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The New Life Festival is an annual event that comes to ESO in December. Players get various bonuses during the event and can earn festive rewards that are not available at other times of the year.
The Impresario has all of 2025's morphing collectible fragments for the Stonewisp of Truth and Law pet and its morphs: Logical Rune Extraction Customized Action, Robes of Truth and Law Costume, Law of Julianos Dwarven Spider Mount and Wildgrown Chapel of Julianos House.
The new collectible outfit for the season is the Fish Boon Pioneer outfit style, celebrating an Argonian holiday tradition. Below we will explain pretty much everything there is to know about this event, including how you can participate and what rewards you can earn.
Global passive bonuses during the New Life Festival Event in ESO
During the New Life Festival, all players receive a passive 100% Experience buff, making it a perfect time to level up new characters or grind out skill lines.
- 100% more Experience passively. This experience buff stacks with Crown Experience Scrolls and Ambrosias. You do not need to use Breda’s Bottomless Mead Mug anymore.
For even faster leveling, check out our tips on optimizing your gear and traits further down this guide.
How to Participate in the ESO New Life Festival
To begin your holiday adventure, you must first complete the introductory quest.
- Get the Starter Quest: Pick up the free quest, "The New Life Festival," from the Crown Store. You can also travel directly to the festival tent in Eastmarch and speak with Breda.
- Complete the Quest: Finishing the introductory quest unlocks Breda's daily quests and rewards you with your first New Life Festival Box.
- Start Daily Quests: After completing the intro quest, you can accept daily quests from Breda, Petronius Galenius and Anicus Novious at the festival tent.
Getting to the New Life Festival Tent
The festival tent is located in Eastmarch, just outside the city of Windhelm. The fastest ways to get there are:
- Travel to Kynesgrove: The festival tent is located just a short distance from the Kynesgrove Wayshrine in Eastmarch. (show on map)
- Use the Impresario's Portal: Look for the "Gateway to the New Life Festival" portal next to any Impresario (Event Merchant). Using this portal will teleport you directly to the festival area.
- Teleport to a Friend: If a friend or guildmate is already at the event, you can fast travel to them directly.
ESO New Life Festival: How to Get Event Tickets and Festival Boxes
The New Life Festival in The Elder Scrolls Online offers players the chance to earn valuable rewards, including Event Tickets and New Life Festival Boxes. These items are acquired by completing the festival's daily quests.
How to Get Event Tickets
You can earn three Event Tickets the first time you complete a New Life Festival daily quest each day that we have listed below. Over the course of the event, you can accumulate a total of 60 Event Tickets to spend at the Impresario event merchant.
How to Get New Life Festival Boxes
Every time you complete a New Life Festival daily quest, you will be rewarded with a New Life Festival Box. There are a total of 18 daily quests available. You can get the quests from Breda, Petronius Galenus and the new 2025 quest giver Anicus Novious at the festival tent.
List of New Life Festival Daily Quests (2025)
Here is a breakdown of every daily quest, including the new quests from Anicus Novious introduced in 2025 you can complete.
New Quests in 2025: Anicus Novious
You can pick up all eight of Anicus's quests at once. Unlike Breda's quests, these quests are turned in directly to the quest-giver NPC in the field, eliminating the need to return to the Festival Tent for each one.
| Quest Name | Zone / Exact Location | Activity |
| 1. Cold War | Eastmarch: Show on Map | Deliver snowball justice to a handful of unlucky targets in Windhelm. |
| 2. Food for New Life | Auridon: Show on Map | Whip up some tasty meals for the esteemed elders of Auridon. |
| 3. The Dragon’s Hoard: | Reaper’s March: Show on Map | Steal treasure from a dragon lurking in Reaper’s March. |
| 4. The Hunt for Dakoi | Shadowfen: Show on Map | Help an angler in Shadowfen track down a rare fish |
| 5. The Mudman | Grahtwood: Show on Map | The Wood Elves in Grahtwood have some strange traditions, don’t they? One might think they do it just to mess with outsiders |
| 6. Betnikh’s Boon | Betnikh: Show on Map | ORC SMASH! |
| 7. The Judgment of Garth | The Rift: Show on Map | The Rift threatens to be consumed by the hungry Lord of Bears. Can you placate the ornery ursine? |
| 8. The Desert and the Sea | Alik'r Desert: Show on Map | Bring seawater to the distant, landlocked tombs of the ancient Yokudans to bring their spirits peace. |
Breda's Quests
| Quest Name | Zone / Location | Activity |
| 1. Castle Charm Challenge | Alcaire Castle in Stormhaven | Celebrate the New Life Festival with the Bretons of Alcaire. |
| 2. Fish Boon Feast | south of the Percolating Mire Wayshrine in Shadowfen | Celebrate the New Life Festival with the Argonians of Hissmir. |
| 3. Lava Foot Stomp | Davon's Watch, Stonefalls | Celebrate the New Life Festival with the Dunmer of Stonefalls. |
| 4. Mud Ball Merriment | Skywatch, Auridon | Celebrate the New Life Festival with the Bosmer of Skywatch. |
| 5. Signal Fire Sprint | Bergama, Alik'r Desert | Celebrate the New Life Festival with the Redguards of Bergama. |
| 6. Snow Bear Plunge | Windhelm, Eastmarch | Celebrate the New Life Festival with the Nords of Eastmarch. |
| 7. Stonetooth Bash | Stonetooth Fortress, Bethnik | Celebrate the New Life Festival with the Orcs of Betnikh. |
| 8. The Trial of Five-Clawed Guile | Rawl'kha, Reaper's March | Celebrate the New Life Festival with the Khajiit of Rawl'kha. |
| 9. War Orphan’s Sojourn | Temple of the Eight in Grahtwood | Celebrate the New Life Festival with the Altmer of Haven. |
Petronius Galenus Quest
| Quest Name | Zone / Location | Activity |
| Old Life Remembrance | Auridon, Bangkorai, Reaper's March, Stonefalls, The Rift or Glenumbra. | Participate in the Old Life remembrance ceremony. (Imperial themed) |
ESO New Life Festival Rewards: Full List & New Items
Are you wondering what's inside the New Life Festival Boxes this year? This coffer is your source for exclusive cosmetics, motifs, mementos, and more. Here is a complete breakdown of all the New Life Festival rewards you can get from daily quest coffers:
- NEW: Fish Boon Pioneer Outfit Style pages
- If you've already found a Fish Boon Pioneer page that day you have a chance to get previous years Morningstar Frostwear Outfit Style pages or Fragments for the New Life Winter Storm Robes Costume
- Skinchanger motif pages and its style material Wolfsbane
- New Life Runeboxes: Nordic Bather's Towel Costume, Colovian Filigreed Hood Hat, Colovian Fur Hood Hat
- New Life mementos: Surprising Snowglobe, Sword-Swallower's Blade, Juggler's Knives, Fire-Breather's Torches and Mud Ball Pouch.
- New Life-themed crafting ingredients
- Provisioning Recipes: Alcaire Festival Sword-Pie, Old Aldmeri Orphan Gruel, Snow Bear Glow-Wine, Bergama Warning Fire, Betnikh Twice-Spiked Ale, Jagga-Drenched "Mud Ball", Lava Foot Soup-and-Saltrice and Hissmir Fish-Eye Rye
- New Life Furnishing (full list at the bottom of the page)
- Imperial Charity and Deep Winter Writs
- New Life Festival Toys
New Rewards in the New Life Festival Event
Here you will find a list of all new rewards for this years event and the newest collectible you can get with Event Tickets.
How to Get the New Fish Boon Pioneer Outfit in ESO
Fish Boon Pioneer Outfit Style pages have a chance to drop from New Life Festival Boxes (once per day). You can also buy unbound pages from other players or bound pages from the Impresario for 5 tickets each.
The full list of collectible pages includes:
How to Get the Wildgrown Chapel of Julianos House
The Wildgrown Chapel of Julianos is a collectible house assembled from five separate fragments that are bought with Event Tickets. You can buy all five of these fragments from the Impresario during the New Life Festival: Diminutive Runed Archway, Heavy Philosophical Tomes, Lawkeeper's Lectern, Stained Glass Fragment and Thaumaturgic Paving Stone for 10 Event Tickets each.
Quick House Summary
- Prerequisite: You must first assemble the: Stonewisp of Truth and Law pet (3 fragments, 5 Tickets each).
- House Fragments Available This Event: 5 of 5 fragments (50 Tickets).
- Total Tickets for base Pet + 5 House Fragments this event: 75 Event Tickets.
View detailed information and photos of every ESO home in our complete House Catalogue!
Wildgrown Chapel of Julianos Key Features
- Name: Wildgrown Chapel of Julianos
- Location: West Weald (View on map)
- Type: Manor
- Style: Druidic & Colovian
- Player limit: 24
- Weather control: Yes
- Furnishing limit: 350 (700 with ESO+)
ESO New Life Festival Achievements & Crown Store Items
Beyond daily quests, the New Life Festival offers unique achievements that reward you with collectibles, titles, and unlock special furnishings for you to buy. You can also find limited-time Crown Store items during the event.
New Life Festival Achievements & Rewards
- A Warm Winter Storm achievement: Acquire and use 15 Bolts of Winter Storm Cloth from the New Life Festival to unlock the New Life Winter Storm Robes Costume.
- Newly Charitable achievement: Complete 12 New Life Charity Writs, Deep Winter Charity Writs, or Imperial Charity Writs. This awards you with the Crystalfrost Skin.
- Snow Bare Plunge achievement: During the Snow Bear Plunge in Eastmarch, leap into the freezing water with no armor equipped. This enables you to buy the New Life Bonfire furnishing from a Holiday Achievement Furnisher.
- New Life Celebrant achievement: Complete all New Life Festival celebrations (Bredas quests) across Tamriel. This instantly awards you with a "New Life Cerulean Dye" and enables you to buy the New Life Celebrant's Standard furnishing from a Holiday Achievement Furnisher.
- Glory of Magnus meta achievement awards you with the title "Magnanimous". It requires the following achievements: New Life Celebrant, New Life Provisioner, Skinchanger Style Master, Snow Bare Plunge, Five-Clawed Cat Burglar, Lava Foot Shuffle, Mud Ball Miscreant, Signal Fire Zephyr, War Orphan's Benefactor, Fish Boon Angler, Stonetooth Belcher and The Charming Castle Duo.
Limited-Time Crown Store Offerings during the New Life Festival
Keep an eye on the Crown Store for these festive and limited-time items, available only during the New Life Festival.
Enchanted Snow Globe Home
- Name: Enchanted Snow Globe Home
- Price: 4,200 Crowns (Unfurnished) or 5,250 Crowns (Furnished)
- Description: This miniature Snow Globe Home, built with experimental diminution magic borrowed from the Tribunal, is tiny on the outside but expansive on the inside. Its eternally festive gentle snowfall makes it feel even more magical.
Crown Crafting Motif 46: Frostcaster Style
- Price: 1,600 Crowns
- Description: Learn the secrets of the Frostcaster style with this unique crafting motif, allowing you to craft gear with an icy appearance.
ESO New Life Festival Writs Guide: Imperial & Deep Winter Charity
During the New Life Festival, you can earn rewards by completing Charity Writs. These event writs, which are found in New Life Festival Boxes, ask you to craft simple furnishings and provisions.
| Writ Type | Reward Style Pages |
| Deep Winter Charity Writ | Skaal Explorer Outfit Style Pages |
| Imperial Charity Writ | Rkindaleft Dwarven Weapon Style Pages. |
Note: Complete 12 of these writs to earn the Crystalfrost skin. Spread the New Life spirit by helping friends with spare writs!
Completing the Writs: Required Crafts
The writs ask for very basic, cheap items. The required blueprints, patterns, and schematics can be bought from corresponding NPC vendors (Carpenters, Blacksmiths, Clothiers, and Chefs) for 150-270 gold.
Deep Winter Charity Writs:
| Crafting Skill Requirement | Example Crafts Required |
| Woodworking up to Rank 10 | Rough Crate, Bolted, Rough Box, Boarded, Common Washtub, Empty, Common Table, Slanted, Stool, Carved, Rough Crate, Reinforced, Rough Container, Cargo |
| Blacksmithing up to Rank 5 | Rough Knife, Butcher, Rough Cup, Empty, Rough Bowl, Common, Rough Hatchet, Practical |
| Clothing up to Rank 15 | Rough Stretcher, Military, Breton Bed, Bunk, Common Basket, Tall, |
| Provisioning Rank 20 | Common Candle, Set, |
Imperial Charity Writs
| Crafting Skill | Example Crafts Required |
| Provisioning Rank 1 | Chicken Breast, Roast Corn, Grape Preserves |
| Clothing Rank 1 | Rough Bedroll, Basic |
| Woodworking Rank 1 | Common Table, Slanted |
| Blacksmithing Rank 1 | Rough Bowl, Common, Rough Cup, Empty |
If you are new to crafting, you can check out our Crafting guides here: Clothing Guide, Blacksmithing Guide, Woodworking Guide or Provisioning Guide.
Tips for extra Experience boost in ESO
Consumables that grant Experience Buffs
- Crown Experience Scrolls 50%, 100%, 150%.
- Craftable Ambrosia Drinks: Psijic Ambrosia 50%. Aetherial Ambrosia 100%. Mythic Aetherial Ambrosia 150%.
Extra Experience from Gear and traits
- Armor Training Trait up to 11% per armor piece. (Extra xp only from kills.)
- Weapon Training Trait up to 4.5% for one-handed and 9% for two-handed. (Extra xp only from kills.)
- Mora's Whispers Set up to 15% based on how many Lorebooks your character has read. (Enable Lorebooks filter on our interactive map to see where they're located). (Extra xp only from kills.)
- Heartland Conqueror set boost your training weapon trait by 100% (up to for 9% XP Boost one-hand and 18% XP Boost for two-hand weapons). (Extra xp only from kills.)
Other XP boosts
- Rationer Champion Point adds 10 minutes to the duration of Ambrosias.
- Connoisseur Provisioning Passive adds 5/10/20 minutes duration to Ambrosias.
- Active ESO Plus Subscription gives 10% extra experience at all times from all sources.
- Grouped up with one player 10% (a group larger than two will decrease your XP gain).
- ESO Events that include a passive Experience Gain Boost.
- Pledge of Mara Ring adds 10% Experience Gain when worn and grouped up with the player the Ring of Mara is pledged on. (Bought from the Crown Store for 1000 Crowns).
- High Elf Race passive Highborn gives 1% bonus to Experience Gain.
Impresarios wares during the New Life Festival
Impresario can be found in Daggerfall in Glenumbra, Vulkhel Guard in Auridon, Davon's Watch in Stonefalls, or Belkarth in Craglorn when ESO Events are active. She has also been added to all major Chapter zones capitals.
During the New Life Festival, Impresario offers all pet morphs that have been available this year and a Grab Bag which contains older rewards.
- All year: All Fragments for the Stonewisp of Truth and Law - Axiomatic Runestones, Glyph of Law and Powdered Wisp Remains: 5 Event Tickets each.
- Q1 Logical Rune Extraction Customized Action Fragments: Exalted Icon of Logic, Flawless Prism and Jhunal's Magnificent Extrication: 10 Event Tickets each
- Q2 Robes of Truth and Law Costume Fragments: Sapphire Fabric, Golden Fabric and Torc of Wisdom: 10 Event Tickets each
- Q3 Law of Julianos Dwarven Spider Mount Fragments: Whirring Dwarven Dynamo, Comfortable Spider Chassis and Dwarven Control Rod): 10 Event Tickets each
- Q4 Wildgrown Chapel of Julianos House Fragments: Diminutive Runed Archway, Heavy Philosophical Tomes, Lawkeeper's Lectern, Stained Glass Fragment and Thaumaturgic Paving Stone: 10 Event Tickets each
- Fish Boon Pioneer Outfit Style pages (bound): 5 Event Tickets Each
- Impresario's Group Repair Kit: 2 Event Tickets each
- New Life Festival Grab Bag: 2 Event Tickets each
- Companion Commendations, which allow you to immediately rank up one of your companions in their Fighters Guild, Mages Guild or Undaunted Companion skill line: 3 Event Tickets each.
New Life Festival Grab Bag Contents
The New Life Festival Grab Bag offers a chance to get older rewards that you might have missed from previous years. The bag will contain one of the following items that you do not already own:
- Evergreen Outfit Style Pages
- Mud Ball Pouch Memento
- Nordic Bather's Towel Costume
- Colovian Fur Hood Hat
- Colovian Filigreed Hood Hat
- Sword-Swallower's Blade Memento
- Juggler's Knives Memento
- Fire-Breather's Torches Memento
- Snowball Buddy Pet
- Powderwhite Coney Pet
- Nord Carved Armor Style Pages
Event Merchant's Assistant wares during the New Life Festival
- Hide Shoulders armor style: 5 Event Tickets
- Dagonic Quasigriff mount Fragments: 10 Event Tickets each
- Daggerfall Paladin costume fragments: 10 Event Tickets each
- Passion Dancer's Attire costume fragments: 10 Event Tickets each
Indrik Vendor wares during the New Life Festival
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 (always available and consumed to create the other Indriks): 5 Event Tickets each
- Crimson Indrik mount berries: 10 Event Tickets each
- Pure-Snow Indrik mount berries: 10 Event Tickets each
- Frost-Light Indrik pet: 10 Event Tickets
- Rosethorn Indrik pet: 10 Event Tickets
Full list of New Life Festival Furnishing
The following furnishing have a chance to drop from New Life Festival Boxes:
- Common Candle, Set
- Common Lantern, Stationary
- Dark Elf Candle, Claw Base
- Indoril Lantern, Hanging
- Nord Candleholder, Cup
- Orcish Brazier, Smoldering
- Redguard Candlestick, Practical
- Redguard Firepit, Stone
- Redguard Sconce, Polished
- Telvanni Candelabra, Organic
- Breton Chamberstick, Short
- Breton Chamberstick, Tall
- Breton Lightpost, Arched
- Breton Lightpost, Single
- Breton Sconce, Sturdy Torch
- Breton Sconce, Torch
- Breton Streetlight, Paired
- Candle, Group
- Common Campfire, Outdoor
- Common Candle, Set
- Common Candles, Pair
- Common Lantern, Hanging
- Daedric Brazier, Table
- Dark Elf Candelabra, Angled
- Dark Elf Lantern, Hanging
- Dark Elf Lantern, Oil
- Dark Elf Streetlamp, Stone
- Dark Elf Streetlamps, Stone
- Dres Candles, Meditation
- Dres Lamp, Portable
- Dres Lantern, Stationary
- Dwarven Candles, Cup
- Dwarven Candlestick, Laboratory
- High Elf Brazier, Winged
- High Elf Candle, Winged
- High Elf Lamppost, Spiked
- High Elf Lamppost, Stone
- Hlaalu Lantern, Oversized Vellum
- Indoril Brazier, Pedestal
- Indoril Candelabra, Shrine Chamber
- Indoril Candelabra, Temple
- Indoril Chandelier, Knotwork
- Indoril Lightpost, Stone
- Indoril Streetlight, Brick
- Indoril Streetlight, Stone
- Khajiit Brazier, Hanging
- Khajiit Candle, Clawfoot
- Khajiit Firepit, Brick
- Nord Lantern, Cage
- Nord Lantern, Hanging
- Nord Streetlamps, Stone
- Nord Torch, Triple
- Orcish Brazier, Pedestal
- Orcish Brazier, Smoldering
- Orcish Candle Sconce, Horn
- Orcish Chandelier, Practical
- Orcish Chandelier, Spiked
- Orcish Sconce, Bordered
- Redguard Brazier, Robust
- Redguard Candelabra, Practical
- Redguard Candleholder, Practical
- Redguard Candlestick, Polished
- Redguard Candlestick, Practical
- Redguard Sconce, Polished
- Redguard Streetlamp, Single
- Redguard Streetlamps, Full
- Witches Brazier, Primitive Log
Now you know everything about the New Life Festival in ESO. The Elder Scrolls Online is a massively multiplayer online game developed by Zenimax Online Studios.
