly commanded by Queen Ayrenn's Altmeri forces, but their base of operations is in Grahtwood, which is Bosmeri land. That being said, based on where Vanus Galerion appears to Pact players during the main quest, it's possible that Ebonheart was at one point ''considered'' to be the faction capital, as he wouldn't show up in Mournhold like he would in Wayrest and Elden Root for the other two alliances.

* {{Fanservice}}: For Valentine's Day 2020, Zenimax released a [[https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/smolderscrolls mini dating sim]] in which the player can have a sexy encounter with fan favorite characters Razum-dar, Naryu Virian or Darien Gautier.