Double EXP: You can acquire a 100% EXP buff collectible by completing a simple quest called “Breda’s Bottomless Mead Mug“, you can obtain this quest from Breda at the event location. This EXP boost will stack with any other XP bonus.

The New Life Festival takes place towards the end of the year, basically in December during Christmas Time. The New Life Festival in-game event begins this Thursday, December 17 at 10AM EST, and runs until Tuesday, January 5 at 10AM EST. This Holiday Event only takes place in the base game zones, therefore you don’t need ESO+ or any DLC to enjoy it.

• The New Life Festival Achievements can be found in the Achievement List under “Holiday Events”.
• Event Tickets: You can earn Event Tickets once per day on the first New Life Festival Quest that you finish (per account).

Before you start with the festival, you need to obtain the New Life Festival Scroll from the Crown Store, The scrolls is free, you don't have to spend any crowns or gold for it. Now make sure to use the New Life Festival Scroll in your inventory to unlock “The New Life Festival” quest. After you have done that you need to speak to Breda, more about her in the next section of the guide.

Location of the New Life Festival Event

You can find the New Life Festival tent in Eastmarch, close to the Kynesgrove Wayshrine. There you can find Breda, who will give you the quests for the festival. There are 9 different quests and they can all be done every day of the event.

If you are having trouble traveling to Windhelm:

• You can take a boat or cart from the Alik’r Desert (DC Alliance) or Malabal Tor (AD Alliance), travel by road from The Rift, or teleport to a fellow player or guildmate that’s already in the area.
• You can teleport directly to the New Life festival tent via the portal found at Impresario (Event Merchant) locations. 

Quests and Achievements

The Quests will send you all over Tamriel, there’s a quest for each playable race. For example, the Khajiit themed quest will send you to Reaper’s March. Finishing a quest will reward you with a “New Life Gift Box” which can contain provisioning recipes, pages of the Skinchanger Motif as well as rare hats, costumes (like the Nordic Bather’s Towel), mementos and Charity Writs.

• Castle Charm Challenge (Breton) 
• Fish Boon Feast (Argonian)
• Lava Foot Stomp (Dunmer)
• Mud Ball Merriment (Bosmer)
• Signal Fire Sprint (Redguard)
• Snow Bear Plunge (Nord)
• Stonetooth Bash (Orc)
• The Trial of Five-Clawed Guile (Khajiit)
• War Orphan’s Sojourn (Altmer)
• Old Life Remembrance (Imperial)

Note: All these quests can be done on every character that you have.

Doing every quest at least once will reward you with the “New Life Cerulean” dye. There are several additional achievements, earning them all will net you the “New Life Magnanimous” title for your character. For that title, you will have to do several special achievements for each quest, learn the full Skinchanger Motif and all the New Life Provisioning recipes.

• Glory of Magnus Achievement 
• New Life Provisioner Achievement 
• New Life Celebrant Achievement 
• Newly Charitable Achievement
• Skinchanger Style Master Achievement

Crystal Frost Skin

The Crystalfrost Skin can be obtained by completing the “Newly Charitable” Achievement. For that Achievement you will have to complete 12 New Life Charity Writs (any Charity Writ type works). Those are unique Crafting Writs, only obtainable during the New Life Festival. You will need to craft some basic furniture to complete the writs.

Rewards from the New Life Festival

A "New Life Gift Box" typically contains random items such as crafting materials, consumable mementos, and Wolfsbane Incense, the Skinchanger style item. However, they will also have a chance to contain rarer items, including:

• Skinchanger Motif chapters 
• New Life recipes 
• New Life collectibles (packaged in Runeboxes and tradeable): 
  • Sword-Swallower's Blade memento 
  • Juggler's Knives memento 
  • Fire-Breather's Torches memento 
  • Mud Ball Pouch memento 
  • Nordic Bather's Towel costume 
  • Colovian Filigreed Hood hat 
  • Colovian Fur Hood hat 
  • New Snowball Buddy pet 
• A selection of lights, lamps, and lanterns for your home to celebrate the Signal Fire Sprint 
• Draughts of Stealth and Escape to celebrate the Trial of Five-Clawed Guile

Charity Writs & Imperial Charity Writs

Additionally, when you open a New Life Festival Gift Box, you can also receive one of these two different types of Charity Writs.

• Deep Winter Charity Writs—Complete to unlock pages from the Skaal Explorer outfit style. 
• New Imperial Charity Writs—Complete to unlock pages from the Rkindaleft Dwarven Weapon Style.

Housing Items

You can find the holiday achievement furnisher Heralda Garscroft in Grahtwood, Stormhaven, Deshaan and Vvardenfell. If you’re unsure whether you’ve completed the required achievements, check the achievements section of your journal for more information. The New Life Festival achievements can be found under "Holiday Events".

• Heralda Garscroft in Grahtwood
• Heralda Garscroft in Stormhaven
• Heralda Garscroft in Deshaan
• Heralda Garscroft in Vvardenfell
• Tildannire in Summerset

Furnishings:

• The New Life Bonfire – Available for 10,000 gold once you complete the “Snow Bare Plunge” achievement
• The New Life Celebrant's Standard – Available for 2,500 gold once you complete the “New Life Celebrant” achievement
• More items such as: Banner of Mayhem, Corpse of Mayhem, Argonian, Corpse of Mayhem, Khajiit, Corpse of Mayhem, Orc, New Life Bonfire, New Life Celebrant's Standard, Probably-Not-Punch Bowl of Mayhem, Standard of Mayhem, Tree, Jester's Large, Tree, Jester's Small, Witch's Festival, Cursed Totem, Witch's Festival, Plunder Skulls, Witches Remains, Hagraven.

Impresario & Event Tickets

The first time you complete a New Life Festival quest each day, you’ll receive three Event Tickets in addition to your Gift Box and other rewards. With Event Tickets, you can purchase the following goods from the Impresario:

• All four Nascent Indrik Feathers 
• All 2020 Indrik Berries for the Spectral, Icebreath, Mossheart, and Crimson Indriks 
  • Allowing you to complete any evolutions you might have missed this year! 
• The Rosethorn Indrik pet 
• The Snowball Buddy pet 
• Pages for the new Rkindaleft Dwarven Weapon Style 
  • These are bound to your account 
• Group Repair Kits

The Crimson Indrik will be ESO’s final Indrik evolution, so don’t hesitate to snatch up this striking red mount!

How Do I Obtain The New Life Festival Writs?

Every time you turn in a New Life Daily Quest by talking to Breda, you have a chance of getting one of the Writs as a reward. They are tradeable between players, so make sure to help your friends out if you have spare ones and they are still working on earning that skin, spread the Christmas and New Life spirit!

How To Craft Furnishings & How To Get The Blueprints?

The writs will ask you to craft very basic, cheap furnishings. The blueprints, patterns and schematics for those furnishings can be bought for small amounts of gold from Crafting NPCs.

• Tailoring 4 (unlocked at Clothing Level 15)
• Woodworking 3 (Unlocked at Woodworking Level 10)
• Metalworking 2 (Unlocked at Blacksmithing Level 5)

• Clothing Crafting Guide
• Blacksmithing Crafting Guide
• Woodworking Crafting Guide

Crown Store Items & Motifs

There is a wide variety of Crown Store items available during the New Life Festival.

Enchanted Snow Globe Home

You can now also acquire the Enchanted Snow Globe Home, too. The entrance to this home can be found within the New Life Festival Tent next to Breda on the table.

Enchanted Snow Globe House

 

Skinchanger and Frostcaster Motif

The Skinchanger Motif is obtainable through the New Life Festival Gift Boxes and the Frostcaster Motif is an exclusive purchase from the Crown Store available during the New Life Festival.

Stahlrim Armor Pack

The Stalhrim Armor Pack will be available in the Crown Store on all platforms during the New Life Festival.

Sabre Cat Frost Atronach and Ice Nixad

Crown Gem Exclusive: Both the Sabre Cat Frost Atronach and Ice Nixad can only be purchased via Crown Gems in the Crown Store.

Note: It has not been confirmed whether these two exclusives will be available this year.



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