The Elder Scrolls Online Necrom: When cosmic horror comes to Morrowind and Skyrim!

Game News The Elder Scrolls Online Necrom: When cosmic horror comes to Morrowind and Skyrim!

For the occasion, we were able exchange with Rich Lambert the creative director of the saga The Elder Scrolls Online and he was not stingy with details. As you will have understood, this chapter brings us back to Morrowind, fans will appreciate it, and will have the opportunity to talk about the Dark Elves and Hermaeus Mora, the Daedra prince of knowledge and destiny. The atmosphere will therefore be dark and the universe full of secrets that players will have to both discover and undoubtedly protect.. From here until you are allied with Mora, there is only one step, as the cutscene that you can already taste above suggests. You will notice how the tone is dark and it is not to displease us.

A brand new class, the Arcanist

This story revolves around Hermaeus Mora and should allow us to discover hidden, buried secrets, but also to explore the depths of Tamriel to, perhaps, learn more about the origins of the brand new class that arrives with Necrom, the Arcanist. Requested by the community for a long time, the Arcanist will be an opportunity to play differently it seems. This class channels the powers of Aprocrypha (the city of knowledge) to exploit various and varied runes. The Arcanist can also heal his allies, summon tentacles to block his opponents, use runic magic or even take a lot of damage. A real Swiss army knife, with three specialties, Tome Herald (attack), Apocrypha Soldier (defense) and Healing Runes (support). The Arcanist will be able to transform a limb into a tentacle to strike and even teleport through portals in the middle of combat (and the same goes for exploration to reach hard-to-reach places). Finally, a chaining system is used to create specific combos with skills that create points and others that consume them. This seems interesting to say the least since it is a first for TESO.

Two known and new areas at the same time…

It is in the peninsula of Telvanni, zone of origin of the dark elves that we already know from Morrowind, that we will advance. But beware, the region has changed a lot since then, even if we find these famous giant and dripping mushrooms. Necrom is the main city and it is there that many dark elf families bury their dead. Suffice to say that the atmosphere is festive and that you will never really be alone in the dark hallways. We will also go to Apocrypha, the domain of Oblivion, and it will obviously look like what we saw in Skyrim (DLC Dragonborn), but with an atmosphere, again, much heavier and strange. If we’re going back to familiar places, the developers insist that these areas will also provide a sense of noveltya mix between the old and the recent… We will see that very soon, without however forgetting to specify that Torvesard, a Drémora, will come to decorate the scenario without it being possible to know if he is with us, against us, or even at war with Hermaeus Mora…

TESO Necrom has other spells up its sleeve

Introduced in 2021, companions are non-player characters that can accompany you anywhere during your adventure. They are at your side, when you want them or more precisely when you need them. Two new companions come to enhance your adventures in Necrom : Quick-as-the-Night, yes, that’s his name, is an Argonian (let’s simplify: a humanoid lizard) in search of identity and you will have to prove your worth to him before he surrenders. Azandar, meanwhile, is a Redguard (understand a type of human), Arcanist too, who embodies a paternalistic figure with an inexhaustible thirst for knowledge. With its new dungeons, its new class, its two redesigned zones, its massive side quests, new events, Rich Lambert specifies that there are more than thirty hours of content in Necrom.

And as if that weren’t enough, the preparation content for this new chapter, Scribes of Fate, arrives March 13 on PC and Mac, as well as March 27 on older and next-gen consoles. There you will find the prologue of the story of Necrom, as well as two dungeons. In this regard, there will be no new dungeons when Necrom is released, because it is at the end of the year that a novelty related to these places so popular with players must arrive: It is a priori of a endless dungeon ! This is, at least, intriguing…

As every year TESO puts on a show and must do better than the previous year. If Necrom still has everything to prove, it is clear that the thinking atmosphere, the places known in other episodes of the saga, both reworked and offering new quests and stories, as well as the arrival of a versatile class, should be enough to convince fans. See you in March and June to find out what Necrom really has in store for us!