The next major chapter for The Elder Scrolls Online has been announced and it’s just a few short months away.

This time, you’ll be revisiting familiar areas from Oblivion and taking part in a story set 800 years prior to the events of the game.

While there will be seperate content drops throughout the year, the main chapter lies at the heart of it and here’s all you need to know about the game.

What is Blackwood?

It’s the next major Chapter for The Elder Scrolls Online and follows the likes of Greymoor, Elsweyr, Summerset, and Morrowind. This adds new story, quests, and environments to the game. You will need to own this to play the new story based content.

What are the other DLC drops?

These are seperate and compliment the game’s overarching Gates of Oblivion storyline continuing through 2021 – the main story of which can be found in Blackwood. The first drop is in March called Flames of Ambition, then there will be two more in Q3 and Q4. Owning one of these DLCs will not give you access to the main Blackwood storyline.

What’s new?

TESO will be getting a brand new companion system along with 30 hours of story content, new side quests, missions, dungeons, Oblivion Portal World Events and much more.

Where can I play Blackwood?

TESO: Blackwood will release on PC/Mac and Stadia on June 1, then on Xbox and PlayStation on June 8 2021

What do I get for pre-purchasing Blackwood?

You will get immediate access to some new content, while also getting more in-game content available at launch.

Pre-purchasing now will immediately add the Nagahide Welwa Ravager mount and Nightmare Bear Cub pet to the game

Then at launch of Blackwood you’ll also get the following.

Dremora Kynreeve Outfit
Deadlands Wamasu Pet
1x Iron Atronach Crate
3x Blackwood Treasure Maps
2x Experience Scrolls

There are also multiple editions of Blackwood which contain other content and will be outlined below.

What versions of Blackwood are available?

There are four different Blackwood Editions and they are broken down into two subcategories – The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood and The Elder Scrolls Online Collection: Blackwood.

The Collection is recommended for new TESO players as it will give you access to the base game, along with all previous chapters as well as Blackwood when it launches.

The standard edition of Blackwood will just upgrade your version of the game with the new expansion when it releases.

The Elder Scrolls Online Collection: Blackwood

This includes the Elder Scrolls Online base game, all previous chapters (Morrowind, Summerset, Elsweyr, and Greymoor) as well as the Blackwood Chapter. You will get immediate access to current chapters and be able to play Blackwood at launch on June 1 / 8.

You will also receive the aforementioned pre-order items.