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Blackwood Sneak Peak! In this episode of the UESPodcast, your hosts Pylawn and Doc are joined by Benefactor from The Imperial Library, to go over the Elder Scrolls news of the week and talk about Pylawn and Benefactor's time with the Blackwood Preview Server!

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Show Notes

Roster

Host:

• Pylawn

Guests:

• DoctorWhoDat219
• Benefactor

News

ESO:

• Blackwood Preview!
  • https://blog.uesp.net/blackwood-preview-early-access/
  • Lots to cover here!
  • We had access!
  • Thanks ZOS!
• Endeavors
  • https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/59925
  • We will explain more about how endeavors work later in the show :)
  • New system that lets you purchase crown crate items with in game currency
• More Companion info
  • https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/59917
  • Later in the show :)

Legends:

• Lucky Gauntlet: April 16 – April 19
  • The Field Lane for this event has been turned into the Lucky Lane, which grants a random keyword to creatures summoned into it. Summon the right creature at the right time and victory could be yours! Entry in the Lucky Gauntlet costs one (1) Event Ticket or 150 Gold, with up to three runs allowed.
  • The Lucky Gauntlet begins Friday, April 16 at 12pm ET and closes at 12pm ET on Monday, April 19. Events in The Elder Scrolls: Legends change regularly, so check in often to see what new challenges await!

Blades:

• Should be some news soon...

Supporters

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• Clifton Petersen
• Isabel Draken

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• DoubleLast
• BeautifulSkyrim

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Wiki:

Scholarly Pursuits

I will ask our guests what they have been working on in the world of TES! This can be game play, wiki work, discord things, anything relevant to UESP/TES that you’ve been working on the past couple weeks / when you were last on the show.

• Pylawn
  • I can finally talk about the things I’ve been doing!
  • Blackwood preview!
  • Was so busy
  • Played lots of ESO
  • CP gain is ludicrous
• Doc
  • Surprisingly not much! Been a long week, so haven’t done much. Been doing crafting dailies, and joined some new prog groups that will be starting this week...so super excited about that!
  • Joined the NA PC peeps for thursday runs...made 30+ CP points just by running dungeons! Was good fun. :)
• Benefactor
  • Blackwood preview kept me quite busy
  • Working on another project soon to be announced
  • Will be uploading books to Imperial Library this upcoming week

Topic: Blackwood Early Access

Blackwood Zone Overview

• Show map from UESP
• The chapter is named after an area of southern Cyrodiil bordering
• Leyawiin
• Gideon
• Brief look at other zones

Story

• Don’t worry, no spoilers yet
• What we know already
• Mehrunes Dagon
  • Story about the deal with a devil
    • The longhouse emperors got greedy it seems
  • Takes place 800 years before TES 4
  • Asked to investigate a threat
  • Find out that there’s an issue we need to dig into
    • Find out there’s more going on than we thought
• Evil and Lyranth
  • Eveli wants to be a hero
  • Lyranth the opposite of Eveli

Discuss Characters

• Eveli and Lyranth
• Imperials and Argonians
• Familiar faces

Companions

• Discuss the role that they fill
• Overview of how they work
• Some thoughts on how they played.

Oblivion Portals

• New World Event
• Not shown on map
• Appear randomly
• Take you to deadlands for dungeon adventure

Base Game Updates

• Console Enhanced

• New Tutorial
  • Portal room to choose your own path
  • Any base game or chapter start experiences
• Endeavors
  • Daily/Weekly Task system
  • Kill 2 Daedra
  • Complete 1 quest
  • Complete 3 dungeons
  • Award various things
    • XP / Coin
  • Also get Seals of Endeavor
    • Can be used to purchase items from current Crown Crates
  • Account bound - not character based

• Likely this is due to the Microsoft buyout and Microsoft’s policy on Loot boxes

CP Changes

• Less CP needed