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What's your favorite Zone music? Bard music, too!
SilverBride
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I am really fond of the music in Craglorn. Every time I go there I am struck by how adventurous it feels.
What is your favorite zone music?
Since bard music has been mentioned, let's add that too!
Edited by SilverBride on September 30, 2025 3:50AM What is your favorite zone music?
Since bard music has been mentioned, let's add that too!
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✭✭✭✭✭Craglorn/Cyrodiil (they share themes) is pretty good.
My favorite though is the Reach. That’s music alone inspired me to make a Reachman character (and he’s a bard to boot)
However if we want to talk about actual bards and their songs, I give the win to On Topal Bay, with (specifically the female version of) the Star-Eyed Bride of Alinor in second.3 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Oh my favorite bard song by far is "Sway as we Kiss". It's just so romantic!
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✭✭✭Galen, for the Irish-Druidic feel. I always love it when I have a reason to go there. 🎼 🎶 🎵 🎻1 -
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✭SilverBride wrote: »I am really fond of the music in Craglorn. Every time I go there I am struck by how adventurous it feels.
What is your favorite zone music?
I was just last night thinking about how it's too much. Belkarth used to be the premiere chill spot but the blaring music just doesn't fit the vibe of sitting around and chatting.Xbox NA AD / Day 1 ScrubDK / Wood Orc Cuisine Enthusiast0 -
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✭The premiere chill spot should be the Plaza of Portals in Fargrave
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✭✭✭That's a difficult one for me to answer, as I like all of the game music.
As far as the bards go, any of them that are voiced by Malukah are my favorites, regardless of which song she is singing.0 -
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✭✭I really enjoy how the music in Craglorn and Cyrodiil switches from heroic to pensive. I love the forlorn music in Cyrodiil, when I'm in a low pop instance (eg. one of the temporary MYM ones), I can ride through and see practically no one, it's so atmospheric (but probably not the Cyro most players know
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There are some themes that play in Craglorn that similarly feel ethereal and beautiful, it's so lovely to farm there listening to the music.
I also like the music in the Alik'r, it's one of the reasons I've been enjoying decorating my Sword Singer's Redoubt so much.0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭I like Craglorn and Cyrodiil too.
The Reach and Vvardenfell a close second.
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Cazador✭✭✭✭✭I really like the zone music for high Isle.
For bard music it's between Elsweyr and Blackwood with my favorite songs being "Dancing Among the Flowers Fine" and "Across the Niben Bar".1 -
LunaFlora✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭i love most zone music so i will list some favourites
- Blackwood
- Arkthzand Caverns
- Summerset
- Solstice
- The Reach
- Murkmire
- Northern and Southern Elsweyr
- High isle, Amenos, Galen, and Y'ffelon
- West Weald
i love the bard music most from Summerset, Elsweyr, Blackwood, Deadlands, and West Weald's Dawnwood.
some individual soundtrack names from the ESO soundtracks on Youtube and Spotify.
basegame, original game soundtrack
- Greenheart
- Auridon Sunrise
- Y'ffre in Every Leaf
- The Heart of Nirn
Blackwood
- Memories of the Marsh.
- Moss on the Cobblestones.
- Fields of Nibenay.
West Weald
- Beneath Autumn Leaves.
- Ithelia, Prince of Paths.
- Land of Grapes and Blades.
High isle
- Through Sunflower Fields.
- Alone in the Green
Greymoor
- The Frozen Hearth.
- Mists of Morthal.
Summerset
- Dusk Song of the High Elves.
- The Lullaby of Praxis.
- Past Defines the Future.
Elsweyr
- Khenarthi's Breath.
- Secrets of Azurah.
- A Desert Born in Twilight.
base game and DLC, Music of Tamriel Volume 2
- A World Made of Metal. (Clockwork City)
- The Brass Fortress. (Clockwork City)
- Anvil: Sun and Shadows. (Gold Coast)
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✭✭I like the sounds in Fargrave. Favorite bards are the ones from Rimmen an Leyawiin.Edited by ESO_player123 on September 30, 2025 7:52AM3 -
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✭✭✭Murkmire's is the best hands down. I'd sacrifice my first born for that zone musicIGN @ emilypumpkin
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✭Sadly I turn in-game music off for game stability but Murkmire music gives me the new adventures vibes.2 -
I'd never really paid much attention to songs being sung by the bards, until way way back with the Morrowind launch, I caught a few lines from a Morrowind bard singing something about the Cliff-Strider, wait, did I just hear something about them (Cliff-Striders) doing something to pillows and a subsequent smell? I waited again listening to to the rotation of songs, listening careful this time to the lyrics of each song. I adored and roared with laughter to the Red Mountain Drinking Song, eventually the Cliff-Strider song returned, I listened carefully and fell in love with this song so much.
I was listening to a rendition of it recently, playing TESO via desk top speakers, I will often just stop whatever I am doing in game just to listen and reflect on the memories I have of this game. My wife happened to be in my study too, and commented on how beautiful a tune it is, (she doesn't play any computer/console game) and asked me to explain what the song was about. I had some difficulty in explaining to someone who has no concept of TESO, exactly what a cliff-strider is and why it might be celebrated so.
Isn't our beautiful game just incredible? So much music to enjoy. Thank you to all all involved in the musical side of our game. On the subject of zone music, the theme of Western Skyrim is utterly haunting, gothic and is perfect background theme for the vampiric Nord twin sisters, 'Toldi the Tuneless' and 'Brea the Tuneful' of Proudspire Manor.Chilli Chillama of Chillrend.
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
'The Little Prince'
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Say to yourself first thing in the morning: I shall meet with people who are meddling, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, and unsociable. They are subject to these faults because of their ignorance of what is good and bad.” Marcus Aurelius.
The grabbing hands
Grab all they can
All for themselves after all
It's a competitive world
Everything counts in large amounts
Depeche Mode
The Veiled Sermon of the Pathless Shrine.
Oh Ithelia, White Star, Mistress of our Road yet Untravelled,
Of sight through tears, my path untaken sings to you, for you are my chorus.
Grant me the courage to defy what has become.
To walk paths that were never meant to be.
I remember the dreams that died in silence.
The choices never allowed to make.
Roads that shimmered just beyond reach.
You are the patron of the unchosen.
The sanctuary of the almost.
The whisper in my heart that cries, there is another way.
This is my heresy.
This is my prayer.
This, my offering:
A life to be lived in defiance of destiny.
In your name, forgotten, but not lost,
I choose the pathless.
Spoken by Alarion the Divergent, last priest of the Unseen Shrine.0 -
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✭✭So apparently the piece I love also plays in other zones, but I mainly hear it in Cyrodiil. It's called "A Land Burdened with History". It always gives me tingles to hear it:
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Cambionn✭✭✭For me it's when I hear Morrowind's or Oblivion's soundtrack playing. I notice it the most often in Vvardenfell and the Gold Coast, but I can imagine a few other zones play them regularly if you visit those (especially those that where in those games).I'm not as active as I would like there, but I sometimes write stuff on the UESP.
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✭Listening to the grahtwood tourist group at the wayshrine for hours while in bg que is the best music to my ears. Been listening to the same voicelines for 10 years nowI only use insightful0 -
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✭Honestly love the bards in the Ebonheart Pact zones, especially the Malukah bards.
I really like the Three Hearts as One bard song regardless of bard singing it.
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✭✭✭SilverBride wrote: »How can we find out the names of the zone songs?
Find the soundtracks online with a track listing?
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✭When I came into the game, I found a bunch of dlc tracks were reused in the base game after the fact. I played the base game zone first, so to me the memories of these tracks are tied to the base game zones rather than where they came from.
That said, my favorites
Both Rivenspire tracks; (northern and southern areas have different ones) which I think are both from Dark Brotherhood.
Stonefalls (again, DB or TG)
Grahtwood/Orisinuim
The updated boss music usually played at dolmens (I think it came from IC)
While I didn't like it at first, I have grown to love West Skyrim's melancholy soundtrack. It feels lonely, cold and dark, appropriate for the zone.
Bard songs: Swagger and Sway, Red Diamond, Over the Seas, and all the ones from Elsewyer (Bandarri Girl and the gambling one)
My favorite startup music is still Elsewyer, because that one was my first and still gets me pumped to adventure when I hear it.0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭SilverBride wrote: »How can we find out the names of the zone songs?
YouTube, Spotify, and other music platforms have the full albums.
you can search for Brad Derrick as he composes the soundtracksmiaow! i'm Luna ( she/her ).
🌸*throws cherry blossom on you*🌸
"Eagles advance, traveler! And may the Green watch and keep you."
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LunaFloraBlossom on pc.0 -
theoverseer✭✭✭Elsweyr. Beautiful, spooky and exotic. And I LOVE the bard in the crafting area in Rimmen.
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✭✭I have an issue with the creepy music from Western Skyrim, especially because I can't change it inside homes. (I can use music boxes, but they all give me headaches after a few loops)
My fav music is from Craglorn/Cyrodiil. There are many good soundtracks to chose from. I love the Auridon theme too. Redguard themes are good too. I am usually pleasantly surprised with good sountracks in the newer DLCs.
I would like an option to change the soundtrack in houses and set one from the ones available in the game.
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