The Keywright's Gallery was a great concept, but was never able to fulfil its true potential by virtue of its existence being tied to the Tutorial quest. Despite it being a nexus for all of ESO's main storylines, you could literally never return to it once you'd used only one of the gates. Now that Soul Shriven in Coldharbour is being restored as the One True Tutorial, the Keywright's Gallery looks to be consigned to the trash alongside all the other tutorial locations that we can no longer visit. But what if it wasn't?

You remember how the original Main Quest ends? You've hit Level 50, defeated Molag Bal, and Cadwell has a new quest for you if you would just touch the Light of Meridia... But messing with temporal metaphysics doesn't always lead to the intended outcome; rather than being ported straight to the second alliance to start Cadwell's Silver, you fall out of a rift on the isle of Balfiera, along with one of Molag Bal's Harvesters who's bent on stopping you get any further. The quest is literally already written from that perspective. Yes there would need to be a few tweaks here and there to remove the tutorial aspects, switch out the skyshard for some other form of meteoric glass, and perhaps add a bit more narrative, but the core of the existing Gates of Adamant quest would fit perfectly into this scenario. And since this is no longer a tutorial location, once you've completed the updated quest, you would be able to return to the Keywright's Gallery at any time, either via the Lights of Meridia in the Harborages, or because it literally already has a wayshrine in the foyer, and continue through any of the other portals.

A bonus would be that you get to visit Norianwe again, and maybe she would have new dialogue on the regional questlines once you've completed them.

This proposal is based on unlocking the Chapter Select feature with the Light of Meridia after completing the Main Quest, but it could just as easily be inserted straight after Soul Shriven in Coldharbour. Rather than falling out of the sky on your alliance starter island, you fall out of the sky on Balfiera, and Shyazzel is still there to stop you getting any further.

Of course this would also work nicely alongside some of my previous ideas, like retiring Cadwell's Almanac and replacing it with a full Story Guide, as well as restoring and repurposing the old Chapter Intros and getting the Prophet back on the Starter Islands.

I still have a post to make sometime about making sure the Prologue quests properly link up with the Zone Story they are prologuing as well...