How can newly created characters start off in the old zones?

Gothlander

Just created a character and it put me in Morrowind. I wanted to start out in DC starter area.

tiamak

You can port to Glenumbra via wayshrine. There, head to the docks and you should find a ship to the starter island. Maybe, you can even port there directly? I know I headed to the EP starter island for my first quest when I had created my most recent warden toon.

Tandor

You can't port to the starter island until you've sailed there and thereby unlocked a wayshrine. You can, however, port direct to Daggerfall and take the boat from there - it's marked on the map.

wenchmore420b14_ESO

And if you want to do the Wailing Prison Tutorial, go to the starter city in your alliance, i.e. Davon's Watch in Stonefalls.
Look for a "Hooded Figure". When you talk to them you go to where Manimarco kills you and starts Wailing Prison...

Gothlander

wenchmore420b14_ESO wrote: »

And if you want to do the Wailing Prison Tutorial, go to the starter city in your alliance, i.e. Davon's Watch in Stonefalls.
Look for a "Hooded Figure". When you talk to them you go to where Manimarco kills you and starts Wailing Prison...

This hooded figure the prophet?

mwo1480

Gothlander wrote: »

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wenchmore420b14_ESO wrote: »

And if you want to do the Wailing Prison Tutorial, go to the starter city in your alliance, i.e. Davon's Watch in Stonefalls.
Look for a "Hooded Figure". When you talk to them you go to where Manimarco kills you and starts Wailing Prison...

This hooded figure the prophet?

no, its a cultist, his name is hooded figure

fgoron2000

Tandor wrote: »

You can't port to the starter island until you've sailed there and thereby unlocked a wayshrine. You can, however, port direct to Daggerfall and take the boat from there - it's marked on the map.

OP, that's the way that the game is set up now, for a new character to start in MW. ZOS has made a few significant changes like this to the game over the years. For instance, I wasn't playing yet, but I had heard that the game originally started at the starter islands (makes sense), but then at some point, they changed it (for reasons unknown to me) so that you started at zone 1 of your respective alliance, ie Auridon, Glenumbra or Stonefalls. That's how most of my chars started the game. I then had to make my way backward to the starter islands. Then ZOS changed it back to beginning at the starter islands again. There's also the removal of the Alliance restrictions, where you can travel to any of the Alliances before finishing your own Alliance and even to any of the zones within your own alliance, with everything being leveled. The zone leveling started with the first DLC's but then it was applied to the entire game starting with the Tamriel Unlimited edition. Switching from sub required, to buy-to-play with sub optional was another big change.

But as noted in previous posts above, you can still manually travel from MW to the starter islands if that's where you wanna start the game. You can make way to one of the zone 1 area starting cities like Daggerfall or Davon's Watch, then take the boat transportation from the docks to the starter islands. Another way to get there is to port directly to a friend or guild member who is already at the starter islands...

TheShadowScout

Gothlander wrote: »

Just created a character and it put me in Morrowind. I wanted to start out in DC starter area.

Tandor wrote: »

You can't port to the starter island until you've sailed there and thereby unlocked a wayshrine. You can, however, port direct to Daggerfall and take the boat from there - it's marked on the map.

^This^

And yes, it is somewhat inconvenient... especially since you don't get your vestige status and the accompaning semi-immortality until after you had your coldharbour experience, which does make respawning in morrowind if you start there a bit... less then immersive.

Wish they had kept the coldharbour stuff for -everyone- and used the "morrowind" intro for all which travel there... which incidentally would also have taken care of a certain skill point issue I suppose...

Oh, well...
My two wardens did travel to their alliance regions first thing, and won't touch morrowind until after they finished the mainstory. A bit annoying that I have to take those extra steps to keep my immersion immersive, but... eh.