The new Elder Scrolls Online's chapter, Gold Road, is heading to West Weald. It will be rather familiar to those who have previously played Oblivion. 

Intro

This next chapter will continue on from Necrom, however, offering a complete tonal shift and moving away from the cosmic horror Stylings of Necrom.

Here, we'll go over what the chapter Gold Road has to offer, but we won't be diving into any main plot points, just the area and the new Scribing system. 

Of course, if you want to still have excellent performance in the next chapter, it is still very important to prepare sufficient ESO Gold!

Skingrad

Your main hub will be in Skingrad, which is found along the Gold Road with beautiful autumnal colors – those golds and reds. 

It looks like it'll offer a stunning backdrop for the next chapter, especially with those delicate falling leaves. 

Being well known for its wine, Skingrad has an air of wealth surrounding the town with vineyards, grand structures, and a bustling town to explore.

Valenwood Annexation

Heading into Valenwood Annexation, which has seemingly sprung up overnight, you'll be greeted with a lush jungle rainforest with overgrown vegetation, plants, and buildings becoming one, the perfect home for Bosmer. 

Colovian Highlands

Finally, Covian Highlands, a rocky hilly area, going back to those autumnal colors, offering sparse vegetation and some strange-looking enemies.

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Extras & Companions

Throughout this chapter, expect a lot of crystallized and colorful enemy variants, as well as your unusual blend of other creatures. 

This chapter will come with your standard array of delves, world bosses, public dungeons, a 12-player trial, etc. 

However, the companions are being moved to the fourth quarter as they want to work on their stories more.

Scribing 

Gold Road will offer us new customization features with Scribing and Styling. 

Scribing will let you play with the nature of magic itself. This new system will let you collect and customize skills, letting you alter their primary, secondary, and tertiary effects. 

From what I have seen so far, you will start with a grimoire, which will be the main scale that's based around you. 

You will then slot scripts into the 3 sockets available. These will let you change various characteristics of the ability, such as healing, damage type, and buffs. And this is all done with a new sort of currency called inks, which is what you will use to change or scribe an ability.

Styling

As part of this new system, Styling will also be introduced. 

This will give you the option to change the visual appearance of an ability. For example, Wall of Elements could now be purple in color. 

I'm excited about this part of the update because it'll be nice to tailor abilities to the look and personalities we have given our characters over the years and help them stand out a bit more.

The focus at launch will be weapon and guild lines so as not to limit specific classes, giving everyone a chance to try it out. They have said there will be 22 styles at launch, which will be unlockable in-game. 

Whether they will add anything to the Crown Store at a later date has not been mentioned. So for now, it's all free to earn, other than needing to purchase the chapter.

Roadmap

We will get 2 new dungeons in the first quarter of the year titled Oathsworn Pit and Bedlam Veil. 

Quarter 2 will be the release of Gold Road, including Scribing and the new trial Lucent Citadel. 

Quarter 3 will offer us a new housing feature that we have been given no hints to whatsoever. 

And in Quarter 4, there will be a new PvP feature. However, it's unrelated to Citadel. We will also get the two new companions, which are currently nameless.