Shadow Court [Coldharbour Spoiler]

RaddlemanNumber7 · January 2018

I've just done the Cliffs of Failure quest in Coldharbour again. I went with High Kinlady Estre this time. I notice that she is aided by a Shadow Court jester.

I can't find anything else in ESO that refers to a "Shadow Court".

Does anyone else know anything about the Shadow Court in ESO? Or, is this simply a reference to that other game series which definitely does have a Shadow Court?

elias.stormneb18_ESO · January 2018

I’d assume it has something to do with Estre calling herself the ”Veiled Queen”. A Queen needs a court (even if she’s just a pretender), and what would be a better name for this secret, mysterious court than the Shadow Court?

Enodoc · January 2018

The only Shadow Court that I know of is in Fable II. As far as I can tell, there's no other reference to any Shadow Court anywhere else in Elder Scrolls. If it was supposed to be a name for Estre's followers I would have thought we would have heard more about it when on Auridon.

RaddlemanNumber7 · January 2018

I did the final assault in Coldharbour today with the same character. Estre turned up to help. She said she can't wait to get back to Auridon, making it sound as if her escape from Coldharbour was already assured. Again she offered the aid of the Shadow Court.

So, I suppose it's possible that we may be seeing Estre again soon in the hinted Sommerset chapter. We know that Estre has a habit of selling her soul to any Deadric Prince who will offer her an advantage. We have been told that Mephala is also to be involved in the upcoming chapter. Mephala is described as "Queen of the Eight Shadows of Murder" in the tome "Rumors of the Spiral Skein". So, maybe this reference to a Shadow Court is a hint at an Estre/Mephala alliance that has long been planned for the Sommerset release.

Sounds better than an entire chapter fighting the veiled heritance all over again.

But, of course, I may be entirely wrong. We'll just have to wait and see.

Vuldovahkriid · January 2018

There's this: http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:The_Jester's_Joke

Enodoc · January 2018

RaddlemanNumber7 wrote: »

I did the final assault in Coldharbour today with the same character. Estre turned up to help. She said she can't wait to get back to Auridon, making it sound as if her escape from Coldharbour was already assured. Again she offered the aid of the Shadow Court.
So, I suppose it's possible that we may be seeing Estre again soon in the hinted Sommerset chapter. We know that Estre has a habit of selling her soul to any Deadric Prince who will offer her an advantage. We have been told that Mephala is also to be involved in the upcoming chapter. Mephala is described as "Queen of the Eight Shadows of Murder" in the tome "Rumors of the Spiral Skein". So, maybe this reference to a Shadow Court is a hint at an Estre/Mephala alliance that has long been planned for the Sommerset release.

Sounds better than an entire chapter fighting the veiled heritance all over again.

But, of course, I may be entirely wrong. We'll just have to wait and see.

Heh that does sound pretty good; it would be very interesting if she turned up again. Shadows in general are usually Nocturnal's thing though (but that doesn't preclude your theory, since Nocturnal is also involved in ongoing events).