Earlier this week, ZeniMax Online Studios announced The Elder Scrolls: Online Elsweyr, the next big expansion for the popular Elder Scrolls MMORPG. Elsweyr will follow on from Morrowind and Summerset as ESO’s third ‘Chapter’ expansion, featuring a huge new region; the homeland of the feline Khajiit race. The expansion is also bringing dragons to The Elder Scrolls: Online for the first time, a new class, and much more.

The Major Upcoming Features of The Elder Scrolls: Online Elsweyr

“The Dragons have returned to Tamriel,” says ZeniMax, of the upcoming expansion; “Unleashed upon the world by the unwitting Abnur Tharn and the Imperial usurper queen Euraxia, the great Kaalgrontiid and his followers hunt from the skies and threaten to burn down the ancestral home of the Khajiit.”

The premise spans more than just the Elsweyr expansion; ZeniMax has announced that the “Season of the Dragon,” will be a year-long event featuring Elsweyr and three standalone dungeon DLCs. However, the centrepiece of the season is, of course, the Chapter DLC. The Elder Scrolls: Online Elsweyr will release on all platforms on the 4th of June, and is packed full of new content for players of the MMORPG. The most obvious of these is the new region, which will likely be of comparable size to the regions added in the Morrowind and Summerset Chapter DLCs.

The Elsweyr DLC also forms a major part of the Season of the Dragon storyline, and should also have a host of side-quests and additional story content. Indeed, ZeniMax states that it will contain; “A huge amount of unique delves, public dungeons, and stand-alone quests”. Dragons are likely to play a key role in the DLC’s main quest-line, but they will also appear in the form of new world events called ‘Dragon Attacks’. It sounds as though these could be similar to the wild dragon attacks encountered in Skyrim. In addition, Elsweyr is bringing a new class, the Necromancer, to ESO, as well as a new 12-player Trial; ‘Sunspire’. Of course, the DLC will also launch with a new game update featuring a variety of bug-fixes and general improvements.