1. Toons has been used to describe mmo characters since like the early 2000s. Some attribute it’s origination to the MMO Fiesta Online...sometimes it’s attributed to WoW.

2. Because the ESO world is so expansive, you can really run as many characters as you want at any given time. If you’re just starting you might run a couple to try out the different classes. This couldmgive you a better idea which you want to invest the most time in, unless you are already set on a class.

3. You got some broad answers about the Champion Point system, but no real definition.

It’s the leveling system for characters after you get to vet. At this point you start earning “champion points.” Think of these like micro-levels. Each point can be spent in a tree on passives that give you teeny tiny buffs. Like you might be able to spend a point to increase your stamina recovery by 0.1%. The buffs are small, but when you add up hundreds and hundreds they offer huge benefits.

CPs are account bound, meaning that all of your vet characters earn them toward a common “bank” and every character on your account may spend the total number of CPs on your account. Champion points are earned by accumulating xp. Anything that earns xp by a vet character goes into the CP “bank” on your account.

Example - you have two vet toons and two level 20s. You have earned 100 champion points. As vet 1 and 2 play and earn xp, they are working toward CP 101. If vet 1 gets halfway there and you log into vet 2, he’s also halfway to cp 101. Everyone shares progress. The vets can each spend 100 CPs in their champion trees. Your two low level toons are NOT earning CPs as they earn xp because they aren’t vet. But they can spend 100 CPs in their trees too. Big note: players with a lot of CPs have MUCH stronger low level toons than you will. You might encounter some of these and wonder why they are so much stronger than you...that’s why.

CPs are earned on an incremental scale. Your first CP is earned with ~30,000 xp. Cp 350 is about 400,000 xp, and cp 690 is 850,000 xp. There is also a catch up system called “enlightenment” that you don’t need to understand yet. The point is that when you get to vet you will earn early CPs quite fast, then it slows down into a long grind.

CPs can be spent in three trees with three lines in each and four passives in each line. Don’t worry about this now...by the time you get there you’ll understand the game better and there will be guides to assist you when you first decide how to allocate them.

Accounts can continue to earn CPs indefinitely. However, ZOS puts a cap on how many can be spent. Right now the cap is 690. Generally, with each major update they increase the cap a bit. So, my account has 1100 CPs and my characters are working toward 1101...but I can only spend 690 in each character’s tree.

Scaling to CP 160

To briefly explain this, last year they unveiled One Tamriel where your character can go anywhere at any point in their progression. In the old days, zones were leveled. Monsters in Auridon were level 3-10, Grahtwood was 11-20, etc. in this days, you could not walk off the boat as a level 3 and go to a high level zone...you’d get slaughtered. You’d be doing 15 damage per hit and a level 35 skeever would have like 300,000 hit points, lol.

To work, One Tamriel set every monster in the game to CP160. They don’t have champion points, this is just how powerful they're set to. So that a low level toon can fight these monsters, you have invisible handicaps that effectively make you as powerful as a CP160 toon. In other words, a naked level 3 and a naked level 40 who punch a skeever will do the same damage. However, you will get more powerful as you level because you will unlock skills and passives and earn gear that makes you more powerful.

You don’t really need to worry about this system. Just know it means you may explore any zone in the game and be competitive.