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The Witches Festival is returning to ESO in 2025! Battle Tamriel’s monsters, get double XP, and earn creepy new rewards during the ESO Witches Festival in-game event! learn everything you need to know about the frightening fete here.
Global passive bonuses during the Witches Festival 2025 Event in ESO
- 100% more Experience passively. The Experience Buff stacks with Experience Scrolls and Ambrosias. You no longer need to use the Witchmother's Whistle for the Experience Buff.
- Plunder Skulls drop from all Boss-type monsters. All Incursion, Quest, Delve, Public Dungeon, Dungeon, Trial, Arena, Tho'at in Infinite Archive and World Bosses will drop Plunder Skulls.
The Witchmother's Whistle tool is still required to complete the Sacking Skeletons and Cauldron Conjurer achievements.
How to Participate in the Witches Festival 2025 Event in ESO
To get started in the Witches Festival Event in the Elder Scrolls Online, complete the following steps:
- Navigate to the Events section of the Crown Store and acquire the free Event quest. You can also travel to The Witches Cove in Auridon, Glenumbra or Stonefalls.
- Complete the quest “The Witchmother's Bargain" by acquiring Guts and Pumpkin from the world, guildies or guild store and an Essence of Death from any Delve Boss.
- Return to Witchmother Olyve to receive your Witchmother's Whistle Tool if you're doing the quest for the first time.
- You now have access two additional Event Daily Quests you can complete: Plucking the Crow and the The Lord of Fear Quest. Read more about them further down in the guide.
How to get Event Tickets in Witches Festival
During the Witches Festival Event, you can earn two event tickets per day when defeating a boss-type creature for the first time that day. The tickets alongside a Plunder Skull will need to be looted.
Boss types: Incursion, Quest, Delve, Public Dungeon, Dungeon, Trial, Arena, Tho'at in Infinite Archive and World Bosses.
How to get Plunder Skulls
During the Witches Festival, you'll earn two types of reward containers: Normal Plunder Skulls and Dremora Plunder Skulls. While both offer great loot, only Dremora Plunder Skulls contain the newest event items.
- Normal Plunder Skulls drop from any defeated boss in the world during the Witches Festival. This includes bosses in delves, public dungeons, world bosses, group dungeons, trials, arenas, and even Imperial City Sweepers. There is no daily limit on how many normal Plunder Skulls you can acquire.
- Dremora Plunder Skulls are special, once-per-day, per-account rewards. You receive one Dremora Plunder Skull for defeating the first boss of a specific type each day. There are 10 unique Dremora Plunder Skull types, each linked to a different boss category.
The fastest and easiest way to earn Plunder Skulls (and no competing for loot)
In ESO only the top 12 damage dealers get loot from bosses excluding incursions. We recommended you pick an activity where you feel you get the best rewards for your time. Have fun farming!
- Easy dungeons: You can quickly clear Normal Fungal Grotto I Dungeon with a group of four damage dealers. The bosses are easy, the mechanics are simple, there's no competition for loot and you don't need to wait for boss spawns.
- Incursions: Join an incursion group. Geysers in Summerset, Harrowstorms in The Reach, Dragons in Northern Elsweyr/Southern Elsweyr, Volcanic Vents in Galen and Y'ffelon/ High Isle and Amenos, Mirrormoor Mosaics in West Weald and Siege Camp in Solstice awards the loot to everyone that hits the boss even once with a light attack.
- Minmax your farm: Combine farming Plunder Skulls with some other farming you're going to do anyway! This is a good time to farm missing Antiquity leads from different Boss types. Another popular farm is killing Dragons in Southern Elsweyr as they drop expensive alchemy reagents you can sell to other players: Dragon's Blood and Dragon Rheum*.
Avoid Crowded Places: Avoid Alik'r Desert Dolmens, unless you're sure you'll be in the top 12 damage dealers (chests don't drop Plunder Skulls, only the bosses do). All other dolmens are less crowded and fine places to farm. World Bosses can be a good source of Plunder Skulls if they're not crowded or if you can always deal enough damage to get loot.
*Dragon Rheum starts dropping after you've completed the Dragonguard Operative achievement and the The Good Bits quest from Dahfnar in Southern Elsweyr.
All 10 ESO Dremora Plunder Skull Types
Each day, your first defeated boss of a specific type will reward you with a special golden Dremora Plunder Skull, which has a chance to drop this years new rewards and specific Dremora motif chapters.
Here's a breakdown of each Dremora Plunder Skull type and the specific motif pages they can contain:
| Plunder Skull | Drop source | Motif page |
| 1. Dremora Plunder Skull, Arena | Final boss in Maelstrom Arena, Dragonstar Arena, Blackrose Prison, Vateshran |
- Dremora Bow -Legs include: Dremora Breeches, Dremora Greaves & Dremora Guards |
| 2. Dremora Plunder Skull, Insurgent | Dark Anchors, Geysers, Harrowstorms, Dragons, Volcanic vents, Mirrormoors Mosaics |
- Dremora Dagger - Hands include: Dremora Gloves, Dremora Bracers and Dremora Gauntlets |
| 3. Dremora Plunder Skull, Delve | Delve bosses |
- Dremora Staff -Waists include: Dremora Sash, Dremora Belt and Dremora Girdle |
| 4. Dremora Plunder Skull, Dungeon | Final Boss in a Dungeon |
- Helmets include: Dremora Hat, Dremora Helm and Dremora Helmet - Maces include: Dremora Mace and Dremora Maul |
| 5. Dremora Plunder Skull, Public & Sweeper | Any Public Dungeon Boss or Imperial City Sweeper boss |
- Dremora Shield - Boots include: Dremora Shoes, Dremora Boots and Dremora Sabatons |
| 6. Dremora Plunder Skull, Trial | Final boss in a Trial |
- Swords include: Dremora Sword and Dremora Greatsword - Chests include: Dremora Jerkin, Dremora Robe, Dremora Jack and Dremora Cuirass |
| 7. Dremora Plunder Skull, World | World Bosses |
- Shoulders include: Dremora Epaulets, Dremora Arm Cops and Dremora Pauldrons - Axes include: Dremora Axe and Dremora Battle Axe |
| 8. Dremora Plunder Skull, Crowborne Horror | Quest return reward | Does not drop Dremora motif pages directly, but can contain all of this years rewards in a single skull. |
| 9. Dremora Plunder Skull, Lord Hollowjack | Quest return reward | Does not drop Dremora motif pages directly, but can contain all of this years rewards in a single skull. |
| 10. Dremora Plunder Skull, Infinite Archive | Tho'at loot | Can drop any Dremora Weapon motif page. |
All Plunder Skull Rewards
During the Witches Festival, you'll earn two types of reward containers: Normal Plunder Skulls and Dremora Plunder Skulls. While both are packed with creepy goodies, only Dremora Plunder Skulls contain the newest event items. List of all furnishing can be found towards the end of this page.
Dremora Plunder Skull Rewards
Dremora Plunder Skulls are special and drop from the first boss of each type you defeat daily (once per day, per account). These are your go-to for the rarest Witches Festival rewards, with a chance to drop:
- NEW Wickerchain Soul Outfit Style pages
- NEW Hagmatron's Body Markings
- NEW Hagmatron's Face Markings
- Dremora motif chapter pages
- Crowborne Hunter and Eltheric Revenant Outfit Style Pages
- Witches Festival Writs which award you with Hollowjack style pages
- Glenmoril Treasure Maps which drop Glenmoril Wyrd Weapon Style pages
- Glenmoril Wyrd Armor Outfit style pages
Normal Plunder Skull Rewards
Normal Plunder Skulls drop from any boss you defeat and can contain a variety of useful items, including:
- Alchemy reagents
- Festival-themed furnishing recipes and furnishings (full list towards the end of this page)
- Provisioning recipes (full list towards the end of this page)
- Treasures
- A small chance for Hollowjack or Dremora style items
- Worms, Crawlers, Guts, and Insect Parts
New Rewards from the Witches Festival Event in 2025
Wickerchain Soul Outfit Style
During the Witches Festival, you have a few ways to acquire the Wickerchain Soul Outfit StylePages: they can randomly drop from the Dremora Plunder Skulls you receive after defeating bosses. You can purchase bound pages directly from the Impresario for 5 Event Tickets each or you have the option of buying them from other players via guild traders or direct trade.
This outfit style comes has the following pages available:
Looking for a good deal or trying to sell your extras? Check out our ESO Market Trade Center page!
Hagmatron's Body Markings
The Hagmatron's Body Markings has a chance to drop from Dremora Plunder Skulls during Witches Festival. You can also buy the it from Impresario for 5 tickets.
Hagmatron's Face Markings
The Hagmatron's Face Markings has a chance to drop from Dremora Plunder Skulls during Witches Festival. You can also buy the it from Impresario for 5 tickets.
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 two fragments from the Impresario during the Witches Festival: Diminutive Runed Archway and Heavy Philosophical Tomes. Each fragment costs 10 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+)
To assemble and use the house, you must already own the base collectible, the Stonewisp of Truth and Law pet.
Other collectibles from the Witches Festival Event you might not know about
Exorcised Coven Cottage house is available for purchase for either in-game Gold or Crowns only during the Witches Festival. You can buy the Cottage with 250,000 Gold after completing the An Unsparing Harvest meta-achievement. You don't need the achievement if you buy it with Crowns.
Hat: Witch's Infernal Hat is awarded to you after you complete 13 Witches Festival Writs which also gives you the Wicked Writ Apprentice achievement.
Character title: Witch is awarded to you after completing 28 Witches Festival Writs which also gives you the Wicked Writ Witch achievement.
Impresarios wares during the Witches Festival Event
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 Fragments for the Stonewisp of Truth and Law pet - Axiomatic Runestones, Glyph of Law and Powdered Wisp Remains: 5 Event Tickets each.
- Two fragments for the Wildgrown Chapel of Julianos house: 10 Event Tickets each.
- Hagmatron's Face Markings: 5 Event Tickets
- Hagmatron's Body Markings: 5 Event Tickets
- Assorted Spooky Witches festival-themed Furnishings: Webs, Cone (1 Ticket), Hollowjack Lantern, Ouroboros (3 Tickets), Specimen Jar, Spare Brain (2 Tickets), Ruby Candlefly Gathering (4 Tickets), Vampiric Lamp, Azure Tall (4 Tickets), Vampiric Lightpost, Azure Single (5 Tickets) and Vampiric Container, Yellow Liquid (1 Ticket).
- Impresario's Group Repair Kits: 2 Event Tickets each.
- Companion Guild Commendations: 3 Event Tickets Each
- Witches Grab Bag: 2 Tickets Each (list of contents below)
Witches Grab Bag Rewards
Several rewards from previous Witches Festival events can no longer be obtained from Plunder Skulls. These rewards can however be obtained from the Witches Grab Bag, available from the Impresario for 2 Event Tickets each.
Here are the rewards that you can get from the ESO Witches Grab Bag in 2025:
- Senchal Horned Owl Pet fragments
- Plunder Skull Blunder Memento
- Crowborne Hunter Outfit Style pages
- Skeletal Marionette memento
- Spectre Mask Variants: Hollowjack Spectre Mask, Pumpkin Spectre Mask, Scarecrow Spectre Mask and Thicketman Spectre Mask
- Apple-Bobbing Cauldron fragments
- Throwing Bones Memento fragments
- Marshmallow Toasty Treat emote
- Witch's Bonfire Dust memento
- Ghastly Visitation memento
- Witch-Tamed Bear-Dog pet fragments
- Witchmother's Servant outfit style pages
- Witches Festival Ghost Netch fragments
- Tome of Forbidden Appetites Memento
- Grave Dancer weapon style pages
Event Merchant Assistants Wares during Witches Festival Event
The Event Merchant's Assistant Philius Dormier has the following items available during this event:
- 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.
- Unstable Morpholith pet fragments: 5 Event Tickets each.
- Passion Dancer Blossom pet fragments: 5 Event Tickets each.
- Soulfire Dragon Illusion pet fragments: 5 Event Tickets each.
Indrik Vendor Wares during the Witches Festival Event
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:
- All four feathers for the Nascent Indrik mount (must be owned before using berries to create a different Indrik mount): 5 Event Tickets each.
- All four berries for the Pure-Snow Indrik mount: 10 Event Tickets each.
- All four berries for the Crimson Indrik mount: 10 Event Tickets each.
- Frost-Light Indrik Pet: 10 Event Tickets each.
- Rosethorn Indrik Pet: 10 Event Tickets each.
Quests you can complete during the Witches Festival
There are three unique quests to the Witches Festival. Plucking the Crow and the The Lord of Fear are daily quests which you can repeat once per day, while The Witchmother's Bargain is the Event's Intro quest that you can only complete once per character.
- The Witchmother's Bargain (intro quest)
- The Lord of Fear
- Plucking the Crow
The Witchmother's Bargain Quest
You can redeem The Witchmother's Bargain Quest in the Crown Store. Witchmother Olyve will appear and offer you a quest which asks you to bring her a boon.
You need to acquire Guts and a Pumpkin from the world, guildies or guild store and an Essence of Death from any Delve Boss. Return to Witchmother Olyve in Auridon, Glenumbra or Stonefalls.
Upon completing the quest, you will receive the Witchmother's Whistle memento. The memento is no longer needed for the XP buff as it is passive, but it is still required to complete the Sacking Skeletons and Cauldron Conjurer achievements.
The Lord of Fear Quest
Warning: Quest contains jump scare(s) and loads of general creepyness.
You can now confront Lord Hollowjack himself! The daily quest giver Priest Maxien Roudille is found inside the Witches Cove in Auridon, Glenumbra or Stonefalls.
Priest Maxien Roudille will task you with rescuing three Haunted people in the three different base game zones; Grahtwood, Deshaan and Stormhaven. After rescuing the haunted once on a character, the next time you pickup the daily quest with that character, it will ask you to just defeat Lord Hollowjack.
We recommend brining friends as he has some stuns, resources and 6,6 million health. We also have a ESO Lord Hollowjack Boss Fight Guide for you to enjoy!
Lord Hollowjacks Special Loot
- The Trophy: Lord Hollowjack is awarded to you after defeating him and earning the Pumpkin Plunderer achievement
- Bust: Lord Hollowjack has a chance to drop from Lord Hollowjack.
You can join groups to defeat Lord Hollowjack and potentially obtain his bust, even if you haven't picked up the associated quest as long as someone in the group has a quest for him.
Plucking the Crow Quest
You will find Witchmother Taerma at Impresarios tents and the Witches Coven. She will offer you the Plucking the Crow Quest. Your objective is to collect 30 Feathers in order to defeat a powerful Crowborne Horror in Evergloam.
You will receive these feathers from the Plunder Skulls which drop from all boss monsters. As soon as you have received all the feathers, you can return to Olyve’s Brewery and turn to the alchemy table to craft the effigy. You then have to show Witchmother Taerma the effigy and hand it to her.
Following a ritual, a portal will open and lead you to a pocket dimension in which the Crowborne Horror is waiting for you to defeat it. It is absolutely advisable to bring friends!
Provisioning Recipes from Witches Festival:
You can obtain the following Provisioning Recipes from the Plunder Skulls in the Witches Festival:
- Recipe: Sweet Sanguine Apples
- Recipe: Crisp and Crunchy Pumpkin Snack Skewer
- Recipe: Crunchy Spider Skewer
- Recipe: Ghastly Eye Bowl
- Recipe: Bowl of "Peeled Eyeballs"
- Recipe: Frosted Brains
- Recipe: Witchmother's Potent Brew
- Recipe: Witchmother's Party Punch
- Recipe: Bewitched Sugar Skulls
- Recipe: Purifying Bloody Mara
- Recipe: Corrupting Bloody Mara
- Recipe: Pack Leader's Bone Broth
Furniture Recipes from Witches Festival:
You can obtain the following Furnishing recipes from the Plunder Skulls in the Halloween Event:
- Blueprints: Coffin, Lid, Gibbet, Single, Stockade, Witches Brazier, Primitive Log and Witches Totem, Antler Charms
- Designs: Argonian Totem of Skulls, Pumpkin, Display, Common Bowl of Stew, Display, Pumpkin, Display, Sugar Pumpkin, Wax and Wood Elf Bone Chimes
- Diagrams: Cage, Covered, Common Cage, Hunting, Cleaver, Butcher's, Common Cleaver, Cooking, Common Trap, Hunting and Vampiric Candlestick
- Patterns: Common Pack, Backpack and Witches Corpse, Wrapped
- Praxis: Hagraven Cauldron, Ritual, Vampiric Lamp, Azure Triple and Vampiric Sconce, Azure
Witches Event Festival Furniture
You can obtain the following furniture from Plunder Skulls in the Witches Festival Event:
- Apocrypha Ink Bottle, Black, Apocrypha Ink Bottle, Green
- Apocrypha Ink Jar, Black, Apocrypha Ink Jar, Green
- Apocrypha Ink Pestle, Black, Apocrypha Ink Pestle, Green
- Apocrypha Ink Vat, Black, Apocrypha Ink Vat, Green, Apocrypha Ink Vat, Small
- Apocrypha Inkwell
- Apocrypha Specimen Jar, Abyssal Eel, Apocrypha Specimen Jar, Brains, Apocrypha Specimen Jar, Centipede, Apocrypha Specimen Jar, Eyes, Apocrypha Specimen Jar, Leech, Apocrypha Specimen Jar, Nascent Creatia, Apocrypha Specimen Jar, Scorpion, Apocrypha Specimen Jar, Spider, Apocrypha Specimen Jar, Tomeshell Viscera
- Animal Bones, Fresh, Animal Bones, Gnawed, Animal Bones, Jumbled, Bear Skeleton, Picked Clean, Bear Skull, Fresh
- Block and Axe, Chopping, Tool, Harvest Scythe
- Branch, Curved Burnt, Branch, Curved Laurel, Branch, Forked Burnt, Branch, Forked Laurel, Branch, Sturdy Burnt, Branch, Sturdy Laurel
- Crop, Wheat Pile, Crop, Wheat Stack
- Gravestone, Broken, Gravestone, Ornamented, Gravestone, Small Broken
- Hagraven Cauldron, Ritual
- Mushroom, Cave Bracket, Mushroom, Emerging Stinkhorn, Mushroom, Large Puspocket, Mushroom, Lavaburst Bud, Mushroom, Lavaburst Cluster, Mushroom, Poison Pax Shelf, Mushroom, Poison Pax Stool, Mushroom, Puspocket Sporecap, Mushroom, Tall Puspocket, Mushrooms, Large Puspocket Cluster, Mushrooms, Puspocket Cluster, Mushrooms, Puspocket Group
- Pumpkin, Frail, Pumpkin, Sickly
- Saplings, Burnt Cluster, Saplings, Burnt Sparse, Saplings, Burnt Tall, Shrub, Burnt Brush
- Toadstool, Bloodtooth, Toadstool, Bloodtooth Cap, Toadstool, Bloodtooth Cluster
- Witches Bones, Offering, Witches Brazier, Primitive Log, Witches Skull, Horned Ram, Witches Totem, Bone Charms, Witches Totem, Emphatic Warning, Witches Totem, Gnarled Vines and Skull, Witches Totem, Twisted Vines and Skull, Witches Totem, Wooden Rack
If you have further questions about the Witches Festival in ESO (The Elder Scrolls Online) please visit our community Discord server.
