Take One of These Elder Scrolls T-Shirts on Your Return to Morrowind!

Elder Scrolls Online is back, and we’ve returned to one of the franchise’s most memorable locations: Morrowind.

Morrowind was first introduced in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. For series veterans, it’ll feel like a wonderful wave of early 2000s gaming nostalgia. For latecomers and newbies, this addition to Elder Scrolls Online will give them a vast new world to explore filled with its own quests, its own history, and a storyline such like they’ve never seen before.

Let’s break this down:

Platform: PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

Storyline: Like every installment (or “chapter”) of The Elder Scrolls, The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind has its own story that the player will follow in an open-world environment along a main quest line. The quest is set 700 years before the original Morrowind takes place. It centers around the island of Vvardenfell, ruled by the mortal god Vivec, who is currently using his magical powers to keep a meteor from crashing into his namesake city. If he falls ill, the meteor could come crashing down and destroy the entire island.

Well, that’s exactly what has happened. Vivec is ill, and it’s up to you to find out what happened and how to cure him.

Gameplay: According to IGN.com, there’s about 25 hours of gameplay in Morrowind. There’s dozens of sidequests to follow just like any true Elder Scrolls game, including finding the long-lost daughter of an ancient house, freeing oppressed slaves, and dealing with the mafia-esque ruling families of Vvardenfell and their murderous tendencies. It plays just like any other ESO game, with its own fighting classes, the ability to team up with or battle other players, and you even get lost enjoying the scenery on the way to all those little quests you’ve picked up while trying to saving Vivec. You can take part in large-scale sieges just like you can normally in ESO, but this new expansion has added one new aspect to gameplay that players might find exciting: Battlegrounds.

Battlegrounds are essentially small-scale PVP matches with concrete rules and modes, like capture the flag. There are three maps to play on, and players will be separated from the rest of the ESO world so no other players will be able to disturb them mid-match. Game designers are planning on spreading Battlegrounds to more areas of Tamriel in ESO, so look for them in the months to come!

Special Features and Cool Add-Ons: ESO: Morrowind comes with a new addition to its fighter class blueprints (such as the classic Fighter, Rogue, and Wizard). Matt Firor, the game director, is calling it “the Warden”, and it’s the fulfillment of many Elder Scrolls players’ dreams.

The Warden is, essentially, a druid class. They use nature to attack the foes, heal their allies, and even command beasts.

One of the beauties of The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim was the ability to pick and choose talents, build skills, and essentially create any class of character that you want. Players weren’t confined to the three main MMO party member archetypes. For players that liked to pick and choose in Skyrim, The Warden is going to be a perfect choice for them. The class has three talent trees to choose from, and these trees have skills from each major MMO party member…making this guy extremely versatile and fun to play in true Elder Scrolls fashion. Plus, you get a bear as a pet. Badass.

While Morrowind has its pitfalls, overall, it’s a pretty awesome addition to the Elder Scrolls franchise. Whether you’re an Elder Scrolls veteran or new to the game or somewhere in between, this is an installment you won’t want to miss.

In Elder Scrolls, we all know that what we’re wearing and what our opponent’s wearing makes a huge difference in how well we succeed in our gameplay. So don’t leave without checking out these awesome Elder Scrolls t-shirts. They’re just as cool as the new Warden class, we promise.