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The Elder Scrolls Online brings us back to Morrowind for the first time since 2017 with a new Shadow Over Morrowind adventure, consisting of March’s Scribes of Fate DLC and June’s Necrom Chapter.
The DLC consists of four new PvE dungeons in which we’ll fight the Scribes of Morata, followers of the Daedric prince we met in Skyrim – he was that giant floating black eyeball with sticky tentacles. The expansion releases March 13 for PC and March 28 for consoles.
This chapter is similar in scope to earlier ESO releases such as the original Morrowind expansion, the Summerset Isles, and Wrothgar. It takes us to Eastern Morrowind for a 30 hour adventure, adding two new companions, a new class (Arcanist) and Apocrypha.
The Arcanist is the seventh class in ESO and the first new class since the Necromancer of Elsweyr. Given that he is added to the Daedric Prince of Knowledge chapter, the Wizard’s abilities are properly based on Hermaeus More himself.
Hermaeus Mora is not often portrayed as evil or good, but rather as ambivalent. In his library there are cursed and destructive tomes that are no doubt harmful to mortals, as well as useful knowledge that can benefit the reader, such as the Black Books that we find in Skyrim and which give us new abilities and skills. Whether they will remain neutral in the new chapter of ESO remains to be seen, but we don’t have to wait long to find out.
