Face down the horrors of Tamriel, including Lord Hollowjack himself, for special in-game rewards during 2024’s Witches Festival in-game event!
This year’s Witches Festival begins next Thursday, October 24 and runs until Wednesday, November 6 at 10AM EST. During this spoopy seasonal event, you can claim ghoulishly good event-specific rewards including Plunder Skulls, XP boosts, Event Tickets, and more!
During the Witches Festival, all adventurers will enjoy a passive 100% boost to XP gain at all times. However, the Witchmother’s Whistle, once the source of this bonus (and a skeletal transformation!), is still available. To collect the whistle and down ladles of hag’s brew for frightful fun, simply follow the steps listed below:
- Open the Crown Store and acquire the free quest “The Witchmother's Bargain.”[/*][list]
- You can also pick up this quest by speaking with the Crow Caller, who you’ll find outside of each Olyve's Brewery in Stonefalls, Glenumbra, or Auridon.[/*]
- You won’t need to acquire the Witchmother’s Whistle if you finished the quest in a previous year’s event.[/*]
- You cannot summon the Cauldron in Cyrodiil.[/*]
Drink the witches’ brew straight from the cauldron
A Wicked Harvest
During the Witches Festival event, whenever you defeat a boss monster, you’ll be offered a Plunder Skull container in addition to any regular rewards. When you open a Plunder Skull, you have the chance to receive the following items:- Alchemy reagents[/*][list]
- A festival-themed furnishing recipe[/*]
- A festival-themed provisioning recipe[/*]
- A complete festival-themed furnishing[/*]
- A festival-themed sellable treasure[/*]
- A Hollowjack style item[/*]
- A Dremora style item[/*]
- A Witches Festival Writ[/*]
- A Glenmoril Treasure Map[/*]
- A Glenmoril armor outfit style page[/*]
- A Crowborne Hunter outfit style page[/*]
- NEW Plunder Skull Blunder Memento Runebox[/*]
- NEW Senchal Horned Owl pet fragment[/*]
- NEW tradeable style page for the Eltheric Revenant outfit style[/*]
Perilous plunder, yours for the taking
There are two additional Plunder Skulls acquirable by those brave (or foolish) enough to face the worst of the Witches Festival's horrors.
The first of these frightful fiends, the Crowborne Horror, returns to Tamriel to bedevil its denizens. To locate and slay this living nightmare, acquire the daily quest “Plucking the Crow” by speaking with Witchmother Taerma, located inside Olyve’s Brewery and at every Impresario tent found throughout Tamriel.
For your courage, the first time you overcome the Crowborne Horror and turn in your quest each day, you’ll be rewarded with a Dremora Plunder Skull. This creepy container has a small chance to grant you an incredible offering of tradeable Witches Festival valuables instead of regular Dremora Plunder Skull items, including:
- The FULL style book for the Dremora motif[/*]
- A folio of ALL Glenmoril treasure maps[/*]
- All 10 Senchal Horned Owl Pet Fragments[/*]
- Runebox: Plunder Skull Blunder[/*]
- All of the Eltheric Revenant Outfit style pages[/*]
Impresario & Event Tickets
During the Witches Festival, you can collect two Event Tickets from the first boss you defeat each day, earning up to 28 tickets by the end of the event. But don’t forget: You can only hold up to 12 Event Tickets at a time. For this event, the Impresario will stock the following items:- All three Molag Bal Illusion Imp pet fragments:[/*] [list]
- Anchor Chain Fragment[/*]
- Dark Anchor Pinion[/*]
- Effigy of the Dominator[/*]
- Varen Aquilarios’s Key[/*]
- Lyris Titanborn’s Key[/*]
- Webs, Cone furnishing[/*]
- Hollowjack Lantern, Ouroboros furnishing[/*]
- Specimen Jar, Spare Brain furnishing[/*]
- Ruby Candlefly Gathering furnishing[/*]
- Vampiric Lamp, Azure Tall furnishing[/*]
- Vampiric Lightpost, Azure Single furnishing[/*]
- Vampiric Container, Yellow Liquid furnishing[/*]
- Skeletal Marionette memento[/*]
- Spectre Mask collectible[/*] [list]
- There are four variations of this collectible[/*]
Haven of the Five Companions morphing collectible
Additionally, the Impresario’s colleague, Nenulaure the Indrik Vendor, has the following items available for purchase using Event Tickets:
- Nascent Indrik Feathers[/*]
- Pure Snow Indrik Berries[/*]
- Crimson Indrik Berries[/*]
- Frost-Light Indrik pet[/*]
- Rosethorn Indrik pet[/*]
- All three Unstable Morpholith fragments[/*] [list]
- Deadlands Flint[/*]
- Rune-Etched Striker[/*]
- Smoldering Bloodgrass Tinder[/*]
- Smoke-Wreathed Gryphon Feather[/*]
- Black Iron Bit[/*]
- Bridle Black Iron Stirrups[/*]
- All three Soulfire Dragon Illusion Imp pet fragments[/*] [list]
- Hallowed Hourglass Basin[/*]
- Illuminated Dragon Scroll[/*]
- Kvatchian Incense[/*]
- All three fragments for the Daggerfall Paladin outfit[/*][list]
- Blessed Rubedite Enamel[/*]
- Captured Dragonflame[/*]
- Sanctified Metalworking Tools[/*]
