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The ESO Whitestrake's Mayhem event, (formerly known as Midyear Mayhem), returns to Tamriel. Whether you are a veteran warrior or a new recruit, this guide covers everything you need to maximize your Alliance Points (AP), XP, and event rewards.
You can find community created PvP builds for every class on the PvP builds overview page.
Quick Event Facts
- Dates: Wednesday, January 21, 2026, to February 4, 2026 (10 AM EST).
- Total Tickets: 42 (3 per day).
- Level Requirement: Level 10 or higher.
- Primary Buffs: +100% Alliance Points and Tel Var.
- Event Zones: Cyrodiil, Imperial City and Battlegrounds
Find all Cyrodiil points of interest, Town locations and resource nodes on our ESO-Hub Interactive Map!
Global passive bonuses during the Whitestrake's Mayhem Event
- +100% Tel Var earned (does not include kills)
- +100% Alliance Points earned
- +100% Experience from kills: earned in PvP: Cyrodiil, Imperial City and Battlegrounds
- Double yield from harvesting nodes in Cyrodiil and Imperial City.
AP Stacking Tip
You can stack the event bonus with one of the following War Tortes:
- Colovian War Torte: +50% AP
- Molten War Torte: +100% AP
- White-Gold War Torte: +150% AP
Here is a guide for: Alliance War Skill Boosters.
How to Participate (Step-by-Step)
You can join the ESO Whitestrake's event in 2026 by activating the Whitestrake's Mayhem Event Quest in the Crownstore.
- Get the Quest: Pick up the free quest "Event Quest: Whitestrake’s Mayhem" from the in-game Crown Store.
- Locate Predicant Maera: Find her at any Battleground camp (in major cities like Vulkhel Guard, Davon's Watch, or Daggerfall) or at your Alliance’s main gate in Cyrodiil.
- No Travel Required: You are not required to travel to Cyrodiil to start the quest: Battleground camps are accessible from the starter zones.
- Passive Buffs: The Scroll of Pelinal’s Ferocity is no longer needed. All 100% boosts to AP, XP, and Tel Var are now global and passive for the duration of the event.
Use our ESO-Hub Interactive Map to quickly locate Predicant Maera’s exact position in "Whitestrake's Mayhem Celebration" Camps.
Pro-Tips for PvP Haters & Survival
As a general rule from PvP veterans: Don't Fear Death. You will die a lot, but here are a couple of tips to at least help you get tickets!
- PVE Questing: Stick to Town Quests in Bruma, Vlastarus, Cropsford, Cheydinhal, or Chorrol. These towns offer simple "kill X" or "interact with X items" quests that count for your Cyrodiil dailies and tickets.
- Repair Walls: Add Cyrodiil Repair Kits to your Quickslot, target a wall, postern or door in your own alliances keep that is not at full health and repair it. This gives you Alliance Points and you can stay inside the keep the whole time.
- Scout Quest: Scouting Missions from your alliance’s mission board do not require any PvP. Just ride to a specific resource or keep and "write a report". You can then die to the npc's and respawn at your base to return the quest.
- Group up or follow Zone Chat: Just sticking to a group helps your chances of getting Alliance Points.
- Queue for the new 7 day campaigns: The campaign loyal PvP players generally remain in their main campaigns, making the 7 day campaigns more peaceful as everyone just wants to finish quests and Alliance Points.
- Bank your Tel Var: You lose 50% on death in the Imperial City, so deposit stones at your base before and after each quest. (Same way you bank gold, just choose Tel Var from the drop down list)
- Purge Siege Dots: Most of your death recap in keep fights is probably "Flaming Oil" or some other siege Damage over Time. You can remove these effects with the following skills: Purge (all classes), Bull Netch (Warden), Expunge (Necromancer) and Renewing Undeath (Necromancer +requires corpses).
How to Earn Event Tickets (3 Per Day)
During the Whitestrake's Mayhem event, you can earn up to three event tickets per day by completing two different PvP activities for a total of 42 Tickets.
- 2 Tickets: Complete one Cyrodiil daily quest or any Battlegrounds daily.
- 1 Ticket: From your first Imperial City district daily quest.
Related: Imperial City District Daily Quests
How to get Pelinal's Boon Boxes
As you battle your fellow players in Cyrodiil, Battlegrounds, and the Imperial City, you'll also earn Pelinal's Boon Boxes. You can get these in addition to your regular Rewards for the Worthy containers and as PvP daily quest rewards from the following:
- Daily Cyrodiil PvP quests: Scouting, Battle, Warfront, Conquest Missions, Elder Scroll capture and recapture quests
- Daily Cyrodiil Town quests: These are found in Vlastarus, Bruma, Cropsford, Cheydinhal and Chorrol
- Daily Battleground quests: Picked up from from Battlemaster Rivyn at Gladiators Quarters
- Daily Imperial City Distrcit Quests
Pelinal's Boon Box Rewards
When you receive and open one of Pelinal's Boon Boxes, you will get some Tel Var stones, and you also have a chance to receive any the following items:
- NEW in 2026: Tava's Goshawk Outfit Style Pages.
- Truth in Wisdom or Arkay Unending Cycle style pages (if you've already found a Tava's Goshawk page that day)
- Motif pages for Daggerfall, Aldmeri, Ebonheart and Akaviri style motifs
- Transmute Crystals
- Alchemy Reagents
- PvP equipment such as Repair Kits, Siege Weapons and Forward Camps.
- Coldharbour Siege weapons
- Prismatic Runestones
- Books of Pelinal housing items
Imperial City bosses have a chance to drop pages for the Ayleid Lich and Dovah's Du'ul armor style.
New Rewards in 2026 Whitestrake's Mayhem
Tava's Goshawk Outfit Style Pages
The Tava's Goshawk Style Pages drop from Pelinal's Boon Boxes during Whitestrake's Mayhem. You can also buy unbound pages from other players with gold or bound pages from the Impresario for 5 tickets each.
This outfit style has the following pages available:
| Head | Tava's Goshawk Helm |
| Shoulder | Tava's Goshawk Pauldrons |
| Hands | Tava's Goshawk Gauntlets |
| Chest | Tava's Goshawk Cuirass |
| Waist | Tava's Goshawk Girdle |
| Legs | Tava's Goshawk Greaves |
| Feet | Tava's Goshawk Sabatons |
Collectibles & Morphing got a Major Change in 2026
A significant update for 2026: Assembling a morphing collectible no longer consumes the base pet. You are still required to own the base bet, it just won't get consumed.
- Base Pet: Roseblood Bat pet requires three fragments at 10 tickets each.
- New Morph: Roseblood Wings Recall Customized Action. The first fragment, the Embellished Dance Card, is available for 10 tickets.
How to Get the Roseblood Bat Base Pet
The Roseblood Bat Pet fragments are bought from The Impresario. Each Fragment will now cost 10 tickets each, up from the previous 5 as they are no longer consumed (but still required for the "morphs").
- Crimson Bat Statuette
- Red Rose Petals
- Sharp Rosebush Thorn
Roseblood Wings Recall Customized Action
The Whitestrake's Mayhem event will present you with the first fragments for the new Roseblood Wings Recall Customized Action: Embellished Dance Card for 10 Event Tickets each. Requires the base pet Roseblood Bat which will not be consumed!
- Embellished Dance Card
All other Rewards you can acquire during the Whitestrake's Mayhem Event in 2026
Truth in Wisdom and Arkay Unending Cycle Styles
- Truth in Wisdom and Arkay Unending Cycle Outfit Style Pages have a chance to drop from Imperial City Sweepers and bosses.
- Truth in Wisdom has a chance to drop from Pelinal Boon Boxes after you've acquired the new Tava's Goshawk style that day. Also has a chance to drop Imperial City Sweepers & bosses.
In 2026 the Arkay Unending Cycle Outfit Style has also been moved into the Veteran Bags of Glory even though it still has a chance to drop
Alliance Breton Terrier pet
The Alliance Breton Terrier pet fragments still drop from Pelinal Boon Boxes, but can also be found in the Bag of Veteran's Glory. The Terriers armor is based on the alliance of the character you use the Breton Terrier Bones fragments with.
- Pet variables: Covenant Breton Terrier, Dominion Breton Terrier and Pact Breton Terrier
Furniture
- Probably-Not-Punch Bowl of Mayhem Furnishing can be bought after you've completed the Star-Made Knight achievement.
- Standard of Mayhem Furnishing can be bought after you've completed the Mayhem Connoisseur achievement.
- Corpse of Mayhem, Argonian Furnishing can be bought after you've completed the Wrath of the Whitestrake achievement.
How to get "Mayhem Victors Laurel Wreath" Collectible
As always, you can earn the Mayhem Victor's Laurel Wreath collectible by completing the Star-Made Knight Meta-achievement.
- Mayhem Connoisseur: Receive the blessing of the Whitestrake at one of the Alliance Gates during the Whitestrake's Mayhem.
- Echo of Pelinal's Fury: Read a Scroll of Pelinals Ferocity during the Whitestrake's Mayhem.
- Hand of the Whitestrake: Acquire your 25th Pelinals Mayhem Boon Box.
- Wrath of the Whitestrake: Defeat 50 opponents during the Whitestrake's Mayhem.
- Pelinavant the Scourge: Win a Battleground match during the Whitestrake's Mayhem.
- Pelinaline the Bloody: Capture a Keep in Cyrodiil during the Whitestrake's Mayhem.
- Pelinerrif Insurgent: Capture an Imperial District during the Whitestrake's Mayhem.
Note that access to the Imperial City DLC game pack is required to earn all of the above achievements. You can pick the Imperial City DLC up for free from the in-game Crown Store!
Impresario Wares
Impresario can be found in Daggerfall in Glenumbra, Vulkhel Guard in Auridon, Davon's Watch in Stonefalls, or Belkarth in Craglorn. She has also been added to all major Chapter zones capitals.
- All three Fragments for the Roseblood Bat pet - Crimson Bat Statuette, Red Rose Petals and Sharp Rosebush Thorn: 10 Event Tickets each.
- First fragment for Roseblood Wings Recall - Embellished Dance Card: 10 Event Tickets.
- Bound Style pages for the Tava's Goshawk Outfit Style: 5 Event Tickets each
- Group repair kits: 2 Event Tickets each
- Companion Commendations (Fighters Guild, Mages Guild or Undaunted Companion skill line) : 3 Event Tickets each.
- Bag of Veteran's Glory (Containing any collectible that you don't currently own from previous Mayhem events): 2 Event Tickets each
Bag of Veteran's Glory Rewards
The Bag of Veteran's Glory can be bought from Impresario for 2 Event Tickets each. It contains any collectible that you don't currently own from previous years Mayhem events. All of the items you can acquire are listed below:
- Ayleid Lich Style Pages
- Arkay Unending Cycle Style Pages
- Dovah's Du'ul Outfit Style Pages
- Sancre Tor Sentry Weapon and Outfit Style Pages
- Legion Zero Armor Style Pages
- Legion Zero Vigiles Armor Style Pages
- Second Legion Armor Style Pages
- Alliance Banner Emotes: Aldmeri Dominion Banner, Daggerfall Covenant Banner and Ebonheart Pact Banner
- Banner-Bearer Shields and Staves Pages: Covenant Banner-Bearer Shield, Covenant Banner-Bearer Staff, Dominion Banner-Bearer Shield, Dominion Banner-Bearer Staff, Pact Banner-Bearer Shield and Pact Banner-Bearer Staff
- Ebonsteel Knight Armor Style Pages
- The Black Drake's Body Warpaint / The Black Drake's Face Warpaint Markings
- Black Drake Clanwrap Style Pages
- Battle-Scarred Body / Battle-Scarred Visage markings
- House Dufort Banneret Armor Style Pages
- Tools of Domination Weapon Style Pages
- Gloamsedge Outfit Style Pages
Event Merchant's Assistant Wares
The Event Merchant's Assistant Philius Dormier has the following items available during this event:
- Hide Shoulders armor style: 5 Event Tickets
- Hoardhunter Ursauk Mount fragments: 10 Event Tickets each
- Sacred Hourglass of Alkosh Furnishing fragments: 10 Event Tickets each.
- Doomchar Plateau house fragments: 10 Event Tickets each.
Indrik Vendor Wares
Nenuluare, the Indrik Vendor, will also make an appearance in Belkarth, Craglorn. She'll be selling a few different Indriks, a special mount and pet that first appeared as an event reward in previous years.
During this event, Nenuluare will be selling the following items:
- Nascent Indrik mount feathers (must be owned before using berries to create a different Indrik mount): 5 Event Tickets each.
- Dawnwood Indrik mount berries: 10 Event Tickets each.
- Spectral Indrik mount berries: 10 Event Tickets each.
- Springtide Indrik pet: 10 Event Tickets each.
- Haunting Indrik pet: 10 Event Tickets each.
If you want to learn more about how the Indrik Vendor works in ESO, please check our Indrik Vendor Guide.
The Golden Vendor during the Whitestrake's Event in ESO
The Cyrodiil weekend merchant Adhazabi Aba-daro (The Golden Vendor) stocks all Alliance War Set Jewelry. She only accepts Alliance Points and will not sell Monster Masks during this event.
- Weekend 1: Legendary necklaces
- Weekend 2: Legendary rings
Be sure to subscribe to the Golden Vendor with our handy Dwemer Automaton Bot.
How long does the Whitestrake's Mayhem AP buff last in ESO?
The AP (Alliance Point) and XP buffs are now passively applied to you and are always active as long as the event runs.
If you have further questions about the Whitestrake's Mayhem in ESO (The Elder Scrolls Online) please visit our Community Discord Server!
