The Elder Scrolls Online is about to introduce its players to the city of Necrom, a place only whispered about before now. This expansion includes a barrage of novel content, including a brand-new ESO class and two zones. Players can’t wait to sink their teeth into Necrom’s arrival, and fortunately, they won’t have to wait long.
Par for the course, this content update will bring with it an abundance of Necrom-related quests, gear, and challenges, along with two new companions. On top of this, players must solve mysteries, puzzles, and riddles, as nothing is quite what it seems whenever the Daedric Prince of Knowledge is involved. Hermaeus Mora features as a prominent character in The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom, and as a fan-favorite entity already, he’s unlikely to disappoint.
Necrom Is In a Part of Morrowind Players Haven't Seen Until Now
Perched upon Morrowind’s easternmost peninsula, the city of Necrom is also known as the City of the Dead. Generations of Dark Elves have been coming here to entomb their honored dead, the endless corridors beneath its white sepulchers now housing the remains of thousands of Dunmer ancestors. One of the new zones to become available is the Telvanni Peninsula, which encapsulates the whole region surrounding and including the city of Necrom.
Although the origin of the city is largely unknown, legend says that it was formed from the skeleton of the great beast Gulga Mor Jil. When Vivec of the Tribunal slayed the monster, Necrom was built upon its remains, its bones forming the jagged rocks that surround the city. The Necrom expansion forms part of the Shadow Over Morrowind story arc and will feature the aforementioned city as its main setting.
Necrom is also the gateway between Nirn and Apocrypha, the infinite realm of Hermaeus Mora and the second new zone to come to the game in The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was the last game to fully flesh out the Prince of Fate, as players encountered him and his domain frequently in the game’s Dragonborn DLC. That being said, few Daedric Princes are as secretive as Mora given his propensity to hoard knowledge and use it to manipulate mortals, so it's entirely possible players really do know nothing about him.
The new class coming in The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom, the Arcanist, is one which uses the powers of Hermaeus Mora and Apocrypha. This class will use a variety of tomes, runes, and spells to protect allies and destroy enemies, drawing upon the forbidden knowledge of their Daedric master. Why Mora has chosen to give his power so freely to the mortal races of Tamriel is not yet known, but it’s clear that the Prince of Fate faces a threat that even he needs help to overcome.
More content being added includes a twelve-man trial called Sanity’s Edge, wherein players must assemble a team of champions to delve within the mind of a mage to save them from insanity. If Hermaeus Mora’s most dangerous secrets fell into the wrong hands, it could spell the end of reality. To this end, there is also a new World Event coming to Tamriel, the Bastion Nymic, which involves players opening a portal into Apocrypha and fighting to protect the Daedric Prince’s fortress from invaders.
As of right now, all players with the base edition can play through the Necrom prologue, a quest line that lets them prove their worth to the Prince of Fate alongside his chosen emissary, Leramil the Wise. Not much more is known about The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom at this stage, but one thing’s for sure: delving into the domain of the Daedric Prince of Knowledge is going to take all the bravery and cunning players can muster.
The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom releases on June 5, 2023 for PC/Mac and June 20, 2023 for Xbox and PlayStation.