I've never really found much RP on ESO, and much less since the RPers suddenly up and quit Riften.

My main on ESO is a Nord woman with a decidedly Breton name, due to being orphaned in infancy in an attack by supernatural creatures, either Vampires, Werewolves, or Daedric beasts, and she was adopted by a travelling breton family.

She grew up to be what could be among the best hunters of such supernatural beings in Tamriel, using a mild Aedric blessing she was born with that grants her uncommon strength, around equal to a burly orc male bodybuilder, and she knows some light and burny spells which are great against vampires and daedra.

She's quite open minded for someone who kills supernaturals for a living however, possibly due to being well travelled, and will stay her blade if she has a very good reason to believe the creature in question is not a threat. (House Ravenwatch vampires for instance)

but yeah I put a ton of thought into my characters its just a shame that no one seems to RP anymore.

News! I am beginning work on the Advanced Guide!

What would you like to have covered in it? In game factions and their history? Types of magic? Specific events?
Let me know!

Hey there!

A bit late to the party here but read the guide and I thought it was very well put together and presented. I love the inclusion of sources and reference material for further reading. Something I've seen not done as well as I'd like in other presentations of this kind of thing. Also I applaud the impartiality in the telling.

I'll be interested to see your Advanced Guide completed, whenever you get the opportunity to work on it again.

Look after yourself too.

Love this guide. For the advanced guide, maybe go with some non-official races.

Since ESO has canonized that the Tsaesci look like Imperials (or they can shed their skin and appear that way), maybe cover what is known about the Akaviri race and what happened to all the Akaviri that lived in Cyrodil as recent as 200 years prior.

Daedra? There are polymorphs for Xyvkin and Dremora. I'm not quite good enough to take on Veteran Maelstrom Arena yet, so until then I'm making a Dremora the Skyrim way (Dark Elf, darkest skin and eyes and the nice Dremora face markings they've provided), and throwing a hood on him since that seems to hide real Dremora horns.

Thanks for the guide! I'm just about to get into ESO RP (I'm a World of Warcraft refugee haha) and this is a really comprehensive summary of the lore! Good to know!

Really great guide, awesome job, I will check if I can make my RP background better, I had an idea back then about achievements connected to quests tied to certain gameplay. Like all magic quests, all stealthy quests, all nature like quests. I guess some of it would be too much narrowed, but still there could be a guide about what kind of quests in which zone to pick up if you want to deal just with quests good for your way how you RP character.

ZOS have this dream of everything being random for adventurers, but if I want something specific you have to finish the game first and discover it for yourself.