What is the fastest way to get a fast mount in eso?

Train Speed at a Stablemaster daily. As of Update 49 each session grants 3 upgrades, so you can max out Speed in 20 sessions rather than 60. If you want instant results, Crown Riding Lessons from the Crown Store each add one Speed upgrade with no daily cooldown. The Continuous Attack passive in the Assault skill line, unlocked at PvP Rank 3, also adds a flat mounted speed bonus on top of your trained Speed and costs no training points.

How do you get all mounts in eso?

There's no single route. The three original horses are available from any Stablemaster for 25,000 gold each. As of Update 49 (March 2026), 17 additional mounts are purchasable for gold from Stablemasters across Tamriel. Beyond that, mounts come from the Crown Store, Crown Crates, the Gold Coast Bazaar, Impresario event fragments, Antiquities, trial achievements and milestone rewards. Collecting everything requires engaging with most of those systems over time.

How do I ride a mount in eso?

Open your Collections menu (default U on PC), go to the Mounts tab and double-click any mount to set it as active. Press your mount keybind (H on PC) to summon it in the world. Pressing it again dismounts you. You can check or change your mount keybind in Settings.

How many mounts are in eso?

Hundreds, spread across 13 categories including Equines, Felines, Canines, Constructs, Cervines, Elephants and Multi-Rider mounts. The full roster is browsable on the ESO mounts collectibles page.

Does mount training carry between characters?

No. Each character trains independently.

Can I use any mount on my companions?

Yes. You can assign any mount from your collection to a companion through the Companion Menu.

ESO Mounts Guide - What are mounts and how to get them - ESO Hub

Mounts have been part of ESO since launch in 2014, but the system has changed significantly over the years. Update 49 brought the biggest overhaul to mount acquisition in the game's history, adding 17 gold-purchasable mounts across Tamriel and overhauling riding training.

This guide covers everything you need to know about getting your first mount, training it, buying mounts for gold, what's available in the Crown Store and how multi-rider mounts work.

Your First Mount

You don't need to buy your first mount. At level 10 you'll automatically receive the Sorrel Horse through the milestone reward system. It's basic but it gets you moving while you train your riding skill.

Other ways to get a free mount early:

Sorrel Horse: Milestone reward at level 10, no cost
Imperial Horse: Comes with the Imperial Edition upgrade
Ebon Dwarven Wolf: Obtained through the Antiquities system once you have the Greymoor chapter (requires finding and excavating the relevant leads)

One important restriction worth knowing: mounts and collectibles are tied to the account they were unlocked on and do not transfer between servers (NA, EU) or platforms (PC, PlayStation, Xbox). If you switch platforms or start fresh on a different server, your collection doesn't carry over.

Mount Training

Every mount shares the same stat pool on a given character. Training any stat upgrades your characters riding skill which which applies to all mounts. The stats you can train are:

Stat	Max Points	Effect
Speed	60	Increases mounted movement speed by up to 60%
Stamina	60	Increases the stamina bar your mount uses for sprinting
Carry Capacity	60	Increases your inventory bag space by up to 60 slots

Important: Mount training is per character, not account-wide.

If you want mounted speed without spending training points, unlock the Continuous Attack passive in the Assault skill line at PvP Rank 3. It gives a flat mounted speed bonus on top of whatever Speed you've trained. It's the fastest way to feel a meaningful speed difference early on before your training catches up.

How to Train

Visit any Stablemaster in a main city and open the training tab (now the default tab when you open the Stablemaster menu).

Each training session costs 500 gold
There is a daily cooldown per character (View daily reset timer)
As of Update 49, each session now grants 3 upgrades instead of 1, tripling the training rate
You choose where to put all three upgrades, so you can stack them into Speed or spread them across stats
Crown Riding Lessons from the Crown Store still grant only 1 upgrade each and are unaffected by this change

How Mounts Work

A few mechanics worth knowing regardless of which mount you're riding.

How to choose your active mount

Open your Collections menu (default U on PC)
Navigate to the Mounts tab
Browse the mounts you've unlocked.
Double-click a mount to set it as your active mount
Your active mount is the one that gets summoned when you press your mount keybind
You can change your active mount at any time outside of combat

How to summon and dismount

Press your mount keybind (default H on PC) to summon it in the world
Press the same keybind again to dismount
To change your mount keybind, go to Settings

How to sprint on your mount

Summon your mount and start riding
Hold Shift (PC default) to sprint
Keep an eye on your mount's stamina bar while sprinting
Release Shift to stop sprinting and let the stamina bar recover
Avoid taking damage while sprinting or your stamina will drain faster

What happens when you take damage

Any incoming damage drains your mount's stamina bar
If you take a hit while the stamina bar is empty, you're knocked off and briefly stunned
To avoid this, dismount before entering combat or keep moving to reduce incoming hits

How to name your mount

Open your Collections menu (default U on PC)
Navigate to the Mounts tab
Select your active mount
Choose the rename option and enter your preferred name

Gold mounts

As of Update 49 (March 2026), 17 mounts are available for gold from Stablemasters distributed across Tamriel. You can see each mount standing near the Stablemaster in the world without needing to open a menu.

The three original horses are still available at 25,000 gold each from any Stablemaster. The new mounts are distributed by zone and range from 50,000 to 400,000 gold.

For the full breakdown of every mount, price and Stablemaster location, see our complete U49 gold mounts guide.

The Three Original Horses

Mount	Price	Available
Bay Dun Horse	25,000	Any Stablemaster
Brown Paint Horse	25,000	Any Stablemaster
Midnight Steed	25,000	Any Stablemaster

New U49 Gold Mounts

Big Cats

Five Big Cat mounts can be bought with gold from Stablemasters.

Mount Name	Price	Stablemaster Location(s)
Ashbone Sabre Cat	100,000	Bangkorai (Map) Western Skyrim (Map)
Highland Spotted Lynx	100,000	Craglorn (Map) Summerset (Map)
Noble Riverhold Senche-Lion	50,000	Greenshade (Map) Rivenspire (Map)
Sapiarchic Senche-Serval	100,000	Gold Coast (Map) West Weald (Map)
Senche-Cougar	50,000	Reaper's March (Map)

Wolves, Durzogs, Guars & Kagoutis

Stablemasters now sells a Guar, Kagouti, Durzog, Fox and Wolf mount for gold.

Mount Name	Price	Stablemaster Location(s)
Bleakrock Snowdog	50,000	Galen (Map) Glenumbra (Map)
Frostborn Durzog Mangler	200,000	Coldharbour (Map) Fargrave (Map), Solstice (Map)
Hearthfire Kagouti	100,000	Deshaan (Map)
Ja'zennji Siir Fox	50,000	Auridon (Map) Blackwood (Map)
Shadowghost Guar	50,000	Murkmire (Map) Shadowfen (Map) Stonefalls (Map)

Deer, Horses, Camels and Rams

Stablemasters also offer one brand new Horse mount, one Elk, one Camel and one Ram mount for gold.

Mount Name	Price	Stablemaster Location(s)
Ebon Dwarven Horse	400,000	Clockwork City (Map)
Faunfrolic Great Elk	200,000	Grahtwood (Map) High Isle (Map) Malabal Tor (Map)
Hammerfell Camel	50,000	Alik'r Desert (Map) Hew's Bane (Map)
Yorgrim River Ram	100,000	Eastmarch (Map) Stormhaven (Map) The Rift (Map)

Bears, Nix-Oxen and Senche-Raht

Stablemasters also sell one new Nix-Ox, Bear and a Senche-raht mounts for gold.

Mount Name	Price	Stablemaster Location(s)
Rubyflare Torchnix	100,000	Telvanni Peninsula (Map) Vvardenfell (Map)
Snow Bear	50,000	The Reach (Map) Wrothgar (Map)
Spotted Duneracer Senche-raht	200,000	Northern Elsweyr (Map) Southern Elsweyr (Map)

Crown Store Mounts

The Crown Store has the largest selection of mounts in the game. A lot of the cosmetic and premium mounts are Crown Store exclusives.

Ways to get mounts through the Crown Store:

Crown Store direct purchases
Crown Crates: Random reward system with a chance at rare mounts

Trade Bar Mounts

Trade Bars are the new in-game currency used for mounts, pets and cosmetics outside the Crown Store.

How to earn Trade Bars:

Completing weekly and seasonal challenges through the Tamriel Tomes
In-game events
The Veterancy PvP progression system

Trade Bars can't be bought with Crowns and have no cap, so there's no pressure to spend them before they expire.

For mounts specifically, Trade Bars are spent in two places:

1. The Impresario sells mount fragments tied to the current seasonal event. Most event mounts require collecting multiple pieces across the event's run and combining them to unlock the finished mount.

2. The Gold Coast Bazaar is a dedicated in-game store accessible through the Crown Store UI that stocks mounts from past events, Golden Pursuits and limited-time promotions that would otherwise be out of reach.

The Seasonal section rotates with each new Season
The Gold Coast Wares section is permanent and persists between Season

For a full breakdown of how to earn Trade Bars and what's currently available, see our Gold Coast Bazaar Page.

Multi-Rider Mounts

Multi-rider mounts like Wayrest Vanner Pillion Steed let two players ride the same mount at the same time. One player controls movement and the second rides along as a passenger.

How to Use Multi-Rider Mounts

Multi-rider mounts work like any other mount when ridden solo. To board another player's multi-rider mount:

You must be grouped up with the mount owner
The mount owner must be mounted
Target the character and hold down the interact button (default F on PC/Mac)
Select the Ride Mount option from the interaction wheel

A few things worth knowing:

Player passengers take priority over Companions. If your Companion is riding with you and a group member boards, the Companion steps aside.
Only the mount owner controls movement. Passengers have no input on direction or speed.
Multi-rider mounts are available from the Crown Store and the Gold Coast Bazaar.

Rare Mounts

Some mounts are significantly harder to obtain than others. The rarest fall into one of three categories:

Veteran trial achievement mounts are tied to hardmode-no death-speed clears in end-game trials and are earned through skill rather than money, which makes them some of the most respected mounts in the game. Examples: the Sunspire Champion Senche-Lion, earned by completing the Sunspire Dragonbreak trifecta achievement in Veteran Sunspire, and the Sul-Xan Fleshripper, earned by completing all achievements in Veteran Rockgrove including its hardmode trifecta. Both require a coordinated group of 12 players and represent the upper end of PvE difficulty in ESO.
Radiant Apex Crown Crate mounts sit at the top tier of the Crown Crate reward pool with a drop rate reported at around 0.1% to 0.25%. They cycle in and out of crates with no guarantee of returning. Examples include the Plague Husk Horse and the Celestial Ram.

For active collectors, trial achievements and the current Impresario and Gold Coast Bazaar rotation are the most reliable routes at any given time.

Companion Mounts

Companions ride with you automatically when you summon your mount. Each companion has their own default mount, but you can assign any mount you've unlocked to them through the Companion Menu.

To change a companion's mount:

Interact with your companion
Select Companion Menu
Open the Collectibles tab

Mount and costume changes are both managed here. For a full overview of companion customization options, see the companions guide.

Mount Categories

ESO has a wide variety of mount types and the roster has grown considerably since launch. Elephants are the newest addition to the category list with the Timber Mammoth mount.

Bears, Big Cats, Brekkas, Camels, Deer, Durzogs, Dwemer Spiders, Elephants, Guar & Kagoutis, Horses, Indriks, Multi-Rider, Nix-Oxen, Ornaugs, Quasigriffs, Rams, Senche-Raht, Special, Tharrikers, Toys, Ursauks, Vvardvarks, Welwas and Wolves

Browse the full collection on the ESO mounts collectibles page.

ESO Mounts Guide - What are mounts and how to get them

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