I have been playing since Release Week in Late March 2013 and have never found this motif. I have farmed 1000's of motifs too. I used to make a ton of gold on them before One Tamriel.
Where do you find them?
Furniture, Backpacks, some Crates and Urns and rarely a Mob Drop.
Problem is, those loot tables have been diluted by all the Furniture Recipes (over a 1000 of those) and in the case of owned containers, all the Legerdemain stuff. So, the Unicorn has gotten even more rare.
So, really the best place to find them, is in the Guild Kiosks as some people have really good luck. But, I would expect it to be 60K to 100K for the Motif.
Or, buy it in the Crown Store.
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I have played ESO since october last year and found only 1, when homestead came out by looting backpacks, trunks and desks etc. Nothing since then, until I made a new character level 3 yesterday and found 1 in a desk 5 minutes later.
I found one in an owned nightstand, once.. after I'd already bought the motif in a guild trader. C'est la vie.
I'm with Nestor, guild traders are probably the best bet. This is a good week to farm mats - even if you're not in Wrothgar, the competition will be in Wrothgar so you can run around Craglorn for a while and a few potent nirn or perfect roe will help with the cost of the motif.
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Never enough inventory space, even with storage coffers and a mule account
I found about 4 of them early on. Two were in the furniture right next to the Coldharbour banker. One -- before there was a justice system -- was right next to the woodworking table in Shornhelm. Another was in the first house after the western entrance in Upper Shornhelm.
I think I later finally memorized the motif after finding a fifth one, around the time of One Tamriel, but I forget where that was.
I found 2 on ps4 within a week of each other. First was in bahrahas gloom delve in hews bane right at the entrance in a backpack. Second I found in an urn in malabal tor.
Edited by phileunderx2 on November 18, 2017 11:56PM
I'm on xbox one EU, with the outfit system coming I've been doing nothing but farming and buying motifs for a while, haven't found Imperial, not that I expected to but I haven't seen it for sale at any guild traders and I've been checking most of them pretty religiously
I’ve found 2 in my time with ESO and both times were in Coldharbour during the mainline story quests in the Daedric urns. Got both from the 2nd quest where you rescue Lyris at the end inside the urns behind the portal back to the harbourage
I have only found it once, shortly before Homestead came out. I sold it, because my crafter is an Imperial herself and didn't need it.
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i JUST FOUND MY 1ST FROM THE BACKPACK IN THE VAMPIRE HOUSE HUES BANE, MY GF GOT HERS IN VVARDENFELL DRELOTH TOMB URNS.. (srry about the caps, realised at the end)