The Elder Scrolls Online has allowed players to explore a chunk of Tamriel unlike any other game in the franchise. Players have been able to discover new places and see some familiar ones in a different light. With so many places, there are a lot more stories to be discovered and mysteries to be solved.
Some of the places players can visit hold dark secrets. Others will send shivers down the spine of visitors with how creepy they are. What are some of the creepiest areas travelers can find in Tamriel?
10 Stillrise Village
A village with a tragic story. In The Elder Scrolls Online, players can find this village in Shadowfen. The people that inhabit this village is known as the Kothringi, a race of humans that was thought to be extinct. At first, everything looks normal, but players will realize how wrong that is.
During the quest, it is revealed that the Kothringi villagers are cursed with undeath and are skeletons. After making a pact with the Daedric Prince, Clavicus Vile, he helped them live through the Knahaten Flu by cursing them. Players will have to make the tough decision to either break the pact with the Clavicus Vile and let the Kothringi die or allow them to keep living as they are.
9 Blood Matron's Crypt
Players of The Elder Scrolls series have probably heard an outline of how vampires came to be in Tamriel. Very few have heard it from the source itself. In The Elder Scrolls Online, if players become a vampire, they get to meet the very first vampire in existence: Lamae Bal. Lamae Bal was a Nedic priest for the Divine of Life and Death, Arkay, during the Merethic Era. In the crypt, Lamae explains to players how she became the first vampire and shows bits of her past.
Lamae's hatred for Molag Bal is very strong and she has the player desecrate his shrine and kill Worm Cult members to complete their transformation. She also has the player desecrate a shrine to Arkay to show her contempt for the god.
8 Xith-Izkul Sanctuary
During the Dark Brotherhood quest in The Elder Scrolls Online, players will visit an abandoned sanctuary in between Cyrodiil and Black Marsh with a dark history. Traversing through the sanctuary will show memories of a Dark Brotherhood named Lyra. She was ordered to carry out a Purification order, meaning she had to kill all members in the sanctuary.
The quest shows how Lyra killed each member and her last conversations with each of them. The sanctuary is also a grim reminder to players that even though the Dark Brotherhood call themselves a family, they will kill whoever is corrupted without hesitation.
7 The Doomcrag
This Ayleid ruin holds a relic known as the Light of Life, which was said to be able to help plants grow and cure any illness. However, this relic was tainted after a bloody conflict between the Ayleids and the original inhabitants in Rivenspire. The relic then turned into the Lightless Remnant, a beacon of death. During the main quest, the players will see memories of Count Verandis Ravenwatch, an Altmer vampire. Verandis had tried to use the relic to heal a friend, Baroness Leila Montclair, but didn't know that the relic was tainted.
After he realized that the relic was not working, he attempted to stop the ritual and unknowingly turned those around him into vampires. Leila turned into a feral vampire and Verandis was forced to kill her.
6 Tzinghalis' Tower
This is a Dwemer ruin that was repurposed for Exarch Tzinghalis to perform his experiments. Exploring the tower shows that Tzinghalis experimented on a lot of people. It is unclear if they were vampires or werewolves, or a mix of both, because of how badly their bodies were burned.
Stone Husks are also in the tower and Tzinghalis used them in his experiments as well. If this place doesn't sound and look frightening enough, then the agonizing screams of Fennorian might do it as players rush to rescue him.
5 The Manor Of Revelry
At first glance, this Daedric ruin looks like a paradise. However, this is an illusion used by three Dark Seducer sisters. They lure their victims in and treat them so well that they don't want to leave. The sisters feed off their victims to maintain their powers. During the quest What the Heart Wants, another Dark Seducer named Fatahala will help the player see through their illusions.
Once the illusion is gone, it is revealed that all of the guests in the manor are skeletons. What makes this place creepy is even after the sisters are defeated, the guests continue to lounge and dance around as if nothing happened.
4 The Hot Springs In The Eastmarch
If players find themselves traveling around Eastmarch, they could run into a group of Nords bathing in hot springs just south of Wittestadr. A Nord man named Dralof will ask the player to find Grida and the bath salts she went to get. While it seems like a simple mission to pick up some bath salts, things take a dark turn. While looking for their comrade, Grida, the players will find a note listing the ingredients needed to make the salts. After finding the ingredients, the player will find and be attacked by a zombie-like Grida at a mill. Players can find a note written by her that shows the bath salts are responsible for her transformation.
Players can take the bath salts back to Dralof, but he doesn't seem to care what happened to Grida. If the player doesn't stop him from using the bath salts, Dralof and his other friends will transform into zombies and attack.
3 Wayrest In King Emeric's Dream
Entering King Emeric's dream shows a different side of Wayrest. Though it's in his dream, the great city of Wayrest is in ruins. Walking through the city, illusions of Emeric talking to important people shows some of his deepest fears. Such as him talking to the illusion of his wife and her saying she doesn't love him.
When at the center of the city, players will see King Emeric at the guillotine while a crowd cheers for his impending death.
2 Orcrest
This once-thriving city is now in ruins thanks to the Daedric Prince of Pestilence, Peryite. Orcrest is now filled with flu-ridden undead and diseased warriors and mages. To make the city more deadly, plagued monsters and Daedra also wander the streets.
Worshippers of Peryite can be found in the city and will ask the player for help. They came to the city to mingle with the sick and find proof that Peryite was responsible for the Knahaten Flu.
1 Forgotten Crypts
If the player explores this crypt, they will find a young Dunmer woman named Sela. She's looking for her husband Garil in the crypt. She ran into a group of refugees that sealed themselves away to escape the Llodos plague. Sela can either stay in the crypt to wait or be told to wait outside. The leader of the group, Danus, cryptically tells the player that he and the other refugees are doing what they can to survive. He sealed away Garil because he showed symptoms of the plague. Garil is found, but it is too late as the plague has taken over him. His journal can be found and it reveals a shocking secret about the refugees.
It turns out the refugees have resorted to cannibalism to survive. When confronted about it, Danus doesn't deny it and justifies the choice. The players can choose to either burn the meat that the refugees have stored, or leave them in peace. Also, depending on the player's choice, Sela will either be eaten by the group or survive the ordeal.