Unfortunately, if ESO’s dragons are meant to be epic, terror-inducing enemies, that certainly wasn’t what this initial encounter conveyed to me. After a short mission that tasked me with blowing a horn at the top of a tower to down a dragon circling the skies above a Khajiit temple, I and a handful of allies swarmed the beast, swinging swords and casting spells in a flurry. I got a chance to play about an hour of Elsweyr during GDC, and I did, in fact, encounter a dragon, though the experience wasn’t exactly what I envisioned. Now, I’m sure people will try to solo it, and that’s fine. A lot of the dragon encounters that we’re doing, we’re tuning to eight players. In our version, you don’t have that toolkit, so you have to rely on friends-either NPCs or other players-to help you deal with the dragons. “In Skyrim, you had this toolset where you could absorb dragons’ souls, learn shouts…you could one-on-one a dragon. “You’re not the Dovahkiin,” ESOcreative director Rich Lambert says of the primary difference between Skyrim and Elsweyr’s dragon battles. Elsweyr’s dragons are the greatest threat you’ll encounter in the game, and you definitely don’t want to take them on alone-this ain’t Skyrim. Over the course of 2019, the mystery behind the dragons’ unexpected presence in the Khajiit’s desert homeland will be revealed, though canonical exposition will likely be the farthest thing from players’ minds when they come face to face with the massive, scaled beasts. The “improbable” bit comes from the fact that ESO takes place during Tamriel’s second era, which until now was believed to be a dragon-less time period according to the universe’s lore. Dragons have improbably invaded Elder Scrolls Online this year in Season of the Dragon, a year-long, four-update story event that includes the Elsweyr chapter, out on June 4th for PC, Xbox One, and PS4.
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